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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wotton
Mike Wotton's current research focuses on the development of fuel moisture, fire occurrence and fire behaviour models for use in daily operational fire management activities as well as in the development of climate change impacts scenarios. His doctoral thesis developed a…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Roise, Khorran, Lutes
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Joe Roise of the North Carolina State University, Siamak Khorram of the University of California, Berkeley, and Duncan Lutes with the USDA Forest Service. This webinar presented an introduction to some recent interdisciplinary…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
On May 19th 2014 the Funny River fire started on the western side of Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Over the next five days the fire grew to nearly 200,000 acres, burning four structures and two outbuildings. There were also thousands of homes in the direct path of the fire.…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Heilman
Smoke generated from low-intensity prescribed fires used for fuels management can have an adverse impact on local air quality, raising human health and safety concerns especially in wildland-urban-interface areas. Local smoke behavior is a complex process and is highly dependent…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reiner, Ewell
Ali Reiner and Carol Ewell presented a webinar on June 10, 2014. Fire behavior and effects models are frequently used to inform fire and land management decisions despite a lack of testing against field measurements. The Adaptive Management Services Enterprise Team (AMSET, USFS…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kinder, Hao
Since 2010, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has been coordinating a USDA multi-agency program to conduct an emissions inventory of black carbon from fires and burning in Russia, examine transport of black carbon from these sources to the Arctic, and identify and implement…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kahn
Satellite remote sensing is generally the most practical way to measure aerosol amount and type frequently, over large areas. However, aerosol remote sensing is especially challenging in the polar regions, due to the combination of very bright surface, low sun angle, persistent…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Quinn
Black carbon is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. When BC is deposited on snow and ice, it darkens an otherwise bright surface. The darker surface may enhance the absorption of solar radiation resulting in an acceleration of snow and ice…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ward
In this presentation, Eric Ward discussed several types of injuries or medical emergencies that could occur during prescribed fire or similar operations. He focused on areas in which a lay rescuer can make a difference by those things they do - or do not do - or those…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by USDA Forest Service Air Resource Specialist Pete Lahm. This webinar presented an introduction to the six components of the USFS-NRCS Basic Smoke Management Practices.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Shankar
Smoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke from wildfires in the future may be more intense and widespread, demanding that methods be developed to address its effects on people, ecosystems, and the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Jennifer Barnes, Regional Fire Ecologist for the National Park Service (NPS) in Alaska shared information about fire regime and fire return intervals using plot data and photos from NPS long-term monitoring plots around the state. She shared examples of short fire return…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Richardson
See how today's Colorado State FMO for the BLM and IC for the Rocky Mtn. Type 2 IMT (Team A) got there in this 13-minute video.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Evans
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar presented by Jennifer Evans, Prescribed Fire Extension Specialist with the North Carolina State University Extension Forestry program. This webinar introduced material contained within a newly developed integrated curriculum package on wildland…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Spak
This webinar was presented by Dr. Scott Spak.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein, Sorbel, Ziel
The Webinar on March 5, 2014 was organized by the Alaska Fire Modeling Applications Committee and hosted by Alaska Fire Science Consortium. Three fire analysts discuss the good, the bad and the ugly from their experiences modeling several Alaska fires in the Wildland Fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Domitrovich, Parks, Jacobs, Symonds
Over the past few years, there has been a marked increase in cases of Rhabdomyolysis aka 'Rhabdo', Compartment Syndrome and Heat Illness. As a wildland firefighter or supervisor, do you know what to look for? Are these conditions linked or can they occur individually? In this…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Odman
Talat Odman presented a webinar on March 4, 2014. Smoke from wildland fires can have adverse impacts on visibility and also on public health. Models are available for simulating the dispersion, long-range transport, and chemical evolution of fire plumes and predicting their…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Preisler
Haiganoush Preisler talks about her work modeling very large fires over very large areas. She is a research scientist and statistician with the USFS PSW Research Station and lead author on the attached paper. You can find out more about her work at: http://www.wfas.net/index.…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
Casey Sullivan provided an overview of the National Weather Service fire weather forecast program and discussed elements of the fire weather forecast available to any fire practitioner. The hourly weather graph and definitions of surface winds was emphasized.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Polley
We presented a webinar on March 5 by Dr. Wayne Polley, scientist with the Agricultural Research Service. Climate change discussions often gloss over the Great Plains, but Dr. Polley will focus on predictions for rangelands in the Great Plains. Climate change science predicts…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nolan
Dr. Matt Nolan is a Research Associate Professor at UAF's Institute of Northern Engineering with degrees in geophysics and arctic and mechanical engineering. He has been pioneering new high-tech uses of an old tool-the aerial photo. With new advances in computer processing and…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Liu
Yong Liu presented a webinar on February 19, 1 PM MST. Plume height is one of the smoke properties that fire and air quality managers need to estimate in order to determine how much pollutants emitted from a prescribed burn are transported to remote populated areas from the burn…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hargrove
ForWarn is an online near real-time satellite-based forest monitoring and assessment tool, that detects and tracks potential disturbances in forests across the conterminous U.S. by producing new national forest change products every eight days. ForWarn works by comparing a…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCollum, Bohlin
What is Climate Change? How will our changing climate impact seasonal weather conditions across the Southwest? This webinar was hosted by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium (http://swfireconsortium.org) and was presented to prepare attendees of the 'Fostering resilience in…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES