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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dodds, Rosales, Hailes, Sol, Coker, Quindry, Ruby
Wildland fire suppression presents a working environment that often exceeds an energy expenditure of 20 MJ/day, however maladaptive responses to adiposity and blood lipid profiles have been noted. We recruited wildland firefighters (WLFF), (n=100, 92 males, 8 females) from seven…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lighthall, Quinn-Davidson, Hohman, Bladow, Warwick, Wheeler, Berleman, Aldern, Weir, Lasky
There is broad understanding and agreement lately that there is a need to substantially increase the use of prescribed fire to create landscape resiliency, protect communities and ensure a safe and effective wildfire response. In response, more and more Prescribed Burn…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kuligowski
As wildfires that threaten communities become more severe, there is an increasing need to understand human behavior in these situations, and evacuation decision-making and behavior in particular. A number of deaths have occurred in previous fires during the evacuation process.…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Burri, Emelko, Rhoades
What does current science and experience tell us about the near and long-term impacts of fire on water quality and how to recover?
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Varner
PRESCRIBED FIRE SCIENCE: THE CASE FOR A REFINED RESEARCH AGENDA
In this inaugeral episode of the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology Chats Podcast Series, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Morgan Varner, Director of Fire Research and Senior Scientist at Tall…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski, Lutes
In this short webinar, RMRS Research Physical Scientist Shawn Urbanski and Fire Ecologist Duncan Lutes will discuss the current state of the science on wildland fire smoke emissions, including pollutants present in smoke, methods for quantifying emission flux, existing datasets…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Navarro, Mutch
Wildland firefighters are exposed to health hazards including inhaling hazardous pollutants from the combustion of live and dead vegetation (smoke) and breathe soil dust, while working long shifts with no respiratory protection. This research brief summarizes a study analyzing…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin
It is crucial for wildland fire professionals today to be technically competent in their jobs. What is less obvious and less understood is the cognitive competency needed for our professional job performance. Join the IAWF for this event to better understand our own thoughts…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Titus
PTSD is quietly impacting wildland firefighters with its often devastating personal and professional repercussions. While no official numbers exist, suicide has become another statistic now necessary to track within the wildland community as anecdotal data show an alarming trend…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Balmes
[from the text] The danger of catastrophic wildfires is increasing around the globe, with large fires occurring in Australia, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Portugal, Russia, as well as in the United States over the past decade. A major driver globally is climate change, which is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stoof, Chalton, Withington, Belval, Foderi
Wildland Fire Management under COVID-19: Results of a Global Survey - Cathelijne Stoof, Assistant Professor, Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Coordinator Wageningen Fire Centre, Wageningen University, Netherlands"
This talk summarizes the results of a…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The 2019 McKinley Fire devastated a 10-mile stretch of homes along Alaska's Parks Highway. This video describes the fire and its aftermath through interviews with residents and fire professionals, and discusses ways to protect structures from wildfires.
Useful websites about…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Curcio, Mueller, Lahm, Fitch, Hyde
The Smoke and Roadway Safety Guide provides wildland fire personnel the tools and methods to effectively plan and forecast for roadway smoke impacts and to monitor, respond to, and mitigate smoke on roadways to reduce the risk to the public and fire personnel.
This publication:…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dumroese, Page-Dumroese, Pinto
Land managers face a mounting variety of challenges, including how to efficiently dispose of excessive woody residues on forest sites (especially in the Western United States), maintain and improve soil productivity, improve forest resilience to changes in climate (especially as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kelly, Fussell
Since air pollutants are difficult and expensive to control, a strong scientific underpinning to policies is needed to guide mitigation aimed at reducing the current burden on public health. Much of the evidence concerning hazard identification and risk quantification related to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir, Bauman, Cram, Kreye, Baldwin, Fawcett, Treadwell, Scasta, Twidwell
Prescribed fire is a land management practice used in many parts of the U.S. The prevalence of burning varies widely across regions due to cultural, ecological, climatic and legal factors. A primary concern among private landowners is the liability associated with prescribed…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hauptman, Balmes, Miller
Studies evaluating the health impacts of climate change, predict that the frequency and intensity of wildfires will increase as climate change creates longer, warmer, and drier seasons. Although respiratory morbidity in the immediate aftermath of wildfires is well documented for…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kerns, Tortorelli, Day, Nietupski, Barros, Kim, Krawchuk
Exotic grasses are a widespread set of invasive species that are notable for their ability to significantly alter key aspects of ecosystem function. Understanding the role and importance of these invaders in forested landscapes has been limited but is now rising, as grasses from…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Williams, Gillespie, Contreras-Martínez, Finch
To inform future restoration efforts, we reviewed the known effects of fire and habitat management and restoration on hummingbirds in four key habitat types in North America. We examined seven species that most commonly occur west of the Rocky Mountains: Rufous (Selasphorus…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Aydin, Selvi, Tao, Starek
This paper examines the potential use of fire extinguishing balls as part of a proposed system, where drone and remote-sensing technologies are utilized cooperatively as a supplement to traditional firefighting methods. The proposed system consists of (1) scouting unmanned…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Matonis
Prescribed burning is an effective method to reduce hazardous fuels and restore ecological conditions across a variety of ecosystems. Twenty-one states have laws or policies that direct state agencies to oversee formal training programs to certify individuals in safe burning…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhuang, Rose
Prescribed fires are often used as part of a strategy for protecting forests from catastrophic wildfires. Based on agency reports, from 2003-2017 prescribed burns have been used on more than 40 million acres across the US. In this study, the researchers developed a data driven…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ager, Barros, Houtman, Seli, Day
We integrated a widely used forest growth and management model, the Forest Vegetation Simulator, with the FSim large wildfire simulator to study how management policies affected future wildfire over 50 years on a 1.3 million ha study area comprised of a US national forest and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hislop, Haywood, Jones, Soto-Berelov, Skidmore, Nguyen
The regular and consistent measurements provided by Earth observation satellites can support the monitoring and reporting of forest indicators. Although substantial scientific literature espouses the capabilities of satellites in this area, the techniques are under-utilised in…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tedim, Leone, McGee
Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: Root Causes and New Management Strategies highlights the urgent need for new methods to prepare and mitigate the effects of these events. Using a multidisciplinary, socio-ecological approach, the book discusses the roots of the problem,…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES