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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rowell
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Understanding fine-scale variability in understory fuels is increasingly important as physics-based fire behavior models are driving needs for higher resolution ata. Describing fuelbeds three dimensionally is…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rollins
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
This video covers 1) The organization of federal fire science; 2) The OSTP subcommittee on disaster reduction; 3) The Joing Fire Science Program and; 4) The Forest Service R&D.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wilderness has played an invaluable role in the development of wildland fire science. In the last fifteen years, since the last state-of-knowledge review, tremendous progress has been made in the development of…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Wells, Pimont, Jolly, Linn, Mell
The STANDFIRE project was funded by the JFSP to develop a prototype modeling system that could link widely available fuels data from FFE-FVS to physics-based fire models, providing an alternative approach for calculating fire behavior at stand scales. The objectives of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bieniek
Peter Bieniek presents at the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Randi Jandt provides a roundup of new science relevant to Alaska's fire managers to the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
York
Alison York summarizes the plans from the NASA Arctic/Boreal Vulnerability Experiment relevant to fire managers. From the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, April 1, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Molina
Allen Molina outlines the plans for getting homeowner input and economic data for the Alaska Fuel Treatment Effectiveness project.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
Lisa Saperstein, chair of the FMAC, provides updates to the Alaska Spring IMT/FMO meeting, March 31, 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader, Thoman
Heidi Strader and Rick Thoman present on the outlook for fire weather in 2016. From the Spring 2016 IMT/FMO meeting, March 31, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thoman, Lader, Mölders
Rick Thoman, Rick Lader, and Nicole Molders presented at the IARC Research Salon Series, May 19, 2016. Rick Thoman, Climate Science and Services Manager, NWS Alaska Region: Seasonal scale forecasting of the atmospheric drivers important to wildfire (0-15:50); Rick Lader, PhD…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wildland fire potential is best described as a combination of available fuels, suitable weather conditions and sources of ignitions and weather is the most spatially and temporally variable of these three…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Butler
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
All wildland firefighters are required to identify a location to which they can retreat in the event that fire conditions threaten their safety. These areas termed safety zones. However it was not until the work…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
Year: 2016
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: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Elliot
Being prepared for an emergency is important. Every year wildfires threaten homes and lives, but danger persists even after the flames are extinguished. Post-fire flooding and erosion (Figure 1) can threaten lives, property, and natural resources. To respond to this threat,…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Bonds, Long
Burning forest canopies when the surface fuels are unavailable to spread has been conceived as a safe way to reduce the hazard of forests susceptible to crown fires (Schroeder and Dakin 2008). In Interior Alaska spruce forests, particularly black spruce, are recognized as a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Connor, Thompson, Rodríguez y Silva
Wildfire is a global phenomenon that plays a vital role in regulating and maintaining many natural and human-influenced ecosystems but that also poses considerable risks to human populations and infrastructure. Fire managers are charged with balancing the short-term protection…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norton-Smith, Lynn, Chief, Cozzetto, Donatuto, Hiza Redsteer, Kruger, Maldonado, Viles, Whyte
A growing body of literature examines the vulnerability, risk, resilience, and adaptation of indigenous peoples to climate change. This synthesis of literature brings together research pertaining to the impacts of climate change on sovereignty, culture, health, and economies…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAllister, Finney
Wood cribs are often used as ignition sources for room fire tests and the well characterized burning rates may also have applications to wildland fires. The burning rate of wildland fuel structures, whether the needle layer on the ground or trees and shrubs themselves, is not…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lindenmayer, Messier, Sato
Many forest ecosystems are thought to be at risk of ecological collapse, which is broadly defined as an abrupt, long-lasting, and widespread change in ecosystem state and dynamics that has major negative impacts on biodiversity and key ecosystem services. However, there is…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKerrow, Dewitz, Long, Nelson, Connot, Smith
In order to provide the land cover user community a summary of the similarities and differences between the 2011 National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) and the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Program Existing Vegetation 2010 Data (LANDFIRE EVT), the two…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gibson, Turetsky, Cottenie, Kane, Houle, Kasischke
Questions: How does fire severity, measured as depth of burn of ground layer fuels, control the regeneration of understorey species across black spruce-dominated stands varying in pre-fire organic layer depths? Are successional shifts from evergreen to deciduous understorey…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Douglas, Rice
The Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) wildland fire program coordinates and provides strategic leadership and oversight that is vital to DOI and the American people. This dynamic program has evolved over the past two decades through its policies, organization, management, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES