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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bella
Vegetation cover and structure was measured in five plots in each of three bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis L.) treatment plot sites (Griner, Mile 149, Kenai, Figure 1, Table 1) on the western Kenai Peninsula on August 1st, 2013. Plots were circular one meter area…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Magnussen, Fehrman, Platt
Density estimators for k-tree distance sampling are sensitive to the amount of extra Poisson variance in distances to the kth tree. To lessen this sensitivity, we propose an adaptive composite estimator (COM). In simulated sampling from 16 test populations, a three-component…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norman
Presented by Steve Norman, USFS Southern Research Station, and sponsored by the US Forest Service, Research and Development. The Landscape Science Webinar Series occurs monthly on a Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern providing a forum to communicate research findings, promote awareness of…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Identifying indicators of state change and forecasting future vulnerability in Alaskan boreal forest
The slideshow for this project was presented at the February 2013 Bonanza Creek Long-term Ecological Research Symposium.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Steufer
The WFR-Chem model can produce valuable smoke emissions and fire spread information along with up to a 72 hour smoke forecast. This model can be used by fire and resouce managers, city and borough personnel and others. Feedback is needed for improved graphics and output.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Magagi, Berg, Goita, Belair, Jackson, Toth, Walker, McNairn, O'Neill, Moghaddam, Gherboudj, Colliander, Cosh, Belanger, Burgin, Fisher, Kim, Rousseau, Djamai, Shang, Merzouki
The Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 (CanEx-SM10) was carried out in Saskatchewan, Canada, from 31 May to 16 June, 2010. Its main objective was to contribute to Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission validation and the prelaunch assessment of the proposed…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) brings the best available fire and fuel science and technology developed throughout the research community to bear in fire-related management issues. Although located within the Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program of the U.S. Forest Service…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Information about status and trend of wildlife habitat is important for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to accomplish its mission and meet its legal requirements. As the steward of 193 million acres (ac) of Federal land, the Forest Service needs to evaluate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pennypacker, Jakubowski, Kelly, Lampton, Schmidt, Stephens, Tripp
Current and planned wildfire detection systems are impressive but lack both sensitivity and rapid response times. A small telescope with modern detectors and significant computing capacity in geosynchronous orbit can detect small (12 m^2) fires on the surface of the earth, cover…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norman, Hargrove, Spruce, Christie, Schroeder
Satellite-based remote sensing can assist forest managers with their need to recognize disturbances and track recovery. Despite the long standing availability of raw imagery, the systematic delivery of spatially continuous, ready-to-use, processed products has evaded us until…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tsuyuzaki, Narita, Sawada, Harada
We aimed to detect the trajectories of forest-floor vegetation recovery in a Picea mariana forest after a wildfire. Since fire severity in boreal forests is expected to increase because of climate changes, we investigated the effects of ground-surface burn severity, a surrogate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roland, Schmidt, Nicklen
Recent studies suggest that climate warming in interior Alaska may result in major shifts from spruce-dominated forests to broadleaf-dominated forests or even grasslands. To quantify patterns in tree distribution and abundance and to investigate the potential for changes in…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Kimball, Jones
The rate of vegetation recovery from boreal wildfire influences terrestrial carbon cycle processes and climate feedbacks by affecting the surface energy budget and land-atmosphere carbon exchange. Previous forest recovery assessments using satellite optical-infrared normalized…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program's annual national technical report has three objectives: (1) to present forest health status and trends from a national or a multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, (2) to introduce new techniques for analyzing…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire and Fuels Research Map was created in 2006 under FIREHOUSE (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse), a Joint Fire Science Program funded project (06-3-1-26). This database was initially populated from National Park Service fire effects study plots…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, York, Timm
In late April 2013, scientists from universities in Alaska, Florida, and Saskatchewan met with fire managers and resource specialists to share early results from a study called Identifying Indicators of State Change and Forecasting Future Vulnerability in Alaskan Boreal…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden, Rogan
Wildfires are historically infrequent in the arctic tundra, but are projected to increase with climate warming. Fire effects on tundra ecosystems are poorly understood and difficult to quantify in a remote region where a short growing season severely limits ground data…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Wulder, White, Hilker, Coops
There is a paucity of detailed and timely forest inventory information available for Canada's large, remote northern boreal forests. The Canadian National Forest Inventory program has derived a limited set of attributes from a Landsat-based land cover product representing circa…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
May, Hollister
The point frame method is ideal for vegetation monitoring because exact locations may be precisely resampled over time. Many researchers, including those associated with the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), have used a modified point frame method to document vegetation…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On behalf of the personnel of the USDA Forest Service's Forest Health Protection work group and its primary partners, I am pleased to present the Forest Health Conditions in Alaska-2011 report. We hope that you find it both interesting and informative. One of the main goals of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller, McMillan, Hrobak
The AWFCG Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium sponsored a fuel moisture sampling field training workshop on May 17, 2012. The purpose of this workshop was to provide step by step instruction for collecting samples and processing moisture…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Turetsky, Kane
We collected data to estimate depth of the remaining (residual) organic layer as well as data to estimate total pre-fire organic layer depth in 99 plots located in mature black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forests in interior Alaska that burned during the large fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt, Miller, Yokel, Bret-Harte, Kolden, Mack
The 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire was an order of magnitude larger than the average fire size in the historic record for northern Alaska and indices of severity were substantially higher than for other recorded tundra burns. An interdisciplinary team assessed fire effects including…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Epstein, Raynolds, Kuss, Kopecky, Frost, Daniels, Leibman, Moskalenko, Matyshak, Khitun, Khomutov, Forbes, Bhatt, Kade, Volanthen, Tichy
Satellite-based measurements of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI; an index of vegetation greenness and photosynthetic capacity) indicate that tundra environments are generally greening and becoming more productive as climates warm in the Arctic. The greening,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malm, Hand
Filter-based samplers have long been employed by monitoring networks to measure aerosol mass concentrations because they are robust and the collected filters can be used for analysis of speciated mass concentrations. However, filter-based samplers have several disadvantages.…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES