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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Thoman
The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. Subjects reviewed include recent climate conditions around Alaska, some forecast tools, and the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hansen
Climate and disturbance regimes are expected to change profoundly in 21st century forests. Whether and where forests may succumb to projected trends and shift to different ecosystem states is poorly resolved but essential for anticipating both ecological and social consequences…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Guyer
In 2011 BLM funded a five year Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) pilot project within the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPRA). The NPRA was specifically selected due to its mandate of supplying national energy needs while protecting surface resources and its need…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
Presentation by Scott Rupp at the Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review, October 14, 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Vose
The pace of environmental and socioeconomic change over the past 100 years has been rapid. New stressors such as air pollution, invasive species, changes in fire regimes, and land use change have shaped the structure and function of most forest ecosystems, including eastern oak…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rogers
The degree and manner in which different fires affect climate is a complete unknown, but is expected to vary substantially and may in fact represent a currently untapped climate mitigation service. In this webinar, Rogers will provide background on these issues, and describe his…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Marlon
Dr. Jenn Marlon of Yale University compares her Western paleo charcoal and pollen data with her sites in Massachussets.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
Carbon cycles through forested ecosystems, but climate change will increase disturbance in many of these ecosystems. Many U.S. forests currently act as carbon sinks, but increased disturbance may alter this dynamic. Management responses could include focusing on rapid…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Climate change is to blame for many destructive natural phenomena. But Mark Finney, a research forester with the US Forest Service, says that climate change isn't the cause for a seeming increase of fires around the western United States. Finney says that weather, even a dry…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Current and future risks posed by wildfires are key elements in decisions about management of those fires. Carrying evaluations of that risk more than a few days into the future requires stochastic approaches that depend on the climatology of environmental conditions that favor…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Randi Jandt talked about the evolution of Alaska firefighting practices (field and management)over the past 50 years. We are starting to be aware of the changes in climate and in Alaska forests: is the wildfire "problem" the same one we faced a half-century ago? Have our…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES