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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Boles, Verbyla
Three satellite fire detection models (threshold, contextual, and fuel mask) were compared and evaluated using National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-11, NOAA-12, and NOAA-14 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer sensor data from interior Alaska. The…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beverly, Uto, Wilkes, Bothwell
We designed and developed an internet mapping application to collect data on the locations of forest landscape values across a 2.4 million hectare study area in the province of Alberta, Canada. Four communities in the study area were surveyed and 8053 point locations were mapped…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Thomas
Fire Management Today and its predecessors collectively have a 70-year record of publishing on all aspects of wildland fire management. While early on the emphasis was placed on subjects related to fire protection and fire suppression, it wasn't too long before articles dealing…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
Can wildland fire behavior really be predicted? That depends on how accurate you expect the prediction to be. The minute-by-minute movement of a fire will probably never be predictable- certainly not from weather conditions forecasted many hours before the fire. Nevertheless,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Klaver, Klaver
A national 1-km resolution fire danger fuel model map was derived through used of previously mapped land cover classes and ecoregions, and extensive ground sample data, then refined through review by fire managers familiar with various portions of the U.S. The fuel model map…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Bradshaw
As the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) (see Burgan et al. 1997 in this issue of Fire Management Notes), it has been abundantly clear that weather inputs are the most…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brennan, Hardwick
In recent years, there has been an influx of new technology for fire planning, suppression, and management efforts. GIS can put accurate information in the hands of those who need it. GeoTechnologies discussed: GIS; Remote Sensing. Benefits: The combinations of new technologies…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boyce, Szaro
After 6 years of intensive study, all the research studies designed to answer the information needs identified in appendix B of the Tongass land management plan have ended, with their results published or in press. The knowledge generated from these studies not only informs the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Garwood, Riordan, Cella, Alden, Kwart, Murphy
Alaska currently relies on the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System for the assessment of the potential for wildfire and although it provides invaluable information it is designed as a single system that does not account for the varied fuel types and drying conditions (day…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Harrell, Kasischke, French
The study presented here focuses on using a spaceborne imaging radar, ERS-1, for mapping and estimating areal extent of fires which occurred in the interior region of Alaska. Fire scars are typically 3 to 6 dB brighter than adjacent unburned forests in the ERS-1 imagery. The…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A screening-level assessment of the health risks of chronic smoke exposure for wildland firefighters
A screening health risk assessment was performed to assess the upper-bound risks of cancer and noncancer adverse health effects among wildland firefighters performing wildfire suppression and prescribed burn management. Of the hundreds of chemicals in wildland fire smoke, we…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Black, Perin
To facilitate delivery and use of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project's (Project) products, the Project team engaged in a series of technology transfer activities throughout the life of the project. These included bringing land managers into the design…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Backer, Jensen, McPherson
The ecological impacts of wildland fire-suppression activities can be significant and may surpass the impacts of the fire itself. A recent paradigm shift from fire control to fire management has resulted in increased attention to minimizing the negative effects of suppression.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Loftsgaarden, Bradshaw
Methods are presented for analyzing the relationship between fire danger rating indexes and fire activity as a means of evaluating the performance of fire danger rating systems. Percentile analysis is used to examine the data itself; logistic regression provides a means for…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kiil
'This Symposium comprises several interrelated parts aimed at familiarizing chemists, physicists, engineers and managers with the latest developments in all aspects of flammability and fire retardants. My assigned topic suggests that my presentation should accomplish this task…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Handleman
Chemicals play an increasingly important role in fire control operations. Techniques have progressed from applications of borate and bentonite slurries in the 1950's, to the current widespread utilization of long-term retardants-diammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate, and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Verble, Granberg, Pearson, Rogers, Watson
Wildland fire dispatchers play a key role in wildland fire management and response organization; however, to date, wildland fire studies have largely focused on the physical hazards and, to a lesser extent, mental health hazards of wildland firefighting operational personnel,…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From the text...'Substance must be given to policies that state that fire suppression costs should be proportional to values at risk and that fire should assume a more natural role in manging the landscape. A workshop of Canadian fire experts was convened by the Candian Forest…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a highly toxic, nonirritating gas. One of the products of combustion, it is invisible, odorless, tasteless, and slightly lighter than air. But smoke, another combustion product, is visible. And when smoke is present, it is highly likely that CO and other…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Wright, Prichard
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (FERA) of the Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, is an interdisciplinary team of scientists that conduct primary research on wildland fire and provide decision support for fire hazard and smoke management.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Guggenheim
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thorton
Biome-BGC is a computer program that estimates fluxes and storage of energy, water, carbon, and nitrogen for the vegetation and soil components of terrestrial ecosystems. We call it a process model because its algorithms represent physical and biological processes that control…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Apps, Shvidenko, Vaganov
This special issue contains 14 papers providing information on the adaptation and mitigation strategies of northern forest biomes as a consequence both of climatic change impacts. The first paper provides a review of the history and contributions of the International Boreal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
From the text... 'Wildand-urban interface (W-UI) fires are a significant concern for federal, state, and local land management and fire agencies. research using modeling experiments, and W-UI case studies indicates that home ignitability during wildland fires depends on the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stefanidou, Athanaselis
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS