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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bistinas, Harrison, Prentice, Pereira
Global controls on month-by-month fractional burnt area (2000-2005) were investigated by fitting a generalised linear model (GLM) to Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) data, with 11 predictor variables representing vegetation, climate, land use and potential ignition sources…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jenkins, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Loboda, Thelen
Using the extensive archive of historical ERS-1 and -2 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, this analysis demonstrates that fire disturbance can be effectively detected and monitored in high northern latitudes using radar technology. A total of 392 SAR images from May to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bar-Massada, Radeloff, Stewart
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area in which human settlements adjoin or intermix with ecosystems. Although research on the WUI has been focused on wildfire risk to settlements, we argue here that there is a need to quantify the extent of areas in which human…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Slavkovikj, Verstockt, Van Hoecke, Van de Walle
With the introduction of social networks and services, there has been an increase of information sharing on the Internet. The availability of Internet capable mobile devices equipped with various sensors has simplified and liberalized the generation of large amounts of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leschak
A fire adapted community could be defined as a knowledgeable and engaged community in which the awareness and actions of residents regarding infrastructure, buildings, landscaping, and the surrounding ecosystem lessens the need for extensive protection actions and enables the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The purpose of this workshop is to learn about and discuss various aspects of smoke management associated with wildland fire in the Southwestern United States. Wildland fire encompasses prescribed fire and wildfire. Topics include fire ecology and technical tools; health and…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Caon, Vallejo, Ritsema, Geissen
High-intensity and fast-spreading wildfires are natural in the Mediterranean basin. However, since 1960, wildfire occurrence has increased because of changes in land use, which resulted in extensive land abandonment, increases in the fuel load and continuity in the landscape.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norman, Hargrove
U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Research Ecologists Steve Norman and William Hargrove with the SRS Eastern Forests Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) presented a webinar on ForWarn, an online satellite-based change detection tool that maps…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Short
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Tim Brown presented a webinar on the new National Climate Assessment (NCA). The NCA summarizes present day and future impacts of climate change on the United States. Observations are showing changes in temperature and precipitation patterns causing societal impacts outside of…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wotton
Mike Wotton's current research focuses on the development of fuel moisture, fire occurrence and fire behaviour models for use in daily operational fire management activities as well as in the development of climate change impacts scenarios. His doctoral thesis developed a…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Jennifer Barnes, Regional Fire Ecologist for the National Park Service (NPS) in Alaska shared information about fire regime and fire return intervals using plot data and photos from NPS long-term monitoring plots around the state. She shared examples of short fire return…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2012, generated for the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system. The wildfire records were acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Wright
Smoke from biomass fires makes up a substantial portion of global greenhouse gas, aerosol, and black carbon (GHG/A/BC) emissions. Understanding how fuel characteristics and conditions affect fire occurrence and extent, combustion dynamics, and fuel consumption is critical for…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward, Sleighter, Hatcher, Cory
Increasing wildfire activity in the Alaskan Arctic may result in new sources of black carbon (BC) to arctic watersheds. Black carbon, primarily comprised of condensed aromatics, is one of the most chemically recalcitrant fractions of organic carbon. However, lateral transfer of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Veraverbeke, Sedano, Hook, Randerson, Jin, Rogers
High temporal resolution information on burnt area is needed to improve fire behaviour and emissions models. We used the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) thermal anomaly and active fire product (MO(Y)D14) as input to a kriging interpolation to derive…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Taş, Prestat, Mcfarland, Wickland, Knight, Berhe, Jorgenson, Waldrop, Jansson
Permafrost soils are large reservoirs of potentially labile carbon (C). Understanding the dynamics of C release from these soils requires us to account for the impact of wildfires, which are increasing in frequency as the climate changes. Boreal wildfires contribute to global…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Soucemarianadin, Quideau, MacKenzie
Wildfire, a recurrent disturbance in the boreal, converts part of the forest floor into pyrogenic carbon (PyC). The latter is an important component of the global soil carbon pool, yet knowledge of its stocks and storage mechanisms in these boreal ecosystems is scarce.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sedano, Randerson
Climate-driven changes in the fire regime within boreal forest ecosystems are likely to have important effects on carbon cycling and species composition. In the context of improving fire management options and developing more realistic scenarios of future change, it is important…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Veraverbeke, Azzari, Czimczik, Holden, Mouteva, Sedano, Treseder, Randerson
Carbon emissions from boreal forest fires are projected to increase with continued warming and constitute a potentially significant positive feedback to climate change. The highest consistent combustion levels are reported in interior Alaska and can be highly variable depending…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loehman, Reinhardt, Riley
Wildfires are an important component of the terrestrial carbon cycle and one of the main pathways for movement of carbon from the land surface to the atmosphere. Fires have received much attention in recent years as potential catalysts for shifting landscapes from carbon sinks…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liu, Goodrick, Heilman
Increasing wildfire activity in recent decades, partially related to extended droughts, along with concern over potential impacts of future climate change on fire activity has resulted in increased attention on fire-climate interactions. Findings from studies published in recent…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Liu, Urbanski, Kovalev, Mickler
This paper provides an overview and summary of the current state of knowledge regarding critical atmospheric processes that affect the distribution and concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols emitted from wildland fires or produced through subsequent chemical reactions…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hao, Larkin
Biomass burning is a major source of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon, and atmospheric pollutants that affects regional and global climate and air quality. The spatial and temporal extent of fires and the size of burned areas are critical parameters in the estimation of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS