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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Christiansen
The topic of collaboration across boundaries is fitting for me and for the Forest Service because our national priorities revolve around just that-collaboration across boundaries-especially when it comes to wildland fire. We are committed to improving the conditions of the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prudhomme
The Firewise USA™ national recognition program evolved from a 1986 cooperative agreement between the Forest Service and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). The agreement enabled NFPA, as a national nonprofit safety organization with an extensive history of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Medley-Daniel
For the last 100 years, fire suppression policies have largely kept fire from playing its natural role. Removing fire from ecosystems that depend on it to stay healthy, coupled with more people building houses in flammable natural areas, has created a costly and dangerous…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shirley
Wildfire mitigation can improve the chances of a home surviving a wildfire. Research has shown that one of the most important sources of information that prompts residents in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) to take action to reduce their wildfire risks is guidance from local…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey, Quinn-Davidson
Imagine this: it’s early morning in fire camp. Crews worked late last night mopping up a prescribed burn on national forest land, and now they’re crawling out of sleeping bags and into their greens and yellows, preparing for another busy day on the fireline. Everything looks and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quarles
Buildings ignite during wildfires when exposed to: 1. Burning embers (also called firebrands), 2. Radiant heat, and/or 3. Direct flame.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leschak
The wildfire landscape is like a patchwork quilt. Each piece represents a stakeholder: private timber producers; State lands; rural homes and farms; communities; Tribes, pueblos, or reservations; refuges; Federal lands and watersheds; and community parks. And all of those…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greene, Jacques
Ever hear the Forest Service called the 'Forest Circus'? Calling something a circus usually paints a picture of disorganization and chaos. The impression is misleading because both the circus and the Forest Service can teach a lot about discipline, physical fitness/literacy,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strategy on fire management to reduce Impacts of wildfire through collaboration and partnership.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Masrur, Petrov, DeGroot
Recent years have seen an increased frequency of wildfire events in different parts of Arctic tundra ecosystems. Contemporary studies have largely attributed these wildfire events to the Arctic's rapidly changing climate and increased atmospheric disturbances (i.e. thunderstorms…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu
Research has traditionally focused on the wildfire impacts of climate and vegetation, using the approaches developed mainly based on empirical and statistical weather–fire behavior relationships as well as empirical and process-based vegetation–fire relationships. Recent studies…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Archibald, Lehmann, Belcher, Bond, Bradstock, Daniau, Dexter, Forrestel, Greve, He, Higgins, Hoffmann, Lamont, McGlinn, Moncrieff, Osborne, Pausas, Price, Ripley, Rogers, Schwilk, Simon, Turetsky, Van der Werf, Zanne
Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow smouldering peat fires, to low-intensity surface fires, to intense crown fires, depending on…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pellegrini, Ahlström, Hobbie, Reich, Nieradzik, Staver, Scharenbroch, Jumpponen, Anderegg, Randerson, Jackson
Fire frequency is changing globally and is projected to affect the global carbon cycle and climate. However, uncertainty about how ecosystems respond to decadal changes in fire frequency makes it difficult to predict the effects of altered fire regimes on the carbon cycle; for…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Benedict, Williams
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s Smoke Committee with assistance from The Nature Conservancy, held a webinar focused on the emerging world of low-cost air quality sensors. Air quality sensors are a rapidly expanding segment of the air pollutant monitoring world. There…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Haskell
Highlights events and publications from the JFSP fire science exchange network.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Molan, Kim, Lu, Wylie, Zhu
The discontinuous permafrost zone is one of the world’s most sensitive areas to climate change. Alaskan boreal forest is underlain by discontinuous permafrost, and wildfires are one of the most influential agents negatively impacting the condition of permafrost in the arctic…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Joly
Caribou are one of the most charismatic and enigmatic animals of the high north-and the most important subsistence mammal in Alaska. Today most barren-ground caribou herds in North America are in decline, with some herds down >80% in 30 years prompting Canada to list the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Kielland, Euskirchen, Brinkman, Ruess, Kellie
Fire severity is an important control over regeneration of deciduous species and can influence the overall quality of habitat for herbivores, such as moose (Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758)), but the relationships between availability and duration of biomass production and moose…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Eric Miller, BLM Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist, describes the 2017 re-survey of the 2007 mega-fire on the North Slope of Alaska. He shows surprising findings with regard to subterranean ice feature degradation, vegetation changes and recovery, shrubbification, and surface…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Presentation slides: From 4th ABoVE Science Team Meeting, Jan 23-26, Seattle WA
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Aleman, Hennebelle, Vannière, Blarquez
[from the text] Paleofire research is the study of past fire regimes using a suite of proxies (frequency, area burned, severity, intensity, etc.). Charcoal preserved in sedimentary archives constitutes one of the most ubiquitous measures of past fire regimes along with fire-…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Johnson
The most destructive wildland fires occur in mixtures of living and dead vegetation, yet very little attention has been given to the fundamental differences between factors that control their flammability. Historically, moisture content has been used to evaluate the relative…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tedim, Leone, Amraoui, Bouillon, Coughlan, Delogu, Fernandes, Ferreira, McCaffrey, McGee, Parente, Paton, Pereira, Ribeiro, Viegas, Xanthopoulos
Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasing frequency, there is a debate about how to address these wildfires with significant social…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walding, Williams, McGarvie, Belcher
Most previous research has assessed the ability of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) to portray fire activity at either single sites or on small spatial scales, despite it being a nation-wide system. This study seeks to examine the relationships between a set of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vincent, Aisbett, Wolkow, Jay, Ridgers, Ferguson
Wildland firefighters perform physical work while being subjected to multiple stressors and adverse, volatile working environments for extended periods. Recent research has highlighted sleep as a significant and potentially modifiable factor impacting operational performance.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES