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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Xiao, Gollner, Oran
Fire whirls are powerful, spinning disasters for people and surroundings when they occur in large urban and wildland fires. Whereas fire whirls have been studied for fire-safety applications, previous research has yet to harness their potential burning efficiency for enhanced…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a plan developed by a community in an area at-risk from wildfire.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woo
Lucia Woo, Yale University, will give a presentation on her wildfire-health research
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Adetona, Reinhardt, Domitrovich, Broyles, Adetona, Kleinman, Ottmar, Naeher
Each year, the general public and wildland firefighters in the US are exposed to smoke from wildland fires. As part of an effort to characterize health risks of breathing this smoke, a review of the literature was conducted using five major databases, including PubMed and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Incident Command System (ICS) was developed to help agencies (federal, state, and local) manage wildland fires.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy is a collaboration effort involving federal and state agencies, local governments, tribes, and interested stakeholders throughout the nation to improve coordination across the various jurisdictions for managing wildfire.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ready to tip some sacred cows? This issue’s cover story examines and explores the “Illusion of Control” concept—how the assumption that complete control of our safety in the wildland fire environment is possible might be a significant misconception. In our “One of Our Own”…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hunter
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Driscoll, Luber
The environmental effects of climate change are likely having negative impacts on the health of the 13.1 million residents of the circumpolar north. In this chapter, we describe an observational epidemiologic study that collected surveillance data on local environmental changes…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES