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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Penney, Habibi, Cattani
This paper provides analysis of international fire service siege wildfire suppression thresholds and reports on the effect of forest fuel structure, fire weather condition and terrain on the suitability of suppression strategies. Further, this study applies a fire engineering…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Bond
Alexander von Humboldt is a key figure in the history of ecology and biogeography who contributed to shape what is today ecology, as well as the environmentalist movement. His observation that the world’s vegetation varies systematically with climate was one of his many…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
"Risk is defined as a measure of the probability and consequence of uncertain future events" (Thompson et al 2016). We are uncertain about many things each day, though only when that uncertainty interferes with a decision is a risk considered and possibly taken. In that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Twidwell, Wonkka, Wang, Grant, Allen, Fuhlendorf, Garmestani, Angeler, Taylor, Kreuter, Rogers
Mechanisms underlying the loss of ecological resilience and a shift to an alternate regime with lower ecosystem service provisioning continues to be a leading debate in ecology, particularly in cases where evidence points to human actions and decision-making as the primary…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bhuiyan, Moseley, Medal, Rashidi, Grala
Reducing the potential damage caused by a wildfire is a problem of significant importance to land and fire managers. Fuel reduction treatment is a well-known method of reducing the risk of fire occurrence and spread on landscapes. However, officials seeking fuel reduction…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasslop, Coppola, Voulgarakis, Yue, Veraverbeke
Purpose of Review: Understanding of how fire affects the carbon cycle and climate is crucial for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. As those are often based on Earth system model simulations, we identify recent progress and research needs that can improve the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Dell, Ford Hotmann, Fischer, Pierce
Seasonal-mean concentrations of particulate matter with diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) have been decreasing across the United States (US) for several decades, with large reductions in spring and summer in the eastern US. In contrast, summertime-mean PM2.5 in the western…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The NWCG Standards for Wildland Fire Module Operations standardizes procedures and expectations for Wildland Fire Modules (WFMs). These standards are to be used by staff, supervisors, specialists, and technicians for planning, administering, and conducting WFM operations. These…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Presented By: Robert (Zeke) Ziel
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview The Science of Fire Hazard, Potential, and Risk, the topic of the workshop.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
York
Presented By: Alison York
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an update of recent AFSC activities.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Tomlinson, Smith
Presented By: Mike Smith and Caleb Tomlinson
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview on the Fire Management in the Yukon Territory.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
Presented By: Scott Rupp
March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting preseason update, an overview was given on the CASC climatology project.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Brinkman
Presented By: Tom Paragi and Todd Brinkman
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview on three assessment methods for looking at post fuel treatment areas.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Macander, York
Presented By: Matt Macander and Alison York
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview of the new SERDP funded project on resiliency and vulnerability.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kirsch
Presented By: Andrew Kirsch
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview on the tool STARFire and potential way of measuring wildfire risk via fragility.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cahur
Presented By: Mark Cahur
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview of the Chugach risk assessment.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt
Presented By: Uma Bhatt
March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting, the presentation gave an update on the UAF seasonal prediction project and EPSCoR project.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader
Presented By: Heidi Strader
March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting, the presentation gave the seasonal outlook for the 2019 fire season.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
See how remote sensing is being used to track progress in conifer management. This video was presented by Jason Reinhardt – University of Minnesota-Minneapolis at the Harnessing Technology to Improve Conservation Effectiveness on Western Working Lands| Society for Rangeland…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Little, Drury, Molina, Lane
This compilation is intended to provide an illustrated overview of the current science of fuelbreaks in Alaska boreal forest, with citations and links to additional reference material for practitioners and the public. Research on fuelbreaks in the high northern latitudes is…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
Presented By: Jen Jenkins
March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting, the presentation gave an update on new and continuing GIS uses available.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Buma, Batllori, Bisbing, Holz, Saunders, Bidlack, Creutzburg, DellaSala, Gregovich, Hennon, Krapek, Moritz, Zaret
The coastal temperate rainforests of South and North America are part of the most biomass dense forest biome on the planet. They are also subject to rapid climatic shifts and, subsequently, new disturbance processes - snow loss‐driven mortality and the emergence of fire in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Dunfield, Johnstone, Mack, Turetsky, Walker, White, Baltzer
Wildfire is the dominant disturbance in boreal forests and fire activity is increasing in these regions. Soil fungal communities are important for plant growth and nutrient cycling post‐fire but there is little understanding of how fires impact fungal communities across…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ebel
Wildfires raise risks of floods, debris flows, major geomorphologic and sedimentologic change, and water quality and quantity shifts. A principal control on the magnitude of these changes is field‐saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kfs), which dictates surface runoff generation…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES