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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Odman, Garcia Menendez
SIPFIS is the acronym for Southern Integrated Prescribed Fire Information System. SIPFIS merges prescribed fire and air quality data into a common analysis framework to create a unified prescribed fire and air quality database for the southern U.S. The information available…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Toombs, Weber
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive fire information becomes…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Weber
Learn what is new with RECOVER in 2018. This DSS has been used on 60 wildfires since it first began just a few years ago. RECOVER can be used to assist in post-fire planning and long-term monitoring. Take a look at this video to see how you can apply RECOVER in your work.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Rappold, Hano, Baghdikian
Exposure to wildland fire smoke is a community health issue that has gained the attention of public health professionals and organizations, especially in states where fires are becoming more frequent and intense. Emissions from wildland fire smoke has significant health…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The fires that ravaged Yellowstone National Park in 1988 were large and severe, but they were still within the normal limits of fire regimes in the West. Following those fires 30 years ago, University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor of Integrative Biology, Monica Turner,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Lahm
Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Watch a serotinous Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine cone heat up and open.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Lojewski
As forests grow, the trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and store it within their growing biomass (trunk, branches, leaves and root systems). A “forest carbon offset,” is a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)—the emission of which is avoided…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

This video is an introduction on how to manage wildland fuels. The objectives of this video are to: 1) Define wildland fuel management; 2) Explain how fuels are modified; 3) Describe some common desired outcomes; 4) Introduce fuel management in the Wildland Urban Interface; 5)…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Mullan
This presentation will show the connection between air quality and our changing environment including work done by ANTHC, the role of the National Tribal Air Association (NTAA) and the roles and goals of the Alaska representatives.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Schmidt, McCullum, Picotte
This session will provide an overview of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) and a hands-on demonstration on the use of the GWIS viewer. GWIS is an online web application that uses remotely sensed wildfire data. This data includes fire danger, wildfire locations,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Picotte
Certain areas are experiencing longer fire seasons, with more frequent and severe droughts. Wildfire detection, monitoring, and mitigation is increasingly important in these regions. Satellite remote sensing data is useful for identifying active fires, evaluating burned areas,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Coyle
Some forest managers have had concerns that prescribed burning after drought will stress mature pines, and increase their susceptibility to beetle attack. However, this concern resulted in many missed opportunities for applying fire after a recent drought abated, as not burning…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Falke, Gray
Fire is the dominant ecological disturbance process in boreal forests (coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches) and fire frequency, size and severity are increasing in Alaska owing to climate warming. However, interactions among fire, climate,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Johnstone
Presented by Jill Johnstone at the 2018 Alaska Fire Science Consortium Spring Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Hollingsworth
Presented by Teresa Hollingsworth. From the 2018 Alaska Society of American Foresters and Alaska Northern Forest Cooperative Annual Meeting. April 12, 2018.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jandt, Johnstone
Presented by Randi Jandt and Jill Johnstone. From the 2018 Bonanza Creek LTER symposium, April 6, 2018.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Falke
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation introduced the project on fire effects on boreal aquatic ecosystems.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Coker
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a report on the effects of a fire season on fire fighters.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Boughton
Archbold-UF LTAR Project: Manipulating fire and grazing to enhance the delivery of ecosystem services from subtropical humid grasslands was presented by Elizabeth Boughton. Dr. Boughton is an associate research biologist and the program director at the MacArthur Agro-ecology…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Strategy on fire management to reduce Impacts of wildfire through collaboration and partnership.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
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

Zupko, Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
This webinar addresses additional issues and questions that arose during the original webinar, “Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges." Moderator: Mike Zupko, Executive Director, Wildland Fire Leadership Council. Panelists: Pete Lahm, Smoke Manager, U.S.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Johnson
This webinar will discuss various agricultural and forestry fires and their impacts on air quality, including smoke and other air emissions. Basic Smoke Management Practices (BSMPs) will be discussed as means to minimize air quality impacts from prescribed fires.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES