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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Miller, Dunham, Broadgate, Aspinall, Law
A demonstration package of predictive models for assessing the risk of forest damage from wind, fire and snow has been produced which can be accessed via the World Wide Web (WWW). The paper describes how this demonstration provides a common point of access to the models and to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Loehle
Past simulation studies using a variety of models have generally agreed that climatic warming could have adverse effects on forests, including large-scale diebacks in some regions and drastic range shrinkages of many species. These effects should be most evident at biome…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville, Wotton, Stocks
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest Management Division combined with…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Mudd, Stocks, Kasischke, Barry, Alexander, French
This is a chapter in the book titled, Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fleming, Chapin, Cramer, Hufford, Serreze
Data from a sparse network of climate stations in Alaska were interpolated to provide 1-km resolution maps of mean monthly temperature and precipitation-variables that are required at high spatial resolution for input into regional models of ecological processes and resource…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Edwards, Abbott, Barber, Anderson, Rohr
In semi-arid interior Alaska, precipitation is critical in regulating many important ecological and biogeochemical processes. For example, the growth of upland white spruce is strongly limited by growing season precipitation, and greenhouse trace gas fluxes are controlled in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elias
Thirty-one fossil beetle assemblages from central and eastern Beringia (Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and the now-submerged Bering Land Bridge) have yielded seasonal temperature estimates for the interval 43,550-9250 14C yr before present (yr B.P.). Estimates of the mean…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards, Bigelow, Finney, Eisner
We investigated whether techniques developed to evaluate qualitative lake-level changes in the temperate zone can be used in sub-arctic and arctic Alaska. We focused on aquatic pollen records and sediment properties (loss-on-ignition and magnetic susceptibility) from centrally-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Eugster, McFadden, Lynch, Walker
Biome differences in surface energy balance strongly affect climate. However, arctic vegetation is considered sufficiently uniform that only a single arctic land surface type is generally used in climate models. Field measurements in northern Alaska show large differences among…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Alexander, Stocks, Kasischke
Chapter 7 of the book titled, Fire, Climate Change, and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Abbott, Finney, Edwards, Kelts
Lake-level history for Birch Lake, Alaska, was reconstructed using seismic profiles and multiproxy sedimentary analyses including sedimentology, geochemistry, magnetic susceptibility, and palynology. Twenty-two seismic profiles (18 km total) and eight sediment cores taken from…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of this conference was to increase awareness through exploration and evaluation of global, national, and regional perspectives about the potential contributions that watershed management can make to the conservation, sustainable development, and use of natural…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Bunnell
The Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy and Program Review represents the latest stage in the evolution of wildland fire management. This policy directs changes that consolidate past fire management practices into a single direction to achieve multidimensional objectives and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
Wilderness fire science has progressed since the last major review of the topic, but it was significantly affected by the large fire events of 1988. Strides have been made in both fire behavior and fire effects, and in the issues of scaling, yet much of the progress has not been…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forty-six papers are presented on the nature and management of threats to wilderness ecosystems. Five overview papers synthesize knowledge and research on wilderness fire, recreation impacts, livestock in wilderness, nonnative invasive plants, and wilderness air quality. Other…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forty-one years ago, the AMS published the Glossary of Meteorology. Containing 7900 terms, more than 10,000 copies have been sold over four decades through five printings. It is a tribute to the editors of the first edition that it has withstood the test of time and continued to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bentz
FINDIT, the Forest Insect and Disease Tally System, is an easy-to-use tool for analyzing insect and disease population information taken during stand surveys. Incidence of insects, pathogens, and other biotic and abiotic influences on forest ecosystems are summarized using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Hilbruner, Werth, Sexton, Bartlette
The 1998 wildland fire season presented conditions favoring increased wildland fire numbers and rapid expansion of area affected. This situation posed complex issues to all wildland fire management agencies in terms of firefighting resource availability, allocation, and long-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zuuring
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Acceptance of calculation procedures for determining fire endurance ratings for wood beams and columns has permitted the use of large wood members in applications where firerated structural members are required. As a result, the potential market for wood products increased in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whiteman
[Excerpt from preface] Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications aims to heighten awareness and appreciation of the weather in mountainous areas by introducing the reader to the basic principles and concepts of mountain meteorology and by discussing applications of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goode, Yokelson, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Davies, Hao
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This photopoint data sheet is in an excel spreadsheet. It is intended for documentation and the re-creation of plot photos; including location, directions, date/time, camera information, plot description, camera placement and direction of picture, vegetation data, and fire fuels…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Fire Effects Task Group began looking at photo documentation over a year ago with an eye to developing standard methods/recommendations. The photoseries is a basic type of monitoring dataset which is used by all participating agencies in monitoring fire effects,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Windell, Bradshaw
ANNOTATION: This report contains the results of numerous interviews, a field survey, and a literature search and discusses fuel reduction equipment and methods that have been tried in the past, those that are currently being used, and those that may warrant consideration in the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES