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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Nowell, Steelman
A growing body of work has been focusing on how to govern and manage across jurisdictionally fragmented landscapes in an effort to promote more effective wildfire preparedness and response. We contribute to this worthy goal in the following five ways through the research…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yasunari, Nakamura, Kim, Choi, Lee, Tachibana, da Silva
Long-term assessment of severe wildfires and associated air pollution and related climate patterns in and around the Arctic is essential for assessing healthy human life status. To examine the relationships, we analyzed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hedayati, Gorham
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
IBHS test chamber is a unique facility to study the effects of wind on fire. The test chamber area is equal to four basketball courts which allows researchers to perform large scale wind and fire tests. The test…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Reimer
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The Deep Dive project is a centerpiece of a learning pilot program collaboratively initiated by WEPO’s, Policy, Accountability and Analysis and RMRS’s Office of Innovation and Organizational Learning (IOL) to…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Littell, Trainor
Sarah Trainor & Jeremy Littell present at the 2021 Association for Fire Ecology Conference special session: The Nexus of Climate Change and Fire: Taking Science to Action
Addressing the unprecedented challenges of climate change, wildland fire, and human land use requires…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Champ, Barth, Brenkert-Smith, Falk, Gomez, Meldrum
Wildland-urban interface residents, who occupy the areas where wildlands meet and mix with human development, are both contributors to and recipients of the disastrous effects of wildland fires. They contribute through fire starts, flammable homes, unmitigated properties,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gurney, Christison, Stenersen, Dumke
Heat accumulation from wearing personal protective equipment can result in the development of heat-related illnesses. This study aimed to investigate factors of heat stress with and without a US standard issue wildland firefighter helmet. Ten male subjects finished a 90-min…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bayham, Belval, Thompson
Motivation. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 just as the southwestern region begins to see increased fire activity. The project PIs had been collaborating on other wildfire projects but also had expertise in infectious disease…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This 15-minute video provides an overview of the FireWorks program and describes several of the activities.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Palm, Peng, Hall, Ullmann, Campos, Weinheimer, Montzka, Tyndall, Permar, Hu, Flocke, Fischer, Thornton
Wildfire emissions affect downwind air quality and human health. Predictions of these impacts using models are limited by uncertainties in emissions and chemical evolution of smoke plumes. Using high-time-resolution aircraft measurements, we illustrate spatial variations that…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jung, Jahnke, Dennis, Bell, Burgess, Jitnarin, Kaipust, Farland
Background
Evidence from previous studies suggests that women firefighters have greater risk of some adverse reproductive outcomes. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether women firefighters had greater risk of miscarriage compared to non-firefighters and whether…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frost, Toczko, Merrigan, Martin
Firefighting is a mentally and physically demanding profession which is compounded by poor sleep due to shift schedules commonly used by fire departments. Compared to other professions, firefighters are at high risk for musculoskeletal injuries, mental illnesses, and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
To, Eboreime, Agyapong
One of the many consequences of climate change is an increase in the frequency, severity, and, thus, impact of wildfires across the globe. The destruction and loss of one’s home, belongings, and surrounding community, and the threat to personal safety and the safety of loved…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Molina, Little, Drury, Jandt
Wildfire has become a larger threat to human life and property with the proliferation of homes into the wildland urban interface and warming climate. In this study we explored Alaskan homeowner preferences for wildfire risk mitigation in the wildland urban interface using…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christison, Gurney, Dumke
Uncompensable heat from wildland firefighter personal protective equipment decreases the physiological tolerance while exercising in the heat. Our previous work demonstrated that the standard wildland firefighter helmet significantly increases both perceived and actual head heat…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Armatas
Wildland fire is a phenomenon that impacts people and communities from the local to the national scale. These impacts are generally entwined with the human and ecological meanings and services that people derive from public lands. Fire planning requires an understanding of…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier, Goodrick
Abrupt changes in wind direction and speed caused by thunderstorm-generated gust fronts can, within a few seconds, transform slow-spreading low-intensity flanking fires into high-intensity head fires. Flame heights and spread rates can more than double. Fire mitigation…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Dell, Bilsback, Ford, Martenies, Magzamen, Fischer, Pierce
As anthropogenic emissions continue to decline and emissions from landscape (wild, prescribed, and agricultural) fires increase across the coming century, the relative importance of landscape-fire smoke on air quality and health in the United States (US) will increase. Landscape…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smallcomb, Schnieder
Living With Fire hosted a workshop on wildfire smoke and its potential health impacts. Featuring guests Chris Smallcomb, National Weather Service – Reno office meteorologist and public information officer, who discussed smoke forecasting and models utilized to predict smoke. And…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Curtis
Numerous studies have linked outdoor levels of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, O3, SO2, and other air pollutants to significantly higher rates of Covid 19 morbidity and mortality, although the rate in which specific concentrations of pollutants increase Covid 19 morbidity and mortality varies…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rein, Huang
Wildfires can be divided in two types, flaming or smouldering, depending on the dominant combustion processes. Both types are present in most wildfires, and despite being fundamentally different in chemical and physical terms, one transitions to the other. Traditionally, science…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sorensen, House, O'Dell, Brey, Ford, Pierce, Fischer, Lemery, Crooks
Wildfire smoke is a growing public health concern in the United States. Numerous studies have documented associations between ambient smoke exposure and severe patient outcomes for single fire seasons or limited geographic regions. However, there are few national‐scale health…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larsen, Hanigan, Reich, Qin, Cope, Morgan, Rappold
Background
Wildland fire (wildfire; bushfire) pollution contributes to poor air quality, a risk factor for premature death. The frequency and intensity of wildfires are expected to increase; improved tools for estimating exposure to fire smoke are vital. New-generation satellite…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
This seminar is part of the University of Idaho's Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences 2021 Spring Semester Seminar Series.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES