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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Prescribed Fires in Alaska presented by Eric Miller. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided workshops during the spring of 2016 that…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Berg
Fire and Vegetation in a Changing Climate on the Kenai Peninsula: a 14,000-year Record presented by Ed Berg of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Tundra Fires in a Changing Climate presented by Jennifer Barnes of the National Park Service. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kulig, Botey
Resilience has become a significant concept to help understand the coping processes after adversity experienced by communities. This article reports on the perspectives of individual resilience by community stakeholders (n = 20) and parents (n = 19) who experienced a devastating…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xiao, Liu, Stoy
The impacts of extreme climate events and disturbances (ECE&D) on the carbon cycle have received growing attention in recent years. This special issue showcases a collection of recent advances in understanding the impacts of ECE&D on carbon cycling. Notable advances…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell, Mutch
In August of 1972, the small Bad Luck Fire signaled the start of returning fire to the wilderness for the USDA Forest Service. Forty-three years later, the wisdom of allowing perhaps the most important of the 'forces of nature' to prevail has been proven time and again. While…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Loehman, Shanks Rodrigues, Miller, Loboda, Prakash, York
Polar amplification of climate warming is bringing with it an increase in wildfire (Wolken et al. 2011). More fire disturbance may provide a mechanism by which climate warming could rapidly alter the structure and function of high northern latitude ecosystems. Observational…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) is jointly funded by the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior, and governance is through a 12-member Governing Board with 6 members from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and 1 member each from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans, Megown
During FY15 staff from the Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) developed an online survey to assess Forest Service land cover disturbance information needs. There were 172 respondents to the survey across a wide and representative spectrum of potential Landscape Change…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Stephen Pyne, wildland fire historian, scholar and author with Arizona State University. This thought-provoking 1-hour webinar by Steve Pyne explored the complex histories and relationships between societies and various combustion…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Aplet
Wilderness has played an invaluable role in the development of wildland fire science. Since Agee's review of the subject 15 years ago, tremendous progress has been made in the development of models and data, in understanding the complexity of wildland fire as a landscape process…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Natural Range of Variation is a description of the conditions of an ecosystem over space and time.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Early spring post-fire snow albedo dynamics in high latitude boreal forests using Landsat-8 OLI data
Taking advantage of the improved radiometric resolution of Landsat-8 OLI which, unlike previous Landsat sensors, does not saturate over snow, the progress of fire recovery progress at the landscape scale (< 100 m) is examined. High quality Landsat-8 albedo retrievals can now…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ludwig
MS Thesis Defense, May 3, 2016. University of Alaska Fairbanks
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Thinning and pruning treatments at the experimental 2009 Nenana Ridge fuel treatment study reduced fire intensity during 2015 wildfire which entered unburned experimental fuel treatments.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hunter
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelly, Genet, McGuire, Hu
Wildfires play a key role in the boreal forest carbon cycle1, 2, and models suggest that accelerated burning will increase boreal C emissions in the coming century3. However, these predictions may be compromised because brief observational records provide limited constraints to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Iwahana, Uchida, Liu, Gong, Meyer, Guritz, Yamanokuchi, Hinzman
Thermokarst is the process of ground subsidence caused by either the thawing of ice-rich permafrost or the melting of massive ground ice. The consequences of permafrost degradation associated with thermokarst for surface ecology, landscape evolution, and hydrological processes…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke
The study uses satellite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer albedo products (MCD43A3) to assess changes in albedo at two sites in the treeless tundra region of Alaska, both within the foothills region of the Brooks Range, the 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF) and 2012…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Long, Connot
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) 2010 data release provides updated and enhanced vegetation, fuel, and fire regime layers consistently across the United States. The data represent landscape conditions from approximately 2010 and are the latest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yeboah, Chen
Context: Despite decades of research, there is an intense debate about the consistency of the hump-shaped pattern describing the relationship between diversity and disturbance as predicted by the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH). Previous meta-analyses have not…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Minsley, Pastick, Wylie, Brown, Kass
Fire can be a significant driver of permafrost change in boreal landscapes, altering the availability of soil carbon and nutrients that have important implications for future climate and ecological succession. However, not all landscapes are equally susceptible to fire-induced…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis
The presenters will discuss key messages from the recently published drought assessment. Topics to be covered include a state-of-the-science review of direct and indirect impacts of drought on forests and rangelands, as well as a discussion of management options for increasing…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The final report submitted by The Nature Conservancy's North America Fire Team for PERC, a cooperative agreement among The Nature Conservancy, the USDA Forest Service, and land management agencies of the Department of the Interior (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Yue, Heil, Mouillot, Alonso-Canas, Padilla, Pereira, Oom, Tansey
Aim: This paper presents a new global burned area (BA) product developed within the framework of the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme, along with a first assessment of its potentials for atmospheric and carbon cycle modelling. Innovation: Methods…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS