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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Scheer
From the text: Firefighting, especially smokejumping, is an exercise in outlasting the uncomfortable. I think it has little to do with gender; rather it is each individual's assessment and subsequent reaction to a given situation.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGee
From the text...'A group of valiant men known as the Triple Nickles, the first African-American smokerjumpers, paved the way for so many in the smokejumping cadre...'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cottrell
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bramwell
From the text ... 'One of the smokejumper program's defining characteristics is its commitment to innovation--a constant refinement of equipment and techniques that hearkens back to the program's earliest days.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tang, Shao
Drones of various shapes, sizes, and functionalities have emerged over the past few decades, and their civilian applications are becoming increasingly appealing. Flexible, low-cost, and high-resolution remote sensing systems that use drones as platforms are important for filling…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data available for such analyses, but…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wang, Piao, Xu, Ciais, MacBean, Myneni, Li
Aim: Change in spring phenology is a sensitive indicator of ecosystem response to climate change, and exerts first-order control on the ecosystem carbon and hydrological cycles. The start of season (SOS) in spring can be estimated from satellite data using different…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tanimoto, Ikeda, Boersma, van der A, Garivait
Past studies suggest that forest fires contribute significantly to the formation of ozone in the troposphere. However, the emissions of ozone precursors from wildfires, and the mechanisms involved in ozone production from boreal fires, are very complicated. Moreover, an…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Alvarez, Planelles, Rubio
Carbon footprint (CF) can be a key factor stimulating innovation while driving sustainable decision making. The air transport sector and wildfires are considered to be relevant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Among the available resources for wildfire suppression,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data available for such analyses, but…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, McKenzie, Billmire, Ottmar, Prichard, McCarty, Endsley
The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) was developed under NASA Carbon Cycle Science and Applications programs to provide a consistent approach to estimating emissions at continental to sub-continental scales (see http://wfeis.mtri.org). We present an overview of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kulig, Westlund
Transformation of research findings into relevant policies and programs is a principle for ensuring the creation of usable science. One way of achieving this is to employ knowledge translation to disseminate findings between researchers and end users. In this article the process…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Lasslop, Kloster, Chuvieco
Wildland fires are an important agent in the earth's system. Multiple efforts are currently in progress to better represent wildland fires in earth system models. Although wildland fires are a natural disturbance factor, humans have an important effect on fire occurrence by…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Yuan, Zhang, Liu
Because of their rapid maneuverability, extended operational range, and improved personnel safety, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with vision-based systems have great potential for monitoring, detecting, and fighting forest fires. Over the last decade, UAV-based forest fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stonesifer, Thompson, Calkin, McHugh
The appropriate role of large airtankers (LATs) in federal fire suppression in the United States has been the source of much debate and discussion in recent years as the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has faced impending decisions about how best to address an aging fleet of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, York
Introductions and upcoming workshop discussion presented at the Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015. This comprises the first 10 minutes of the video.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Heinrichs, Stevens
Presentation by Tom Heinrichs and Eric Stevens, GINA, from the Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015. Their presentation starts at the 52:10 mark of the video.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hinkley, Quayle
Presentation by Everett Hinkley and Brad Quayle, US Forest Service, from Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015, begins at the 28:30 mark and lasts approximately 24 minutes.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
Presentation by Jennifer Jenkins from the Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015. It begins at the 10:20 mark of the video and lasts approximately 18 minutes.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Culver
This study was an examination of the correlation between fire officers' emotional intelligence (EI) and their perceived leadership effectiveness. A review of the literature pointed out the need to further explore and understand the leadership effectiveness of fire officers, the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dennison, Fryer, Campbell, Cova, Butler
Safety zones are designated areas that reduce firefighter heat exposure to tolerable levels by providing separation between personnel and fuels. Along with Lookouts, Communications, and Escape routes, Safety zones are a component of the 'LCES' procedures for reducing risk of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goldammer
'First load to the box.' Calmly, but with urgency, these words rolled through the intercom while I was in the loft working on a project for the afternoon. As the alarm sounded through the building, I knew that meant we had a fire call, and without hesitation, I dropped…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A description of fire occurrence and fire effects across the United States for the year of 2014. This includes spending, acres burned, reports on performance measures, and brief narratives on different fires.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Pueyo, Chuvieco
Aim: In order to understand fire's impacts on vegetation dynamics, it is crucial that the distribution of fire sizes be known. We approached this distribution using a power-law distribution, which derives from self-organized criticality theory (SOC). We compute the global…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS