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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schultz, Thompson, McCaffrey
Background: There is broad recognition that fire management in the United States must fundamentally change and depart from practices that have led to an over-emphasis on suppression and limited the presence of fire in forested ecosystems. In this paper, we look at competing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mota, Gobron, Cappucci, Morgan
This paper presents a framework for assessing the physical consistency between time-series of several satellite-based surface albedo and burned area products at global scale. The methodology evaluates the level of agreement of temporal change between these two Essential Climate…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley, Pausas
Fire is a necessary ecosystem process in many biomes and is best viewed as a natural disturbance that is beneficial to ecosystem functioning. However, increasingly, we are seeing human interference in fire regimes that alters the historical range of variability for most fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dorton, Ruby, Dumke
Our aim was to examine the effect of a synthetic material undergarment on heat stress during exercise in a hot environment. Ten active males completed two trials of intermittent (50 min walking, 10 min sitting) treadmill walking over 3 h in 35°C and 30% relative humidity.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steelman, Nowell
The United States' National Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy aims to achieve greater social and ecological resilience to wildfire. It also raises the question: cohesive for whom and for what purpose? In this article, we address the wildfire response goal and what a cohesive…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Understanding the leadership perspective in wildland firefighting: gaps and opportunities for growth
This aim of this study was to develop and assess the viability of a leadership scale that measures leadership from the perspective of the leader. A criterion sample was used of firefighters across USA federal land management agencies who are qualified crew bosses. The Supervisor…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Englin
Forest fires and their legacy form an inherently dynamic relationship between ecology and human uses of the forest. This paper provides an overview of the dynamic dimensions that are present in the aftermath of a fire. These include the evolution of social benefits as the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker
Presented by Xanthe Walker on April 11th, 2019 at the Bonanza Creek LTER Symposium.She discusses some of the research done with Michelle Mack at NAU – regarding C emissions from boreal forest wildfire.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Levick, Richards, Cook, Schatz, Guderle, Williams, Subedi, Trumbore, Andersen
Fire regimes across the globe have been altered through changes in land use, land management, and climate conditions. Understanding how these modified fire regimes impact vegetation structure and dynamics is essential for informed biodiversity conservation and carbon management…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
April 24, 2019 webinar presented by Jennifer Jenkins, Bureau of Land Management. Organized by the AWFCG Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee. The webinar focused on locations and processes for acquiring data used in WFDSS for fire behavior modeling including: points, perimeters…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Vegetation change has been observed across Arctic and boreal regions. Studies have often documented large-scale greening trends, but they have also identified areas of browning or shifts between greening and browning over varying spatial extents and time periods. At the same…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Ecological properties governed by threshold relationships can exhibit heightened sensitivity to climate change. This talk focuses on understanding the consequences of climate change for fire activity in select…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Moore
Presented By: Chris Moore
March 29th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting, the presentation gave an overview of the new Alaska Fire Danger Operating Plan and AWFCG group being formed.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bartolome, Princevac, Weise, Mahalingam, Ghasemian, Venkatram, Vu, Aguilar
Smoke from human-induced fires such as prescribed fires can occasionally cause significant reduction in visibility on highways in the southern United States. Visibility reduction to less than three meters has been termed 'superfog' and environmental conditions that lead to its…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Navarro, Kleinman, Mackay, Reinhardt, Balmes, Broyles, Ottmar, Naher, Domitrovich
Wildland firefighters are exposed to wood smoke, which contains hazardous air pollutants, by suppressing thousands of wildfires across the U. S. each year. We estimated the relative risk of lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality from existing PM2.5 exposure-response…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Penney, Habibi, Cattani
This paper provides analysis of international fire service siege wildfire suppression thresholds and reports on the effect of forest fuel structure, fire weather condition and terrain on the suitability of suppression strategies. Further, this study applies a fire engineering…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Bond
Alexander von Humboldt is a key figure in the history of ecology and biogeography who contributed to shape what is today ecology, as well as the environmentalist movement. His observation that the world’s vegetation varies systematically with climate was one of his many…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
"Risk is defined as a measure of the probability and consequence of uncertain future events" (Thompson et al 2016). We are uncertain about many things each day, though only when that uncertainty interferes with a decision is a risk considered and possibly taken. In that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Twidwell, Wonkka, Wang, Grant, Allen, Fuhlendorf, Garmestani, Angeler, Taylor, Kreuter, Rogers
Mechanisms underlying the loss of ecological resilience and a shift to an alternate regime with lower ecosystem service provisioning continues to be a leading debate in ecology, particularly in cases where evidence points to human actions and decision-making as the primary…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bhuiyan, Moseley, Medal, Rashidi, Grala
Reducing the potential damage caused by a wildfire is a problem of significant importance to land and fire managers. Fuel reduction treatment is a well-known method of reducing the risk of fire occurrence and spread on landscapes. However, officials seeking fuel reduction…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasslop, Coppola, Voulgarakis, Yue, Veraverbeke
Purpose of Review: Understanding of how fire affects the carbon cycle and climate is crucial for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. As those are often based on Earth system model simulations, we identify recent progress and research needs that can improve the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Dell, Ford Hotmann, Fischer, Pierce
Seasonal-mean concentrations of particulate matter with diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) have been decreasing across the United States (US) for several decades, with large reductions in spring and summer in the eastern US. In contrast, summertime-mean PM2.5 in the western…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The NWCG Standards for Wildland Fire Module Operations standardizes procedures and expectations for Wildland Fire Modules (WFMs). These standards are to be used by staff, supervisors, specialists, and technicians for planning, administering, and conducting WFM operations. These…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Presented By: Robert (Zeke) Ziel
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview The Science of Fire Hazard, Potential, and Risk, the topic of the workshop.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES