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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yi, McGuire, Harden, Kasischke, Manies, Hinzman, Liljedahl, Randerson, Liu, Romanovsky, Marchenko, Kim
Soil temperature and moisture are important factors that control many ecosystem processes. However, interactions between soil thermal and hydrological processes are not adequately understood in cold regions, where the frozen soil, fire disturbance, and soil drainage play…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dasgupta, Qu, Bhoi
The retrieval of Live Fuel Moisture Content (LFMC) over fire prone grasslands is important for fire risk and drought assessment. Radiative transfer (RT) model based inversion of measured reflectances for retrievals of LFMC offers a promising method for estimating LFMC. This…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trainor, Calef, Natcher, Chapin, McGuire, Huntington, Duffy, Rupp, DeWilde, Kwart, Fresco, Lovecraft
This paper explores whether fundamental differences exist between urban and rural vulnerability to climate-induced changes in the fire regime of interior Alaska. We further examine how communities and fire managers have responded to these changes and what additional adaptations…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Watts, Kobziar, Percival
Unmanned aircriaft systems (UAS) have been developed alongside manned aircraft yet have seen widespread use only in the past decade. Their use for military applications has propelled advances in electronics and sensors to yield systems whose capabilities may be useful for many…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) initiated the Fire and Smoke Model Experiment (FASMEE) (https://sites.google.com/firenet.gov/fasmee/) by funding Project 15-S-01-01 to identify and collect a set of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Cooperdock, Dieleman, Erb, Goetz, Johnstone, Mack, Moubarak, Phillips, Potter, Randerson, Schaaf, Solvik, Turetsky, Veraverbeke, Walker, Wiggins
Wildfires in the boreal forests and peatlands of the ABoVE domain are a natural disturbance agent, but are increasing in frequency and severity. Boreal forest fires impart relatively large forcings on the climate system as a result of (i) typically high severity fires that emit…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Jenkins, Hart, French, Poley, Tanzer, Bosse, McDonald
At three locations in the ABoVE domain in-situ data loggers have been installed since summer 2017 to obtain time series data on soil moisture and temperature across a variety of land cover types, including tundra, boreal peatlands, and boreal uplands. The percent Volumetric…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Graham, Battaglia, Kane, French, Grelik, Hanes
Our study aimed to integrate remote sensing, spatial analysis, and field data to understand the vulnerability and resiliency of peatlands and uplands to wildfire across the southern Northwest Territories study area where peatlands are abundant, including these objectives:
• Map…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Battaglia, Billmire, Kane, Shuman, Swenson, Siqueira, Chapman, Hanes, Cantin, Whitman, Berg, Foster, Baltzer
Our goal was to improve understanding of the interactions of wildfire and hydrology (including permafrost changes) and the ensuing post-fire successional trajectories in both uplands and peatlands of the Artic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) in a changing climate. Objective 1: Develop…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hallema, Kinoshita, Martin, Robinne, Galleguillos, McNulty, Sun, Singh, Mordecai, Moore
The changing role of fire in forest landscapes shows that strategic forest management is necessary to safeguard urban water supplies.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bernknopf, Kuwayama, Gibson, Blakely, Mabee, Clifford, Quayle, Epting, Hardy, Goodrich
We use a value of information (VOI) approach to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of using satellite imagery as part of Burn Area Emergency Response (BAER), a federal program that identifies imminent post-wildfire threats to human life and safety, property, and critical natural…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
ince the 1990s, USDA Forest Service employees and leaders have taken steps to improve the agency's safety record (USDA Forest Service 2018), resulting in a declining number of fatalities since 2010. Yet wildland firefighter entrapments have persisted (NIFC 2018), despite the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
In the last 50 years, Federal fire policy has undergone tremendous change. Some people (including the author) can still remember when the goal of wildland firefighting was simple: put out every fire by 10 a.m. on the morning after it was first detected. Since then, Federal…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Boyatzis, Thiel, Rochford
Effective leadership of wildland fire operations requires paying careful attention to the fire itself and to relationships both internal and external to the incident. At the center of the action is the incident commander (IC), who must integrate her or his skill in managing the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
The culture of the USDA Forest Service has been shaped by the maxim 'Certainly it can be done' (Pinchot 1947), borrowed from the Coast Guard by the agency's first Chief, Gifford Pinchot (1905-10). From the moment employees joined the Forest Service beginning in 1905, they…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page, Butler
Wildland firefighters work in complex and dynamic environments, with many dangers that pose serious threats to their safety. Falling snags and rocks, steep and rugged terrain, and rapid increases in fire behavior are just some of the dangers that affect wildland firefighters.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harbour
Fires that occur outside buildings, improvements, and structures, whether fueled by grass, brush, forest, timber, or other materials, are the wildland fires we deal with in the fire service. A wildland fire can take many forms: thousands of acres of trees on fire; the purposeful…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christiansen
Historically, wildland fire fundamentally shaped the American landscape, and it continues to do so today in a highly modified environment. Forest, brush, and range fires were common in 'presettlement' times, and the American Indians realized the important role fire played in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Friggens
FireCLIME (Fire-Climate Landscape Interactions in Montane Ecosystems) Vulnerability Assessment v3.1 is a macro-enabled Excel file (xlsm). A user guide is also available below.
Year: 2019
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Abatzoglou, Williams, Barbero
Changes in global fire activity are influenced by a multitude of factors including land‐cover change, policies, and climatic conditions. This study uses 17 climate models to evaluate when changes in fire weather, as realized through the Fire Weather Index, emerge from the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Alaska's Fire Environment: Not an Average Place is a compilation of excerpts from the keynote presentation given by Robert "Zeke" Ziel at the Albuquerque location of the 2019 Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference.
Alaska is nearly 18% of USA landmass. Its size is often…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Birdsey, Dugan, Healey, Dante-Wood, Zhang, Ho, Chen, Hernandez, Raymond, McCarter
This report assesses how carbon stocks at regional scales and in individual national forests are affected by factors such as timber harvesting, natural disturbances, climate variability, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and nitrogen deposition. Previous…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Filkov, Prohanov
Detection and analysis of the objects in a frame or a sequence of frames (video) can be used to solve a number of problems in various fields, including the field of fire behaviour and risk. A quantitative understanding of the short distance spotting dynamics, namely the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Monedero, Ramírez, Cardil
Accurately predicting fire spread and behaviour on the fireline, in the field, is highly important in order to prevent the loss of human life, improve the success of initial attack and better understand the potential fire behaviour, minimizing many risks for firefighters. We…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cardil, Monedero, Ramírez, Silva
Large wildfires can cover millions of hectares of forest every year worldwide, causing losses in ecosystems and assets. Fire simulation and modeling provides an analytical scheme to characterize and predict fire behavior and spread in several and complex environments. Spatial…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES