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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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This research program is documenting the changing role of fire, particularly as affected by human activities, on the Arctic Climate System and its human residents, with specific focus on Alaska and the Yukon Territory. The program will assess the changing role of human…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Within several national parks, vegetation mapping projects cannot keep up with the changes in vegetation that result from fire. The objectives of this pilot project are to update the recently burned portions of the Denali Landcover map, validate successional patterns compared to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Forests in the vicinity of the Kenai Peninsula portion of the Chugach National Forest (CNF) in south-central Alaska are of special ecological interest because of their transitional nature between coastal and interior forest types. Fire occurred in the Kenai Mountains during the…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) is a user-friendly computer program designed for scientists and resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software manages data concerning consumption, emissions and heat release…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A modeling analysis was undertaken to explore the long-term impacts of the white spruce (die-back on vegetation cover and wildfire behavior) on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. During the 1990's a significant portion of the white spruce stands were killed by infestation with the…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Arbaugh, Chew, Jones, Kimberlin, Kurz, Merzenich, Snell, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala
The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) is a disturbance effects model designed to simulate the tradeoffs between alternative land management practices over long periods of time (up to 300 years) and under diverse environmental conditions, natural fire regimes, and fuel and fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Information System is an online collection of reviews of the scientific literature about fire effects on plants and animals and about fire regimes of plant communities in the United States. FEIS reviews are based on thorough literature searches, often…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference will be held from March 26-30, 2007 in Destin, Florida. It will focus on the fire environment - the 'fire environment' consists of fire weather, fire behavior, fire danger rating, predictive services, fuels, smoke management and fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Holmberg, Irwin
Forest reserves have been established to protect resources such as red-cockaded woodpeckers in the southeastern U.S., northern spotted owls and other vertebrates in the Pacific Northwest, aquatic resources such as salmon and bull trout, and the Canada lynx throughout its range.…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This conference was held March 8-12, 2004, in Medford, Oregon. It was focused on providing timely research and practical information to resource managers and practitioners for planning and implementing fuel and restoration treatments to improve long-term sustainability of…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Duffy, Olson, Chen, Howard, Glaser
An understanding of the processes that control wildland fuel accumulation, including the role that fire management activities play, is crucial for designing wildland management policies. Boreal ALFRESCO simulates the responses of subarctic and boreal vegetation to transient…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
BlueSky is a modeling framework designed to predict cumulative impacts of smoke from forest, agriculatural, and range fires. The BlueSky smoke modeling framework combines state of the art emissions, meteorology, and dispersion models to generate the best possible predictions of…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins, Heinsch, Tirmenstein, Noonan, Bartlette, Scott, Seli, Kelley, Carlton, Custer
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a program for personal computers that is a collection of mathematical models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be used for a multitude of fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This program will correct data availability and quality assurance problems surrounding the Alaskan Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) and other Alaska weather station data. By placing all Alaska weather station data into a single quality controlled database, and automating…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Agee, Baldwin, Barbour, Beall, Boerner, Brown, Busse, Edminster, Fiedler, Haase, Harrington, Hodgson, Keeley, Landram, Laudenslayer, Lehmkuhl, Otrosina, Ottmar, Ritchie, Ryan, Shea, Skinner, Stephens, Stephenson, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Waldrop, Weatherspoon, Yaussy, Zack
Objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Quantify the initial effects (first five years) of fire and fire surrogate treatments on a number of specific core response variables within the general groupings of (a) vegetation, (b) fuel and fire behavior, (c) soils and forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black
The Fire Effects Planning Framework (FEPF) is a decision-support model. FEPF integrates ecological knowledge with articulated management goals to result in spatial maps (GIS) indicating where and under what conditions opportunities exist to use fire (natural or management-…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning - Social Science
The Social Science Team is synthesizing research that answers five key questions that might be helpful when planning or implementing fuels treatment projects: 1) what information and tools are available to help land managers and communities collaborate in the development of fuel…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rebain, Dykstra
The Economics and Utilization Team is clarifying the economic requirements of NEPA analysis and developing a summary of the existing scientific information on costs and revenues associated with hazardous fuels treatments. It isl also providing tools, methods, and procedures to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
The goal of the Forest Structure and Fire Hazard team is to increase and improve the understanding of available research which can aid in making informed, defensible decisions on managing forest structure and disclosing the treatment effects on fire hazard and potential fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The record-breaking 2004 fire season burned approximately 6.6 million acres in Alaska, with over 2 million acres on National Wildlife Refuge Lands. This provided the opportunity to assess the application of the national Burn Severity Mapping project techniques on Refuge lands.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
LANDFIRE, Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools, is a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior, providing landscape scale geo-spatial products to support…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
During 2002, fuel loadings were measured at 150 plots in three major fuel types across Anchorage's wildland-urban interface. A suite of Fire Danger Rating System (FDRS) fire behavior variables was sampled to parameterize custom fuel models for use in the FARSITE fire behavior…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Natural Fuels Photo Series project is designed to help land managers appraise fuel and vegetation conditions in natural settings. Each group of photos in a series includes inventory information summarizing vegetation composition, structure and loading and, as appropriate…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Babbitt, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and communities and causing…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES