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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The fires that ravaged Yellowstone National Park in 1988 were large and severe, but they were still within the normal limits of fire regimes in the West. Following those fires 30 years ago, University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor of Integrative Biology, Monica Turner,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm
Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Land managers are challenged to protect cultural resources within the context of reintroducing fire on the landscape. Positive relationships and partnerships are essential to effective management.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reid, Dodd
In the past few decades, wildfire activity has increased in the western United States and Canada, and can be attributed, at least in part, to a changing climate. The air pollution from wildfires has been associated with increased risk of exacerbations of respiratory disease,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Demonstration of the Tinker Tree Derby with different shaped tree crowns.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Demonstration of the Matchstick Forest Model with different stand densities.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Demonstration of the Matchstick Forest Model with different slopes.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Watch a serotinous Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine cone heat up and open.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm
Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
The Alaska Region achieves a unique resonance of natural hazards spanning the surface to the top of the troposphere and civilian/multi-agency activities impacted directly by them. The remote and data sparse expanses of this region elevate the value to forecasters of satellite-…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lojewski
As forests grow, the trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and store it within their growing biomass (trunk, branches, leaves and root systems). A “forest carbon offset,” is a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e)—the emission of which is avoided…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This video is an introduction on how to manage wildland fuels. The objectives of this video are to: 1) Define wildland fuel management; 2) Explain how fuels are modified; 3) Describe some common desired outcomes; 4) Introduce fuel management in the Wildland Urban Interface; 5)…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mullan
This presentation will show the connection between air quality and our changing environment including work done by ANTHC, the role of the National Tribal Air Association (NTAA) and the roles and goals of the Alaska representatives.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Norman
Presented by Steve Norman, USFS Southern Research Station, and sponsored by the US Forest Service, Research and Development. The Landscape Science Webinar Series occurs monthly on a Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern providing a forum to communicate research findings, promote awareness of…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt, McCullum, Picotte
This session will provide an overview of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) and a hands-on demonstration on the use of the GWIS viewer. GWIS is an online web application that uses remotely sensed wildfire data. This data includes fire danger, wildfire locations,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fresco
Climate change data - and future projections of related impacts - are crucial to community planners, land managers, and indeed all the people of Alaska. We depend on the landscape and its resources, and that landscape is changing. But raw data, even if freely shared, is only…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Picotte
Certain areas are experiencing longer fire seasons, with more frequent and severe droughts. Wildfire detection, monitoring, and mitigation is increasingly important in these regions. Satellite remote sensing data is useful for identifying active fires, evaluating burned areas,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thoman
The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful forecasts at the month and longer range. Subjects reviewed include recent climate conditions around Alaska, some forecast tools, and the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
O'Neill
Presentation to the 33rd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/12th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium/Fourth Conference on Biogeosciences. This presentation focuses on emission factors for wildland fire fuels.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Twelfth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, was held 15-18 May 2018 at the Boise Centre, downtown Boise, Idaho. It was concurrently held with the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kremens
The energy flow from a wildland fire is the most important measurable physical quantity. If we understand the time history of the energy flows, we can derive all other fire behavior and fire effects parameters. Dr. Bob Kremens will describe the difficulties in measuring the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dotson, Carroll
Is the risk of death the same when implementing "planned events"? What do the numbers we have as well as some specific events have say about that? Travis Dotson will provide prescribed fire practitioners a few specific elements to consider related to this topic and lessons…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Miller, Moore
Organized by the Alaska Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee. Presented by Eric Miller, Chris Moore, and Robert (Zeke) Ziel.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stuefer, Starkweather, Brubaker
These presentations highlight existing wildfire forecasting tools, especially resources that can be used by communities to aid in preparedness efforts. Speakers discuss existing tools and provide examples of their use in communities or their potential applications if not…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Barnes, Stratton
"WFDSS Analyses: Getting Ready for the 2017 Season" webinar on May 17, 2017, organized by the Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee and presented by Rick Stratton, Jennifer Barnes, and Robert Ziel.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES