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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Hudak, Morgan, Newingham, Strand
Mixed severity wildfires burn large areas in western North America forest ecosystems in most years and this is expected to continue or increase with climate change. Little is understood about vegetation recovery and changing fuel conditions 7-15 years post-fire because it…
Year: 2018
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
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
Brown
GOALS: Deepen the scope of the Symposium as it addresses the relation of weather and climate to the four principle purposes of the Joint Fire Science Plan: a) fuels inventory and mapping, b) evaluation of fuels treatments, c) scheduling fuels treatments, and d) monitoring and…
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
Bobbe, Finco, Parsons, Sohlberg
Plans for watershed rehabilitation after a wildfire must be developed and implemented as quickly as possible after containment to be effective. One of the most difficult inputs to generate is the assessment of how the wildfire affected the hydraulic properties of the soil,…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Parks, Miller
The goal of this study was to better understand fire behavior and effects using remotely sensed data. This study had two components: First, we developed methods for generating spatially continuous fire progression maps using MODIS fire-detection satellite data. Second, we…
Year: 2014
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
French, Billmire, Kennedy, Larkin, McKenzie
Fuel loadings, from canopy to litter and duff, are key variables for informing wildland fire emissions inventories. At regional to national scales, fuel loadings and their spatial patterns vary in both space and time, but current geospatial fuel datasets do not account for this…
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
Hudak, Keane, Loudermilk, Parsons, Prichard, Seielstad, Skowronski
The assumption of homogeneous fuel beds that underlies most fire spread models fundamentally limits their operational utility and future advancements in fire science, and imposes a significant disconnect between real fuels, which are highly heterogeneous, the inferences made…
Year: 2017
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
Wickland, Kasischke
ABoVE is a NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program field campaign that will be conducted in Alaska and Western Canada (West of the Hudson Bay). The planning started in 2009 with a scoping study and in 2013 the science definition team wrote a concise experiment plan that was completed…
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
Bowker, Green, Johnson, Rideout-Hanzak
The proposed project is designed to contribute to Task 1, Part 3 of RFP 2001-1 from the JFSP. Generally, the proposed study aims to improve understanding of the perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes of the public regarding fire, fire risk and fire recovery techniques in…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Fleming, Hoppus, Ohlen, van Wagtendonk
This project addresses requirements by the current RFP for more accurate, efficient, and cost-effective development of data for fire fuel research and management (Task 3). By focusing on development of fire fuel input layers, we propose to develop a simple and innovative…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Maus
Mapping bum severity after wildfire events has been the focus of burn rehabilitation crews for decades. Burn severity can vary depending upon the type of fuel present and the duration of the fire in a given location, typically, burn severity is mapped as high, medium, or low.…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Key, Ohlen
This proposal responds to Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Request for Proposals 2001-1, Task 4. Specifically, the proposed research is in direct response to JFSP statements that research is needed to 'develop, apply, and validate improved remote sensing applications for…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman
Considerable social science research has been conducted at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) since inception of the Joint Fire Science Program and National Fire Plan. Results have provided useful insight into factors including public acceptance of fuel treatments, communication…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES