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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reeves, Mitchell
Rangeland extent is an important factor for evaluating critical indicators of rangeland sustainability. Rangeland areal extent was determined for the coterminous United States in a geospatial framework by evaluating spatially explicit data from the Landscape Fire and Resource…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, McKinley
From the text ... 'One of the BAER [Burned Area Emergency Response] team's first tasks is to develop a soil burn severity map that highlights the areas of low, moderate, and high burn severity within a wildfire perimeter.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCarty
Crop residue burning is an extensive agricultural practice in the contiguous United States (CONUS). This analysis presents the results of a remote sensing-based study of crop residue burning emissions in the CONUS for the time period 2003-2007 for the atmospheric species of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loboda, Hoy, Giglio, Kasischke
With the recently observed and projected trends of growing wildland fire occurrence in high northern latitudes, satellite-based burned area mapping in these regions is becoming increasingly important for scientific and fire management communities. Coarse- and moderate-resolution…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pastick, Jorgenson, Wylie, Minsley, Ji, Walvoord, Smith, Abraham, Rose
Permafrost has a significant impact on high latitude ecosystems and is spatially heterogeneous. However, only generalized maps of permafrost extent are available. Due to its impacts on carbon pools, subsurface hydrology, lake water levels, vegetation communities, and surface…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Cronan, McKenzie, Barnes, Camp
Wildland fires play a critical role in maintaining the ecological integrity of boreal forests in Alaska. Identifying and maintaining natural fire regimes is an important component of fire management. There are numerous research projects that directly or indirectly address…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rice, Coleman, Price
Communities are becoming increasingly concerned with the variety of choices related to wildfire evacuation. We used ArcView with Network Analyst to evaluate the different options for evacuations during wildfire in a case study community. We tested overlaying fire growth patterns…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forest fires usually spread out of control very quickly. Fires that produce a lot of smoke are particularly challenging for the emergency services, because the source of the fire is then especially hard to find. A new radiometric sensor can pinpoint the heart of the flames, even…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drury, Herynk
The National Tree-List Layer (NTLL) project used LANDFIRE map products to produce the first national tree-list map layer that represents tree populations at stand and regional levels. Simulated tree mortality estimates using the NTLL as model input provided acceptable results…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Rieck, Hyde, Kaiden
Recent ex-urban development within the wildland interface has significantly increased the complexity and associated cost of federal wildland fire management in the United States. Rapid identification of built structures relative to probable fire spread can help to reduce that…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This document summarizes the 2011 AFSC workshop. Topics discussed included boreal fire history datasets in Alaska, fire return intervals in boreal forests, the Probabilistic Fire Analysis System (PFAS), the Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy, impacts of changing tundra fire regimes…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parent
Vegetation health can be monitored using a time series of remotely sensed images by calculating the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). We assessed temporal trends throughout an NDVI time series with three sensors: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This metadata field form documents collected GPS data for any incident.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baird
Climate has warmed substantially in boreal Alaska since the mid-1970s. The direct effects of rising temperatures on sub-Arctic ecosystems are already being observed in the form of drought stress, increased fire frequency and severity, and increased frequency and severity of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prakash, Schaefer, Witte, Collins, Gens, Goyette
A coal seam fire in interior Alaska was suspected to have started the Rex Creek forest fire in the summer of 2009. With prevailing winds, the forest fire spread rapidly to the north and within eleven days it burned about 410 km2 of boreal forest. Coal seam fires can go unnoticed…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly
I hypothesize that the distribution of barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) is affected by multiple, interrelated factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, terrain and snow characteristics as well as predation pressure and habitat. To test this…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beck, Juday, Alix, Barber, Winslow, Sousa, Heiser, Herriges, Goetz
Global vegetation models predict that boreal forests are particularly sensitive to a biome shift during the 21st century. This shift would manifest itself first at the biome's margins, with evergreen forest expanding into current tundra while being replaced by grasslands or…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beck, Goetz, Mack, Alexander, Jin, Randerson, Loranty
Climate warming and drying are modifying the fire dynamics of many boreal forests, moving them towards a regime with a higher frequency of extreme fire years characterized by large burns of high severity. Plot-scale studies indicate that increased burn severity favors the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
Assessing the ecological effects of wildfires in a landscape context is crucial for effective postfire management. While tools exist to assess the severity and ecological effects of wildfires after they burn, managers also need new tools that easily and quickly forecast the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Smail, Napoli, Bastian, Fay
Participants at the workshop represented experts from state, local and federal agencies, tribal organizations, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and private contractors with knowledge of vegetation types and their relationships to fuels and fire behavior. Attendees provided…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon, Holden, Morgan, Crimmins, Heyerdahl, Luce
Fire is a keystone process in many ecosystems of western North America. Severe fires kill and consume large amounts of above- and belowground biomass and affect soils, resulting in long-lasting consequences for vegetation, aquatic ecosystem productivity and diversity, and other…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rykhus, Lu
Twenty-five C-band Radarsat-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired from the summer of 2002 to the summer of 2005 are used to map a 2003 boreal wildfire (B346) in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska under conditions of near-persistent cloud cover. Our…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Zhuang
Multivariate alteration detection (MAD) and Bayesian inference (BI) methods are used to analyze land cover changes with Landsat images for the Alaskan Yukon River Basin from 1984 to 2008. The US Geological Survey National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD 2001) is treated as…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boelman, Rocha, Shaver
Little is known about how satellite imagery can be used to describe burn severity in tundra landscapes. The Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF) in 2007 burned over 1000 km2 of tundra on the North Slope of Alaska, creating a mosaic of small (1 m2) to large (>100 m2) patches that…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES