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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Grabinski, Smith
In 2019, the Shovel Creek Fire grew rapidly and threatened nearby neighborhoods north of Fairbanks. The fire was started by lighting on June 21. After 39 days of burning, and $25 million spent on suppression the fire was put out and no homes or lives were lost.
The resulting…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Simpson, Archibald, Osborne
Grasses fuel most fires on Earth and strongly influence local fire behaviour through traits that determine how flammable they are. Therefore, grass communities that differ in their species and trait compositions give rise to significant spatial variation in savanna fire regimes…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camera captures video and temperature as a high-intensity crown fire rolls through. From the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in the Northwest Territories.
Year: 2000
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Video about the 1982 Porter Lake experimental burning.
Year: 1982
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
During 2021 the Canadian Forest Service celebrated the 50th anniversary of the operation of the Northern Forestry Centre (NoFC) in Edmonton, Alberta. As part of the celebration, NoFC retirees volunteered to make virtual presentations (roughly an hour in duration, giving time for…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fazeli, Jolly, Blunck
Wildland fires impact ecosystems and communities worldwide. Many wildfires burn in living or a mixture of living and senescent vegetation. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the burning behavior of living fuels, in contrast to just dead or dried fuels, to more effectively…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richter, Bathras, Barbetta Duarte, Gollner
Fires occurring at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) have rapidly increased in frequency and severity over the past few decades. As a result of these extreme fires, multiple communities, including thousands of structures, are destroyed every year. The majority of these losses…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sethuraman, Tadkapally, Mohanty, Subramanian
The rise of global temperatures, over the past few decades, has disrupted the usual balance of nature. As a result of increasing temperatures, wildfires have destroyed millions of acres of land, thousands of structures, and homes. The pollution and toxic gases produced by the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Hao, Baker, Princevac, Aminfar, Palarea‐Albaladejo, Ottmar, Hudak, Restaino, O'Brien
Composition of pyrolysis gases for wildland fuels is often determined using ground samples heated in non-oxidising environments. Results are applied to wildland fires where fuels change spatially and temporally, resulting in variable fire behaviour with variable heating. Though…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shi, Shi, Jiang, Liu
Fire is a major disturbance affecting plant communities in terrestrial ecosystems. Understanding fire effects on soil seed banks is critical in the context of altered global fire regimes. Through a systematic and quantitative review of the literature, we provide the first global…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A statement by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council and their partners relating to the benefits of prescribed fire programs.
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Penney, Baker, Valencia, Gorham
The hazard posed by wildland-urban-interface (WUI) fires is recognized by the international fire research community and features as one of nine research need priority threads in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Research Roadmap. We posit that the first step in the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cunliffe, Anderson, Boschetti, Brazier, Graham, Myers-Smith, Astor, Boer, Calvo, Clark, Cramer, Encinas-Lara, Escarzaga, Fernández-Guisuraga, Fisher, Gdulová, Gillespie, Griebel, Hanan, Hanggito, Haselberger, Havrilla, Heilman, Ji, Karl, Kirchhoff, Kraushaar, Lyons, Marzolff, Mauritz, McIntire, Metzen, Méndez-Barroso, Power, Prošek, Sanz-Ablanedo, Sauer, Schulze-Brüninghoff, Šímová, Sitch, Smit, Steele, Suárez-Seoane, Vargas, Villarreal, Visser, Wachendorf, Wirnsberger, Wojcikiewicz
Non-forest ecosystems, dominated by shrubs, grasses and herbaceous plants, provide ecosystem services including carbon sequestration and forage for grazing, and are highly sensitive to climatic changes. Yet these ecosystems are poorly represented in remotely sensed biomass…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayes, Sekavec, Quigley, Ewell, Cunningham
In 2007, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) organized a task group to: 1) Develop a monitoring plan for implementing a directive from the National Fire Plan’s 10-Year Implementation Strategy, and 2) Respond to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act requirement of monitoring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayes, Sekavec, Quigley, Ewell, Cunningham
In 2007, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) organized a task group to: 1) Develop a monitoring plan for implementing a directive from the National Fire Plan’s 10-Year Implementation Strategy, and 2) Respond to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act requirement of monitoring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sample, Thode, Peterson, Gallagher, Flatley, Friggens, Evans, Loehman, Hedwall, Brandt, Janowiak, Swanston
As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with the direct effects of climate change on resources in addition to climate-induced disruptions to fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tsuyuzaki, Kwon, Takeuchi, Otaki, Sawada
We measured differences in %C, %N, δ13C, and δ15N of plant functional types (PFTs) between burned and unburned ground surfaces soon after a wildfire on a north-facing slope in interior Alaska. The C and N were measured for 16 species and Sphagnum litter. δ13C differed among the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yasunari, Nakamura, Kim, Choi, Lee, Tachibana, da Silva
Long-term assessment of severe wildfires and associated air pollution and related climate patterns in and around the Arctic is essential for assessing healthy human life status. To examine the relationships, we analyzed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Webb, Loranty, Lichstein
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, due in part to the albedo feedbacks of a diminishing cryosphere. As snow cover extent decreases, the underlying land is exposed, which has lower albedo and therefore absorbs more radiation, warming the surface and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ludwig, Natali, Mann, Schade, Holmes, Powell, Fiske, Commane
Climate change is causing an intensification in tundra fires across the Arctic, including the unprecedented 2015 fires in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta. The YK Delta contains extensive surface waters (∼33% cover) and significant quantities of organic carbon, much of which is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sanderfoot, Bassing, Brusa, Emmet, Swift, Gardner
Climate change is intensifying global wildfire activity, and people and wildlife are increasingly exposed to hazardous air pollution during large-scale smoke events. Although wildfire smoke is considered a growing risk to public health, few studies have investigated the impacts…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Doherty, Geary, Jolly, Macdonald, Miritis, Watchorn, Cherry, Conner, González, Legge, Ritchie, Stawski, Dickman
Both fire and predators have strong influences on the population dynamics and behaviour of animals, and the effects of predators may either be strengthened or weakened by fire. However, knowledge of how fire drives or mediates predator–prey interactions is fragmented and has not…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steketee, Rocha, Gough, Griffin, Klupar, An, Williamson, Rowe
Fire is an important ecological disturbance that can reset ecosystems and initiate changes in plant community composition, ecosystem biogeochemistry, and primary productivity. Since herbivores rely on primary producers for food, changes in vegetation may alter plant-herbivore…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGowan-Stinski, Charney, Kobziar, Wickman, Pitrolo
This is the 3rd panel discussion in Season 2 of the Fueling Collaboration series. Moderator Jack McGowan-Stinski (Lake States Fire Science Consortium) discusses all things smoke. What is it? What are the messages we should be communicating? What are the tools that can help us…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES