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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cruz, Alexander
How well can we expect to predict the spread rate of wildfires and prescribed fires? The degree of accuracy in model predictions of wildland fire behaviour characteristics are dependent on the model's applicability to a given situation, the validity of the model's relationships…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christiansen
Fuels treatments have long mattered, and are expected to into the future. Mangers are trying desperately to quantitatively answer the question "How much of the risk of wildfire to key values is being reduced through fuels management programs?" Serious challenges to continued…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cary, Keane, Flannigan, Davies, Li, Parsons
Understanding what determines area burned in large landscapes is critical for informing wildland fire management in fire-prone environments and for representing fire activity in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models. For the past ten years, a group of landscape-fire modellers have…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
This presentation recapitulates the main points made at a technology and information transfer workshop held in advance of the conference that provided overviews of two software applications, developed by the authors, for use in assessing crown fire behavior and canopy fuel…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev, Petkov, Wold, Urbanski, Hao
Lidar-data processing techniques are analyzed, which allow determining smoke-plume heights and their dynamics and can be helpful for the improvement of smoke dispersion and air quality models. The data processing algorithms considered in the paper are based on the analysis of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Nelson, Seielstad, Stoker, Jolly, Parsons
Accurate information about three-dimensional canopy structure and wildland fuel across the landscape is necessary for fire behaviour modelling system predictions. Remotely sensed data are invaluable for assessing these canopy characteristics over large areas; lidar data, in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Beukema, Rebain, Eagle, Swedin, Petrova, Prichard
In this project, we developed a Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS, JFSP Project #) post-processor (FVS2FCCS) to convert FVS simulated treelist and surface fuel data into Fuel Characteristics Classification System (FCCS, JFSP Project #98-1-1-06) fuelbed format (.xml) that can be…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Brown
Software was developed to evaluate National Weather Service (NWS) spot forecasts. Fire management officials request spot forecasts from the NWS to provide detailed guidance as to atmospheric conditions in the vicinity of planned prescribed burns as well as wildfires that do not…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hodges, Luloff, Finley
For generations, the public was told that fire destroys forests and many of its associated values (e.g., timber, wildlife, recreation, aesthetics, ecosystem services). Recently, the science of fire prevention and fuel treatments has experienced renewed and enhanced support…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
Globally, wildfire size, severity, and frequency have been increasing, as have related fatalities and taxpayer-funded firefighting costs (1). In most accessible forests, wildfire response prioritizes suppression because fires are easier and cheaper to contain when small (2). In…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Lierop, Lindquist, Sathyapala, Franceschini
Reliable global data on forest degradation and disturbances due to fire, insect pests, diseases and severe weather are important to understand ecosystem health and condition, safeguard production of goods and services and avoid negative impacts on human livelihoods. This paper…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jiang, Rastetter, Rocha, Pearce, Kwiatkowski, Shaver
Fire frequency has dramatically increased in the tundra of northern Alaska, USA, which has major implications for the carbon budget of the region and the functioning of these ecosystems, which support important wildlife species. We investigated the postfire succession of plant…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seielstad
The idea that more wildfires should be allowed to burn for resource benefit is widespread in federal fire management in the United States and the research community is heavily invested in strategies, tools, data, and information to provide decision-making support for these fires…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riley, Stonesifer, Calkin, Preisler
The Predictive Services program was created under the National Wildfire Coordinating Group in 2001 to address the need for long- and short-term decision support information for fire managers and operations personnel. The primary mission of Predictive Services is to integrate…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Preisler, Eidenshink, Howard, Burgan
Systems to estimate forest fire potential commonly utilize one or more indexes that relate to expected fire behavior; however they indicate neither the chance that a large fire will occur, nor the expected number of large fires. That is, they do not quantify the probabilistic…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DellaSala, Hanson
The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires, presents information on the current paradigm shift in the way people think about wildfire and ecosystems. While much of the current forest management in fire-adapted ecosystems, especially forests, is focused on fire prevention…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McHugh, Hoyt, Fay
The Strategic Operational Planner (SOPL) wildland fire management position was created in the United States in 2009 to reflect updated terminology. SOPL merges the former Fire Use Manager positions (FUM1 and FUM2) and is now an established position within the Incident Command…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loveless, Hernandez
The tragic fatality events of the mid-1990s and subsequent studies led to a concentrated effort to increase safety in the US federal wildland firefighter community beginning in 2000. Addressing human factors (HF) as a causal agent in accidents was a major focal point for this…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
Past fire exclusion policies and fire suppression actions have led to a historic "fire deficit" on public wildlands. These sociocultural actions have led to unprecedented environmental changes that have created conditions conducive to more frequent large-scale wildfires.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon, Menakis, Fay
Federal wildfire managers often want to know, over large landscapes, where wildfires are likely to occur and how intense they may be. To meet this need we developed a map that we call wildland fire potential (WFP)-a raster geospatial product that can help to inform evaluations…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeGrosky, Slijepcevic
Over the past two decades, wildland fire professionals have been confronted with worsening conditions and complex challenges that cry out for change and new ways of thinking. However, change requires a framework within which people reliably translate policy into timely,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Webb, Hogge, Wallace
Towers and poles supporting power transmission and telecommunication lines have collapsed due to heating from wildland fires. Such occurrences have led to interruptions in power or communication in large municipal areas with associated social and political implications as well…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Parsons, Mell
Designation of safety zones is a primary duty of all wildland firefighters. Unfortunately, information regarding what constitutes an adequate safety zone is inadequately defined. Measurements of energy release from wildland fires have been used to develop an empirically based…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Johnston
We stood with the gray-haired ranger on a high ridge in Oregon overlooking a thousand square miles of forest. [from the text] The night before, my GEOGRAPHIC colleague Jay Johnston and I had watched a particularly violent thunderstorm of the type that plagued the Northwest in…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waigl, Prakash, Ferguson, Stuefer
In coal-bearing areas of the circumpolar North, a region rich in carbonaceous deposits, coal outcrops on south-facing slopes are particularly vulnerable to catching fire as they receive substantial amounts of solar radiation during the long summer days. In this study, we use…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES