The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keane
Wildland fire researchers and fire managers need better estimates of surface fuel loadings but getting accurate estimates takes time and resources. A relatively new fuel sampling system, called the photoload sampling technique, has been developed to quickly and accurately…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
Matt Jolly, Research Ecologist (USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station) will present the structure and function of the current version of the US National Fire Danger Rating System, NFDRS2016. He will show how this system can be used to assess seasonal variations in…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Al Abri, Grogan
The dramatic increase in the number of uncontrollable wildfires in the United States has become an important policy issue as they threaten valuable forests and human property. The derived stochastic dynamic model of this study is capable of determining optimal fuel treatment…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Connor
Wildfire is one of the most contentious subjects affecting land managers, land owners, and the public. As a contagious process, the social, political, and ecological ramifications of wildfire response and eventual fire outcomes are not limited to where and when a fire occurs,…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Linn, Goodrick, Brambilla, Brown, Middleton, O'Brien, Hiers
Coupled fire-atmospheric modeling tools are increasingly used to understand the complex and dynamic behavior of wildland fires. Multiple research tools linking combustion to fluid flow use Navier-Stokes numerical solutions coupled to a thermodynamic model to understand fire-…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
This webinar provided an introduction and overview of the FlamMap modeling system and its capabilities. FlamMap is a fire analysis desktop application that runs in a 64-bit Windows Operating System environment. The FlamMap fire mapping and analysis system (Finney 2006) describes…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Chow, Rosario-Ortiz, Kasprzyk
Detritus material in forest watersheds is the major terrestrial source of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and disinfection byproduct (DBP) precursors in water bodies used as drinking water sources and is also a fuel that can ignite wildfires. In these watersheds, hot temperatures…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Saul
Isaac Saul of A Plus interviews Sara Brown, director of the USFS Fire Lab’s Fire, Fuels, and Smoke Sciences Program. Sara Brown explains how to stop wildfires from being major disaster events in the United States. The interview provides an overview about the fire situation in…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bastian, Fay
Topic/Description:
What is LANDFIRE and why is it important
What is LANDFIRE, why is it important, how is it used (and NOT used) in funding mechanisms
Update on NE LANDFIRE Remap
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy, Prichard, McKenzie, French
Smoke emissions from wildland fires contribute to concentrations of atmospheric particulate matter and greenhouse gases, influencing public health and climate. Prediction of emissions is critical for smoke management to mitigate the effects on visibility and air quality. Models…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Karp, Holman, Hopper, Grice, Freeman
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), produced via incomplete combustion of organics, convey signatures of vegetation burned in the geologic past. New and published burn experiments reveal how the quantity, distributions, and isotopic abundances of fire-derived PAHs were…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt
In 2019 the National Science Foundataion (NSF) funded a Navigating the New Arctic project called "Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations (AURA): a co-production framework for addressing multiple changing environmental hazards". This project looks at three hazards: wildfire, thawing…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Santín, Doerr, Jones, Merino, Warneke, Roberts
Vegetation fires play an important role in global and regional carbon cycles. Due to climate warming and land‐use shifts, fire patterns are changing and fire impacts increasing in many of the world’s regions. Reducing uncertainties in carbon budgeting calculations from fires is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reiher, McCutchan
Speakers: Clairisse Reiher & Emily McCutchan, 2020 Hollings Scholars
During the summer of 2020 ACCAP and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium hosted two Ernest F. Hollings scholars for the summer internships. Because of COVID-19 their internships were remote. During this…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Fernandes, Kilinc, Sil
The prediction of wildfire rate of spread and growth under high wind speeds and dry fuel moisture conditions is key to taking proactive actions to warn and in turn protect communities. We used two datasets of wildfires spreading under critical fire weather conditions to evaluate…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Billmire, Prichard, Kennedy, McKenzie, Larkin, Ottmar
Fuels are highly variable and dynamic in space and time, and fuel loading can vary considerably even within fine spatial scales and within specific fuel types, such as downed wood or organic soils. Given this inherent variability in fuel loadings, it is not good practice to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritter, Hoffman, Battaglia, Stevens-Rumann, Mell
In frequent‐fire forests, wildland fire acts as a self‐ regulating process creating forest structures that consist of a fine‐grained mosaic of isolated trees, tree groups of various sizes, and non‐treed openings. Though the self‐regulation of forest structure through repeated…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This proceedings includes many of topics…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suzuki, Manzello
Large outdoor fires are one of the prominent fire problems in the world. Spot fires, caused by firebrands, are known as a key mechanism of rapid fire spread. Firebrands ignite unburned fuels far ahead of the fire front. In large outdoor fires, firebrands are thought to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Wilmore
The Drought Code (DC) is a moisture code of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System underlain by a hydrological water balance model in which drying occurs in a negative exponential pattern with a relatively long timelag. The model derives from measurements from an…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Wotton, Woolford, Martell, Flannigan
Spring fire activity has increased in parts of Canada, particularly in the west, prompting fire managers to seek indicators of potential activity before the fire season starts. The overwintering adjustment of the Canadian Fire Weather Index System’s Drought Code (DC) is a method…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
The Drought Code (DC) was developed as part of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in the early 1970s to represent a deep column of soil that dries relatively slowly. Unlike most other fire danger indices or codes that operate on gravimetric moisture content and use…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leverkus, Gustafsson, Lindenmayer, Castro, Rey Benayas, Ranius, Thorn
Salvage logging, or logging after natural disturbances such as wildfires, insect outbreaks, and windstorms, is carried out to recover some of a forest's natural and/or economic capital. However, trade‐offs between management objectives and a lack of consensus on the ecological…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since its inception in 1973, the National Silviculture Workshop (NSW) has brought together forest managers and researchers from across the USDA Forest Service, and more recently our university and other partners, to provide a forum for information sharing and science…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Linn, Goodrick, Hiers
Recent advances in wildland fire behavior models (e.g. FIRETEC) utilizing high spatial and temporal resolution fluid dynamics calculations have facilitated complex modeling of fire-atmospheric feedbacks. Unfortunately this fire modeling approach requires exceptional…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES