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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Westfall, Woodall
An efficient and accurate inventory of forest fuels at large scales is critical for assessment of forest fire hazards across landscapes. The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of fuels along with blind…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shapcott, Rakotoarinivo, Smith, Lysakova, Fay, Dransfield
Madagascar has a highly distinctive flora and is one of the world biodiversity hot spots. There are more than 170 species of palms, the majority of which are vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered endemics. Palms are utilized for many human uses, many of which lead to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Choi, Fernando
Vegetation fires emit a number of air pollutants, thus impacting air quality at local, regional and global scales. One such pollutant is the particulate matter (PM) that is known to trigger adverse health effects. In this study, the CALPUFF/CALMET/MM5 modeling system is employed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bate, Yanoff, McCarthy, Bradley
The Nature Conservancy is working with the Bureau of Land Management to assess multiple indicators of ecological condition, including fire regime, across grasslands and shrublands in southern New Mexico. The purpose of the assessment is to identify restoration opportunities and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gao, Xiong, Li, Wang
The 3.75-µm and 11-µm channels on the polar orbiting NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors have saturation temperatures of approximately 325 K. They allowed limited successes in estimating the sub-pixel fire temperature and fractional area coverage. The…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jakes
To improve access, interpretability, and use of the full body of research, a pilot project was initiated by the USDA Forest Service to synthesize relevant scientific information and develop publications and decision support tools that managers can use to inform fuels treatment…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hagen
From the text ... 'We had absolutely no knowledge of this firefighting business and were literally conscripted into service.... 'Come with us' were our orders.... This would be the last good night's sleep we would get for nearly 2 weeks.... After several days, our confidence and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lentile, Morgan, Hudak, Bobbitt, Lewis, Smith, Robichaud
Vegetation response and burn severity were examined following eight large wildfires that burned in 2003 and 2004: two wildfires in California chaparral, two each in dry and moist mixed-conifer forests in Montana, and two in boreal forests in interior Alaska. Our research…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hudak, Thode, van Wagtendonk
From the text ... 'This special issue compilation of eight papers demonstrates the breadth of remote sensing applications on the cutting edge of fire ecology research. Remotely sensed imagery can provide objective measures of fire perimeters, burn patterns, and fire severity at…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hudak, Morgan, Bobbitt, Smith, Lewis, Lentile, Robichaud, Clark, McKinley
The Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) and the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center produce Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) maps for use by Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams in rapid…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
I've often been asked by both fire managers and other fire researchers how to sample the fuel weight in woody debris piles and windrows. Certainly, the planar (Anderson 1978; Brown 1974; Brown and others 1982) or line intersect techniques (McRae and others 1979; Taylor 1997; Van…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Westfall, Woodall
An efficient and accurate inventory of forest fuels at large scales is critical for assessment of forest fire hazards across landscapes. The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of fuels along with blind…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The research and development (R&D) arm of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with approximately 550 researchers in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields, seeks to better understand and describe the complex mechanisms at work in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furniss, Clifton, Ronnenberg
This conference was attended by nearly 450 Forest Service earth scientists representing hydrology, soil science, geology, and air. In addition to active members of the earth science professions, many retired scientists also attended and participated. These 60 peer-reviewed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The International Association of Wildland Fire sponsored the second Fire Behavior and Fuels conference in Destin, Florida. The conference theme was 'Fire Environment--Innovations, Management, and Policy.' Over 450 attendees participated in presentations on the latest innovations…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wong, Cummings
Aim: The purpose of this review was to describe findings of a systematic review of studies that examine the relationship between nursing leadership and patient outcomes. Background: With recent attention directed to the creation of safer practice environments for patients,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eidenshink, Schwind, Brewer, Zhu, Quayle, Howard
Elected officials and leaders of environmental agencies need information about the effects of large wildfires in order to set policy and make management decisions. Recently, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), which implements and coordinates the National Fire Plan (NFP…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hudak, Thode, van Wagtendonk
Fire is a primary change agent in many terrestrial ecosystems. Appreciation is growing for the essential role fire plays in fire-adapted ecosystems. Nevertheless, humans living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) understandably regard fires as a threat to their safety, their…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Heyerdahl, Keane, Dorner, Fall
We assessed accuracy in point fire intervals using a simulation model that sampled four spatially explicit simulated fire histories. These histories varied in fire frequency and size and were simulated on a flat landscape with two forest types (dry versus mesic). We used three…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
The primary purpose of fuels management has been to lessen potential fire behavior and, thereby, increase the probability of successful containment (Alexander 2003). More specifically, it has been to decrease the rate of fire and, in turn, fire size and intensity-as well as…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Vihnanek, Ottmar
The Digital Photo Series (DPS) is a web-based application that provides access to the Natural Fuels Photo Series database and photographs. The DPS works through a user's internet browser, but has also been designed to work as a stand-alone application when the computer is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lentile, Morgan, Hardy, Hudak, Means, Ottmar, Robichaud, Sutherland, Szymoniak, Way, Fites-Kaufman, Lewis, Mathews, Shovik, Ryan
Rapid Response Research is conducted during and immediately after wildland fires, in coordination with fire management teams, in order to collect information that can best be garnered in situ and in real-time. This information often includes fire behavior and fire effects data,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whether the goal is to improve wildlife habitat, gauge the effects of prescribed burns or wildfire, or assess the unaccustomed conditions and hidden dangers of fallen trees in the aftermath of hurricanes, a suite of tools developed by the Fire and Environmental Research…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lentile, Morgan, Hardy, Hudak, Means, Ottmar, Robichaud, Sutherland, Way, Lewis
In recent years, more researchers are collecting data either on active wildfires or immediately after wildfire occurrence. Known as Rapid Response Research, this important undertaking provides real-time information, useful data, and improved tools for managers.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riaño, Moreno-Ruiz, Isidoro, Ustin
An analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of global burned area with the Daily Tile US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer Pathfinder 8 km Land dataset between 1981 and 2000 is presented. Nine distinct temporal and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS