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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
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Steed, Burton
This report covers insects impact on Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx).
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane
Wildland fuels are a critical factor in fire management because they are the one factor that managers can control. However, fuels have always been defined, described, and quantified in the context of inputs to fire behavior models. Wildland fuel science was always considered…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guyette
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Abatzoglou, Potter, Steel, Stocks
Mega-fire events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts to cities and towns downwind. The extensive 2010 fires in western Russia are only the most recent…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parks
This proposal addresses JFSP announcement FA-RFA-12-0001, task statement #3 'Fuel treatment effectiveness.' The proposed project will quantify the effectiveness of wildland fire as a fuel treatment in terms of its ability to limit the occurrence, extent, and burn severity (i.e.…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Seielstad, Fletcher
This project is developing methods to spatially represent shrub fuel matrices of chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum Hook. & Arn.) and sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) using laser scanning, simulating fire propagation through them, and validating simulations against…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Benscoter, Corace, Kane
The goals of the proposed research are to develop fire management and modeling tools to predict particulate carbon production and black carbon (BC) conversion rates during combustion of organic peat soils common to boreal forested and non-forested ecosystems of the Great Lakes…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Fuel treatments to reduce wildfire behavior and severity are major concerns for fire and forest managers throughout the United States. To test treatment effects and alternatives, managers rely on simulation models, such as Behave, the Fire Area Simulator, and the Fire and Fuels…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hodges, Finley, Luloff
Fire prevention and fuel treatments have enjoyed renewed and enhanced support. However, the use of fire prevention measures for enhancing ecosystem services has not found purchase in either the publics acceptance or involvement in this new role of and for fire. This is…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Brenkert-Smith, Curtis, Sharp
Fire and fuels reduction are completed within a complex context. This is particularly true at the interface of public and private lands where management is often closely scrutinized by stakeholders. In these settings, private and public land managers typically seek to achieve…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wood, Kreitler
This project will combine methods from multiple disciplines to provide new applied research for timely and policy relevant wildland fire and natural resource management issues. We propose research to address the tension between allocating fuel treatments to reduce risk to values…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Discussion of the Nenana Ridge Fire presented at the 2015 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Kernohan
STARFire, a fire planning and budgeting system, is used to support budget management for individual or national programs. It combines fire affected values, burn potential, and management costs to generate risk assessments, fuel treatment optimization, smoke analysis, and a…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Describes the mission and methods of the US Forest Service's Air Resource Management Program. A six-part series that is also available in a single video.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Saperstein, Ziel
Jennifer Barnes, Lisa Saperstein, and Robert Ziel provide a quick refresher on WFDSS Fire Behavior Models, updates on fuel models for Alaska, and provide information on where to sign up to help with fire behavior modeling this summer. Near Term Fire Behavior (NTFB) Refresher -…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Eric Miller, BLM-AFS Fire Ecologist, spoke at the April Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks about finding the right grass fuel model for prescribed burning in Alaska. He has been collecting data and samples from prescribed burning on military training ranges in Alaska (where the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hoagland, Lake
The webinar describes traditional ecological knowledge and invaluable contributions of Native wisdom to ecological restoration. Specific case studies are presented where traditional ecological knowledge is incorporated into wildlife management plans and fire and fuel management.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keane
Wildland fuels may be the most important consideration in fire management, not just because they are important inputs for predicting fire behavior (i.e., how fast and intense a fire gets), but also because fuels are the only factor that can effectively be controlled by direct…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Busse
In this webinar presented by Matt Busse on March 31, 2015 he covers: (1) ecological consequences of prescribed fire on soil heating, water repellency, and soil nutrient release, (2) pile burning, (3) whole tree harvesting and nutrient removal, and (4) the evils of soil…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Valachovic
During this Webinar, Yana Valachovic will discuss the types, placement, and maintenance of landscape plants to reduce risk of home ignition. She will also discuss various elements of home design that mitigates home loss during a wildfire.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Randi Jandt talked about the evolution of Alaska firefighting practices (field and management)over the past 50 years. We are starting to be aware of the changes in climate and in Alaska forests: is the wildfire "problem" the same one we faced a half-century ago? Have our…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Robert "Zeke" Ziel, a long-term analyst and fire behavior specialist for the State of Alaska, Zeke gives an overview of the past and current tools used in Alaska (and elsewhere) for Landscape Risk Assessment and exposure to wildfire. Modeling is more art than science in that the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Devon Barnes, from the University of Alberta, spent the field season of 2013 in Alaska conducting sprinkler watering treatments in spruce forest to understand the optimum duration and effectiveness of treatments. He is finishing writing up the results for a M.S. Degree and…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Streets, Winijkul, Yan, Chen, Bond, Feng, Dubey, Liu, Pinto, Carmichael
Organic aerosols (OAs) in the atmosphere affect Earth's energy budget by not only scattering but also absorbing solar radiation due to the presence of the so-called 'brown carbon' (BrC) component. However, the absorptivities of OAs are not represented or are poorly represented…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bai, Xu, Blumfield, Reverchon
Purpose Rising levels of nitrogen (N) deposition are influencing urban forest carbon (C) and N dynamics due to greater human disturbance compared to those in rural areas. N deposition in combination with increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and water limitation may alter C…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS