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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dev, Barnes, Kadir, Betha, Aggarwal
Residential areas are being increasingly impacted by wildfire smoke that causes hazardous local ambient air quality conditions. Poor outdoor air quality also exacerbates the quality of indoor air as smoke particles penetrate the building envelope or the heating, ventilation, and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mansoor, Farooq, Kachroo, Mahmoud, Fawzy, Popescu, Alyemeni, Sonne, Rinklebe, Ahmad
Forests have been undergoing through immense pressure due to the factors like human activities; procurement of forest products and climate change which is a major factor influencing this pressure buildup on forests. Climate change and temperature increase caused by anthropogenic…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsinger, Parks, Saperstein, Loehman, Whitman, Barnes, Parisien
Fire severity is a key driver shaping the ecological structure and function of North American boreal ecosystems, a biome dominated by large, high-intensity wildfires. Satellite-derived burn severity maps have been an important tool in these remote landscapes for both fire and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Widmar, Rash, Bir, Bird, Jung
Increasing prevalence and scale of natural disasters fuel the need for new approaches to evaluating, and eventually mitigating, their impact. This analysis quantifies and compares online and social media attention to hurricanes and wildfires over time and geographic space.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hartl, Smits
A detailed description is given of double burner fire whirls that are similar in structure to the type of combined whirls seen in nature. The whirls are generated using the fixed frame method, and two burners are placed symmetrically about the center of the fixed frame. The…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Tingley
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Pyrodiversity is the spatial or temporal variability in fire effects across a landscape. Multiple ecological hypotheses, when applied to the context of post-fire systems, suggest that high pyrodiversity will lead to high biodiversity. This resultant “pyrodiversity–…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahoon, Sullivan, Gray
Boreal forest soils contain large stocks of soil carbon (C) that may be sensitive to changes in climate and disturbance. Destablization of boreal forest soil C through changes in C inputs, belowground C pools and/or wildfire could feedback to accelerate rising atmospheric CO2…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boerker
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Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alberston, Weaver
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Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gibos, Fitzpatrick, Elliott
Wildland firefighters continue to die in the line of duty. Flammable landscapes intersect with bold but good-intentioned doers and trigger entrapment-a situation where personnel is unexpectedly caught in fire behaviour-related, life-threatening positions where planned escape…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Bajracharya, Dickinson, Durbin, McGarry, Moser, Nuñez, Pukkila, Scott, Sutton, Johnston
Passive (diffusive) sampling using sorbents is an economical and versatile method of measuring pollutants in air, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Diffusive uptake rates (UTRs) are needed for each analyte to obtain average concentrations during a specific passive…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyman
From the summary and conclusions ... 'This report describes guiding principles defining the what, why, and where of economical fuel reduction in the northern Rocky Mountain region. It includes comments concerning the when and how although it does not treat these subjects in full…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Raup
The Aleutian Islands are treeless except for some plantations of Spruce on Unalaska. Their principal vegetation types are meadow and heath-shrub communities. In some places thickets of Willow (Salix barclayi) are interspersed with the subalpine meadows. The southern and southern…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raup
Preliminary report of geological and botanical investigations carried out along the Alaska Highway between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse during the summer of 1943. The forest types are discussed in detail. It is concluded that stands of Aspen (Populus tremuloides) and Lodgepole…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer, Rouse
The Alaska tundra varies in width from a few miles to 200 miles along the Bering Sea and from 100 to 150 miles along the Arctic coast. Plant composition is largely lichens, grasses, sedges, alpines, and shrubs, of which 16 distinct vegetative types are described in this report.…
Year: 1945
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES