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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stonesifer
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station
Aircraft are important fire management tools, but their use can bring substantial costs and associated risks. We developed the Aviation Use Summary (AUS), which is a…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Zylstra
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
In 2017, approximately 57.3 million gallons of retardant was loaded onto airtankers. Of that, approximately 19 million gallons were dropped onto NFS lands. The use of fire chemicals is not without controversy.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cronan
The idea of using sensors to remotely measure things is not new. Aerial photos taken from hot air balloons were first proposed as a tool for mapping streets in the 1850s. In 1941, a US Forest Service ranger developed a technique for mapping fuels with aerial photos. Recent…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wildland fire incident management activities create an ideal environment for the transmission of infectious diseases: high-density living and working conditions, lack of access to and use of soap and sanitizers, and a transient workforce. These and other environmental and…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Treadwell
Dr. Morgan Treadwell, with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, teaches ranchers about using prescribed burning, then uses drones to review burn footage and dissect the burn piece by piece.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
van der Sluijs
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hoy
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Andersen
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stavros
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fontenot
Unmanned Aircraft, commonly called “Drones,” are being used more and more for public safety, research, etc. Falling prices, rising capabilities, and a favorable regulatory framework are all fueling this growth. Let’s look at actual, real-world, Wildfire missions where these…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hinkley, Quayle
Presentation by Everett Hinkley and Brad Quayle, US Forest Service, from Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015, begins at the 28:30 mark and lasts approximately 24 minutes.
Year: 2015
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
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
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
Fire Ecology is the international scientific journal supported by the Association for Fire Ecology. It publishes peer-reviewed articles on all ecological and management aspects relating to wildland fire. We welcome submissions on topics that include a broad range of research on…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Detweiler
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar with University of Nebraska-Lincoln Assistant Professor Carrick Detweiler. The use of helicopter-based ignition has helped to increase the number of prescribed fire acres but the expense and complexity of air operations makes aerial ignitions…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The US Forest Service Research Data Archive preserves and publishes short and long-term research data collected from studies funded by: Forest Service Research and Development (FS R&D); Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP); Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute (ALWRI). Of…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Laker
In the past couple years we have photographed over 500,000 acres using commercial off-the-shelf equipment with excellent results. Images were collected using a Nikon D800, Nikon D700 infrared (IR) cameras, and a survey grade GPS (Trimble R8). The images were then…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Forests and Rangelands is an active, cooperative effort between the United States Department of the Interior (DOI), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and their land management agencies. Forests and Rangelands provides fire, fuels, and land management…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) is one of fifteen regional consortia supported by the Joint Fire Science Program and is part of a national fire science knowledge exchange network. Their primary purpose is to strengthen the link between fire science research and on-the-…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to Alaska. Our goal is to provide "one-stop shopping" for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the results of efforts to understand and…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Research Institute (FRI) is a not-for-profit library holding over 120,000 books, journal articles, videos, training manuals, dissertations, news reports, and other material on wildland fire. Users can access the library database and are able to perform real-time library…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The Fire and Aviation Management Web Applications web site brings together a variety of applications, tools, and services related to interagency fire and aviation management managed by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and participating agencies. The website…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Wildland fires are a force of nature that can be nearly as impossible to prevent, and as difficult to control, as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods.
Wildland fire can be a friend and a foe. In the right place at the right time, wildland fire can create many environmental…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Alaska Interagency Coordination Center (AICC) is the Geographic Area Coordination Center for Alaska. Located on Ft. Wainwright (near Fairbanks), AICC serves as the focal point for initial attack resource coordination, logistics support, and predictive services for all state…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES