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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Gustenyov, Akafuah, Salaimeh, Finney, McAllister, Saito
The paper reports visualization of the flow of smoke over a flat surface inside of a low-speed wind tunnel. A heating plate flush mounted on the wind tunnel floor simulated a spreading line fire that produces uniform heat flux under constant wind speed condition. A paper-thin…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Aslan, Samberg, Dickson, Gray
Changes in fire frequency, size, and severity are driving ecological transformations in many systems. In arid and semi-arid regions that are adapted to fire, long-term fire exclusion by managers leads to declines in fire frequency, altered fire size distribution, and increased…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Demonstration of the Tinker Tree Derby with different shaped tree crowns.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Demonstration of the Matchstick Forest Model with different stand densities.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Demonstration of the Matchstick Forest Model with different slopes.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Watch a serotinous Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine cone heat up and open.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jorgenson, Jorgenson, Boldenow, Orndahl
Rapid warming has occurred over the past 50 years in Arctic Alaska, where temperature strongly affects ecological patterns and processes. To document landscape change over a half century in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, we visually interpreted geomorphic and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
The analysis of wildfire impacts at the scale of less than a square kilometer can reveal important patterns of vegetation recovery and regrowth in freshwater Arctic and boreal regions. For this study, NASA Landsat burned area products since the year 2000, and a near 20-year…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Staley, Tillery, Kean, McGuire, Pauling, Rengers, Smith
Following wildfire, mountainous areas of the western United States are susceptible to debris flow during intense rainfall. Convective storms that can generate debris flows in recently burned areas may occur during or immediately after the wildfire, leaving insufficient time for…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belval, Calkin, Wei, Stonesifer, Thompson, Masarie
Interagency Hotshot Crews (IHCs) are a crucial firefighting suppression resource in the United States. These crews travel substantial distances each year and work long and arduous assignments that can cause accumulated fatigue. Current dispatching practices for these crews are…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
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
Falk, Hunter
The primary purpose of this project is to maintain a knowledge bank of JFSP-funded science and to synthesize science findings to inform JFSP governing board decisions and science communication efforts and to provide general science advice to the JFSP in the form of research…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Newingham, Strand, Morgan
Mixed severity wildfires burn large areas in western North America forest ecosystems in most years and this is expected to continue or increase with climate change. Little is understood about vegetation recovery and changing fuel conditions more than a decade post-fire because…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Morgan, Newingham, Strand
Mixed severity wildfires burn large areas in western North America forest ecosystems in most years and this is expected to continue or increase with climate change. Little is understood about vegetation recovery and changing fuel conditions 7-15 years post-fire because it…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
In this issue, four Dispatchers and one fire manager, a former Dispatch Center Manager, answer and explore this significant question.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hallema, Robinne, Bladon
The timing, extent, and severity of forest wildfires have increased in many parts of the world in recent decades. These wildfires can have substantial and devastating impacts on water supply, ecohydrological systems, and sociohydrosystems. Existing frameworks to assess the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer
Many of the most pressing threats to forests result from complex interactions between multiple stressors and require management on large spatial and temporal scales. For this reason, many ecosystem managers have begun to recognize the need to consider the broader context of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Managers and owners of forests across the Nation face urgent challenges, among them catastrophic wildfires, invasive species, drought, and epidemics of forest insects and disease. Of particular concern are longer fire seasons and the rising size and severity of wildfires, along…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Kolden, Prichard, Gray, Hessburg, Balch
Across the breadth of fire science disciplines, women are leaders in fire research and development. We want to acknowledge some of these leaders to promote diversity across our disciplines. In Fire, we are also happy to announce a new Special Collection, through which we will…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Urgenson, Nelson, Haugo, Halpern, Bakker, Ryan, Waltz, Belote, Alvarado
As approaches to ecological restoration become increasingly large scale and collaborative, there is a need to better understand social aspects of restoration and how they influence land management. In this article, we examine social perspectives that influence the determination…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This study examined stakeholder perspectives on reference conditions among collaboratives engaged in the restoration of dry, fire-adapted forest landscapes managed by the U.S. Forest Service. In particular, the authors examined social perspectives that influenced the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Zhu, Zhuang
Fire-related hazards and incidents are a very common phenomenon that affects human society heavily, so many organisations, over a long period of time, have made efforts to mitigate fires and the caused damages. It is widely acknowledged that an evaluation of fire protection…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Erni, Arseneault, Parisien
Although it has long been assumed that wildfire occurrence is independent of stand age in the North American boreal forest, recent studies indicate that young forests may influence burn rates by limiting the ignition and spread of fires for several years. Wildfires not only…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dey, Schweitzer
The long history of fire in North America spans millennia and is recognized as an important driver in the widespread and long-term dominance of oak species and oak natural communities. Frequent wildfires from about 1850 to 1950 resulted in much forest damage, and gained fire a…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
The Alaska Region achieves a unique resonance of natural hazards spanning the surface to the top of the troposphere and civilian/multi-agency activities impacted directly by them. The remote and data sparse expanses of this region elevate the value to forecasters of satellite-…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES