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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mullan
This presentation will show the connection between air quality and our changing environment including work done by ANTHC, the role of the National Tribal Air Association (NTAA) and the roles and goals of the Alaska representatives.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cui, Chen, Zheng, Li, Tang, Han, Song, Yan, Zhang, Tian, Zhang
The burning of tropical rainforests in the Southeast Asia emits considerable particulate matter (PM), which has significant effects on air quality and human health. Lacking of reliable local EFPM for rainforest burning in the Southeast Asia is one of the most important causes…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koltz, Burkle, Pressler, Dell, Vidal, Richards, Murphy
Climate change is drastically altering global fire regimes, which may affect the structure and function of insect communities. Insect responses to fire are strongly tied to fire history, plant responses, and changes in species interactions. Many insects already possess adaptive…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Shevliakova, Malyshev, Rabin
Globally, fires are a major source of carbon from the terrestrial biosphere to the atmosphere, occurring on a seasonal cycle and with substantial interannual variability. To understand past trends and variability in sources and sinks of terrestrial carbon, we need quantitative…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bahrani, Hemmati, Zhou, Quarles
Fire-retardant coatings could be one option for providing enhanced protection to buildings during a wildfire, particularly when applied to combustible siding and in under‐eave areas. Limited studies have been conducted on their effectiveness but maintaining adequate performance…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leys, Marlon, Umbanhower, Vannière
Grasslands are globally extensive; they exist in many different climates, at high and low elevations, on nutrient‐rich and nutrient‐poor soils. Grassland distributions today are closely linked to human activities, herbivores, and fire, but many have been converted to urban areas…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Srock, Charney, Potter, Goodrick
Fire weather indices are commonly used by fire weather forecasters to predict when weather conditions will make a wildland fire difficult to manage. Complex interactions at multiple scales between fire, fuels, topography, and weather make these predictions extremely difficult.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tepley, Thomann, Veblen, Perry, Holz, Paritsis, Kitzberger, Anderson-Teixeira
In the context of ongoing climatic warming, forest landscapes face increasing risk of conversion to non‐forest vegetation through alteration of their fire regimes and their post‐fire recovery dynamics. However, this pressure could be amplified or dampened, depending on how fire‐…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reeves, Krebs, Leinwand, Theobald, Mitchell
Rangelands are increasingly urban, subdivided, and fragmented. About 62 percent of coterminous U.S. rangelands occur on private land and are at further risk for conversion. This Rangelands on the Edge (ROTE) project improves our understanding of the fate of rangelands from…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greebe
With all of the tools, supplies and gear that fire managers need, the last thing you would expect them to take to a wildfire is a book. But Steve Taylor’s little red book, Field Guide to the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System, has been part of fire manager and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abatzoglou, Williams, Boschetti, Zubkova, Kolden
Climate shapes geographic and seasonal patterns in global fire activity by mediating vegetation composition, productivity, and desiccation in conjunction with land‐use and anthropogenic factors. Yet, the degree to which climate variability affects interannual variability in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McDaniel
Absher and Vaske conducted a mail survey of rural landowners in heavily forested counties along the Front Range of Colorado. They asked questions designed to measure respondents’ trust in (1) the information that the Forest Service provided regarding forest fires, and (2) the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toombs, Weber, Stegner, Schnase, Lindquist, Lippitt
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive fire information becomes…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
The Haines Index is used in wildland fire management to evaluate the potential for ‘large and/or erratic' fire behaviour. Published in 1988 as the Lower Atmospheric Severity Index, it was widely adopted and has become popular among fire managers, especially in the United States…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt, McCullum, Picotte
This session will provide an overview of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) and a hands-on demonstration on the use of the GWIS viewer. GWIS is an online web application that uses remotely sensed wildfire data. This data includes fire danger, wildfire locations,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fresco
Climate change data - and future projections of related impacts - are crucial to community planners, land managers, and indeed all the people of Alaska. We depend on the landscape and its resources, and that landscape is changing. But raw data, even if freely shared, is only…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Picotte
Certain areas are experiencing longer fire seasons, with more frequent and severe droughts. Wildfire detection, monitoring, and mitigation is increasingly important in these regions. Satellite remote sensing data is useful for identifying active fires, evaluating burned areas,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin, Fishler, Stewart
Becoming a fire adapted community that can coexist with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation, but it is unclear how communities may pursue adaptation. Experience with wildfire and other natural hazards suggests that disasters may open a 'window…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maletsky, Evans, Singletary, Sicafuse
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Fire Science Exchange Network is composed of 15 Exchanges that act as boundary organizations tasked with improving fire science use within their respective regions. A longitudinal survey conducted annually between 2011 and 2015 as part of a…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shephard, Heutte, Nielsen, Lindemuth
This document was modified from the original 2007 version, which was produced by Michael Shephard, USDA Forest Service, State & Private Forestry, Tom Heutte, USDA Forest Service, State & Private Forestry, Jamie M. Nielsen, UAF Cooperative Extension Service, and Charles…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanan, Tague, Choate, Liu, Kolden, Adam
Disturbances such as wildfire, insect outbreaks, and forest clearing, play an important role in regulating carbon, nitrogen, and hydrologic fluxes in terrestrial watersheds. Evaluating how watersheds respond to disturbance requires understanding mechanisms that interact over…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker
Historical evidence suggests natural disturbances could allow more forest persistence, than expected from models, over 40 yr of transition to the net‐zero emissions needed to limit warming to <2.0°C (e.g., Paris Agreement). Forests must ultimately equilibrate with committed…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
An attacker-defender model for analyzing the vulnerability of initial attack in wildfire suppression
Wildfire managers use initial attack (IA) to control wildfires before they grow large and become difficult to suppress. Although the majority of wildfire incidents are contained by IA, the small percentage of fires that escape IA causes most of the damage. Therefore, planning a…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Molinari, Lehsten, Blarquez, Carcaillet, Davis, Kaplan, Clear, Bradshaw
The influence of different drivers on changes in North American and European boreal forests biomass burning (BB) during the Holocene was investigated based on the following hypotheses: land use was important only in the southernmost regions, while elsewhere climate was the main…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Neill
Presentation to the 33rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/12th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium/Fourth Conference on Biogeosciences. This presentation focuses on emission factors for wildland fire fuels.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES