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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Johnstone, Olsen, Rupp
This is a powerpoint slide presentation about modeling future successional trajectory and landscape flammability using the 2004 Boundary Fire in Alaska.
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
El humo de los incendios forestales puede causar problemas de salud para todos, pero especialmente para las personas que padecen de enfermedades cardiacas y pulmonares, los adultos de mayor edad y los ninos.
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire smoke can cause health problems for anyone, especially those with heart and lung conditions, older adults, and children.
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
More and more people are making their homes in woodland settings in or near forests, rural areas, or remote mountain sites - areas in which wildfires are more likely to occur. Wildfires often begin unnoticed. They spread quickly, igniting brush, trees, and homes. CDC recommends…
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Over 2,200 wildfires occur in the United States each year. In March of 2006 residents in the Texas panhandle suffered through over a week of devastating wildfires that took 12 lives and damaged over $16 million in property. In 2004, wildfires burned 8 million acres in 40 states.
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Walsh
Power point presentation at Governor's Climate Change Sub-Cabinet Meeting, 22 May 2007
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Barnes, Jandt
We propose to expand the Northwest Fire Research Clearinghouse (FIREHouse) (see http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/ fera/firehouse) to include projects relevant specifically to fire management in Alaska. FIREHouse was originally funded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in 2003 (…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Calkin, Jones
The increased scrutiny of all wildfire related expenditures requires improvements in cost-benefit accounting systems including methods to assess values-at-risk downstream of burned areas. Working under very tight timelines, Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) teams are…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Martinson
This proposal responds to Task 1 of the second Announcement for Proposals (AFP) authorized by the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board in 2003, which calls for projects that would obtain time-sensitive information following wildland fire incidents related to the effects of…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Acheson, Finney, Hicks
Wildland fires are a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants to the atmosphere. The new EPA Clean Air Act and the Regional Haze Rule require quantifying accurately the emissions of PM2.5 and other pollutants from fires and their impacts on regional haze and…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Babbitt, Ferguson, Lahm, Ottmar, Sandberg, Susott, Yokelson
Project Objectives For at least 5 different major classes of fuels typically involved in residual smoldering combustion (RSC) and two different moisture content conditions dispersed over at least 10 different sites. Four of these will be in the western USA, 3 in the southeast, 2…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Riggan
The goals of this proposal are to extend an existing JFSP Rapid Response Study (JFSP# 03-S-al) for an additional twelve-month period. Additional funding requested will provide the opportunity for two additional full deployments of the Rapid Response Team, including the airborne…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Bradshaw, Running
Real-time monitoring and predictive models of vegetation phenology will be developed to assess the current state of greenness of live vegetation as well as predict the timing of greenup and senescence events as a result of future climates. The real-time monitor will be based on…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman
This study is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of TFSP agency communication strategies and partnerships with local organizations for fuel reduction programs. Research will be at the community level where federal fire personnel have begun to work cooperatively with local…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hiers
Knowledge of the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics is becoming increasingly important for making informed decisions on the use of prescribed fire, wildfires, and wildland fire use fires. Consequently the Joint Fire Science Program funded the development of fuels…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Renschler
This proposal is in response to Task 1: Science Application Partnerships, as described in the Joint Fire Science Program Announcement for Proposals 2004-4. The current GeoWEPP spatial erosion modeling tool is showing great promise for applications to Burned Area Emergency…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Ottmar, Vihnanek
Wildland fire professionals require accurate, detailed fuels information to effectively plan and implement a whole range of fuels and fire management actions. The Natural Fuels Photo Series, a photo guide designed for field use, is a source of high quality fuels data for a wide…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi
The Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan promulgates policy objectives that recognize the ecological importance of perpetuating natural fire regimes. The same policy also directs land managers to balance the protection of ecological principles with appropriate risk management…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Winkler
Planning for future fire regimes and fuel conditions involves predicting future fuel loads and conditions, as well as evaluating how the atmospheric potential for large or dangerous fires will change in the future. There have been several studies examining the potential changes…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Alden, Shulski
This proposal is in response to the Joint Fire Science Program's Announcement for Proposals 2004-2, Task 1, directly addressing local knowledge gaps associated with planning and implementation of fuels treatment that are specifically identified by an agency administrator. At the…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Ferguson, Larkin
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) was completed with Joint Fire Science Program support in 2000 under a 1998-2000 project called, Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildiand Fires. It is a twice-daily, 30- year database of surface wind,…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Brooks, Sutherland, Zouhar
Managers need to understand the scientific principles that drive the relationships between fire and invasive plants, and they need to know what aspects of fire-invasive issues are unique to their geographic regions. This project will (1) produce a General Technical Report in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
With the creation of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) came an expectation of the rapid and systematic delivery of solutions to the technical and scientific problems associated with planning for (including managing fuels), fighting, and recovering from wildfires. Although it…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
Recent increases in funding for fire related research have not been accompanied by corresponding increases in the science delivery effort. This has created a backlog of new information that is not being fully applied by managers, regulators, decision makers, or policy makers.…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bytnerowicz
Presenting state-of-science information and discussion of broadly defined air pollution and forest fire issues. Among others, the following topics will be discussed: effects of forest fires on air quality in the remote and urban-wildland interface forests; effects of forest…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES