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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Suzuki, Manzello
Firebrand showers are known to result in massive destruction in large outdoor fires. A key missing piece is how these ignition scenarios may be influenced by firebrand showers in conjunction with external radiant heat that would be generated by nearly combustibles. The combined…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Prosser
The intensity and frequency of forest fires is increasing across the globe due to climate change. Additives are often added to make water more effective at extinguishing fire and preventing re-ignition. This study investigated the toxicity of nine different firefighting water…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Isaac, Toukhsati, Klein, Di Benedetto, Kennedy
Objective
This study aimed to establish the prevalence and to identify predictors of insomnia, nightmares and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in wildfire survivors.
Method
A total of 126 (23 males, 102 females, and 1 nonbinary individual, Mage = 52 years, SD = 14.4)…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dockry, Hoagland, Leighton, Durglo, Pradhananga
Native American and Alaska Native tribes manage millions of acres of land and are leaders in forestry and fire management practices despite inadequate and inequitable funding. Native American tribes are rarely considered as research partners due to historically poor…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raoelison, Valenca, Lee, Karim, Webster, Poulin, Mohanty
Surface runoff mobilizes the burned residues and ashes produced during wildfires and deposits them in surface waters, thereby deteriorating water quality. A lack of a consistent reporting protocol precludes a quantitative understanding of how and to what extent wildfire may…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Wang
When tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific transition into midlatitude cyclones, it often perturbs the jet stream, resulting in amplified flow conditions in the north Pacific and various weather extremes in North America. Thus far, however, the climatological impacts of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Cai, Kelly, Wooster, Han, Zheng, Guan, Li, Zhu, Xue
Background: Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) produced by landscape fires is thought to be more toxic than that from non-fire sources. However, the effects of “fire-sourced” PM2.5 on acute respiratory infection (ARI) are unknown.
Methods: We combined Demographic and Health Survey…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niyatiwatchanchai, Pothirat, Chaiwong, Liwsrisakun, Phetsuk, Duangjit, Choomuang
We aim to assess small airway dysfunction, spirometry, health-related quality of life (HR-QoL), and inflammatory biomarkers between the wildland firefighters and healthy controls. Lung function including impulse oscillometry (IOS) and spirometry, HR-QoL measured by the 36-Item…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Urban
Firebrand spotting is a major cause for structure losses in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. When firebrands land nearby and accumulate into groups or piles, they can act as a more competent ignition source compared to single firebrands. While experimental studies have…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Busse, Shestak, Hubbert
Soil temperature extremes are not uncommon when woody fuels are ignited in prescribed burns or wildfires. Whether this leads to substantial loss of soil organic matter or microbial life is unclear. We created a soil heat gradient by burning four levels of masticated woody fuels…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tomat-Kelly, Flory
Invasive plants can alter fuels and fire regimes in ways that facilitate their spread and dominance through a process known as the invasion-fire cycle. This phenomenon can result in considerable fire and ecosystem impacts, but mechanisms, habitat susceptibility, and prevalence…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ningombam, Khatri, Larson, Dumka, Sarangi, Vineeth
Biomass burning emits a large quantity of gaseous pollutants and aerosols into the atmosphere, which perturbs the regional and global climate and has significant impacts on air quality and human health. In order to understand the temporal and spatial distributions of biomass…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tzoumas, Pitonakova, Salinas, Scales, Richardson
Wildfires affect countries worldwide as global warming increases the probability of their appearance. Monitoring vast areas of forests can be challenging due to the lack of resources and information. Additionally, early detection of wildfires can be beneficial for their…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hewitt, Day, DeVan, Taylor
Root-associated fungi play a critical role in plant ecophysiology, growth, and subsequent responses to disturbances, so they are thought to be particularly instrumental in shaping vegetation dynamics after fire in the boreal forest. Despite increasing data on the distribution of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bieber, Vyas, Koltz, Burkle, Bey, Guzinski, Murphy, Vidal
1. Animal ecology and evolution are shaped by environmental perturbations, which are undergoing unprecedented alterations due to climate change. Fire is one such perturbation that causes significant disruption by causing mortality and altering habitats and resources for animals…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell, Gwynne, Ronchi, Kalogeropoulos, Rein
The hazards posed by a wildfire increase significantly when it approaches the wildland–urban interface. Evacuation of rural communities is frequently considered by local authorities and residents. In this context, evacuation triggers are locations that when reached by the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mastorakos, Gkantonas, Efstathiou, Giusti
A stochastic model motivated by the Lagrangian transported probability density function method for turbulent reacting flows and the cellular automata approach for forest fires was put together to simulate propagation of fires in terrains with inhomogeneous composition. In…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Feltrin, Smith, Adams, Thompson, Kolden, Yedinak, Johnson
Disruption of photosynthesis and carbon transport due to damage of the tree crown and stem cambial cells, respectively, can cause tree mortality. It has recently been proposed that fire-induced dysfunction of xylem plays an important role in tree mortality. Here, we…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ghali, Akhloufi
Wildland fires are one of the most dangerous natural risks, causing significant economic damage and loss of lives worldwide. Every year, millions of hectares are lost, and experts warn that the frequency and severity of wildfires will increase in the coming years due to climate…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Zhou
Fire whirls are reported to occur frequently in the wilderness and in urban areas due to the influence of ambient winds. Fire whirls that occur on sloped fuel surfaces are common in the wilderness and have received less attention despite their potential to significantly alter…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolaitis, Pallikarakis, Founti
Wildland fire rate of spread prediction models are important tools for the effective coordination of resident evacuation and fire suppression efforts. A comparative assessment of ten empirical and semi-empirical rate of spread prediction models is performed, using a selection of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zheng, Duan, Dong, Liu
Aim: Fires are a serious threat to people’s lives and property. Detecting fires quickly and effectively and extinguishing them in the nascent stage is an effective way to reduce fire hazards. Currently, deep learning-based fire detection algorithms are usually deployed on the PC…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will explore themes of slack and scarcity and how they relate to multi-scale concepts of strategy, performance, and analytics in wildfire. While the description is short, this webinar contained a fascinating collection of concepts, statistics,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Steen-Adams, Lake, Jones, Kruger
Multiple aspects of forest land management present research partnership opportunities for the USDA Forest Service and tribal nations. These aspects include forests, fuels, and ecocultural resources that often are appropriate to manage at the landscape scale. The impacts of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernández-García, Marcos-Porras, Francos, Jiménez-Morillo, Calvo
[from the text] Impacts of fire on forest soils have been widely studied in the last decades. Early studies compared burned and unburned areas, revealing that soil properties and dynamics are significantly affected by fire. Moreover, the advancements in soil and fire sciences…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES