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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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La Puma
Inga La Puma, Fire Scientist & Technical Lead* discusses the nuanced role that LANDFIRE plays as it provides foundational data for multiple tools within the natural resource community.
0:00 Intro
0:58 What's LANDFIRE?
1:29 LANDFIRE Milestones
2:36 Interrelationship between…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hood, McKinney, Ott, Hanberry, Jain
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. Rocky Mountain Research Station…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service, an Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides what is arguably the most valuable forest resource dataset in the United States. These data are the basis for numerous inquiries across a wide range…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perez-Ramirez, Graziani, Santoni, Ziegler, Hoffman, Mell, Tihay-Felicelli, Ganteaume
Research applications of three-dimensional, time-dependent, computational fluid dynamics fire behavior models, such as the Wildland Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) [1,2], FIRETEC [3], or FIRESTAR3D [4], are progressively increasing. This is due to advances in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferner
The growing frequency of wildland fire events across the globe is creating an ever-increasing strain on communities and the resources which are necessary to manage those events, whether planned or unplanned. ArcGIS can improve situational awareness from the moment of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ding, Wang, Fu, Zhang, Wang
Satellite remote sensing plays an important role in wildfire detection. Methods using the brightness and temperature difference of remote sensing images to determine if a wildfire has occurred are one of the main research directions of forest fire monitoring. However, common…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A review of biomass-to-bioenergy supply chain research using bibliometric analysis and visualization
Based on current trends and policies aimed at decarbonizing energy systems, the conversion of biomass to bioenergy has the potential to grow rapidly, but such growth depends on the development of efficient, sustainable, and competitive biomass supply chains. As a result, the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This IFTDSS (Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System) course is available anytime on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal. You can enroll yourself in this on-demand online course once you enter the Wildland Fire Learning Portal. Select "How to Use IFTDSS for Rx Burn…
Year: 2023
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Wu, Li, Li, Zhang, Liu, Zhao, Shen, Hao, Zhang
Fire, as a strong disturbance type, can exert significant impacts on the biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere and human society. It can inherently trigger both critical transitions in ecosystems and dramatic changes in land cover. However, the general…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Panda, Badola, Smith
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Wildfires are a natural and essential part of our ecosystem, recycling soil nutrients and renewing healthy forests. In Alaska, around one million acres (4000 km2) burn every year, and record years have seen as many as six million acres burned. Most of these…
Year: 2023
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Robillard
[from the text] From the early 1990s through 2017, state and federal agencies installed about 15 miles of fuel break that protected the southern border of Alaska’s Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) from catastrophic wildfire. It wasn’t easy work. It demanded years of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grabinski
[from the text] June 2022 in Alaska was a remarkable month for wildfire. An incredible 1.84 million acres burned, nearly tying the all-time record for June. Notably, 1.2 million acres burned in southwestern Alaska, more than doubling the area burned in that region since the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Grabinski
The 2nd Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) Research-to-Operations (R2O) workshop convened May 12-13 at the University of Alaska Murie Building.The 1.5-day workshop was held following NASA ABoVE’s 8th Annual Science Team Meeting as an opportunity for researchers and managers…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stahl, Andrus, Hicke, Hudak, Bright, Meddens
Remote sensing is widely used to detect forest disturbances (e.g., wildfires, harvest, or outbreaks of pathogens or insects) over spatiotemporal scales that are infeasible to capture with field surveys. To understand forest ecosystem dynamics and the ecological role of human and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ott, Kilkenny, Jain
Background: The risk of destructive wildfire on fire-prone landscapes with excessive fuel buildup has prompted the use of fuel reduction treatments to protect valued resources from wildfire damage. The question of how to maximize the effectiveness of fuel reduction treatments at…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Condon, Shinneman, Rosentreter, Coates
[Excerpted from full text] We surveyed a wildfire in October of 2021 outside of Boise, Idaho, that burned 15–20 acres of intact biocrusts the previous month. ... We demonstrate that fire had differing effects on morphogroups of biocrusts, as crustose lichens were observed to be…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holland, Steyn
The radiant energy income of a slope influences its ambient temperatures and water movements, both of which are important controls on the growth behaviour, species composition and structure of its vegetation cover. Therefore, information about the radiation environments of…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gao, Schwilk
In ecosystems where trees and grasses coexist, some grass species are found only in open habitats and others persist under trees. The persistence of shade intolerant grasses in ecosystems such as open woodlands and savannas depends on recurrent fires to open the tree canopy.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ascoli, Moris, Sil, Fernandes
Rothermel-based decision support systems are widespread for fire behavior prediction and wildfire risk analysis. The majority of these systems simulate the rate of spread (Ros) of a surface fire, and linked models (e.g., MTT), using as the input a set of Standard Fuel Model (SFM…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buma
Temperatures in high-latitude environments are rising quickly, leading to increases in the frequency and intensity of wildfires. This trend is especially important in the boreal where fire return intervals have shrunk from between 100-300 years to often less than 20 years.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shinneman, Strand, Pellant, Abatzoglou, Brunson, Glenn, Heinrichs, Sadegh, Vaillant
Sagebrush ecosystems in the United States have been declining since EuroAmerican settlement, largely due to agricultural and urban development, invasive species, and altered fire regimes, resulting in loss of biodiversity and wildlife habitat. To combat continued conversion to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Kennedy, Harrison, Alvarado, Desautel, Holford, Logue
Salvage logging is a controversial tool for post-wildfire management that removes fire-killed trees. We use a generalized randomized experimental design to fulfill two main objectives: (1) quantify the immediate (1-year post-harvest) effects of salvage logging on stand structure…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ghodrat, Shakeriaski, Fanaee, Simeoni
Wildfires are complex phenomena, both in time and space, in ecosystems. The ability to understand wildfire dynamics and to predict the behaviour of the propagating fire is essential and at the same time a challenging practice. A common approach to investigate and predict such…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suzuki, Manzello
Background: In wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires, particulates from the combustion of both natural vegetative fuels and engineered cellulosic fuels may have deleterious effects on the environment.
Aims: The research was conducted to investigate the morphology of the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES