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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rupp
This discussion included a project update including a basic overview, preliminary results on the efffects of fuel treatments on permafrost and fuel composition, the modeling framework, and products. They hope to simulate wildfire in response to changing fire management options.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stanek
2014 briefing presentation by Lindsay Wichers Stanek. Delivered to the National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Smoke Committee. The presentation describes EPA's next generation air monitoring efforts.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Norman, Hargrove
U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) Research Ecologists Steve Norman and William Hargrove with the SRS Eastern Forests Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) presented a webinar on ForWarn, an online satellite-based change detection tool that maps…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Petrescu
Test beds, such as the Joint Hurricane Test Bed (Miami, FL) and the Hazardous Weather Test Bed (Norman, OK) have been highly effective in meeting unique or pressing science and service challenges for the NWS. NWS Alaska Region leadership has developed plans for a significant…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Archibald
Canada's NWT burned over 7 million acres in 2014. What were the indications (drought codes, forecasts, fuel moisture) to alert managers that they were in for a record-breaking season? How well did pre- and early-season Fuel Moisture Indices reflect the fire risk? What were the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pike
Americans are waking up to the reality of extreme weather events and are beginning to connect the dots to climate disruption. Effectively engaging the public as partners in addressing the challenge requires emphasizing local, current and personally relevant impacts and bridging…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Tim Brown presented a webinar on the new National Climate Assessment (NCA). The NCA summarizes present day and future impacts of climate change on the United States. Observations are showing changes in temperature and precipitation patterns causing societal impacts outside of…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kinder, Hao
Since 2010, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has been coordinating a USDA multi-agency program to conduct an emissions inventory of black carbon from fires and burning in Russia, examine transport of black carbon from these sources to the Arctic, and identify and implement…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kahn
Satellite remote sensing is generally the most practical way to measure aerosol amount and type frequently, over large areas. However, aerosol remote sensing is especially challenging in the polar regions, due to the combination of very bright surface, low sun angle, persistent…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Quinn
Black carbon is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. When BC is deposited on snow and ice, it darkens an otherwise bright surface. The darker surface may enhance the absorption of solar radiation resulting in an acceleration of snow and ice…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Shankar
Smoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke from wildfires in the future may be more intense and widespread, demanding that methods be developed to address its effects on people, ecosystems, and the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Jennifer Barnes, Regional Fire Ecologist for the National Park Service (NPS) in Alaska shared information about fire regime and fire return intervals using plot data and photos from NPS long-term monitoring plots around the state. She shared examples of short fire return…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Polley
We presented a webinar on March 5 by Dr. Wayne Polley, scientist with the Agricultural Research Service. Climate change discussions often gloss over the Great Plains, but Dr. Polley will focus on predictions for rangelands in the Great Plains. Climate change science predicts…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCollum, Bohlin
What is Climate Change? How will our changing climate impact seasonal weather conditions across the Southwest? This webinar was hosted by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium (http://swfireconsortium.org) and was presented to prepare attendees of the 'Fostering resilience in…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Breen, Hollingsworth
Fires in the tundra can drastically alter vegetation and ecosystem characteristics. Drs. Hollingsworth and Breen (from the U.S. Forest Service and University of Alaska-Fairbanks, respectively) review the effects of climate on fire regime and wildfire in Alaska. They compare fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES