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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Beyers, Pyke, Wirth
The General Accounting Office has identified a need for better information on the effectiveness of post-fire emergency stabilization and rehabilitation methods used by the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Interior (DOI) agencies. Since reviews were published on treatment…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Chung, Lamb, Strand, Vaughan
Fires are a major source of gaseous and particulate pollutant, including black carbon (BC). In combination with organic carbon (OC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), BC from fire emissions causes air quality degradation. BC is also increasingly…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Abatzoglou, Potter, Steel, Stocks
Mega-fire events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts to cities and towns downwind. The extensive 2010 fires in western Russia are only the most recent…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Bothwell, Drury, Wheeler
Fire weather forecasters, fire planners, and decision makers do not have easy access to information needed to verify the accuracy of, or to communicate the level of confidence in, fire weather forecasts and the fire prediction products that depend on fire weather forecasts. In…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parks
This proposal addresses JFSP announcement FA-RFA-12-0001, task statement #3 'Fuel treatment effectiveness.' The proposed project will quantify the effectiveness of wildland fire as a fuel treatment in terms of its ability to limit the occurrence, extent, and burn severity (i.e.…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Seielstad, Fletcher
This project is developing methods to spatially represent shrub fuel matrices of chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum Hook. & Arn.) and sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) using laser scanning, simulating fire propagation through them, and validating simulations against…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kielland, Euskirchen
Wildfire is the most frequent ecological disturbance in the boreal forest and recent studies have documented an increase in the frequency and severity of wildfires in interior Alaska under a changing climate. Disturbance-generated landscape heterogeneity, such as fire, can…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Benscoter, Corace, Kane
The goals of the proposed research are to develop fire management and modeling tools to predict particulate carbon production and black carbon (BC) conversion rates during combustion of organic peat soils common to boreal forested and non-forested ecosystems of the Great Lakes…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Fuel treatments to reduce wildfire behavior and severity are major concerns for fire and forest managers throughout the United States. To test treatment effects and alternatives, managers rely on simulation models, such as Behave, the Fire Area Simulator, and the Fire and Fuels…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Brown
The proposed work will assess the degree of improvement provided by spot and incident fire weather forecasts as compared to National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) forecasts and provide a methodology to verify fire weather forecasts nationally. The expected benefits from this…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hodges, Finley, Luloff
Fire prevention and fuel treatments have enjoyed renewed and enhanced support. However, the use of fire prevention measures for enhancing ecosystem services has not found purchase in either the publics acceptance or involvement in this new role of and for fire. This is…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Brenkert-Smith, Curtis, Sharp
Fire and fuels reduction are completed within a complex context. This is particularly true at the interface of public and private lands where management is often closely scrutinized by stakeholders. In these settings, private and public land managers typically seek to achieve…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wood, Kreitler
This project will combine methods from multiple disciplines to provide new applied research for timely and policy relevant wildland fire and natural resource management issues. We propose research to address the tension between allocating fuel treatments to reduce risk to values…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
This goal of this project is to write two complementary book-length studies, each of approximately 130,000-150,000 words that would survey and analyze the past 50 years of American fire history. One text, Between Two Fires: A Fire History of America, 1960-2010, would relate the…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mann
As part of my dissertation, I propose to study the interactions between climate change, wildland fires, and post-fire permafrost thaw over the last 1,000 years (permafrost; permanently frozen ground occurring in boreal regions). The last 1,000 years has seen sizable climate…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) is a non-profit, professional association representing members of the global wildland fire community. The mission of the Association is to facilitate communication and provide leadership for the wildland fire community. …
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) uses conferences as a primary method of delivering the latest science concerning fire ecology and fire effects to land managers. Regional-level conferences are conducted two years out of three with each regional conference focusing on a…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brooks, Bunting, Fuhlendorf, Miller
It has been over 20 years since the last major book on the ecology and management of fire was published that contained extensive information from non-forested ecosystems across western North America (Wright and Bailey 1982). During subsequent years there have been notable books…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Land managers need a tool to accurately and efficiently estimate the biomass of hand- and machine-piled fuels as pile burning becomes a more widespread and common method for treating high fire hazard areas with heavy surface fuels. This proposal is to incorporate the calculation…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Elliot, MacDonald
Legal challenges have delayed numerous postfire salvage logging sales, which often results in lost economic value of the burned timber and unrecouped legal expenses. The scientific literature shed little light on the additive effect of salvage logging operations on postfire…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Achtemeier, Goodrick, Jackson, Qu
Regional smoke and air quality models require plume rise information (the height of smoke plumes and vertical distribution of smoke particles) as initial and boundary conditions in modeling point-source emissions like wildland fires. A unrealistic specification of plume rise…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinnings) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Werth, Clements, Finney, Goodrick, Potter
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) definition of extreme fire behavior (EFB) indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread,…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sommers, Coloff, Conard
The proposed research will deliver a synthesis of Fire History information in relation to Climate Change (FHCC), which will include guidance for managers on how this information can be considered in making decisions. The synthesis and supporting literature knowledge base will be…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Barnes, Camp, Cronan, McKenzie
The Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan recognizes the critical role of wildland fires in maintaining the ecological integrity of boreal forests. Identifying and maintaining natural fire regimes is an important component of fire management and is a wise undertaking from both…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES