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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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[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
Cheremisin, Marichev, Bochkovskii, Novikov, Romanchenko
The frequency of forest fires has recently increased. Combustion aerosol can enter the stratosphere, which can have noticeable consequences for the climate. In this work, we examine the transport of combustion aerosol into the stratosphere in summer 2019, when numerous wildfires…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nimmo, Andersen, Archibald, Boer, Brotons, Parr, Tingley
[from the text] Fire is one of Earth's most potent agents of ecological change. This Special Issue comes in the wake of a series of extreme wildfires across the world, from the Amazon, to Siberia, California, Portugal, South Africa and eastern Australia (Duane et al., 2021).…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanan, Kennedy, Ren, Johnson, Smith
Climate change has lengthened wildfire seasons and transformed fire regimes throughout the world. Thus, capturing fuel and fire dynamics is critical for projecting Earth system processes in warmer and drier future. Recent advances in fire regime modeling have linked land surface…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
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
Littell, Trainor
Sarah Trainor & Jeremy Littell present at the 2021 Association for Fire Ecology Conference special session: The Nexus of Climate Change and Fire: Taking Science to Action
Addressing the unprecedented challenges of climate change, wildland fire, and human land use requires…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bailon-Ruiz, Bit-Monnot, Lacroix
This paper introduces a wildfire monitoring system based on a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide firefighters with precise and up-to-date information about a propagating wildfire, so that they can devise efficient suppression actions. We present an approach to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Le, Kim, Bae
Wildfires alter the composition and structure of ecosystems and result in huge economic costs. While future fires and ecosystems recovery might become increasingly challenging to manage under warming environment, further understanding of the main drivers of wildfires is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York, Bhatt, Gargulinski, Grabinski, Jain, Soja, Thoman, Ziel
Despite the low annual temperatures and short growing seasons that are characteristic of high northern latitudes (HNL), wildland fire is the dominant ecological disturbance within the region's boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome. The boreal forest, also known as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
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
Croft, Wuttig, Mathieson, Montini
The quantity and intensity of wildfires have increased while permafrost in the interior of Alaska has become more vulnerable to thaw with warming climate conditions. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) transports oil through a 1.2-m-diameter pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak, Barnes
National Park Service web article summarizes fire effects after the 2018 Andrew Creek fire in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National preserve including permafrost and watershed effects and also taking into account the long-term climate trends in the area.
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Douglas, Jorgenson, Genet, Marcot, Nelsen
Climate change and intensification of disturbance regimes are increasing the vulnerability of interior Alaska Department of Defense (DoD) training ranges to widespread land cover and hydrologic changes. This is expected to have profound impacts on wildlife habitats, conservation…
Year: 2022
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
Foster, Shuman, Rogers, Walker, Mack, Bourgeau-Chavez, Veraverbeke, Goetz
Forest characteristics, structure, and dynamics within the North American boreal region are heavily influenced by wildfire intensity, severity, and frequency. Increasing temperatures are likely to result in drier conditions and longer fire seasons, potentially leading to more…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holzworth, Brundell, McCarthy, Jacobson, Rodger, Anderson
World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) data on global lightning are used to investigate the increase of total lightning strokes at Arctic latitudes. We use the summertime data from June, July, and August (JJA) which average >200,000 strokes each year above 65°N for the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yi, Chen, Moghaddam, Kimball, Jones, Jandt, Miller, Miller
We used full-polarimetric L-band and P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected from the recent NASA Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) airborne campaign and Sentinel-1 C-band dual-polarization data to understand the sensitivity of radar backscatter…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baltzer, Day, Walker, Greene, Mack, Alexander, Arseneault, Barnes, Bergeron, Boucher, Bourgeau-Chavez, Brown, Carrière, Howard, Gauthier, Parisien, Reid, Rogers, Roland, Sirois, Stehn, Thompson, Turetsky, Veraverbeke, Whitman, Yang, Johnstone
Intensifying wildfire activity and climate change can drive rapid forest compositional shifts. In boreal North America, black spruce shapes forest flammability and depends on fire for regeneration. This relationship has helped black spruce maintain its dominance through much of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Fitzsimmons, Olnes, Williams
Climate change and natural disturbances are catalysing forest transitions to different vegetation types, but whether these new communities are resilient alternate states that will persist for decades to centuries is not known. Here, we test how changing climate, disturbance and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowring, Jones, Ciais, Guenet, Abiven
Recently identified post-fire carbon fluxes indicate that, to understand whether global fires represent a net carbon source or sink, one must consider both terrestrial carbon retention through pyrogenic carbon production and carbon losses via multiple pathways. Here these legacy…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balch, Abatzoglou, Joseph, Koontz, Mahood, McGlinchy, Cattau, Williams
Night-time provides a critical window for slowing or extinguishing fires owing to the lower temperature and the lower vapour pressure deficit (VPD). However, fire danger is most often assessed based on daytime conditions1,2, capturing what promotes fire spread rather than what…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meddens
This presentation is part of the University of Idaho's College of Natural Resources, Natural Resources and Society Spring 2022 Invited Speaker Seminar Series.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Masrur, Taylor, Harris, Barnes, Petrov
Although the link between climate change and tundra fire activity is well-studied, we lack an understanding of how fire, vegetation, and topography interact to either amplify or dampen climatic effects on these tundra fires at Pan-Arctic scale. This study investigated the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
El-Madafri, Peña, Olmedo-Torre
This study introduces a novel hierarchical domain-adaptive learning framework designed to enhance wildfire detection capabilities, addressing the limitations inherent in traditional convolutional neural networks across varied forest environments. The framework innovatively…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badhan, Shamsaei, Ebrahimian, Bebis, Lareau, Rowell
The rising severity and frequency of wildfires in recent years in the United States have raised numerous concerns regarding the improvement in wildfire emergency response management and decision-making systems, which require operational high temporal and spatial resolution…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES