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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Gill
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Van der Werf, Randerson, Collatz, Kasibhatla
We present a method for estimating monthly burned area globally at 1 degrees spatial resolution using Terra MODIS data and ancillary vegetation cover information. Using regression trees constructed for 14 different global regions, MODIS active fire observations were calibrated…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giddings
Tree-ring data were obtained in 1942 from nine groups of living Spruce trees situated at about 50-mile intervals along the Yukon River, and from one group on the Kuskokwim River, Alaska. Particular attention is given to the significance of temperature as a factor influencing…
Year: 1943
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Barney, Sheets
Comparative tests in Alaska of (a) a thickened NH4 phosphate liquid fire retardant (Phos-Check 202) and (b) two liquid concentrate retardants (Fire-Trol 930 and Fire-Trol 934) showed that (b) can be successfully dropped by tanker aircraft on the Alaskan type of forest fuel, but…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gedalof, Smith
In this paper we review the ecology and physiology of mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) CarriFre) in the context of a dendroclimatological analysis. To better understand the relationship between mountain hemlock growth and climate variability throughout its range we…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Calkin, Yoder
The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gebert, Schuster, Hesseln
Our study tested the hypothesis that a 24-hour pay system would help control the rising cost of fire suppression and improve firefighter safety. Under this system, emergency firefighting employees would receive their regular base pay 24 hours a day, regardless of the length of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Schuster
This study estimates the overall percentage difference in total personnel compensation between the current pay system for forest fire suppression and a system of 24-hour pay, where employees are paid their regular rate of pay for 24 hours per day while on fire duty. Using a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gavin, Hallett, Hu, Lertzman, Prichard, Brown, Lynch, Bartlein, Peterson
Millennial-scale records of forest fire provide important baseline information for ecosystem management, especially in regions with too few recent fires to describe the historical range of variability. Charcoal records from lake sediments and soil profiles are well suited for…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gasaway, Dubois, Boertje, Reed, Simpson
Responses of radio-collared moose (Alces alces) to a 500-km2 burn in central Alaska were described using prefire and postfire movements. Moose with low prefire contact with the burned area increased use following the fire. Increased use resulted from moose shifting home ranges…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gasaway, Dubois
The initial response of seven radio-collared Moose (Alces alces) to wildfire was investigated to determine if Moose were displaced from the burned portion of their home ranges. Home ranges of these Moose overlapped a 500-km2 fire that burned from 3 May-20 June 1980 in interior…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gasaway, Dubois, Brink
Dispersal of 1- to 3-year-old moose from a low density, but rapidly growing, moose population was investigated. Radio-collars were placed on 17 offspring of previously radio-collared adult cows. Comparison of home ranges of independent off spring and their respective dams…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garfinkel, Brubaker
Statistical comparisons between tree-ring width sequences and climatic records provide a means of identifying climatic limitations on tree growth and allow the reconstruction of past climates. This information is especially important in the North American sub-Arctic where…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garcia, Carignan
We measured total Hg and stable isotopes (d13C and d15N) in northern pike (Esox lucius) from 19 Boreal Shield lakes with undisturbed, logged, or burned watersheds. Average Hg level in standard 560-mm northern pike, on a dry weight basis, was significantly higher in logged lakes…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gara, Werner, Whitmore, Holsten
The impact of competitors, parasites and predators on spruce beetle Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby) broods was studied at an endemic population site near Fairbanks, Alaska, as well as at an epidemic area near Summit Lake and Cooper Landing. Logs of white spruce, Picea glauca (…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gara, Holsten
Preliminary biological studies of arctic Scolytidae were carried out during a scientific expedition of northwestern Alaska. Eight scolytid species were found associated with Picea glauca and a significant range extension for Dendroctonus punctatus was noted. Ips borealis host…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furyaev, Pleshikov, Zlobina, Furyaev
Climate warming from north to south along the Yenisei meridian causes an increase in the frequency and severity of forest fires and a simultaneous decrease in the mean intervals between fires. The pyrological regimes characteristic of each subzone emissions, and the regeneration…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCammon
Fuel moisture at the beginning of the fire season was evaluated by following the seasonal trend of moisture content of large forest fuels under a snowpack. Moisture contents at three sites throughout the period of snow cover provided data for linear regression models. The fuels…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Tian, Liu
Description not entered.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu
This study analyzes spatial and temporal variability of emissions from wildland fires across the contiguous US. The emissions are estimates based on a recently constructed dataset of historical fire records collected by multiple US governmental agencies. Both wildfire and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kellomäki
A forest is a system, which intercepts solar energy under the control of climatic, weather and edaphic factors and the genetic properties of trees and other organisms occupying forest habitats. The interlinks among these organisms are dynamic, and this is the key to the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Burgan, van Wagtendonk
Fuel maps are essential for computing spatial fire hazard and risk and simulating fire growth and intensity across a landscape. However, fuel mapping is an extremely difficult and complex process requiring expertise in remotely sensed image classification, fire behavior, fuels…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gillett, Weaver, Zwiers, Flannigan
The area burned by forest fires in Canada has increased over the past four decades, at the same time as summer season temperatures have warmed. Here we use output from a coupled climate model to demonstrate that human emissions of greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol have made a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gillean
An account of a portable system comprising two 6-ft long antennae, a receiver and a plotter which can detect and locate cloud-to-ground lightning strokes within a 200-mile radius. The system worked well in tests in Alaska.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furniss, Baker, Werner, Yarger
The antiaggregation pheromone MCH was ineffective in preventing spruce beetle infestation in felled spruce near Hope, Alaska. The lack of reduction in spruce beetle attacks in treated trees is thought to involve a lower than desired elution rate of MCH. Cooler temperatures in…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES