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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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This Plan (AIWFMP 2016) updates and supersedes the Alaska Interagency Wildland Fire Management Plan, as amended 2010 (AIWFMP 2010). It provides operational detail for the Alaska Master Cooperative Wildland Fire Management and Stafford Act Response Agreement (Alaska Master…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans, Megown
During FY15 staff from the Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) developed an online survey to assess Forest Service land cover disturbance information needs. There were 172 respondents to the survey across a wide and representative spectrum of potential Landscape Change…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brusentsev, Vroman
This report examines recent wildfires in the United States, summarizing their frequency, trends, and costs. It documents the increase in large wildfires and shows their concentration in western states. Cost and budget issues linked to wildfires are also examined. The report…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar by TNC LANDFIRE Program lead Jim Smith, Ph.D. All ecosystems are dynamic and changing due to growth, succession and disturbances. Modeling large landscapes in the United States requires the collective knowledge of experienced and knowledgeable…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Steelman
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar hosted by NC State University and presented by Toddi Steelman, Executive Director and Professor at the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan. This 1-hour webinar discussed US fire policy as a complex problem…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Stephen Pyne, wildland fire historian, scholar and author with Arizona State University. This thought-provoking 1-hour webinar by Steve Pyne explored the complex histories and relationships between societies and various combustion…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski
Shawn Urbanski, Research Scientist with the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station presented the latest research in emission factors. Emission factors are a key component to estimating emissions of trace gases and particulates from fire. Shawn discussed how emission…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Adetona, Reinhardt, Domitrovich, Broyles, Adetona, Kleinman, Ottmar, Naeher
Each year, the general public and wildland firefighters in the US are exposed to smoke from wildland fires. As part of an effort to characterize health risks of breathing this smoke, a review of the literature was conducted using five major databases, including PubMed and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Aplet
Wilderness has played an invaluable role in the development of wildland fire science. Since Agee's review of the subject 15 years ago, tremendous progress has been made in the development of models and data, in understanding the complexity of wildland fire as a landscape process…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Natural Range of Variation is a description of the conditions of an ecosystem over space and time.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Incident Command System (ICS) was developed to help agencies (federal, state, and local) manage wildland fires.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy is a collaboration effort involving federal and state agencies, local governments, tribes, and interested stakeholders throughout the nation to improve coordination across the various jurisdictions for managing wildfire.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
The first 100 days of 2016 were record warm for many spots around Alaska, continuing a pattern of warmth that has gripped the state over much of the last three years and looks to continue for at least the next few months. The prolonged period of decidedly unusual balminess — the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
St. Clair
At what thresholds do old burn scars become available to burn again? Exploring the idea that satellite heat detects can be correlated to the Fire Weather Indices and large fire perimeters. Of 54,673 VIIRS heat detects in 2015, 11% were in areas burned between 1975 and 2014. What…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Summary: Why does the feathermoss fuel bed fit so poorly into fire behavior and fire danger rating systems? What do we know or think we know? This presentation will explore the feathermoss fuel bed in the context of poikilohydry in bryophytes, hydro-/cryology- , FFMC, saturation…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hoecker
Over the past two decades the paleoecological research community has amassed dozens of sediment cores from across Alaska. These long-term records contain a range of clues about the character of ecosystems and climate that existed deep in the past. Some records extend back as far…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Zimmerman, Mindar, Taber
Risk management is being increasingly promoted as an appropriate method for addressing wildland fire management challenges. However, a lack of a common understanding of risk concepts and terminology is hindering effective application. In response, this General Technical Report…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, MacGregor, Calkin
The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture faces a future of increasing complexity and risk, pressing financial issues, and the inescapable possibility of loss of human life. These issues are perhaps most acute for wildland fire management, the highest risk activity in…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Early spring post-fire snow albedo dynamics in high latitude boreal forests using Landsat-8 OLI data
Taking advantage of the improved radiometric resolution of Landsat-8 OLI which, unlike previous Landsat sensors, does not saturate over snow, the progress of fire recovery progress at the landscape scale (< 100 m) is examined. High quality Landsat-8 albedo retrievals can now…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ludwig
MS Thesis Defense, May 3, 2016. University of Alaska Fairbanks
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rossa, Veloso, Fernandes
Observational evidence of an effect of live vegetation moisture content on fire spread rate remains extremely scarce despite the significance of fire activity in fuel complexes dominated by live components. This study assessed the moisture content effect of quasi-live fuels on…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vejmelka, Kochanski, Mandel
Fuel moisture has a major influence on the behaviour of wildland fires and is an important underlying factor in fire risk assessment. We propose a method to assimilate dead fuel moisture content (FMC) observations from remote automated weather stations (RAWS) into a time lag…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Long
LANDFIRE produces a comprehensive, consistent, scientifically based suite of spatial layers and databases for the entire United States and territories. In 2009 the first wall to wall National data set was delivered for the fifty United States. Since this accomplishment,…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Thinning and pruning treatments at the experimental 2009 Nenana Ridge fuel treatment study reduced fire intensity during 2015 wildfire which entered unburned experimental fuel treatments.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ready to tip some sacred cows? This issue’s cover story examines and explores the “Illusion of Control” concept—how the assumption that complete control of our safety in the wildland fire environment is possible might be a significant misconception. In our “One of Our Own”…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES