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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jordan, Ichoku, Hoff
A newly developed method, which involves the use of satellite measurements of energy released by fires, was used to estimate smoke emissions in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). This SGP region was chosen because extensive agricultural and planned burning…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Fry, Franco-Vizcaino
Knowledge of the ecological effect of wildfire is important to resource managers, especially from forests in which past anthropogenic influences, e.g., fire suppression and timber harvesting, have been limited. Changes to forest structure and regeneration patterns were…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robbins, Eckelmann, Quiñones
This paper presents a summary of the forest fire reports in the insular Caribbean derived from both management reports and an analysis of publicly available Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrodiometer (MODIS) satellite active fire products from the region. A vast difference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang, Kondragunta, Schmidt, Kogan
Biomass burning is a major source of aerosols that affect air quality and the Earth's radiation budget. Current estimates of biomass burning emissions vary markedly due to uncertainties in biomass density, combustion efficiency, emission factor, and burned area. This study…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Henderson, Burkholder, Jackson, Brauer, Ichoku
Plume dispersion models may improve assessment of the health effects associated with forest fire smoke, but they require considerable expertise in atmospheric and fire sciences to initialize and evaluate. Products from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson
We used a national household survey to examine knowledge, attitudes, and preferences pertaining to wildland fire. First, we present nationwide results and trends. Then, we examine opinions across region and race. Despite some regional variation, respondents are fairly consistent…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Freeburn, de Groot, Pritchard, Lynham, Landry
The severity of a burn for post-fire ecological effects has been assessed with the composite burn index (CBI) and the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR). This study assessed the relationship between these two variables across recently burned areas located in the western…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pouliot, Pace, Roy, Pierce, Mobley
A 2005 biomass burning (wildfire, prescribed, and agricultural) emission inventory has been developed for the contiguous United States using a newly developed simplified method of combining information from multiple sources for use in the US EPA's National Emission Inventory (…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyons, Jin, Randerson
We assessed the multidecadal effects of boreal forest fire on surface albedo using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite observations within the perimeters of burn scars in interior Alaska. Fire caused albedo to increase during periods with and without…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hoy, French, Turetsky, Trigg, Kasischke
Satellite remotely sensed data of fire disturbance offers important information; however, current methods to study fire severity may need modifications for boreal regions. We assessed the potential of the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) and other spectroscopic indices…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Murphy, Reynolds, Koltun
During the 2004 fire season ~6.6 million acres (~2.7 million ha) burned across Alaska. Nearly 2 million of these were on National Wildlife Refuge System lands inaccessible from the state's limited road system. Many fires burned through September, driven by unusually warm and dry…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Evans
ANNOTATION: Woody biomass-usually logging slash, tops and limbs, or trees that cannot be sold as timber-is the lowest valued material removed from the forest and presents economic and logistical challenges. This report brings together 45 case studies of how biomass is removed…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zouhar, Munger, Smith
The potential for nonnative, invasive plants to alter an ecosystem depends on species traits, ecosystem characteristics, and the effects of disturbances, including fire. This study identifies gaps in science-based knowledge about the relationships between fire and nonnative…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keane, Agee, Fulé, Keeley, Key, Kitchen, Miller, Schulte
The perception is that today's large fires are an ecological catastrophe because they burn vast areas with high intensities and severities. However, little is known of the ecological impacts of large fires on both historical and contemporary landscapes. The present paper…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hurteau, Koch, Hungate
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing catastrophic fires move…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
FireFamilyPlus (FFP) is a PC-based software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CFDRS). Fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a suite of computer modeling tools for predicting the long-term effects of alternative forest management actions. FVS was developed in the early 1980s and is used throughout the United Sates and British Columbia. The Third FVS conference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Sorbel
Burn severity strongly influences post-fire vegetation succession, soil erosion, and wildlife populations in the fire-adapted boreal forest and tundra ecosystems of Alaska. Therefore, satellite-derived maps of burn severity in the remote Alaskan landscape are a useful tool in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning and Policy: Common Problems and Approaches
Wildland fire management programs and fire suppression is multi-faceted, spanning intellectual disciplines and administrative boundaries. Planning and implementing fire management programs requires knowledge and experience in fire science, ecosystem ecology, fuel dynamics,…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Seesholtz
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Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
This initiative includes an adaptive three phase process to improve the delivery of new scientific information to specialist and decision makers.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Andrews, Hardy
Live fuel moisture plays an important role in wildland fire. There is a need for a complete information synthesis on live fuel moisture that fire managers can use in wildland fire planning and implementation activities. And a complete review is needed to identify areas where…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Woodard
This conference will bring wildland fire managers, policy makers, community planners, and social scientist together to share information, foster the development of new research collaborations between and among fire managers and researchers across geographic and national borders…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
The focused science delivery program proposes to investigate to what extent existing JFSP research is being incorporated into current environmental analysis related to fuels management projects for Federal land management agencies.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke, Hall, Murphy, Verbyla, Hoy, Allen
There has been considerable interest in the recent literature regarding the assessment of post-fire effects on forested areas within the North American boreal forest. Assessing the physical and ecological effects of fire in boreal forests has far-reaching implications for a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS