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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smith, Randall, Ryan, Saveland
This proposal addresses Tasks 1 & 2 of Joint Fire Sciences AFP 2003-4: Develop information structures, tools, or decision support systems for accessing, disseminating, and applying wildland fire and fuels research results ... Produce readily understandable and useable…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Evaluation of Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Mitigation Methods and Development of Decision-Support Tools
The production of debris flows can be one of the most hazardous consequences of wildfires in the urban/wildland interface. Debris flows can occur with little warning, are capable of transporting large material over relatively gentle gradients, and may develop momentum and impact…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Abt
Decades of fire suppression in fire-prone forested regions of the western and southern United States has created conditions favorable for catastrophic wildfires. Systematic stand density reduction through mechanical methods or a combination of mechanical methods and prescribed…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Elliot, Pierson, Wohlgemuth
The specific objectives to accomplish this goal are: 1. To adapt existing technology and incorporate new information into an integrated management tool for predicting erosion risk from fire and fuel management practices. 2. To determine hillslope characteristics that govern dry…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Maus
Mapping bum severity after wildfire events has been the focus of burn rehabilitation crews for decades. Burn severity can vary depending upon the type of fuel present and the duration of the fire in a given location, typically, burn severity is mapped as high, medium, or low.…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Edminster, Swetnam
Forum: Bring together key decision makers, information providers, researchers, and managers to discuss climate implications for management of forest fire hazards and prescribed burning. Consensus Climate Forecast. Climate forecast experts will present their latest seasonal…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Adams, Dale, Mann, Vanderlinden
Interior Alaska contains 140 million burnable acres and includes the largest National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges in the country. On average, wildland fires burn 1,000,000 acres in Interior Alaska each year and threaten the lives, property, and timber resources of Alaska…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Arbaugh, Chew, Jones, Kimberlin, Kurz, Merzenich, Snell, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala
Project Objectives: In addition to the 4 original objectives, we will: 1. Develop the data necessary to parameterize the 3 models for a selected site in Alaska. 2. Simulate potential fuel treatments for the Alaskan site. 3. Examine and model fire-size and landscape fragmentation…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler
This proposal outlines a request for funding to pay for equipment and travel costs incurred by a team that can be rapidly deployed to obtain measurements of energy transfer as naturally burning fires burn into and around clearings that may be characterized as firefighter safety…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Eberhardt
Knowing the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics, and potential fuel consumption and emissions production is becoming increasingly important for making informed decisions on the use of prescribed fire, wildfires and wildland fire use fires. Consequently the Joint…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Moore
The DEASCO3 project will produce analytical results and a dynamic and accessible technical tool which enables Federal Land Managers (FLM) to participate more fully in ozone air quality planning efforts. We will turn complex technical analyses of a series of well-chosen historic…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
The International Association of Wildland Fires (IAWF) 4th Fire Behavior and Fuels Management Conference will take place late February or early March in North Carolina. The IAWFs mission is to facilitate communication and provide leadership for the wildland fire community. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zeller, Mathewson, Nikolov
Reliable forecasting of regional weather and wind flow patterns is critical for effective fighting of wildland fires and the operational management of prescribed burns. Accurate prediction of future wind fields is essential for predicting fire behavior; smoke dispersion, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Ferguson, Wilson
We propose to develop training resources to facilitate application of the BlueSky modeling framework and its Rapid Access Information System (RAINS) to Smoke and Fire Management and Operations. BlueSkyRAINS, developed under the National Fire Plan in cooperation with the…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Key, Ohlen
This proposal responds to Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Request for Proposals 2001-1, Task 4. Specifically, the proposed research is in direct response to JFSP statements that research is needed to 'develop, apply, and validate improved remote sensing applications for…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Bradshaw, Butler
The following constitutes a proposal submitted in response to JFSP RFP 2003-2 Task-i. One major source of uncertainty in fire behavior predictions is spatial variation in the wind fields used in the fire models. Mountainsides, valleys, ridges, and the fire itself, influence both…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Calkin, Jones
The increased scrutiny of all wildfire related expenditures requires improvements in cost-benefit accounting systems including methods to assess values-at-risk downstream of burned areas. Working under very tight timelines, Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) teams are…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Martinson
This proposal responds to Task 1 of the second Announcement for Proposals (AFP) authorized by the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board in 2003, which calls for projects that would obtain time-sensitive information following wildland fire incidents related to the effects of…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McIver
In response to Joint Fire Science Program RFA 2012-4 (Dataset Archival Task), this proposal seeks funding in the amount of $9,982 to gather, prepare, document, and archive the complete dataset for the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS). The FFS dataset will be…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
González-Cabán
In the spring of 2008, the Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: A World View was held in Carolina, Puerto Rico to address the issues related to the economics, policy and planning of wildland fire management problems and concerns. Since then,…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Smith
This project supports the identification and organization of data from early fire behavior experiments with particular emphasis on radiative and convective spread mechanisms. These pivotal experiments were conducted at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory from the early 1960s…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Acheson, Finney, Hicks
Wildland fires are a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants to the atmosphere. The new EPA Clean Air Act and the Regional Haze Rule require quantifying accurately the emissions of PM2.5 and other pollutants from fires and their impacts on regional haze and…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Babbitt, Ferguson, Lahm, Ottmar, Sandberg, Susott, Yokelson
Project Objectives For at least 5 different major classes of fuels typically involved in residual smoldering combustion (RSC) and two different moisture content conditions dispersed over at least 10 different sites. Four of these will be in the western USA, 3 in the southeast, 2…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Riggan
The goals of this proposal are to extend an existing JFSP Rapid Response Study (JFSP# 03-S-al) for an additional twelve-month period. Additional funding requested will provide the opportunity for two additional full deployments of the Rapid Response Team, including the airborne…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Bradshaw, Running
Real-time monitoring and predictive models of vegetation phenology will be developed to assess the current state of greenness of live vegetation as well as predict the timing of greenup and senescence events as a result of future climates. The real-time monitor will be based on…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES