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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hart
The second of three webinars focusing on insects and fire, Dr. Sarah Hart, Department of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, presented on November 13th - Influence of recent bark beetle outbreaks on wildfire.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sampson, Hansen, Riegle, Mellin
To inform wildland fire incident GIS resource people about the status of topics impacting the 2015 fire season.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Drummond, Peterson
Join Firewise as we hear from Firewise leaders about how to host successful Firewise Community Days. You’ll learn why Firewise requires and collects this information, how to tell your community’s story, and the value in sharing this achievement. Courtney Peterson, Wildfire…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Beyers, Pyke, Wirth
The General Accounting Office has identified a need for better information on the effectiveness of post-fire emergency stabilization and rehabilitation methods used by the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Interior (DOI) agencies. Since reviews were published on treatment…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Chung, Lamb, Strand, Vaughan
Fires are a major source of gaseous and particulate pollutant, including black carbon (BC). In combination with organic carbon (OC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), BC from fire emissions causes air quality degradation. BC is also increasingly…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Meldrum, Champ, Brenkert-Smith, Warziniack, Barth, Falk
Research across a variety of risk domains finds that the risk perceptions of professionals and the public differ. Such risk perception gaps occur if professionals and the public understand individual risk factors differently or if they aggregate risk factors into overall risk…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The fire triangle is a simple way of understanding the components of fire. Each side of the triangle represents one of three components needed to have a fire - oxygen, fuel and heat. Fire is a chemical reaction and without one of these components, fire cannot exist or be…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin
Prescribed fire activity is complex and poorly understood when evaluated at a national scale. Most often fire complexity is defined by scale, frequency, season, and location in the context of local and state laws and local community acceptance. In an effort to gain better…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fearon, Heffernan
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar conducted in partnership with the NWCG Smoke Committee, NC State University, the Desert Research Institute, the National Weather Service, and Montgomery Community College. The webinar features researcher Matthew Fearon of the Desert Research…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wonkka, Rogers, Kreuter
Resistance to the use of prescribed fire is strong among many private land managers despite the advantages it offers for maintaining fire-adapted ecosystems. Even managers who are aware of the benefits of using prescribed fire as a management tool avoid using it, citing…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Large, intense wildland fires have become more frequent across the United States in recent decades. Risks to responders and citizens, property losses, response and recovery costs, and threats to communities and landscapes have increased significantly as a result. In order to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guyer
In 2011 BLM funded a five year Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) pilot project within the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPRA). The NPRA was specifically selected due to its mandate of supplying national energy needs while protecting surface resources and its need…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Ferschweiler, Sheehan, Sleeter, Zhu
The dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) MC2 was run over the conterminous USA at 30 arc sec (~800 m) to simulate the impacts of nine climate futures generated by 3GCMs (CSIRO, MIROC and CGCM3) using 3 emission scenarios (A2, A1B and B1) in the context of the LandCarbon…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Middlemis-Brown
Recent research by Twidwell and colleagues evaluated the risks of various land management tools used in the private sector, with a focus on the relative risks of prescribed fire. The authors concluded that prescribed fire carried less fatality risk than other land management…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
This issue spotlights the key question: Do More Incident Reports Mean More Learning? The issue’s underlying theme: How do we advance from a “Reporting Culture” to a “Learning Culture”? McCall Smokejumper Ramona Beyuka provides her insights on what learning looks like.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landry, Matthews, Ramankutty
Changes in the current fire regime would directly affect carbon cycling, land–atmosphere exchanges, and atmospheric composition, and could therefore modulate the ongoing climate warming. We used a coupled climate–carbon model to quantify the effect of major changes in non-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rabin, Magi, Shevliakova, Pacala
The global extent of agriculture demands a thorough understanding of the ways it impacts the Earth system through the modification of both the physical and biological characteristics of the landscape as well as through emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols. People use fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
What do scientists need to know about getting their science used? Show how it meets your audience’s needs. Make it appealing to your audience. Make it easy to find. Three examples from my career demonstrate these…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wells
This “Ask an Expert” workshop will see Lt. Tim Weaver of the Rapid City, South Dakota, Fire Department share lessons learned for both the homeowner and local agency in Firewise and Fire Adapted Community concept efforts. He will share his experience in gaining residential trust…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Liu, Yan, Johnstone
Disturbance plays a key role in driving ecological responses by creating opportunities for new ecological communities to assemble and by directly influencing the outcomes of assembly. Legacy effects (such as seed banks) and environmental filters can both influence community…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Waldron, Schary, Cardinal
The aims of this research were to develop and test a scale used to measure leadership in wildland firefighting using two samples of USA wildland firefighters. The first collection of data occurred in the spring and early summer and consisted of an online survey. The second set…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Jenkins, Loboda, Flannigan, Jandt, Bourgeau-Chavez, Whitley
A multidecadal analysis of fire in Alaskan Arctic tundra was completed using records from the Alaska Large Fire Database. Tundra vegetation fires are defined by the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map and divided into five tundra ecoregions of Alaska. A detailed review of fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown
Fire severity is an important control over post-fire production of deciduous species and can influence the overall quality of winter habitat for herbivores such as moose (Alces alces). Fire-related effects on moose habitat will also likely affect the populations that human…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reisen, Duran, Flannigan, Elliott, Rideout
Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external environmental factors. The smoke that…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES