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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wilkinson, Vachula
Relationships between rates of change in Earth-surface systems and their measurement durations suggest that rates may be critically dependent on durations of observation. Studies relating rates and durations of change have appeared increasingly over the past 50 years, with many…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elhami-Khorasani, Kinateder, Lemiale, Manzello, Marom, Marquez, Suzuki, Theodori, Wang, Wong
Large outdoor fires such as wildfires, wildland urban interface (WUI) fires, urban fires, and informal settlement fires have received increased attention in recent years. In order to develop effective emergency plans to protect people from threats associated with these events,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg
It's no secret that wildfires in the west have been drastically increasing in size and destructive power. But what, if anything, can be done about it? Join world-renown and award-winning USFS research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as he explains how we got here and restores our…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how these changes, coupled with a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Flores, Rushing, Redmore
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by David Flores, Jaclyn Rushing and Lauren Redmore
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Rappold, Hano, Navarro, Phillips, Prestemon, Vaidyanathan, Abt, Reid, Sacks
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the actual fire, smoke can end up…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Park, Takahashi, Li, Takakura, Fujimori, Hasegawa, Ito, Lee, Thiery
Fires and their associated carbon and air pollutant emissions have a broad range of environmental and societal impacts, including negative effects on human health, damage to terrestrial ecosystems, and indirect effects that promote climate change. Previous studies investigated…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nakazawa, Cain, Kenyon, Munson, Cooke
The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau hosted this public workshop to promote the use of multilingual emergency alerting. The workshop included presentations related to the multilingual capabilities of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nowell, Steelman
A growing body of work has been focusing on how to govern and manage across jurisdictionally fragmented landscapes in an effort to promote more effective wildfire preparedness and response. We contribute to this worthy goal in the following five ways through the research…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Charnley, Adams
Both the US Forest Service Wildfire Crisis Strategy and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is funding the agency’s initial investments to reduce wildfire risk under the Strategy call for considering equity and environmental justice when implementing projects. During this…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Snitker, Roos, Sullivan, Maezumi, Bird, Coughlan, Derr, Gassaway, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Loehman
Humans have influenced global fire activity for millennia and will continue to do so into the future. Given the long-term interaction between humans and fire, we propose a collaborative research agenda linking archaeology and fire science that emphasizes the socioecological…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Margolis, Guiterman
A recent collaboration by ~90 tree-ring and fire-scar scientists has resulted in the publication of the newly compiled North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network (NAFSN), which contains 2,562 sites, > 37,000 fire-scarred trees, and covers large parts of North America. In this…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ladino, Kobziar, Kredell, Cohn
Representations of fire in the U.S. are often tinged with nostalgia: for unburned landscapes, for less frequent fires, for more predictable fire behavior, or for a simpler, more harmonious relationship between human communities and wildfire. Our perspective piece identifies four…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grissino-Mayer
An increment borer is the primary tool used to collect samples for dendrochronological analyses. These are precision instruments and users should be trained in their proper use, care, and maintenance. In this paper, I describe the various parts of an increment borer and how to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Swystun, Flannigan
Great efforts have been made to understand the impacts of a changing climate on fire activity; however, a reliable approach with high prediction confidence has yet to be found. By establishing linkages between the longest duration of fire-conducive weather spell and fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fillmore, McCaffrey
To improve understanding of the managed wildfire decision-making process on federal lands (USA), we conducted a mixed methods review of the existing literature. The review was published in September, 2021 in the journal Fire. The review spanned from 1976 to 2013 and used…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Webb, Loranty, Lichstein
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, due in part to the albedo feedbacks of a diminishing cryosphere. As snow cover extent decreases, the underlying land is exposed, which has lower albedo and therefore absorbs more radiation, warming the surface and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp, Wilson
Wildland fire incident management teams (IMTs) require sustained and coordinated decision-making across levels of authority during dynamic and high-risk events. Trust between team members is important for maintaining the efficient flow of information and allowing team members to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the guide. At the Forest Service,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Reimer
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The Deep Dive project is a centerpiece of a learning pilot program collaboratively initiated by WEPO’s, Policy, Accountability and Analysis and RMRS’s Office of Innovation and Organizational Learning (IOL) to…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ballinger
Alaska’s central and eastern interior (CEI), including the greater Tanana Valley and Yukon Flats, has consistently been the most fire prone area of the state during the last two decades. Toward operational and research applications, several surface fire weather indicators have…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak, Barnes
National Park Service Resource Brief for the Arctic Inventory and Monitory Network which briefly summarizes the status of fire extent and frequency in ARCN parks and highlights the historic fire record (WFMI) & perimeter improvements. The brief is written for a non-…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vachula, Liang, Sae-Lim, Xie
Recent fire events in Alaskan tundra ecosystems have been identified as harbingers of climate change and have caused reassessment of more traditional thinking about fire activity in this high-latitude biome. Although some work has demonstrated the novelty of these fires and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES