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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rupp
The Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment Research Project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program and supported with additional contributions from local state and federal agencies. This project was designed to quantify the effects of fuels reduction treatments on fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Yokel
Permanent transects, including 2 paired control transects, were established following unusually large and severe North Slope tundra burn.
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This project analyzed fire history patterns within the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge of interior Alaska. Tree ring samples were collected during 1999, and standard dendrochronological methods were used to date 40 fires on 27 landscape points within the refuge boundaries.
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
In order to define the fire regime in Kenai NWR black spruce forests, a detailed fire and climate history study was undertaken. Utilizing techniques of dendrochronology I dated fire scars, and dated the outer-rings of fire-killed trees (burn poles) within areas of unknown fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Between 1983 and 1988, tree cores and cookies were collected as part of a project conducted by the National Park Service to create final land cover maps for the GIS Thematic Mapper Landcover Mapping Project in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Vegetation type…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The boreal forest is the largest terrestrial ecosystem in North America, one of the least disturbed by humans, and most disturbed by fire. This combination makes it an ideal system to explore the environmental controls over species composition, the relative importance of abiotic…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Both of these Chena Lakes projects were designed to determine fuel treatment effectiveness, prescribed burn severity, and post-burn vegetative succession. Incident to the sampling, some tree cross-sections were collected in 2001 to determine approximate stand ages, and in one…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Tree cores were collected during 1997-1998 as part of a spruce bark beetle study in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (eastern Alaska). Data was collected from every tree on a 20-m x 20-m plot or the three largest trees were cored (at increment bore height on…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Tree cores were collected from white and Lutz spruce affected by spruce bark beetles. Sampling occurred during 2004-2005 in the Anchor River Watershed on the Kenai Peninsula.
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Tree cross-sections (primarily spruce) were collected during 2000-2001 in eastern Alaska to determine the relationship between fire history, lichen and caribou.
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black spruce and white spruce tree cross-sections and cores were collected during 2001, 2003 and 2007 in the Steese Conservation Area and the White Mountain National Recreation Area of interior Alaska.
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
As part of the refuge's inventory program, tree cross sections and cores were collected along the edges of old burns during a pilot project in 1999, then a system of "mini-grids" systematically located on the refuge were sampled from 2004-2008. At least 2 samples were normally…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi, Cronan, Huffman
This JFSP-funded project assessed the relationship between stand age and fire behavior in the black spruce forest type of interior Alaska. Forest canopy and substrate data were collected from sites representing a time sequence of stand age ranging from two to 227 years. These…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A number of studies have been conducted to examine relationships between climate, fire and the growth and reproduction of dominant boreal tree species in Alaska.
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) has officially been used in Alaska since 1992. The CFFDRS is comprised of two major subsystems: the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System and the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System. The FWI…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Akerelrea, Smith, O'Keefe
Natural resource managers use a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate with the public about ecosystem dynamics and management practices. This study explored the effects of visualizing and animating predictions from mathematical models in presentations…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Finney
FlamMap is a fire analysis desktop application that runs in a 64-bit Windows Operating System environment. It can simulate potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.), fire growth and spread and conditional burn probabilities…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer, Butler
WindWizard is no longer supported by the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab as the underlying software is not readily available. Much of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling within the WindWizard framework was added to the WindNinja software.
WindWizard is a…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Larkin
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server that allows maps of ventilation potential to be…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andersen, McGaughey, Reutebuch
This study explores the use of airborne laser scanning (also known as light detection and ranging or LIDAR) and high-resolution imagery for estimating some forest structure and composition variables measured in Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots. LIDAR data have been…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The emergence of a new generation of high-resolution remote sensing systems in recent years potentially allows for more accurate and efficient estimation of crown fire behavior variables, pre-fire fuels loading, and burn intensity. LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) is an…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Three pairs of burned and recent unburned plots were established after the Noatak 2004 Uvgoon Cr (Fire #127 - A35A) to study the effects of tundra fires on vegetation and permafrost. Six plots (3 burned in 2004 and 3 'controls') were established. The goals of the study are to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of the NPS Alaska Fire Ecology Program is to understand the ecological effects of fire on the landscape. Information is collected and analyzed about the effects of fire on vegetation, fuels, soil, and wildlife habitat. Information is also collected on the fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Land cover geographic information system (GIS) data and a database associated with forest inventories conducted by the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) Forestry Program for 20 Interior Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Village Corporations over the last 18 years. The Microsoft…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Land cover geographic information (GIS) data and a database associated with forest inventories conducted by the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) Forestry Program for 2,600 individual Native allotments within Interior Alaska over the last 18 years. The Microsoft Access database…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES