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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Barnwell, Rodman, Koltun
The Anchorage Wildfire Exposure Model (AFEM) is the result of a phased Municipality Anchorage, Alaska (MOA) four-year wildfire risk assessment modeling process. The AFEM and associated projects arose out of a multi-agency effort to mitigate and respond to wildfire threats in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carmona-Moreno, Belward, Malingreau, Hartley, Garcia-Alegre, Antonovski, Buchshtaber, Pivovarov
Daily global observations from the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometers on the series of meteorological satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration between 1982 and 1999 were used to generate a new weekly global burnt surface product at a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson, Betz
This study focuses on the broad topic of public values, attitudes, and behaviors toward wildfire. More specifically, this study is intended to contribute to development of a comprehensive understanding of public values, attitudes and behaviors and to understanding public…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Guches, Heppler, Lentz, Lococo, MacGregor, Plattes, Shetler, Simos, Strohmeier, Wordell
A critical operational need exists for dispatch coordinators, fire managers and agency administrators to determine preparedness levels’ on a national, multi-agency basis. The preparedness planning processes now in place resulted from mandates and direction following the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Brunson, Stankey, Starkey
Interdisciplinary research is essential to developing scientifically sound and publicly acceptable solutions to wildland fuel problems on federal lands across the United States. Currently, numerous fuel reduction strategies and public outreach activities are underway on federal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Fleming
When this project was proposed, there were no good mapping tools to relate information collected on field inventory plots with remotely sensed imagery, a technique that was needed in order to produce useful wildland fuel data. The project was envisioned to develop and test an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fried, Winter, Vogt
A conceptual model of how people living at the wildland-urban interface evaluate acceptability of three fuel management approaches (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, and enforcement of defensible space ordinances) was developed from focus group interviews, and a set of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sinclair, Lyon
Diseases caused by fungi - Diseases caused by Oomycota - Bacterial diseases - Viral diseases - Diseases caused by nematodes - Plant-pathogenic algae and plants - Declines, environmental damage, and unexplained growth abnormalities - Restoration of sapwood and bark after injury…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hardy, Hilbruner, Vanderlinden, Vihnanek, Wade, Weise, Wooster
The primary objective of this project is: To continue the development of the natural fuels photo series to include a maximum of 10 additional fuel types not covered by previous projects. The goals of this objective are to: (1) complete an assessment of the literature and the…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hiers
Knowing the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics across a landscape is becoming increasingly important to fire managers as new fuel and fire management decision support systems come on line, Often, few fuel characteristic data are available to the extent, or…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Agee, Decker
There is relatively little scientific understanding of mixed severity fire regimes, compared to low severity fire regimes. However, mixed severity regimes widespread in the United States, and ecology and fuel treatments must be considered in the current manadate to accelerate…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Scott
The project has four general objectives: link two JFSP-funded studies, take advantage of a unique opportunity to use inventory data and stand treatments that have already been funded to enrich our study of canopy fuels, add forest types and conditions to the canopy fuels photo…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Jakes
This Joint Fire Science Program proposal seeks to characterize and compare different collaborative planning efforts for community protection and ecosystem restoration related to wildfire, and to determine key elements of collaborative success (Task 2 of AFP, 2003-1). There is a…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Extensive bibliographic list of references on Alaska wildfire from the Geophysical Institute.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ansley, Rasmussen
Junipers (Juniperus spp.) are native woody shrubs that have expanded beyond their normal historical ranges in the western and southwestern United States since the late 1800s. Most ecologists and resource managers agree that juniper has become a deleterious native invasive plant…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilmking, Juday
The northern treeline is generally limited by available warmth. However, in recent years, more and more studies have identified drought stress as an additional limiting factor for tree growth in northern boreal forests and at treelines. Three growth responses to warming have…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Verbyla
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Leaf Area Index (LAI) Product (MOD15A2) was evaluated for the growing seasons of 2000 through 2004 in Alaska. The LAI estimate may be affected by three factors not directly related to canopy leaf area: snow melt, cloud…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sorbel, Barnes
From introduction: 'Wildland fire is a powerful force of change across the landscape of Alaska. During the 2004 summer, record high temperatures and low precipitation resulted in the largest fire season in the state's recorded history, with more than six million acres burned…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Solomon, Medaglia, Adamo, Dietrich, Mugnai, Ceipidor
The authors present a brief description of a 1.5-dimensional thunderstorm model with a lightning parameterization that utilizes an explicit microphysical scheme to model lightning-producing clouds. The main intent of this work is to describe the basic microphysical and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smithwick, Turner, Mack, Chapin
Severe, stand-replacing fires affect large areas of northern temperate and boreal forests, potentially modifying ecosystem function for decades after their occurrence. Because these fires occur over large extents, and in areas where plant production is limited by nitrogen (N)…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smithwick, Mack, Turner, Chapin, Zhu, Balser
We evaluated spatial patterns of soil N and C mineralization, microbial community composition (phospholipid fatty acids), and local site characteristics (plant/forest floor cover, soil pH, soil %C and %N) in a 0.25-ha burned black spruce forest stand in interior Alaska. Results…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slinkina, Pavlichenko, Miskiv, Sukhinin
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simon, Schwab
To assess the differences between forest management and natural disturbance, we retrospectively compared crown cover of woody plant species between burned and clearcut sites after 5, 14, and 27 years of succession. All 16 sites had been dominated by black spruce (Picea mariana)…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stanturf, Fowler, Reitz, Finley, Neznek, Araman
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES