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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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McCaffrey, Rappold, Hano, Navarro, Phillips, Prestemon, Vaidyanathan, Abt, Reid, Sacks
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the actual fire, smoke can end up…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service, an Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, provides what is arguably the most valuable forest resource dataset in the United States. These data are the basis for numerous inquiries across a wide range…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Melvin
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils (CPFC) worked collaboratively to produce the 2021 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report. Compiled triennially since 2012, these reports remain unique among prescribed fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Perez-Ramirez, Graziani, Santoni, Ziegler, Hoffman, Mell, Tihay-Felicelli, Ganteaume
Research applications of three-dimensional, time-dependent, computational fluid dynamics fire behavior models, such as the Wildland Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) [1,2], FIRETEC [3], or FIRESTAR3D [4], are progressively increasing. This is due to advances in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ferner
Natural hazards, such as fires and floods, are a fact of life. Swift responses and proactive planning can mitigate the severity of a disaster and lessen the potential for cascading impacts. Fire planners need to be able to quickly identify areas of high risk and vulnerability…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ferner
The growing frequency of wildland fire events across the globe is creating an ever-increasing strain on communities and the resources which are necessary to manage those events, whether planned or unplanned. ArcGIS can improve situational awareness from the moment of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Graziani, Meerpoel-Pietri, Tihay-Felicelli, Santoni, Morandini, Perez-Ramirez, Mell
Among the vectors of fire propagation towards buildings in the WUI, ornamental hedges have been identified as one of the main elements [1]. In terms of regulations, there is no global consensus on the distances between ornamental plants and buildings. Consequently, it is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fayad, Accary, Sutherland, Meradji, Frangieh, Moinuddin, Morvan, Chatelon, Rossi
Junction fires involve the merging of two linear fire fronts intersecting at a small angle which gives rise to an interaction process with fire-induced convective flows that modify the behavior of both fires and produce very large values of the rate of spread (ROS) of the inner…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bayham, Yoder, Champ, Calkin
Wildfire is a natural phenomenon with substantial economic consequences, and its management is complex, dynamic, and rife with incentive problems. This article reviews the contribution of economics to our understanding of wildfire and highlights remaining knowledge gaps. We…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Pellegrini, Harden, Georgiou, Hemes, Malhotra, Nolan, Jackson
One paradigm in biogeochemistry is that frequent disturbance tends to deplete carbon (C) in soil organic matter (SOM) by reducing biomass inputs and promoting losses. However, disturbance by fire has challenged this paradigm because soil C responses to frequent and/or intense…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Robillard
[from the text] From the early 1990s through 2017, state and federal agencies installed about 15 miles of fuel break that protected the southern border of Alaska’s Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) from catastrophic wildfire. It wasn’t easy work. It demanded years of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Grabinski
[from the text] June 2022 in Alaska was a remarkable month for wildfire. An incredible 1.84 million acres burned, nearly tying the all-time record for June. Notably, 1.2 million acres burned in southwestern Alaska, more than doubling the area burned in that region since the…
Year: 2022
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

Ascoli, Moris, Sil, Fernandes
Rothermel-based decision support systems are widespread for fire behavior prediction and wildfire risk analysis. The majority of these systems simulate the rate of spread (Ros) of a surface fire, and linked models (e.g., MTT), using as the input a set of Standard Fuel Model (SFM…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Buma
Temperatures in high-latitude environments are rising quickly, leading to increases in the frequency and intensity of wildfires. This trend is especially important in the boreal where fire return intervals have shrunk from between 100-300 years to often less than 20 years.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System is EPA’s premier modeling system for studying air pollution from global to local scales. For nearly a quarter century, EPA and states have used CMAQ—a powerful computational tool for translating fundamental atmospheric…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ambrosia, Green, Falkowski, Lefer, Seablom, Kopardekar, Grindle
In 2021, the U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) initiated new programmatic elements within the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) focused on supporting wildland fire science and applications…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stonesifer, Calkin, O'Connor
Aircraft provide critically important capacity for a wide range of missions for wildland firefighters, but their use brings inherent risks. Aviation-related fatalities account for 30% of federal and contractor firefighter deaths in the United States over the last ten years.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Thompson, Martell, Belval
Fire is a natural ecosystem process that helps maintain and revitalize healthy landscapes, but wildfires can pose significant threats to public and firefighter safety, property, water and air quality, and other values. Finding an appropriate balance of managing for the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bourgeau-Chavez, Graham, Vander Bilt, Battaglia
Climate warming and changing fire regimes in the North American boreal zone have the capacity to alter the hydrology and ecology of the landscape with long term consequences to peatland ecosystems and their traditional role as carbon sinks. It is important to understand how…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Calkin, O'Connor
Over the last 5 years, researchers at the US Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station have worked with land managers to develop collaborative pre-season wildfire response and fuel management plans using the Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) process. Concurrently…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Thompson, MacGregor, Calkin, Iverson
The COVID-19 global pandemic created dramatic change in nearly every facet of life, including how the Forest Service worked to fulfill its mission despite facing multiple unknowns fraught with risks. Preparing for and responding to wildland fire while reducing the likelihood…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Haas, Prentice, Harrison
Fire is an important influence on the global patterns of vegetation structure and composition. Wildfire is included as a distinct process in many dynamic global vegetation models but limited current understanding of fire regimes restricts these models' ability to reproduce more…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hampton, Lin, Basu
Forested watersheds supply over two thirds of the world's drinking water. The last decade has seen an increase in the frequency and intensity of wildfires that is threatening these source watersheds, and necessitating more expensive water treatment to address degrading water…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Rabung, Toman
Despite a reputation for destruction, militaries across the world may maintain important biological natural resources that are key to achieving global biodiversity conservation goals. On lands used by militaries for soldier training, numerous rare and endangered species can be…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES