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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fearon, Heffernan
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar conducted in partnership with the NWCG Smoke Committee, NC State University, the Desert Research Institute, the National Weather Service, and Montgomery Community College. The webinar features researcher Matthew Fearon of the Desert Research…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
Presentation by Scott Rupp at the Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review, October 14, 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm
Narrated presentation describing the Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program and its capabilities.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Charney
Over the last six decades, many fire scientists have developed and implemented fire weather indices. Their efforts have produced numerous tools designed to assess the potential for meteorological conditions to affect the initiation and evolution of a wildland fire. Some fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nauslar
Fire management utilizes National Weather Service (NWS) spot forecasts to help plan prescribed and wildland fires. Fire management officials request spot forecasts from NWS Weather Forecast Offices (WFO's) to provide detailed guidance as to atmospheric conditions in the vicinity…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Climate change is to blame for many destructive natural phenomena. But Mark Finney, a research forester with the US Forest Service, says that climate change isn't the cause for a seeming increase of fires around the western United States. Finney says that weather, even a dry…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McLoughlin
REDapp is a universal fire behavior calculator developed with financial support from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC), and in-kind support from fire management agencies across Canada. This application is currently in a beta stage of development, with public…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Randi Jandt talked about the evolution of Alaska firefighting practices (field and management)over the past 50 years. We are starting to be aware of the changes in climate and in Alaska forests: is the wildfire "problem" the same one we faced a half-century ago? Have our…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Clements, Lareau
This webinar, presented on January 27, 2015 by Craig Clements and Neil Lareau from the Fire Weather Research Laboratory at San Jose State University, provides a discussion of wind systems in mountainous terrain, modeling fire behavior on slopes, and wind modeling tools.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES