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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Peters, Macdonald, Dale
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fenton, Lecomte, Legare, Bergeron
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duffy, Walsh, Graham, Mann, Rupp
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
From the text ... 'The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delaney
From the text ... 'Incorrectly mapped fire locations could distort the allocation of money and jobs. ...The two prominent location referencing systems used for fire locations on fire reports are latitude/longitude and Universal Transverse Mercator. ...Everyone involved in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... 'A common set of definitions is needed for terms relating to hazard and risk reduction in the wildland/urban interface [WUI]. ...When addressing a fire hazard in the WUI, prevention and mitigation must each play a role. ...To reduce the potential for disaster…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'The rate of fuel accumulation remains far higher than the rate of fuel reduction. ...Our objectives for secure wildlife habitat, clean air, secluded homesites, and other social values often overlook the disturbance regimes that shape the land. ...Our strategic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Barclay, Liu, Campbell
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wendy, Springsteen, Barnes, Rupp
The arctic and boreal ecosystems that dominate Alaska's landscape are undergoing changes in response to rising temperatures and changes in precipitation regimes (Hinzman et al. 2005). Alaska has seen a warming trend over the past several decades, with an average increase in mean…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Barnes, Chipman, Urban, Hu
[from the text] More than 5.4 million acres (2.2 million hectares) of Alaska tundra have burned over the past 60 years (Figure 2), indicating its flammable nature under warm, dry weather conditions. Tundra fires have important impacts on vegetation composition (Racine et al.…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gillis
Scientist Katey M. Walter Anthony (Aquatic Ecosystem Ecologist at UAF) has been studying the amount of methane gas being released into the atmosphere from thawing permafrost. As long frozen plants and other organic materials begin to thaw, they also begin to decay, producing…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woodall, Williams
The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of forests of the United States. A subset of FIA permanent inventory plots are sampled every year for numerous indicators of forest health ranging from soils to understory…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Vihnanek
The natural fuels stereo photo series is a collection of georeferenced data and photographs that display a range of natural conditions, fuel loadings, and other fuelbed characteristics in a wide variety of forest-, woodland-, shrub-, and grass-dominated ecosystem types. The…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, McGuire, Hoy, Kasischke
Large fire years in which >1% of the landscape burns are becoming more frequent in the Alaskan (USA) interior, with four large fire years in the past 10 years, and 79,000 km2 (17% of the region) burned since 2000. We modeled fire severity conditions for the entire area burned…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Cronan, McKenzie, Barnes, Camp
Wildland fires play a critical role in maintaining the ecological integrity of boreal forests in Alaska. Identifying and maintaining natural fire regimes is an important component of fire management. There are numerous research projects that directly or indirectly address…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoover, Rebain
Interest in options for forest-related greenhouse gas mitigation is growing, and so is the need to assess the carbon implications of forest management actions. Generating estimates of key carbon pools can be time consuming and cumbersome, and exploring the carbon consequences of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jiang, Zhuang
Large fires are a major disturbance in Canadian forests and exert significant effects on both the climate system and ecosystems. During the last century, extremely large fires accounted for the majority of Canadian burned area. By making an instaneous change over a vast area of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
You cannot prevent fires. You can only prevent small ones becoming big ones (Taylor 1989). I think what Taylor (1989) meant to say was that 'You cannot necessarily prevent all fires from occurring. You can only possibly prevent some small initiating fires from becoming big fires…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Vaillant, Peterson
We are presently engaged in a project supported by the U.S. Joint Fire Science Program aimed at synthesizing the currently available information on crown fire behaviour in conifer forests (e.g., the onset of crowning, type of crown fire and the associated spread rate and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
Fire behaviour associated with the stand structure of a particular pine plantation is the result of multiple interactions between climate and weather conditions, physical characteristics of the fuel complex, the micrometeorological environment (i.e., wind, fuel moisture and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has elected to support a project aimed at synthesizing the currently available information on the characteristics and prediction of crown fire behavior in conifer forests (Alexander and others 2010). This would include such facets of crown…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bova, Bohrer, Dickinson
The level of protection to fauna provided by tree cavities during wildland fires is not well understood. Here we present a model for estimating the transport of combustion gases into cylindrical, single-entrance cavities during exposures caused by different wildland fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Additional presentation abstracts in the proceedings of the second conference on the human dimensions of wildland fire.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rice, Coleman, Price
Communities are becoming increasingly concerned with the variety of choices related to wildfire evacuation. We used ArcView with Network Analyst to evaluate the different options for evacuations during wildfire in a case study community. We tested overlaying fire growth patterns…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stidham, Toman, McCaffrey, Shindler
Wildfire evacuations are inherently stressful and homeowners have reported in previous studies that uncertainty over what is happening is perhaps one of the most stressful aspects. Although many difficult elements of evacuation cannot be mitigated and lives will certainly be…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES