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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Era of Megafires

Hessburg
It's no secret that wildfires in the west have been drastically increasing in size and destructive power. But what, if anything, can be done about it? Join world-renown and award-winning USFS research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as he explains how we got here and restores our…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Living (Dangerously) in an Era of Megafires

Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how these changes, coupled with a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Prediction errors in wildland fire situation analyses

Donovan, Noordijk
From the text ... 'Wildfires consume budgets and put the heat on fire managers to justify and control suppression costs. ...We used data from the 2002 fire season to determine how WFSA-predicted outcomes compared to actual outcomes. ...Fire managers often underestimated the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Incorporating human and natural adaptations in assessing climate change impacts on wildfire occurrence

Gan
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Impacts of climate change on diversity in forested ecosystems: some examples

Gray
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Is an unprecedented dothistroma needle blight epidemic related to climate change?

Woods, Coates, Hamann
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Soil catena sequences and fire ecology in the boreal forest of Alaska

Ping, Michaelson, Packee, Stiles, Swanson, Yoshikawa
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The adaptive capacity of forest management to changing fire regimes in the boreal forest of Quebec

Le Goff, Leduc, Bergeron, Flannigan
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Habitat distribution of birds wintering in Central Andros, the Bahamas: implications for management

Currie, Wunderle, Ewert, Anderson, Davis, Turner
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Integrated research to improve fire management decisionmaking

MacGregor, Haynes
The emergence of large fires of long duration (also known as siege fires) with their inherently high costs has raised numerous questions about the opportunities for cost containment. Cost reviews from the 2003 fire season have revealed how additional knowledge created through…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rekindling native fires

Levy
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The role of released moisture in the atmospheric dynamics associated with wildland fires

Potter
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seasonal fire danger forecasts for the USA

Roads, Fujioka, Chen, Burgan
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center has been making experimental, near-real-time, weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts for the past 5 years. US fire danger forecasts and validations are based on standard indices from the National Fire Danger Rating System (…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and forest meteorology -- Preface

Brown, Ferguson, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sensitivity of tree growth to the atmospheric vertical profile in the Boreal Plains of Manitoba, Canada

Girardin, Tardif
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation of historical and current fire regimes in central Saskatchewan for annual allowable cut determination

Li, Barclay, Lui, Campbell, Carlson
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting fire-regime responses to climate change over the past millennium: implications of paleodata-model comparisons for future projections of fire activity - poster

Young, Higuera, Abatzoglou, Duffy, Hu
Statistical models using historical observations are a critical tool for anticipating future fire regimes. A key uncertainty with these models is the ability to project outside the range of historical observations, often done when making future projections. Here we investigate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Predicting ecosystem resilience to fire from tree ring analysis in black spruce forests

Walker, Mack, Johnstone
Climate change has increased the occurrence, severity, and impact of disturbances on forested ecosystems worldwide, resulting in a need to identify factors that contribute to an ecosystem's resilience or capacity to recover from disturbance. Forest resilience to disturbance may…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Where you stand depends on where you sit: qualitative inquiry into notions of fire adaptation

Brenkert-Smith, Meldrum, Champ, Barth
Wildfire and the threat it poses to society represents an example of the complex, dynamic relationship between social and ecological systems. Increasingly, wildfire adaptation is posited as a pathway to shift the approach to fire from a suppression paradigm that seeks to control…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland firefighter deaths in the United States: a comparison of existing surveillance systems

Butler, Marsh, Domitrovich, Helmkamp
Wildland fire fighting is a high-risk occupation requiring considerable physical and psychological demands. Multiple agencies publish fatality summaries for wildland firefighters; however, the reported number and types vary. At least five different surveillance systems capture…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

Balch, Bradley, Abatzoglou, Nagy, Fusco, Mahood
The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in wildfire activity, the direct role of people in increasing wildfire activity has been largely…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Regional atmospheric pollution and transboundary air quality management

Bergin, West, Keating, Russell
The regional nature of several important air pollutants, which include acids, ozone, particulate matter, mercury, and persistent organics (POPs), is widely recognized by researchers and decision makers. Such pollutants are transported regionally over scales from about 100 to a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Climate and Fire Scenario Building for Alaska Fire and Land Managers

Duffy
Presentation by Paul Duffy at the 2017 Spring Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Fire in Alaska: An Operational Perspective

Strader, Jandt, Jenkins, York, Ziel
Presented by Heidi Strader, Randi Jandt, Jenn Jenkins, Alison York and Robert Ziel. Optional webinar for AFSC remote sensing workshop presenters to introduce the Alaska fire management context. We will summarize the natural history of fire in the state, explain how fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

An Investigation of Impacts of Large Wildland Fires on Land Surface Properties in Alaska by Combining Satellite Remote Sensing and In-situ Measurements

Liu
Wildland fire is a natural phenomenon and influential force of the Earth’s climate system. During the past decades, increased large wildland fire activities, longer wildland fire durations, and longer wildfire seasons in the United States have received more and more attention…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES