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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Moseley, Nielsen-Pincus
Wildfire management requires significant institutional organization, a skilled workforce, facilities, and equipment. Sustaining this wildfire response capacity is critical to both agencies and fire-affected communities. Because fire suppression is seasonal and varies…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Fletcher, Jolly, Mahalingam, McAllister, Shotorban
After many years of research examining the ignition of wood and other cellulosic fuels, it is still unclear which modes of heat transfer will result in successful ignition of live wildland fuel particles. Thermal radiation can cause a fuel particle to pyrolyze to produce a…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Oswald, Ingalsbee
This conference will provide 1) high profile technology transfer for JFSP supported research, 2) highlight JFSP programs and projects, 3) opporfunities for special sessions on the JFSP programand JFSP supported projects, 4) ffSP supported student participation in all aspects of…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Naughton, Urbanski
An accurate, reliable wildland fire emissions inventory is likely the most important criteria in assessing the impacts of prescribed burning and wildfires on regional air quality and global climate. Significant progress has been made in the past ten years to develop fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Smith
Assess the usefulness and quality of JFSP publications.
Year: 2014
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
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
Parsons, Dupuy, Jolly, Linn, Mell, Pimont, Rigolot, deColigny
Accurate characterization of stand scale fuel treatment effectiveness is necessary before such treatments can be robustly considered at landscape scales. Fire behavior predictions are key components in evaluating fuel treatments, which may include a mixture of mechanical…
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
Reeves
The FVS is currently incapable of estimating succession, biomass and fuels of non-forested landscapes, yet decision support models such as the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) require this information. In response, we propose development of the…
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
Archival of Data From JFSP Projects Conducted by the Fire & Environmental Research Applications Team
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab) (FERA) proposes to document and archive datasets from eleven (11) completed JFSP-funded projects. FERA scientists have received…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Swetnam, Bigio
Over the past three years, the Fire and Climate Synthesis (FACS) project has compiled 550 fire history datasets contributed by 29 research investigators from both universities and federal agencies. Researchers provided their data directly to the project for the purpose of…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Stanturf, Tian
Mega-fires can adversely impact air quality in the United States and the impact is likely to become more severe in the future due to the possibly more frequent and intense mega-fires in response to the projected climate change. This study investigates mega-fires and their air…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kreidenweis, Coe, McMeeking, Sullivan, Yokelson
Although representing only a small mass fraction of the emissions from biomass burning, black carbon (BC) exerts a strong influence on climate. As a component of the atmospheric aerosol, BC absorbs visible light and warms the adjacent air, potentially altering the vertical…
Year: 2014
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
Brown
This project is purposed to develop a consensus approach to undertake smoke model validation through field measurements. It builds upon needs described in the JFSP Smoke Science Plan (Riebau and Fox 2010), in the JFSP Models and Measurements Workshop, and lessons learned from…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Palmer, Robertson
We propose to develop and deliver a national conference to bring together the fire management and research community to focus on fire ecology and management issues in northern coastal and interior climates. The objective of this 25th Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference is to…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bengston, Olson
This proposal explores the future of wildland fire management from a variety of innovative external perspectives. Past efforts related to fire management futures have relied heavily on expertise from within the wildfire community. This proposal takes a much broader path to…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Hardy
The Joint Fire Science Program funded a previous study aimed at characterizing firefighter safety zone guidelines (PI Butler JFSP 03-2-1-03). The results have been incorporated into wildland fire curricula (e.g. S-190, 290, 390 etc) and documents (e.g. Incident Response Pocket…
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
Robinson
The International Fire Smoke Symposium is proposed for the fall of 2013 and will be co-presented by The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SmoC). The purpose of this conference is to convene air…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Busse, Hubbert
Soils are the foundation of terrestrial ecosystems. They provide essential nutrients, water, oxygen, heat, and physical support for the survival and growth of plants and living organisms. A soil's capacity to function within an ecosystem and adjust to land use disturbance…
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