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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 151 - 175 of 540
Kennedy, McKenzie
Fire-scarred trees provide a deep temporal record of historical fire activity, but identifying the mechanisms therein that controlled landscape fire patterns is not straightforward. We use a spatially correlated metric for fire co-occurrence between pairs of trees (the Sørensen…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kane, Hockaday, Turetsky, Masiello, Valentine, Finney, Baldock
There is still much uncertainty as to how wildfire affects the accumulation of burn residues (such as black carbon (BC)) in the soil, and the corresponding changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) composition in boreal forests. We investigated SOC and BC composition in black spruce…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Twieg, Ward, Barker, Durall, Simard
Summary1. Clearcut logging results in major changes in ectomycorrhizal fungal communities, but whether this results in the loss of key functional traits, such as those associated with nutrient acquisition from soil organic matter, is unknown. Furthermore, little is known about…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joly, Chapin, Klein
Lichens are an important winter forage for large, migratory herds of caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) that can influence population dynamics through effects on body condition and in turn calf recruitment and survival. We investigated the vegetative and physiographic…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sorbel, Opperman, Stephen
A case study in using geospatial and non-geospatial fire behavior models to assess spotting potential. Five fire modeling approaches were compared and documented using the the 2009 Chakina Fire
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Watts, Kobziar, Percival
Unmanned aircraft system (UAS) have been developed alongside manned aircraft yet have seen widespread use only in the past decade. Their use for miliraty applications has propelled advances in electronics and sensors to yield systems whose capabilities may be useful for many…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Long
From the text ... 'As we move forward and as we put more prescribed fire across the nation, there are going to be things like smoke incidents, there will be accidents, there will be loss of structures. And, yes, there will even be loss of life. The future of prescribed fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haddow
From the text ... 'Summary: Air quality regulations are getting more stringent. We need to be involved in writing those regulations. We must be experts on the impact of our emissions, and we must be leaders rather than followers. If a state starts to develop a prescribed burning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette
From the text ... 'Because fire was such an important historic disturbance and is a large component in understanding regional differences in emissions, it is analogous to an elephant in the closet. One can think of fire frequency as the elephant. That is, it is an issue that is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
The VI Short Course on Fire Behaviour was held at the VI International Conference on Forest Fire Research, November 13-14, 2010, Coimbra, Portugal. Lesson 3 covered crown fires, and the presentation included:
Introduction to Crown Fires
Understanding of Crown Fire Behavior From…
Year: 2010
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
The regression equations developed by M.G. Cruz, M.E. Alexander and R.H. Wakimoto (2003, linked to this record) for estimating the canopy base height, bulk density and fuel load in ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir and mixed conifer fuel types based on three stand…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
America does not have a fire problem. It has many fire problems. The policy of fire exclusion through most of the 20th century seemed successful at first but eventually lead to larger, more intense, and damaging fires. By the mid-1970s federal agencies pulled back from the fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taber, Fay
Analysis of the Holonada Fire (AK‐TAD‐337) which was discovered on June 4, 2010 within the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge (NWR); subsequent spread has been primarily to the south onto BLM land. On June 8, the mapped perimeter was 6840 acres, with no direct suppression action…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Example of long range fire growth analysis of R10100 from 2012 Fire Modeling Workshop
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Natural Areas Association Fire compendium compiles articles from the Natural Areas Journal from 1983 to 2009 that address some aspect of fire ecology or fire management. Some papers specifically focus on the effects of fire on a particular ecosystem or species, while in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Macalady, Chenchouni, Bachelet, McDowell, Vennetier, Kitzberger, Rigling, Breshears, Hogg, Gonzalez, Fensham, Zhang, Castro, Demidova, Lim, Allard, Running, Semerci, Cobb
Greenhouse gas emissions have significantly altered global climate, and will continue to do so in the future. Increases in the frequency, duration, and/or severity of drought and heat stress associated with climate change could fundamentally alter the composition, structure, and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Preliminary list of fire research needs in Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Annually in the U.S., smoking causes 438 thousand deaths and costs about $167 billion in healthcare and lost productivity. Despite these statistics, more than a fourth of young adults continue to light up. Quitting smoking has major and immediate health benefits at every age but…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This podcast discusses West Nile Virus and Lyme disease and offers strategies to reduce the risk of mosquito and tick bites.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thanukos, Taylor, Kary
From the text...'Concurrent side by side operation of a standard high volume sampler and one fitted with an Andersen impactor has indicated that wind interference can result in lower total suspended particulates (TSP) being measured by the standard high volume sampler than by…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This Report is a bibliography of publications on all aspects of forest fire produced during the period 1961 to 1977 at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. There are 64 items, listed chronologically in four categories. A short descriptive note accompanies each item.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young, Redmond
From the text: 'This report summarizes AIRPRO. Its purpose is to give the reader a general impression of what the program does. Detailed documentation is not being generally distributed because 1) the cost of printing a large number of copies would be prohibitive, and 2) it is…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lott
An explosives system is now available that enables crews to construct firelines faster and with less environmental impact than conventional methods, the explosives system has been thoroughly tested and presents minimal hazards under wildfire conditions. The system and complete…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Townsend, Higgins
From the text:'during the field season of 1976 tests were undertaken by the Forest Fire Research Institute to determine the friction reduction effectiveness of Firestream Plus. Firestream Plus is an electrolytic hydrocarbon oxide polymer manufactured by the Riverside Polymer…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Townsend
The charcteristics and transportation of eleven portable forestry fire pumps and major pump accessories currently used in Canada are described. Weight of each unit and major accessories, and unit dimensions are given. The operating principles of the two-cycle engine,…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS