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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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DeFries, Smith, Miller
Through a unique multi-agency partnership, the Village of Tanacross was able to implement a shaded fuel break around the community in 2001. In May of 2010, this fuels treatment was put to the test by the Eagle Trail Fire. Although the fuel break was not impacted directly by the…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schmoll
The 2009 Nenana Ridge Prescribed Burn proved to be a successful but complex operational and logistical accomplishment. Lessons learned from the fire management perspective include effectiveness of the treatments, specifications for future fuel treatments, operational…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
The Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment Project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program and designed to quantify the effects of fuels reduction treatments on fire behavior and post-fire vegetation dynamics in Alaska black spruce. This project began in 2006 with…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Fuel moistures samples along with along with duff (forest floor) consumption measurements were collected before and after the Nenana Ridge Prescribed Research Burn. These results are important as forest floor biomass and moisture are key components of fire in boreal ecosystems…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Butler
Fire proof camera boxes and sensor packages (designed to collect data on air temperature, heat energy transfer, and air flow) were installed to monitor fire behavior for the Nenana Ridge Research Burn. Aerial infrared images (used to sense heat) were also collected from a…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
The Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment Project is designed to quantify the effects of fuels reduction treatments (thinning and shearblading) on fire behavior and post-fire vegetation dynamics in Alaska black spruce. On June 17th, 2009, one unit within the Nenana Ridge…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Drury
The web-based Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) was designed to provide fire and fuels managers with a single software solution to manage the many data, software applications, and tools available for fuels treatment planning. The Joint Fire Science…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Charcoal deposits collected from lake sediment in Noatak and the Seward Peninsula were used to quantify fire return intervals in tundra ecosystems and examine the relationships between fire, vegetation, and climate.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Trainor, Hrobak
The Alaska Consortium is part of a national effort to improve technology transfer between management and researchers. The consortium is gearing up for several upcoming events, including the annual workshop.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
The ALFRESCO model has been utilized to project a landscape level shift to a largely deciduous dominated vegetation type, given current climate trends of increased warming and drying. This research presentation was presented to the JFSP Board September 1, 2010 in Fairbanks,…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Walsh
In general, all climate prediction models are projecting continued increases in seasonal temperatures. Precipitation is also predicted to increase, though the impact on Alaska seems relatively minor. Alaska will most likely experience a drier environment, particularly in the…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Johnstone
Fire acts as a catalyst and a driver of change. There is a very critical and sensitive post-fire window where fire severity strongly affects seedling recruitment patterns. Climate change could tip this sensitive transition and impact the dominate vegetation type on a large scale…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jones
Greg Jones presented a webinar on using biomass for bioenergy. The greenhouse gas and particulate matter emissions from delivering and burning forest treatment residue biomass in a boiler for thermal energy are compared with onsite disposal by pile-burning and using various…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
Atmospheric circulation patterns influence seasonal temperature and precipitation across large regions of Alaska. This experimental fire prediction tool uses this information to produce a forecast of area burned in Interior Alaska (i.e. South of the Brooks Range and North of the…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kolden
Considerable evidence exists that climate impacts wildfires and that climate change will continue to provide challenges for fire management. For fire managers, a key step in meeting those challenges is to identify ways to utilize climate information in order to both mitigate…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Neill
Stress complexes in Western forests are affected by a warmer climate, that is the interaction of fire, drought, insects, etc. can alter the vigor of forest ecosystems and potentially change their structure and function. This webinar will cover the concepts and present several…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Abatzoglou, Martin
The topics discussed include the role of using climate and climate change information for fire management. Examples will be provided of sources of climate information, and how this and climate change information is being considered for use in fire management. Presentations will…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
Mediasite video presentation given by Miriam Rorig, (USFS, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab) at the 2011 Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ on March 9, 2011. New models and advances in smoke modeling, such as BlueSky, a modeling framework that links a variety…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fay, Bastian, Nelson, Natharius, Peterson, Lundberg, Dillon, Long, Rollins, Reeves, Smail, Kurth, Ohlen, Martin, Smith, Napoli, Sorbel, Henderson
This two part webinar series focused on LANDFIRE National products that are currently available to Alaska. The scope and schedule of the LANDFIRE Refresh project will also be briefly discussed along with many other interesting topics. Part 1 of the webinar series focused on: A)…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hawkes
The southwest Yukon is currently experiencing a widespread outbreak of spruce bark beetle, creating an extensive area of standing dead trees. With the increased level of fire risk, monitoring fuel treatment effectiveness, especially in terms of reducing crown fire spread, has…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone
Current changes in climate are likely to cause changes to the fire regime in Alaska and other boreal regions. How are projected changes in fire regime likely to affect the composition of boreal forests? This presentation summarized research in interior Alaska and adjacent Yukon…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Harriman
The fifth webinar in this series covered data access, tools, and recent terrain data releases
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Guay, Weber
Part 3 of this series covered: Remote sensing indices (NDVI, NBR); Post fire planning (BAER); Demo of RECOVER Decision Support System.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCullum
The second in this series covered: Satellite data processing levels; Satellites and sensors for wildfire applications (Landsat, MODIS, MERRA, SMAP); Satellite data products and tools for data access for national and global wildfire applications (LANDFIRE, FIRMS: web fire mapper…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt
This webinar covered the following subjects: Applied Science Program and ARSET; Course structure/objectives/outline; Overview of global wildfire issues, How RS is used for wildfire (examples); Advantages and disadvantages of remote sensing; Fundamentals of remote sensing (…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES