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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Masters
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Tanaka
The primary goal of this symposium is to facilitate communication and information sharing across desert, regional, and state boundaries. The workshop that follows the symposium will devise strategies and identify gaps in knowledge to reduce the loss of desert ecosystems to…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Masters, Gray, Oswald, Rideout-Hanzak
This conference will provide a forum on global wildland fire research and management. Speakers will focus on the regional dichotomy between indigenous cultural use and understanding of fire and the modern cultural attitude toward fire. Concurrent sessions will cover a wide range…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Chen
As new information has recently accumulated, the purpose of this symposium is to bring researchers in this field together to discuss recent findings and their applications. Major topics include: 1) biomass burning emission characterization; 2) linking emissions to ambient…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Bothwell
Dry thunderstorms are a major source of wildfires, and are disproportionately responsible for igniting major wildfires, yet currently dry thunderstorm predictions at high spatial resolutions are unavailable for most of the country. We propose development of improved dry…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler
Previous funding from the JFSP has been used to test the utility of commercial engineering software for simulating surface wind flows in support of fire management decisions. Efforts over the last three years have demonstrated that this technology can be very useful as a…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Becker
The proposed study includes two parts. The first part focuses on characterizing biomass removal efforts on USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and tribal lands for a total of 10-12 case studies located throughout the country. Information will be collected on project…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Burns, Cheng, Jakes, Nelson, Sturtevant
Multi-stakeholder collaboration has a long tradition in natural resource management. Recent initiatives such as the National Fire Plan have encouraged collaboration in wildland fire and fuels management. Collaboration for fuels management has received even greater impetus with…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rebain, Crookston, Dixon, Reinhardt
This project is designed to provide an improved version of the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FFE-FVS), a program whose original development was largely financed by the JFSP. The program is widely used by JFSP member agencies and several JFSP-…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Vogt, Butler, Winter
Effective wildland urban interface (WUI) risk management requires action by local communities and individual property owners. Recently enacted federal and state policies provide some strong incentives for local jurisdictions to manage the risks associated with wildland fire.…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Schichtel
Air quality regulations have the goal of reducing haze in national parks and wilderness areas to natural conditions, and require that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) be reduced below a threshold that adversely impacts health. The federally funded and managed IMPROVE and STN…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy
The increasing prevalence of wildfire and recognition of fire (both wildland and prescribed burns) and fire surrogates as management tools reflects a need to understand wildlife response to these management actions. Although there have been several reviews on the effects of fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bartuszevige, Kennedy
The increasing prevalence of wildfire and the recognition of fire (both wildland and prescribed burns) and fire surrogates as management tools reflects a need to understand the effects of these management actions on non-target botanicals, e.g., invasive plants, plants of…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse
This project will address the need for a collaborative architecture for scientific modeling that allows various scientific models to easily interact. By designing such a system to be modular as well, advantages derived from separating decision support user interfaces from…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Solomon, Strand
Fire and fuel managers often need to know how much fuel will be consumed by a fire, and how much smoke the fire will produce. A variety of fuel loading maps and fuel consumption models have been developed to produce these and other estimates. Many factors influence the end…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Knapp
This synthesis project on season of prescribed burning is to summarize results from studies to date in order to provide managers a resource for predicting fire effects and understanding what variables drive these fire effects in different areas of the country with varying fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Malm, Hao
The occurrence of wildland fires results in substantial emissions of air pollutants. These emissions have resulted in increased conflicts with the need to attain air quality standards, especially for particulate matter (PM) and visibility, as mandated by the Clean Air Act. To…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Solomon, Strand
The BlueSky smoke modeling framework, developed with support from the National Fire Plan, provides real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fires, wildfires, and agricultural burns. The predictions are currently being used by air quality regulators…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Chojnacky, Jenkins
Beginning with our earlier database and synthesis of individual-tree biomass equations for North America (Jenkins et al. 2003; Jenkins et al. 2004), we will update with current literature on new equations, add equations including tree height (which were excluded in previous work…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mason, Alvarado
This project will promote information exchange between tribes, agencies, research organizations, and institutions of higher learning to explore the feasibility, interest, and utility of developing a nation-wide program to improve information and technology transfer between…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wright
JFSP goals can be achieved only if the resulting scientific information is effectively transferred to the users. Recognizing that science delivery approaches are often developed on an ad hoc basis without an overall understanding of the research application process, AFP 2 004-4…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Chung, Seielstad, Zuuring
We propose a 3-year project, which includes 1.25 year to integrate existing fire behavior and optimization models into a system for spatially scheduling treatments to maintain effective fire and non-fire fuels treatments at landscape scales, .5 year to test the system on two…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Rupp
Fire and fuels management goals in Alaska are hindered by a limited understanding of fire history and the controls of fire regimes. Nowhere is this statement more accurate that in tundra ecosystems that cover nearly one-third of the state. Over 60 communities and 348 native…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Sims
Escalating costs of post-fire emergency stabilization treatments and the lack of available treatment effectiveness information were recently highlighted in two Government Accounting Office reports. Research and monitoring results from the past decade are providing the needed…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES