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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keane
There will be dramatic changes to most landscapes of the western US over the next century, such as shifts in vegetation communities, changes in fire regimes, and increases in smoke emissions. These changes will result from complex interactions among vegetation, fuels, fire, and…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The IMAGINE Prescribed Fire Prioritization Model: A Logistical and Ecological Approach to Management
IMAGINE aims to solve the issue of technology overload confronting prescribed fire managers today. As the demand to prescribe burn more acres increase, so do the demands on fire management officers (FMOs) to prioritize treatment areas. Prescribed fires accomplish multiple…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Genet
Scientists from Universities in Fairbanks, Florida, and Saskatchewan met with fire managers and resource specialists to share early results from a study called Identifying Indicators of State Change and Forecasting Future Vulnerability in Alaskan Boreal Ecosystems. This project…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mack
Scientists from Universities in Fairbanks, Florida, and Saskatchewan met with fire managers and resource specialists to share early results from a study called Identifying Indicators of State Change and Forecasting Future Vulnerability in Alaskan Boreal Ecosystems. This project…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mell
This webinar gives an overview of the current state, limitations, and future developments in wildland and wildland-urban interface fire behavior models.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
Presentation by Casey Sullivan, Meteorologist and Forecaster with the National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville office. Recorded at the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying forest fuel consumption and emissions. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 8B) covers smoke production,…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying forest fuel consumption and emissions. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 8A) covers fire fuels, consumption and…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship, Provencher
This webinar presents the latest updates and uses for Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Program (LANDFIRE) data in the Great Basin. LANDFIRE developed quantitative vegetation models and comprehensive ecological descriptions for all major vegetation systems in…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Burgard, Barnes, St. Clair
This webinar is targeted towards those doing fire analyses in WFDSS (Wildland Fire Decision Support System--http://wfdss.usgs.gov/) or those with an interest in doing them in the future. Mitch Burgard, Wildland Fire Management RD & A, Rocky Mountain Research Station,…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Young
Worldwide fire regimes are expected to shift as a result of climate change. Predicting when, where, and how these fire regime changes will occur requires an understanding of the climatic controls of fire at differing temporal and spatial scales. This research uses past climate-…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Passek, Alden, Strader
The Weather Information Management System (WIMS) is a comprehensive system that helps agencies manage weather information. It also hosts the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS), incorporating both the 1978 and 1988 fuel models. WIMS provides the data to calculate fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains scanned photos from pivotal experiments conducted by Richard Rothermel and Hal Anderson at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s. The scans document early research that forms the foundation of fire spread and…
Year: 2013
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Yue, Ciais, Luyssaert, Cadule, Harden, Randerson, Bellassen, Wang, Piao, Poulter, Viovy
Stand-replacing fires are the dominant fire type in North American boreal forests. They leave a historical legacy of a mosaic landscape of different aged forest cohorts. This forest age dynamics must be included in vegetation models to accurately quantify the role of fire in the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Genet, McGuire, Barrett, Breen, Euskirchen, Johnstone, Kasischke, Melvin, Bennett, Mack, Rupp, Schuur, Turetsky, Yuan
There is a substantial amount of carbon stored in the permafrost soils of boreal forest ecosystems, where it is currently protected from decomposition. The surface organic horizons insulate the deeper soil from variations in atmospheric temperature. The removal of these…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jafarov, Romanovsky, Genet, McGuire, Marchenko
Fire is an important factor controlling the composition and thickness of the organic layer in the black spruce forest ecosystems of interior Alaska. Fire that burns the organic layer can trigger dramatic changes in the underlying permafrost, leading to accelerated ground thawing…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prichard, Sandberg, Ottmar, Eberhardt, Andreu, Eagle, Swedin
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a software module that records wildland fuel characteristics and calculates potential fire behavior and hazard potentials based on input environmental variables. The FCCS 3.0 is housed within the Integrated Fuels Treatment…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES