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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
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
Toombs, Weber, Stegner, Schnase, Lindquist, Lippitt
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive fire information becomes…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Fox, Gabor, Thomas, Ziegler
This Research Brief summarizes findings of a Joint Fire Science Program project focused on understanding radio communications as part of risk communication and sensemaking in wildland fire operations. Through observation of live and simulated radio conversations, analysis of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Delaney
Wildland fire management involves specialization and a division of labor. When you order supplies on a wildland fire, you should keep that in mind. In your own specialty area, you need support from others who don’t necessarily have your level of knowledge. To get what you need,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From the Alaska Climate Change Adaption Series.
Wildfires are a natural part of the boreal ecosystem. Wildfires help maintain vegetation diversity, providing suitable habitats for wildlife, but wildfires can also present a threat to human values. Alaska has seen the frequency of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stidham, Toman, McCaffrey, Shindler
Wildfire evacuations are inherently stressful and homeowners have reported in previous studies that uncertainty over what is happening is perhaps one of the most stressful aspects. Although many difficult elements of evacuation cannot be mitigated and lives will certainly be…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This proceedings contains articles, posters, and abstracts of presentations from the second Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference held 27-29 April 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. The conference covered the social issues at the root of wildland fire management's most serious…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium is to enhance ongoing fire science delivery by developing new mechanisms for outreach throughout Alaska and to facilitate communication among researchers and managers to bridge the gap in information sharing. This is a four page…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document summarizes the 2011 AFSC workshop. Topics discussed included boreal fire history datasets in Alaska, fire return intervals in boreal forests, the Probabilistic Fire Analysis System (PFAS), the Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy, impacts of changing tundra fire regimes…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The best available science is of little use if it gathers dust on the shelves of library stacks or is deeply embedded on an obscure website. A key part of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) mission is to ensure research on wildland fire science is readily available to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
Sarah Trainor presents the opening remarks for the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop, held in Fairbanks, Alaska, October 6-7, 2011. This presentation highlights the Alaska Fire Science Consortium's past, present, and future activities, projects, and news.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Remenick
Fire regimes are needed for healthy forest ecosystems, but citizens who live parallel to public forests do not always understand or favour the mechanisms land managers use for fire prevention and preparation. One way that land managers and citizens may share concerns and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bilbao, Del Ser, Perfecto, Salcedo-Sanz, Portilla-Figueras
Nowadays there is a global concern with the growing frequency and magnitude of natural disasters, many of them associated with climate change at a global scale. When tackled during a stringent economic era, the allocation of resources to efficiently deal with such disaster…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This first issue of Two More Chains features insights into emergency medical evacuation procedures, including a review of the related Dutch Creek protocol and procedures-and a memorial tribute to firefighter Andy Palmer. Readers are also provided a firsthand account from a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) is a non-profit, professional association representing members of the global wildland fire community. The mission of the Association is to facilitate communication and provide leadership for the wildland fire community. …
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Forest and range health, along with wildfire, currently dominate management decisions on public lands across much of the United States. Changing conditions on the ground, as well as government initiatives such as the National Fire Plan, the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, and…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Carlson
Ric Carlson describes how he develops the prescription window and uses a process of constant evaluation and updating that helps him avoid the traps always inherent with boundary selection.
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, McCarthy, Hall, Olsen
The NWCG Smoke Committee (SmoC) hosted this webinar on June 28, 2011. Four presentations and a discussion period examined public perception and messaging about smoke and fire. The webinar was a key initial step in developing needed messaging about wildland fire smoke, and it…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES