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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The 3rd "International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk" (ICFBR2022) took place in Alghero from May 3-6, 2022. ICBR2022 aims to involve scientists, researchers and policy makers whose activities are focused on different aspects of fires and their impact on ecosystems and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith
1. Problem Statement Climate change is impacting the climate-related biophysical dynamics of fisheries. For example, researchers have documented shifts in annual stream runoff throughout the western United States associated with warmer air temperature. In addition, current…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Global Wildfire Information System is a joint initiative of the GEO and the Copernicus Work Programs. In the new GEO GWIS work program for the years 2020-2022 , the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) aims at bringing together existing information sources at regional…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin, Hammer, Radeloff
Each year more wildland-urban interface (WUI) homes are exposed to wildfire. From 1999 to 2011, an average of 1,354 residences were destroyed annually by wildland fire, despite billions spent on fire suppression. Costs of fire suppression continue to rise with housing growth and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Nowell, Steelman
Co-management of fire risk is both a process and an outcome of negotiation and decision making. Network governance refers to the forums and institutionalized practices within which co-management occurs. Understanding effective network governance and the social-psychological…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Watson, Borrie, Burchfield, Wakimoto
There is currently limited understanding of the social acceptability of the various means of treatment of forest or grassland fuels. Either through the application of prescribed fire or mechanical means, the social and economic implications of fuel treatments can be decisive in…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka
Objectives: Bring together key decision makers, information providers, researchers, and managers concerned about climate implications for management of forest fire hazards and prescribed burning. Evaluate the 2000 fire season in the context of information presented at our…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Neuenschwander, Ryan
This fuels mapping project has one main objectives. To develop methods for creating spatial fuels layers for fire behavior and fire effects prediction systems and hazard and risk assessment The primary goal of this objective is to develop methods and protocols for creating high…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Burgan, Ohlen, Saveland
To provide 'first draft' basic spatial data layers, descriptive statistics, and documentation of the components listed above to enable specific risk analyses by subject matter experts, in National fuels treatment program planning, and for RPA direction.
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rideout
This project will culminate in a user-friendly value at risk (VAR) decision support system (DSS) for fire managers and planners. By assimilating and analyzing the available literature on fire effects as they relate to VARs, such information will be catalogued into a relational…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ferguson
The primary objective of this work is to assess the local, regional, and national risks to air quality and visibility from wildland fire. This will be done by generating and analyzing statistics of daily and nightly variability of surface wind, mixing height, and dispersion…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Nowell, McCaffrey, Steelman
Failures in effective communication and coordination within the network of responding organizations and agencies during a wildfire can lead to problematic or dangerous outcomes. Although risk assessment and management concepts are usually understood with regards to biophysical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
There is a clear need for decision support systems that inform rangeland management strategies to reduce fire hazard and maintain ecological integrity. The RVS is improving that capability but offers outdated depictions of vegetation dynamics (BpS successional models).…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Fox, Gabor, Thomas, Ziegler
Managing wildland fire is an exercise in risk perception, sense-making and resilient performance. Risk perception begins with individual size up to determine a course of action, and becomes collective as the fire management team builds and continuously updates their common…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olsen, Jolly, Toman, Wilson
Many fire weather-based tools, such as the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), are used nationwide to support the full range of strategic (pre-fire and prescribed fire planning) and tactical (initial and extended…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Abrams, Evans, Flint, Moseley
Multiple recent U.S. Forest Service (USFS) policies and mandates identify resilient landscapes as a guiding concept for land and resource management. This emphasis on resilience comes in response to the unprecedented scope, scale, and cost of wildfire and other disturbances…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hodges, Finley, Luloff
Fire prevention and fuel treatments have enjoyed renewed and enhanced support. However, the use of fire prevention measures for enhancing ecosystem services has not found purchase in either the publics acceptance or involvement in this new role of and for fire. This is…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wood, Kreitler
This project will combine methods from multiple disciplines to provide new applied research for timely and policy relevant wildland fire and natural resource management issues. We propose research to address the tension between allocating fuel treatments to reduce risk to values…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Little, Jandt
Wildland fire is the dominant disturbance agent of the boreal forest of Alaska, which covers about 114 million ac. of the southcentral and interior regions, representing about 15% of the forested area of the U.S. Currently, about 80% of the population of Alaska resides in…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olsen, Spies
The purpose of this international scientific conference will be to bring scientists and managers together working on coupled natural-human systems (CNHS) in fire-prone ecosystems to present theories and findings on current work, discuss challenges and emerging issues, and to…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Olsen
Wildland fire management is a primary challenge for land management agencies and fire-prone communities in the United States and Australia. With the frequency and intensity of fires in both countries increasing, pre-fire programs for fuels reduction and post-fire planning for…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olsen
This study will examine citizens' knowledge of and perceptions about smoke management and associated communication strategies before and after exposure to a smoke event and/or communication event that addresses smoke. This study is an expansion of a larger multi-region project…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Olsen
This project examines how communication programs and fire and fuels-related community partnerships influence public perceptions of smoke management across multiple regions. Using a case study design, we will compare communities where smoke (from wildfire or prescribed fire) has…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Latham
This work complements the work done by the 'Ecosystems at Risk' group, which is a national effort to map forest areas at risk to insect and disease. The Ecosystems at Risk program is sponsored by the USDA Forest Service, Washington Office, Ecosystem Management Corporate Team.…
Year: 1999
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Landres, Black, Miller
We propose to develop methods that allow managers to incorporate information on the risks and benefits of wildland fuels management into landscape scale planning. Although wildland fire managers have a full spectrum of strategies available for reducing fuels, they lack…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES