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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lopez, Frederick, Lake, Wright
In many ecosystems worldwide, fire plays a critical role as a natural disturbance that influences landscape pattern and function. The effects of fire disturbances at landscape levels are central to many tribal cultures in North America, and tribes extensively used fire to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasky
Every year, 600,000 Americans over 70 years old stop driving every year. In 1970, blue-collar jobs were 31.2% of total nonfarm employment. By 2016, their share had fallen to 13.6%. The number of days reaching 'Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups' Level or Above on the Air Quality…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kush
Longleaf pine and ponderosa pine in the same talk? Both of these forests were often described as open and park-like. This presentation will provide a historical overview of these forests and a discussion of each species ecology and the relationship with fire. It is important to…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Navarro, Martinez
Wildland firefighters are exposed to wood smoke, which contains hazardous air pollutants, during wildland fire management assignments across the U.S. each year. In this webinar, Kathleen Navarro, PhD, will present on a recent Joint Fire Science Program study estimating the…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Mouillot, Van der Werf, San Miguel, Tanase, Koutsias, García, Yebra, Padilla, Gitas, Heil, Hawbaker, Giglio
Fire has a diverse range of impacts on Earth's physical and social systems. Accurate and up to date information on areas affected by fire is critical to better understand drivers of fire activity, as well as its relevance for biogeochemical cycles, climate, air quality, and to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Folk, Kuligowski, Gwynne, Gales
With more frequent and destructive wildfires occurring in the growing wildland-urban interface (WUI), the ability to ensure the safe evacuation of potentially large groups of people is of increasing importance. This is a challenging task made only more difficult by the fact that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The impact of smoke on human health is a factor that is taken into account when forest managers are planning prescribed burns. David Weise, a research forester with the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, explains how research seeks to improve the ability for…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Leavell
Fire is the first of three Great Constants in our lives. Change is the second. A web of change, consisting of population growth; density of homes built in outlying areas; new home construction; weather drying and heating; biomass build-up from fire suppression, management, etc.…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The most common misconception of wildfire is that all fire is bad. But there are important benefits that smaller and more frequent fires offer to the environment. Matt Jolly, an ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, talks about the natural and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pastick, Jorgenson, Goetz, Jones, Wylie, Minsley, Genet, Knight, Swanson, Jorgenson
Contemporary climate change in Alaska has resulted in amplified rates of press and pulse disturbances that drive ecosystem change with significant consequences for socio‐environmental systems. Despite the vulnerability of Arctic and boreal landscapes to change, little has been…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Batllori, De Cáceres, Brotons, Ackerly, Moritz, Lloret
Understanding ecosystem responses to compound disturbance regimes and the influence of specific sequences of events in determining ecosystem shifts remains a challenge. We use a modelling framework for Mediterranean‐type ecosystems to assess the effects of fire–drought…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin
Fire is a ubiquitous natural disturbance that affects 3–4% of the Earth's surface each year. It is a tool used by humans for land clearing and burning of agricultural wastes. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) do not explicitly mention fire, though many of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forkel, Andela, Harrison, Lasslop, van Marle, Chuvieco, Dorigo, Forrest, Hantson, Heil, Li, Melton, Sitch, Yue, Arneth
Recent climate changes have increased fire-prone weather conditions in many regions and have likely affected fire occurrence, which might impact ecosystem functioning, biogeochemical cycles, and society. Prediction of how fire impacts may change in the future is difficult…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wenninger, Hollingsworth, Wagner
Changes to the fire regime in boreal Alaska are shifting the ratio of coniferous to deciduous dominance on the landscape. The increase in aspen and birch may have important effects on predatory hymenopteran assemblages by providing a source of extrafloral nectar and increasing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olnes, Kielland, Genet, Ruess
The future of boreal forests in Alaska, United States, will likely consist of more deciduous-dominant stands because larger and more severe fires facilitate the establishment of deciduous species such as trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) and Alaska birch (Betula…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Two researchers discuss findings from studies on how wildfires affect local economies across the U.S. west, from onset to recovery and beyond.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Friggens, Loehman, Thode, Flatley, Evans, Bunn, Wilcox, Mueller, Yocom, Falk
Decision makers need better methods for identifying critical ecosystem vulnerabilities to changing climate and fire regimes. Climate-wildfire-vegetation interactions are complex and hinder classification and projection necessary for development of management strategies. One such…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harper, Santín, Doerr, Froyd, Albini, Otero, Viñas, Pérez-Fernández
It is well established in the world’s fire-prone regions that wildfires can considerably change the hydrological dynamics of freshwater catchments. Limited research, however, has focused on the potential impacts of wildfire ash toxicity on aquatic biota. Here, we assess the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rhoades, Nunes, Silins, Doerr
This short paper provides the framework and introduction to this special issue of International Journal of Wildland Fire. Its eight papers were selected from those presented at two consecutive conferences held in 2018 in Europe and the USA that focussed on the impacts of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
Presented by: Mark Smith, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
PowerPoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire Science Workshop
Topics include comparison of air…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Steblein, Miller
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing damages from wildland fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire smoke is typically a mixture of water vapor, gases, fine particles, and trace minerals from burning fuels like trees and vegetation, other organic components, and, sometimes, building materials.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Branson
Presented by: Willie Branson, BLM Alaska Fire Service
October 8th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from the 2019 Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Interagency Fall Fire Review and Alaska Fire Science Consortium Fall Fire Science Workshop
Topics include displaying complex fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Borchers-Arriagada, Horsley, Palmer, Morgan, Tham, Johnston
Background: Asthma-related outcomes are regularly used by studies to investigate the association between human exposure to landscape fire smoke and health. Robust summary effect estimates are required to inform health protection policy for fire smoke exposure. Objective: To…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Duffy, Rutherford, Jandt, Fresco
Under projected patterns of climate change, models predict an increase in wildland fire activity in Alaska, which is likely to strain the capacity of the fire governance system under current arrangements. The Alaska wildland fire governance system consists of the actors,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES