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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stahl, Andrus, Hicke, Hudak, Bright, Meddens
Remote sensing is widely used to detect forest disturbances (e.g., wildfires, harvest, or outbreaks of pathogens or insects) over spatiotemporal scales that are infeasible to capture with field surveys. To understand forest ecosystem dynamics and the ecological role of human and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ott, Kilkenny, Jain
Background: The risk of destructive wildfire on fire-prone landscapes with excessive fuel buildup has prompted the use of fuel reduction treatments to protect valued resources from wildfire damage. The question of how to maximize the effectiveness of fuel reduction treatments at…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sathishkumar, Cho, Subramanian, Naren
Background: Forests are an essential natural resource to humankind, providing a myriad of direct and indirect benefits. Natural disasters like forest fires have a major impact on global warming and the continued existence of life on Earth. Automatic identification of forest…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gao, Schwilk
In ecosystems where trees and grasses coexist, some grass species are found only in open habitats and others persist under trees. The persistence of shade intolerant grasses in ecosystems such as open woodlands and savannas depends on recurrent fires to open the tree canopy.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickman, Jonko, Linn, Altintas, Atchley, Bär, Collins, Dupuy, Gallagher, Hiers, Hoffman, Hood, Hurteau, Jolly, Josephson, Loudermilk, Ma, Michaletz, Nolan, O'Brien, Parsons, Feltrin, Pimont, de Dios, Restaino, Robbins, Sartor, Schultz-Fellenz, Serbin, Sevanto, Shuman, Sieg, Skowronski, Weise, Wright, Xu, Yebra, Younes
Wildfires are a global crisis, but current fire models fail to capture vegetation response to changing climate. With drought and elevated temperature increasing the importance of vegetation dynamics to fire behavior, and the advent of next generation models capable of capturing…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Lovreglio, Kuligowski, Cova, Nilsson, Zhao
To develop effective wildfire evacuation plans, it is crucial to study evacuation decision-making and identify the factors affecting individuals’ choices. Statistic models (e.g., logistic regression) are widely used in the literature to predict household evacuation decisions,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chatzopoulos-Vouzoglanis, Reinke, Soto-Berelov, Jones
Geostationary and polar-orbiting remote sensors have different opportunities to observe wildfires. While polar-orbiting sensors have been favoured in wildfire observations, geostationary sensors offer a higher observation frequency. Here, we assess the utility of the Himawari-8…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Khan
Wildfires kill and injure people, destroy residences, pollute the air, and cause economic loss. In this paper, a low-power Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensor network is developed, which automatically detects fires in forests and sends the location to a central monitoring…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Makowski
In order to formulate effective fire-mitigation policies, it is important to understand the spatial and temporal distribution of different types of wildfires and to be able to predict their occurrence taking the main influencing factors into account. The objective of this short…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Warneke, Schwarz, Dibb, Kalashnikova, Frost, Al-Saadi, Brown, Brewer, Soja, Seidel, Washenfelder, Wiggins, Moore, Anderson, Jordan, Yacovitch, Herndon, Liu, Kuwayama, Jaffe, Johnston, Selimovic, Yokelson, Giles, Holben, Goloub, Popovici, Trainer, Kumar, Pierce, Fahey, Roberts, Gargulinski, Peterson, Ye, Thapa, Saide, Fite, Holmes, Wang, Coggon, Decker, Stockwell, Xu, Gkatzelis, Aikin, Lefer, Kaspari, Griffin, Zeng, Weber, Hastings, Chai, Wolfe, Hanisco, Liao, Campuzano-Jost, Guo, Jimenez, Crawford
The NOAA/NASA FIREX-AQ (Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality) experiment was a multi-agency, inter-disciplinary research effort to: (1) obtain detailed measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions from wildfires and prescribed fires using aircraft…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crowley, Stockdale, Johnston, Wulder, Liu, McCarty, Rieb, Cardille, White
Fire seasons have become increasingly variable and extreme due to changing climatological, ecological, and social conditions. Earth observation data are critical for monitoring fires and their impacts. Herein, we present a whole-system framework for identifying and synthesizing…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bastit, Brunette, Montagné-Huck
Natural disturbances are paramount in the development of ecosystems but may jeopardise the provision of forest ecosystem services. Climate change exacerbates this threat and favours interactions between disturbances. Our objective was thus to capture this dimension of multiple…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reddy, Sarika
We identified hot spots trends in global vegetation fires based on 10-year long MODIS fire products. Additionally, we analyzed the occurrence of fire hot spots across climate zones, global land cover and global biodiversity hot spots. Fire hot spot zones were delineated by…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engström, Abbaszadeh, Keellings, Deb, Moradkhani
This study seeks to use machine learning to investigate the role of meteorological and climate variables on wildfire occurrence in the Arctic and the global tropical forests biomes. Using monthly fire counts observed by the MODIS satellites in combination with temperature and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elhami-Khorasani
Destructive wildfires are now a real threat in regions across the country and beyond what was once considered as the fire season, examples of which are the 2016 Gatlinburg Fire in the Southeast and the 2021 Marshall Fire in late December. Existing wildfire risk assessment…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Margolis, Guiterman
A recent collaboration by ~90 tree-ring and fire-scar scientists has resulted in the publication of the newly compiled North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network (NAFSN), which contains 2,562 sites, > 37,000 fire-scarred trees, and covers large parts of North America. In this…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Multi-UAV planning for cooperative wildfire coverage and tracking with quality-of-service guarantees
In recent years, teams of robot and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been commissioned by researchers to enable accurate, online wildfire coverage and tracking. While the majority of prior work focuses on the coordination and control of such multi-robot systems, to date,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Short, Finney
While previously disputed as a plausible ignition source, civilian firearms use has emerged as a wildfire cause of concern in the United States (US). The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) included it as a newly recognized fire cause in the wildfire-reporting data…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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 multistate regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Makowiecki
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
In-situ measurements of combustion systems are challenging due to high temperatures, rapidly varying spatial properties, and limited physical and optical access. In biomass combustion these challenges are further…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Grabinski, Smith
In 2019, the Shovel Creek Fire grew rapidly and threatened nearby neighborhoods north of Fairbanks. The fire was started by lighting on June 21. After 39 days of burning, and $25 million spent on suppression the fire was put out and no homes or lives were lost.
The resulting…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nakata, Sano, Mukai, Kokhanovsky
The severity of wildfires is increasing globally. In this study, we used data from the Global Change Observation Mission-Climate/Second-generation Global Imager (GCOM-C/SGLI) to characterize the biomass burning aerosols that are generated by large-scale wildfires. We used data…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sethuraman, Tadkapally, Mohanty, Subramanian
The rise of global temperatures, over the past few decades, has disrupted the usual balance of nature. As a result of increasing temperatures, wildfires have destroyed millions of acres of land, thousands of structures, and homes. The pollution and toxic gases produced by the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES