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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jandt
Research brief on wildfire interaction with invassive weeds
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Baughman, Jones, Jandt
Our understanding of tundra fire effects in Northern Alaska is limited because fires have been relatively rare. We sampled a 70+ year-old burn visible in a 1948 aerial photograph for vegetation composition and structure, soil attributes, terrain rugosity, and thermokarst pit…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Li, Zhang
To tackle the problem of missed detections in long-range detection scenarios caused by the small size of forest fire targets, initiatives have been undertaken to enhance the feature extraction and detection precision of models designed for forest fire imagery. In this study, two…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boyd, Walker, Barnes, Celis, Goetz, Johnstone, Link, Melvin, Saperstein, Schuur, Mack
Wildfire activity is increasing in boreal forests as climate warms and dries, increasing risks to rural and urban communities. In black spruce forests of Interior Alaska, fuel reduction treatments are used to create a defensible space for fire suppression and slow fire spread.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kabeshita, Sloat, Fischer, Kampf, Magzamen, Schultz, Wilkins, Kinnebrew, Mueller
Wildfires are a growing concern to society and the environment in many parts of the world. Within the United States, the land area burned by wildfires has steadily increased over the past 40 years. Agricultural land management is widely understood as a force that alters fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pietruszka, Young, Short, St. Denis, Thompson, Calkin
Background: Current guidance for implementation of United States federal wildland fire policy charges agencies with restoring and maintaining fire-adapted ecosystems while limiting the extent of wildfires that threaten life and property, weighed against the risks posed to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tanada, Murakami, Hayasaka, Yoshida
To understand the climate impact of the wildfires, it is essential to monitor the aerosol emissions from biomass burning and to estimate their optical properties and radiative forcing. This study analyzed wildfires in Brazil, Angola, Australia, California, Siberia, and South-…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bokhtier, Crawford, Shahroudi
In this paper, we report our progress on integrating a model-based system engineering methodology with a system architectural trade study applied to flight control systems of a locally owned and operated, cost effective Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) design utilizing the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zema, Lucas-Borja
Prescribed fires are one of the most effective tools to reduce the risk of wildfires but this treatment may negatively affect the hydrological and erosive response of soil, with noticeable increases in surface runoff and soil erosion. Many studies have been published on this…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santos, Bailey, Schweitzer
Fire is an inherently evolutionary process, even though much more emphasis has been given to ecological responses of plants and their associated communities to fire.
Here, we synthesize contributions to a Special Feature entitled 'Fire as a dynamic ecological and evolutionary…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tripathy, Mukherjee, Mishra, Mann, Williams
Compound drought and heatwave (CDHW) events have garnered increased attention due to their significant impacts on agriculture, energy, water resources, and ecosystems. We quantify the projected future shifts in CDHW characteristics (such as frequency, duration, and severity) due…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires in Australia: a bibliometric analysis and a glimpse on 'Black Summer' (2019/2020) disaster
A wildfire, an unplanned fire that is mainly uncontrolled and originates in combustible vegetation in rural or urban settings, is one of the most pervasive natural catastrophes in some areas, such as Siberia, California and Australia. Many studies, such as standard reviews, have…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Historically inconsistent productivity and respiration fluxes in the global terrestrial carbon cycle
The terrestrial carbon cycle is a major source of uncertainty in climate projections. Its dominant fluxes, gross primary productivity (GPP), and respiration (in particular soil respiration, RS), are typically estimated from independent satellite-driven models and upscaled in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cornwall
For decades, eastern Oregon’s scablands - rocky patches of open terrain - were a refuge for people fighting wildfires in the surrounding forests. The thin soil and sparse vegetation offered little fuel for the flames, creating an oasis from which firefighters could operate and a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoffman, Moody, Bovbjerg, Callis, Snauer
Background: Medical services for wildland fire incidents are vital and fire personnel need to be comfortable seeking care and have adequate access to care.
Aims: The aim of this study was to examine wildland firefighters’ (WLFFs) attitudes towards, opinions of and experiences…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dale, Barrett
[Executive Summary] Wildfire risk has many dimensions – for example, fires can impact ecosystems and wildlife, and smoke increases greenhouse gas emissions. However, this research report is narrowly focused on the effectiveness of specific governmental policies to reduce risk to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howell, Belmont, McAllister, Finney
Wildfire spread models that couple physical transport and chemical kinetics sometimes simplify or neglect gas-phase pyrolysis product oxidation chemistry. However, empirical evidence suggests that oxygen (O2) is available for gas-phase and solid-phase combustion within the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wu, Scully-Allison, Carthen, Garcia, Hoang, Lewis, Quijada, Smith, Dascalu, Harris
Wildfires are a common and devastating event that impacts ecosystems and communities yearly. Fire experts rely on simulations to better understand how to mitigate the damage they cause and respond to live threats. Many available fire simulation tools and libraries do not produce…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zeller, Lewison, Fletcher, Tulbure, Jennings
Landscape connectivity is increasingly promoted as a conservation tool to combat the negative effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and climate change. Given its importance as a key conservation strategy, connectivity science is a rapidly growing discipline. However, most…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vant-Hull, Koshak
The horizontal storm structure surrounding 92,512 lightning-ignited wildfires is examined in the mid to eastern sections of the United States from 2003 to 2015 using Vaisala’s National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), NCEP’s Stage IV gauge-corrected radar precipitation mosaic…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jacobs, Dumroese, Brennan, Campbell, Conrad, Delborne, Fitzsimmons, Flores, Giardina, Greenwood, Martín, Merkle, Nelson, Newhouse, Powell, Romero-Severson, Showalter, Sniezko, Strauss, Westbrook, Woodcock
Introduced pests (insects and pathogens) have rapidly increased the numbers of at-risk native forest tree species worldwide. Some keystone species have been functionally extirpated, resulting in severe commercial and ecological losses. When efforts to exclude or mitigate pests…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rodriguez-Franco, Page-Dumroese, Archuleta
New approaches to managing climate change uncertainty rely on integrating innovative forest management practices with adaptive management techniques and robust decision-support strategies. Forest management alternatives for a changing climate can enhance ecosystem health and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Iwata, Ueyama, Harazono, Kobayashi, Ikawa, Busey, Iwahana, Euskirchen
Background: The Drought Code (DC) of the Canadian Fire Weather Index System (CFWIS) has been intuitively regarded by fire managers in Alaska, USA, as poorly representing the moisture content in the forest floor in lowland taiga forests on permafrost soils.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The NWCG Standards for Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface establishes the standards for understanding and implementation of concepts, issues, and best practices to increase community fire adaptation. This publication is designed to:
Support common understanding.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Goldberg, Wilcox, Buckley, Parr, Linck, Fountain, Schwartz
Fire regimes are a major agent of evolution in terrestrial animals. Changing fire regimes and the capacity for rapid evolution in wild animal populations suggests the potential for rapid, fire-driven adaptive animal evolution in the Pyrocene. Fire drives multiple modes of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES