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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keywood, Kanakidou, Stohl, Dentener, Grassi, Meyer, Torseth, Edwards, Thompson, Lohmann, Burrows
Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's primary carbon-cycling mechanisms. Under a warming climate, it is likely that fire frequency and severity will increase…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevins, Roussopoulos
In this paper, we offer a general overview of the design and status of the NFIL. We discuss the structure of the Fuels Inventory Database, the function of the various database management programs available in the Management Software Package, and the current contents of the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
These protocols were developed in order to have a statewide standard for requesting fire behavior analyses on wildland fires in Alaska and a process for prioritization of the requests as well as for ordering a fire behavior specialist to complete the analysis. It is not intended…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire management is dictated by community and political pressure-at least that's what conventional wisdom in the fire community tells us. However, few studies have investigated the validity of that axiom, and little is known about the relative influence of internal and external…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, McBride
In an effort to improve organizational outcomes, including safety, in wildland fire management, researchers and practitioners have turned to a domain of research on organizational performance known as High Reliability Organizing (HRO). The HRO paradigm emerged in the late 1980s…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mavsar, González-Cabán, Varela
Forest fires affect millions of people worldwide, and cause major ecosystem and economic impacts at different scales. The management policies implemented to minimize the negative impacts of forest fires require substantial investment of financial, human and organizational…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ott
The Forest Service expends nearly 50 percent of its budget on wildfire management activities and invested $29.5 million in 2005 in firefighter training and leadership development, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (USDA OIG) (2010). The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuquay
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) (Deeming and others 1972) has been updated; the revised system will be in use in l978 (Deeming and others 1977). One of the changes in the NFDRS is treatment of lightning-caused fires. A model based on physical and stochastic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
York
Presentation about the Alaska Fire Science Consortium from the 2013 AFSC Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Moir
Southwestern canyon woodlands, for purposes of this paper, are vegetation types along canyon bottoms for mostly third and fourth order drainages whose streams may be permanent or intermittent. These include habitat types within blue spruce, white fir, ponderosa pine, narrowleaf…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDaniel, MacDowell
This is the third presentation held on the third day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Brenna MacDowell and Josh McDaniel, both of the Lessons Learned Center, discuss the Lessons Learned Center. This webinar originally aired on March 28, 2013.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Whalen
This is the fifth presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Mike Whalen, BLM, discusses qualifications, successional planning, and the provisions that are being made to Incident Management Teams and what they will look like. This webinar…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Maricle, Zahn
This is the fourth presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Martin Maricle, Alaska Division of Forestry, will discuss the use of Alaska fresh food boxes on incidents in alaska due to the lack of National caterers. Sue Zahn, US Forest…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bidaburu
This is the second presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Aitor Bidaburu, National Fire Administration, presents recent decisions, ongoing, and longer term action items made by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. He closes with a…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Christensen, Stingley, Smith
This webinar introduces the 2013 National Logistics Webinar series. Agency updates are also discussed. Speakers include Martin Maricle, Alaska Div Forestry, NLW co-chair and moderator; Kim Christensen, US Forest Service; Susie Stingley, National Interagency Coordination Center;…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This paper surveys available information on fire regimes and methodology employed in elucidating these regimes during the suppression, presuppression and post-glacial periods, principally in the boreal and Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest regions of Ontario. The presettlement…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS