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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Gowlett
Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are highly evident on many landscapes. Birds such as hawks, and some other predators, are alert…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belcher
Studies of palaeofire rely on quantifying the abundance of fossil charcoals in sediments to estimate changes in fire activity. However, gaining an understanding of the behaviour of palaeofires is also essential if we are to determine the palaeoecological impact of wildfires.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Learn basic fire behavior terminology, including the parts of the fire, types of fire, and associated fire behavior. In this video you will learn: 1) How is fire behavior related to the fire environment? 2) What are the basic measures of fire behavior? 3) What are the parts of a…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
What is dead fuel moisture, how does it changes over time, why it is important for fire management. In this video you will learn: 1) What is dead fuel moisture? 2) Why is this important information for fire managers? 3) What is moisture of extinction? 4) What is equilibrium…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Buchanan, Menakis, Finney, Romero, Human
he Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program, asks that CFLR projects “Facilitate the reduction of wildfire management costs and risks, including through reestablishing natural fire regimes.”…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Breen, Bennett, Kurkowski, Lindgren, Schroder, McGuire, Rupp
The extent and frequency of wildfires in Alaska’s boreal forest are predicted to increase in the coming century. In addition to natural sources of ignition, military lands in Interior Alaska are vulnerable to human ignitions due to their proximity to the road system and training…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Thomas, Ziegler, Gabor, Fox
Managing wildland fire is an exercise in risk perception, sensemaking and resilient performance. Risk perception begins with individual size up of a wildfire to determine a course of action, and then becomes collective as the fire management team builds and continuously updates…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
The escalating awareness of non-forested landscapes and realization that more emphasis is needed for an all lands approach to management increasingly requires timely information to improve management effectiveness. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) has been used in a large…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helmbrecht, Blankenship
The LANDFIRE Program provides 'wall-to-wall' geospatial data of vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regime, disturbance, and topographic characteristics for the United States (Rollins 2009). LANDFIRE data are often an excellent choice for wildland fire and land management planning…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Short
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Initial attack (IA) success has long been one of the primary performance measures used by agencies with wildland firefighting responsibility in the United States (US) and elsewhere. The US federal agencies…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wagenbrenner
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hatfield
Mike Hatfield talks with fire managers about potential use of Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration assets at the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smith
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
On June 1, 2015, the Forest Service celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Branch of Research. To commemorate that event, research historian Diane Smith has been writing a monograph on the history of wildland…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rowell
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Understanding fine-scale variability in understory fuels is increasingly important as physics-based fire behavior models are driving needs for higher resolution ata. Describing fuelbeds three dimensionally is…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rollins
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
This video covers 1) The organization of federal fire science; 2) The OSTP subcommittee on disaster reduction; 3) The Joing Fire Science Program and; 4) The Forest Service R&D.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wilderness has played an invaluable role in the development of wildland fire science. In the last fifteen years, since the last state-of-knowledge review, tremendous progress has been made in the development of…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Wells, Pimont, Jolly, Linn, Mell
The STANDFIRE project was funded by the JFSP to develop a prototype modeling system that could link widely available fuels data from FFE-FVS to physics-based fire models, providing an alternative approach for calculating fire behavior at stand scales. The objectives of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bieniek
Peter Bieniek presents at the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Randi Jandt provides a roundup of new science relevant to Alaska's fire managers to the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
York
Alison York summarizes the plans from the NASA Arctic/Boreal Vulnerability Experiment relevant to fire managers. From the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Molina
Allen Molina outlines the plans for getting homeowner input and economic data for the Alaska Fuel Treatment Effectiveness project.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
Lisa Saperstein, chair of the FMAC, provides updates to the Alaska Spring IMT/FMO meeting, March 31, 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader, Thoman
Heidi Strader and Rick Thoman present on the outlook for fire weather in 2016. From the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, March 31, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thoman, Lader, Mölders
Rick Thoman, Rick Lader, and Nicole Molders presented at the IARC Research Salon Series, May 19, 2016. Rick Thoman, Climate Science and Services Manager, NWS Alaska Region: Seasonal scale forecasting of the atmospheric drivers important to wildfire (0-15:50); Rick Lader, PhD…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES