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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney, Andrews
Fire growth simulation is the modeling of fire spread and behavior across landscapes with heterogeneous fuels, weather, and topography. FARSITE is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in BEHAVE (Andrews 1986) and in the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stuart
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Staddon, Duchesne, Trevors
Acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and arylsulfatase activities were determined from organic and mineral soils of a jack pine (Pinus banksiana L.) community 4 years after clear-cutting alone, clear-cutting followed by prescribed burning and clear-cutting followed by…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Flannigan, Wotton, Suffling
The predicted increase in climate warming will have profound impacts on forest ecosystems and landscapes in Canada because of increased temperature, and altered disturbance regimes. Climate change is predicted to be variable within Canada, and to cause considerable weather…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The Wildfire Act is supported by the Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus and has been deemed especially critical in the face of global climate change. The Forest Service states that as a result of a changing climate, forest conditions are more…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang, Kondragunta, Roy
The ratio of key elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica determines nutrient limitations that are important to regulating primary productivity and species composition in aquatic ecosystems. The flux of these nutrients in streams, as dissolved constituents or as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wheeler
From the text lll 'Several types of firebreaks exist, and often more than one type of firebreak is used during a prescribed fire. Different types of firebreaks offer different levels of performance and permanence and have varying levels of installation costs. the firebreaks that…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Burrows, Buyantuyev, Gray, Keane, Kubian, Liu, Seijo, Shu, Tolhurst, van Wagtendonk
Mega-fires are often defined according to their size and intensity but are more accurately described by their socioeconomic impacts. Three factors -- climate change, fire exclusion, and antecedent disturbance, collectively referred to as the 'mega-fire triangle' -- likely…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Numerical prediction of size, mass, temperature and trajectory of cylindrical wind-driven firebrands
Mathematical models and numerical solution procedures for predicting the trajectory, oscillation, possible rotation, and mass and size time-evolution of cylindrical wind-driven firebrands are described and discussed. Two test problems and the results, used for validating the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keane, Dillon, Drury, Innes, Morgan, Lutes, Prichard, Smith, Strand
From the introduction ... 'Announcing the release of new software packages for application in wildland fire science and management, two fields that are already fully saturated with computer technology, may seem a bit too much to many managers. However, there have been some…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Wildfires can be caused by an accumulation of dead matter (leaves, twigs, and trees) that can create enough heat in some instances to spontaneously combust and ignite the surrounding area.'
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
From the text ... 'Operational guides for predicting various aspects of wildland fire behavior, including crowning, are generally dependent on mathematical models that can take a variety of forms. The degree of accuracy in predictions of crown fire behavior is dependent on the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and ecological, social, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ziel
What factors may influence new fires burning into or being slowed by previous fire scars? How long can we consider fire scars a fuel barrier? More and more area in Alaska seems to be burning in close succession, or "repeat burns."
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Ziel
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
The Funny River Fire (AK-KKS-403140) was ignited by humans on May 19, 2014, and burned almost 200,000 acres on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, by early June. Most of the fire was within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, but it threatened adjacent communities. Four recreational…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
A brief refresher of CFFDRS from the 3-day Summit, held October 28-30 in Fairbanks.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hirsch, Corey, Martell
An expert judgment elicitation methodology was developed and used to encode subjective assessments of fire crew effectiveness from experienced initial attack crew leaders. During structured individual interviews, experts from four Canadian forest fire management agencies…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This article outlines the flexible semi-empirical philosophy used throughout six decades of fire research by the Canadian Forest Service, culminating in the development of the Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System. It then describes the principles involved when spread rate and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feller
The influence of seedbed (undisturbed forest floor, burned forest floor, and mineral soil), light (closed forest, open forest, and clearcut), and competing vegetation (present, not present) on germination and initial seedling survival and growth of subalpine fir (Abies…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The need to understand both the role of wildland fire as an ecosystem process and the appropriate use of fire as a management tool has been recognized for years. Historically fire has played an important role in many ecosystems by removing fuel accumulations,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engelmark, Hofgaard, Arnborg
We present results from repeated analyses (1962, 1993) of a permanent plot established in 1947, combined with retrospective stand age structure data, in an old Pinus sylvestris stand in Muddus National Park, northern Sweden. The study points towards a successional pathway…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
Vascular plants recorded within 50 one metre square quadrats in 1997 in an area cut and burned 37 years earlier revealed an unusually high species diversity with 87 native vascular plant species, which is roughly twice as high as that recorded in various open areas of alvars…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
From the text...'FOFEM 4.0-A First Order Fire Effects Model-is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS