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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mohagheghi, Rebennack
We study a two-stage stochastic and nonlinear optimization model for operating a power grid exposed to a natural disaster. Although this approach can be generalized to any natural hazard of continuous (and not instantaneous) nature, our focus is on wildfires. We assume that an…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Choobineh, Ansari, Mohagheghi
Wildfires are common in many forest and grassland ecosystems. Power transmission lines are vulnerable to wildfires in their vicinity, mainly due to increased conductor temperatures as a result of heat released by the fire. This may damage the conductor and lead to violation of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woodall, Coulston, Domke, Walters, Wear, Smith, Andersen, Clough, Cohen, Griffith, Hagen, Hanou, Nichols, Perry, Russell, Westfall, Wilson
As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United States annually prepares an inventory of carbon that has been emitted and sequestered among sectors (e.g., energy, agriculture, and forests). For many years, the United States developed an…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Learn the basics of combustion through the fire triangle and the three methods of heat transfer. This video is part of the World of Wildland Fire video series.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Donvovan
[from the text] In the early 1990’s remote sensing experts from Michigan travelled to Alaska to investigate use of the new field of satellite remote sensing to study the Alaskan landscape. At the time, Eric Kasischke, Nancy French, and Laura Bourgeau-Chavez worked at the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mouteva, Czimczik, Fahrni, Wiggins, Rogers, Veraverbeke, Xu, Santos, Henderson, Miller, Randerson
Black carbon (BC) aerosol emitted by boreal fires has the potential to accelerate losses of snow and ice in many areas of the Arctic, yet the importance of this source relative to fossil fuel BC emissions from lower latitudes remains uncertain. Here we present measurements of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allaby
Wildfire and subsequent timber salvage harvests are forecasted to increase in the Alaska boreal forest, creating the need to evaluate the effectiveness of forest regeneration practices in light of these interacting disturbances. Silvicultural practices such as site preparation…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Jorgenson, Douglas, Romanovsky, Kielland, Hiemstra, Euskirchen, Ruess
We examined the effects of fire disturbance on permafrost degradation and thaw settlement across a series of wildfires (from ~1930 to 2010) in the forested areas of collapse-scar bog complexes in the Tanana Flats lowland of interior Alaska. Field measurements were combined with…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire severity refers to the effects of a fire on the environment, typically focusing on the loss of vegetation both above ground and below ground but also including soil impacts.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yue, Mickley, Logan, Hudman, Val Martin, Yantosca
We estimate future area burned in the Alaskan and Canadian forest by the mid-century (2046–2065) based on the simulated meteorology from 13 climate models under the A1B scenario. We develop ecoregion-dependent regressions using observed relationships between annual total area…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Grosse, Arp, Miller, Liu, Hayes, Larsen
Fire-induced permafrost degradation is well documented in boreal forests, but the role of fires in initiating thermokarst development in Arctic tundra is less well understood. Here we show that Arctic tundra fires may induce widespread thaw subsidence of permafrost terrain in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calef, Varvak, McGuire, Chapin, Reinhold
The Alaskan boreal forest is characterized by frequent extensive wildfires whose spatial extent has been mapped for the past 70 years. Simple predictions based on this record indicate that area burned will increase as a response to climate warming in Alaska. However, two…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Conkling
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas
Bark is a vital and very visible part of woody plants, yet only recently has bark characteristics started to be considered as key traits structuring communities and biomes. Bark thickness is very variable among woody plants, and I hypothesize that fire is a key factor selecting…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vose
The pace of environmental and socioeconomic change over the past 100 years has been rapid. New stressors such as air pollution, invasive species, changes in fire regimes, and land use change have shaped the structure and function of most forest ecosystems, including eastern oak…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
French, Hierholzer, Sherlock
Peer learning session objectives: Share and discuss various approaches to three critical activities that often take place after a fire, including: 1) Dealing with the NEPA implications of 'significant new information or circumstances,' post-fire within a project area; 2)…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Haas, Gilbertson-Day, Scott, Langowski, Bowne, Calkin
Applying wildfire risk assessment models can inform investments in loss mitigation and landscape restoration, and can be used to monitor spatiotemporal trends in risk. Assessing wildfire risk entails the integration of fire modeling outputs, maps of highly valued resources and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter, Anaya
Convective instability can influence the behaviour of large wildfires. Because wildfires modify the temperature and moisture of air in their plumes, instability calculations using ambient conditions may not accurately represent convective potential for some fire plumes. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Huang, Dahal, Liu, Jin, Young, Li, Liu
The albedo change caused by fires and the subsequent succession is spatially heterogeneous, leading to the need to assess the spatiotemporal variation of surface shortwave forcing (SSF) as a component to quantify the climate impacts of high-latitude fires. We used an image…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A description of fire occurrence and fire effects across the United States for the year of 2014. This includes spending, acres burned, reports on performance measures, and brief narratives on different fires.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dey, Schweitzer
The long history of fire in North America spans millennia and is recognized as an important driver in the widespread and long-term dominance of oak species. Early European settlers intensified the occurrence of fire from about 1850 to 1950, with dates varying by region. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turetsky, Benscoter, Page, Rein, Van der Werf, Watts
Globally, the amount of carbon stored in peats exceeds that stored in vegetation and is similar in size to the current atmospheric carbon pool. Fire is a threat to many peat-rich biomes and has the potential to disturb these carbon stocks. Peat fires are dominated by smouldering…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Pueyo, Chuvieco
Aim: In order to understand fire's impacts on vegetation dynamics, it is crucial that the distribution of fire sizes be known. We approached this distribution using a power-law distribution, which derives from self-organized criticality theory (SOC). We compute the global…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Edwards, Franklin-Smith, Clarke, Baker, Hill, Gallagher
In north-west Canada, Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine) has been migrating northwards and westwards for millennia. Its regeneration is currently enhanced by fire, which may act as a trigger for local population expansion. Using Holocene charcoal records from four small (<10 ha…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alba, Skálová, McGregor, D'Antonio, Pyšek
Questions: Wildfire is a natural disturbance that shapes vegetation characteristics worldwide, while prescribed fire is increasingly used to modify vegetation composition and structure. Due to invasion of many ecosystems by exotic species, a concern of land managers is whether…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES