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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Waldron, Ebbeck
A quantitative approach was adopted to explore facets of mindfulness and self-compassion in relation to their ability to predict crewmembers' perceptions of their supervisors' leadership capabilities. The sample comprised 43 wildland fire crews consisting of their primary…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Paveglio, Brenkert-Smith, Hall, Smith
There is no uniform means for assessing social impact from wildland fires beyond statistics such as home loss, suppression costs and the number of residents evacuated. In this paper we argue for and provide a more comprehensive set of considerations for gauging social impact…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Christianson
This article reviews social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in Australia, Canada and the United States after the year 2000 and explores future research needs in the field. In these three countries, social science research exploring contemporary Indigenous…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Roos, Bowman, Balch, Artaxo, Bond, Cochrane, D'Antonio, DeFries, Mack, Johnston, Krawchuk, Kull, Moritz, Pyne, Scott, Swetnam
In our 2011 synthesis (Bowman et al., Journal of Biogeography, 2011, 38, 2223-2236), we argued for a holistic approach to human issues in fire science that we term 'pyrogeography'. Coughlan & Petty (Journal of Biogeography, 2013, 40, 1010-1012) critiqued our paper on the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Olsen, McCaffrey, McFarlane, Christianson, McGee, Curtis, Sharp
This planning guide is the outcome of an international collaboration of researchers and practitioners/field managers working in communities at risk of wildfire in three countries. Initially, the team of social scientists from Australia, Canada, and the United States utilized the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This volume offers a scientific assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on forest resources in the United States. Derived from a report that provides technical input to the 2013 U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the book serves…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Using fire and fuels management as an example, this two pronged webinar will cover current best practices for science delivery and report the results of a study designed to improve future science delivery by understanding potential science users. A survey of 500 fire managers…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Waldron, Schary, Cardinal
The aims of this research were to develop and test a scale used to measure leadership in wildland firefighting using two samples of USA wildland firefighters. The first collection of data occurred in the spring and early summer and consisted of an online survey. The second set…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Diaz
As fire management agencies seek to implement more flexible fire management strategies, local understanding and support for these strategies become increasingly important. One issue associated with implementing more flexible fire management strategies is educating local…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rebennack, Santi, Kaffine, Staley
In this study we developed methods to comprehensively analyze the economic risk of post-wildfire debris flows and proof of concept models to optimally allocate resources towards various mitigation options. These methods utilize previously existing post-fire hazard assessment…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harbour
What is doctrine? Eight years after the Forest Service adopted this thing we call 'doctrine,' I still hear people say that they don't understand it. Definition: Doctrine is the body of principles that sets the moral or ethical standard and forms the foundation of judgment, mode…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE) is a national nonprofit organization promoting safe, ethical, ecological wildland fire management. FUSEE members include current, former, and retired wildland firefighters; fire managers, scientists, and educators;…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
Much of the language used by the wildland fire community and news media has implicit anti-fire bias that perpetuates anti-fire attitudes. In order to promote greater fire use for ecological fire management, new words need to be created; existing words should be redefined; and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Asah
Researchers exploring the challenges of public intolerance for forest fires in the US predominantly focus on non-managers. Forest fire managers have unique perspectives on public perceptions and attitudes towards forest fires because managers frequently interact directly with…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grabner, Stambaugh, Marschall, Abadir
The Joint Fire Science Program established 14 regional fire science knowledge exchange consortia to improve the delivery of fire science information and communication among fire managers and researchers. Consortia were developed regionally to ensure that fire science information…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Godwin, Ferrarese
Student fire groups, collegiate-level groups explicitly organized around topics related to wildland fire, are widespread across the country. Student fire groups are at times participants in wildland fire-oriented experiential education but are often limited by access to training…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Toman, Olsen
Wildland fires have increased in extent and severity in recent years. At the same time, the number of people living in harm's way has increased dramatically. This has not only resulted in more people and private property potentially at risk from future fire events, but also an…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kline, Ager, Fischer
The need for improved methods for managing wildfire risk is becoming apparent as uncharacteristically large wildfires in the western US and elsewhere exceed government capacities for their control and suppression. We propose a coupled biophysical-social framework to managing…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Endsley, McCarty
New media are increasingly used to capture ambient geographic information in multiple contexts, from mapping the evolution of the Tahrir Square protests in Egypt to predicting influenza outbreaks. The social media platform Twitter is popular for these applications; it boasts…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Olsen
People living in forested landscapes around the world have been affected by recent fires with millions of acres burned, thousands of homes and structures damaged, and hundreds of lives lost. How people and communities prepare for and respond to fire is greatly influenced by…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Contained in this issue: Why should you be nice?, "Human Topography": A deeper look into the social environment that exists on fires, and Do you have an AEDin your rig?
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olsen, Spies, Shindler
This report is a deliverable to share the impact of travel funding awarded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in support of a workshop focused on fire-prone coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). From August 4th-7th 2014, twenty-six scientists convened in Bend, Oregon…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Brenkert-Smith, Curtis, Rogers, Stidham
Natural resource management in fire-prone systems is increasingly complex. Private and public land managers may seek to achieve a range of outcomes from natural landscapes. In some cases these outcomes, as well as the management approaches used to create them, may be contested…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
This article builds on findings from a synthesis of fire social science research that was published from 2000 to 2010 to understand what has been learned more recently about public response to wildfires. Two notable changes were immediately noted in the fairly substantial number…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES