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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Butler, Hardy
The term safety zone was first introduced into the official literature in 1957 in the aftermath of the Inaja fire that killed 11 firefighters. Since then identification of safety zones has been an integral task for all wildland firefighters. The work that resulted in the current…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide is intended as a reference for US users who may have reason to work with the system in the United States, where English units are primarily used. Keep in mind that the Canadian Forest Service has produced the definitive selection of reference publications and tools…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Lynham, Howard
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alden
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit Workshop on October 28, 2014.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alden
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit Workshop on October 28, 2014.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fronterhouse
Presented at the CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hanes
Presentation from the CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Presentation from CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Parks, Miller
The goal of this study was to better understand fire behavior and effects using remotely sensed data. This study had two components: First, we developed methods for generating spatially continuous fire progression maps using MODIS fire-detection satellite data. Second, we…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of this workshop is to learn about and discuss various aspects of smoke management associated with wildland fire in the Southwestern United States. Wildland fire encompasses prescribed fire and wildfire. Topics include fire ecology and technical tools; health and…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
At the September 17th 2014 NWCG Executive Board meeting, three updates to the United States National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) were approved. 1) Incorporate the Growing Season Index (GSI) to compute live fuel moistures; 2) Incorporate the Nelson Model to compute fine…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Norman, Hargrove
U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Research Ecologists Steve Norman and William Hargrove with the SRS Eastern Forests Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) presented a webinar on ForWarn, an online satellite-based change detection tool that maps…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Petrescu
Test beds, such as the Joint Hurricane Test Bed (Miami, FL) and the Hazardous Weather Test Bed (Norman, OK) have been highly effective in meeting unique or pressing science and service challenges for the NWS. NWS Alaska Region leadership has developed plans for a significant…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Leach
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Interpret results from a verification study of the NDFD grids from the local Missoula Weather Forecast Office and the implications for fire behavior forecasts that use NDFD data. Afternoon temperature, minimum…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Archibald
Canada's NWT burned over 7 million acres in 2014. What were the indications (drought codes, forecasts, fuel moisture) to alert managers that they were in for a record-breaking season? How well did pre- and early-season Fuel Moisture Indices reflect the fire risk? What were the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
Jennifer Barnes, NPS-Alaska Fire Ecologist and Eric Miller, BLM-Alaska Fire Ecologist talk about duff moisture sampling in Alaska: why we do it, its history, and comparing field results of destructive sampling and oven drying to weather-generated Duff Moisture Code and Drought…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This short video records a presentation by Bureau of Land Management-Alaska Fire Service Fire Fuel Specialist Eric Miller on preliminary work he did in field validating Fire Weather Indices of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System with probes and weather stations in…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Robert Ziel, State of Alaska Fire Analyst shares information on how seasonal effects change the fuel moisture codes of CFFDRS and how remotely sensed data may help with interpretation for managers. This video was edited from his presentation at the October, 2014 Summit on CFFDRS…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wotton
Mike Wotton's current research focuses on the development of fuel moisture, fire occurrence and fire behaviour models for use in daily operational fire management activities as well as in the development of climate change impacts scenarios. His doctoral thesis developed a…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Preisler
Haiganoush Preisler talks about her work modeling very large fires over very large areas. She is a research scientist and statistician with the USFS PSW Research Station and lead author on the attached paper. You can find out more about her work at: http://www.wfas.net/index.…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
Casey Sullivan provided an overview of the National Weather Service fire weather forecast program and discussed elements of the fire weather forecast available to any fire practitioner. The hourly weather graph and definitions of surface winds was emphasized.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sedano, Randerson
Climate-driven changes in the fire regime within boreal forest ecosystems are likely to have important effects on carbon cycling and species composition. In the context of improving fire management options and developing more realistic scenarios of future change, it is important…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS