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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alden
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit Workshop on October 28, 2014.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
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
Jandt, York
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
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
Breen, Bennett, Hewitt, Hollingsworth, Genet, Euskirchen, McGuire, Rupp
In Arctic Alaska, changes in climate are expected to increase the extent and frequency of wildfires yet the implication and consequences are poorly understood. Predicting landscape flammability and vegetation dynamics in response to climate change is a challenge because of the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rogers
Large areas of boreal forest in North America and Eurasia are frequently disturbed by wildfire. These fires alter ecosystem structure and function and affect climate through various biophysical and biogeochemical pathways. Fire-related forcings, however, are highly uncertain,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stavros, McKenzie, Larkin
Future climate change and its effects on social and ecological systems present challenges for preserving valued ecosystem services, including local and regional air quality. Wildfire is a major source of air-quality impact in some locations, and a substantial contributor to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Keane, Dillon, Jain, Hudak, Karau, Sikkink, Holden, Strand
Comprehensive assessment of ecological change after fires have burned forests and rangelands is important if we are to understand, predict and measure fire effects. We highlight the challenges in effective assessment of fire and burn severity in the field and using both remote…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
French, McKenzie, Erickson, Koziol, Billmire, Endsley, Yager Scheinerman, Jenkins, Miller, Ottmar, Prichard
As carbon modeling tools become more comprehensive, spatial data are needed to improve quantitative maps of carbon emissions from fire. The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) provides mapped estimates of carbon emissions from historical forest fires in the United…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Canfield, Linn, Sauer, Finney, Forthofer
The current study focuses on coupled dynamics and resultant geometry of fireline segments of various ignition lengths. As an example, for ignition lines of length scales typical for field experiments, fireline curvature is the result of a competition between the head fire and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mueller, Mell, Simeoni
Large eddy simulation (LES) based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulators have obtained increasing attention in the wildland fire research community, as these tools allow the inclusion of important driving physics. However, due to the complexity of the models, individual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Stanturf, Tian
Mega-fires can adversely impact air quality in the United States and the impact is likely to become more severe in the future due to the possibly more frequent and intense mega-fires in response to the projected climate change. This study investigates mega-fires and their air…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brown
This project is purposed to develop a consensus approach to undertake smoke model validation through field measurements. It builds upon needs described in the JFSP Smoke Science Plan (Riebau and Fox 2010), in the JFSP Models and Measurements Workshop, and lessons learned from…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud
We are hosting an American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference to improve our predictive post-wildfire erosion models by bring together a broad spectrum of the scientific community to discuss and propose resolutions for current research issues confronting the post-wildfire…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
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
Swaty
A joint Southern Fire Exchange and TNC LANDFIRE webinar presented by Randy Swaty, Landscape Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy. This webinar explored the concepts and software used to develop and modify state and transition models. Examples and screen captures are used to…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Niccolucci, Podolak, Moseley
This seminar is part of the Human-Side of Restoration Webinar Series.
This webinar delved into the restoration economy and discussed cost-benefit analysis and ways to use ecosystem services to pay for ecological restoration. We learned about a spreadsheet model to assess…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
This webinar explores a current effort to use the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) in Alaska for fuel treatment planning on or adjacent to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. In addition, IFTDSS was also used to assess the effectiveness of pre-existing…
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