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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hoyland, McHenry, Foster
Geodiversity elements contribute significantly to local and global hydrological, biogeochemical and ecosystem services and as such, fire is a potentially disruptive force with long-term implications. from limiting karstic speleothems formation, to compounding impacts of peat-…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ma, Hurtt, Tang, Lamb, Lister, Chini, Dubayah, Armston, Campbell, Duncanson, Healey, O'Neil-Dunne, Ott, Poulter, Shen
Forest carbon is a large and uncertain component of the global carbon cycle. An important source of complexity is the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation vertical structure and extent, which results from variations in climate, soils, and disturbances and influences both…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildland Fire Histomap - Learning from the past, preparing for the future. From the USFS Innovation and Organizational Learning Team, this histomap provides overviews and datasets of wildland fire accidents and incidents.
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Department of Interior (DOI) Office of Wildland Fire and USGS created the Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment Clearinghouse to meet the Monitoring, Maintenance, and Treatment Plan requirements under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). It provides an interactive…
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Cahoon, Sullivan, Gray
Boreal forest soils contain large stocks of soil carbon (C) that may be sensitive to changes in climate and disturbance. Destablization of boreal forest soil C through changes in C inputs, belowground C pools and/or wildfire could feedback to accelerate rising atmospheric CO2…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sorensen, House, O'Dell, Brey, Ford, Pierce, Fischer, Lemery, Crooks
Wildfire smoke is a growing public health concern in the United States. Numerous studies have documented associations between ambient smoke exposure and severe patient outcomes for single fire seasons or limited geographic regions. However, there are few national‐scale health…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Wees, Van der Werf, Randerson, Andela, Chen, Morton
Fires, among other forms of natural and anthropogenic disturbance, play a central role in regulating the location, composition and biomass of forests. Understanding the role of fire in global forest loss is crucial in constraining land‐use change emissions and the global carbon…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Fu, Hall, Hoy, Loboda
Satellite remote sensing has been widely used for the evaluation of wildfire burn severity in various ecosystems. While a variety of remote sensing-based burn severity indices have been developed, the Landsat-based differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) presents the most…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Miller, Greiner, Kooistra
To support improved wildfire incident decision-making, in 2017 the US Forest Service (Forest Service) implemented risk-informed tools and processes, together known as Risk Management Assistance (RMA). The Forest Service is developing tools such as RMA to improve wildfire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pérez-Cabello, Llovería, Alves
Wildfires substantially disrupt and reshape the structure, composition and functioning of ecosystems. Monitoring post-fire recovery dynamics is crucial for evaluating resilience and securing the relevant information that will enhance management and support ecosystem restoration…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayes, Buma
Increasing rates of short‐interval disturbances have the potential to rapidly transform ecosystems via shifts in post‐disturbance regeneration. While research has explored compound events in multiple biomes, we know little regarding how local site conditions interact with short‐…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O, Hou, Orth
Wildfires can destroy property and vegetation, thereby threatening people’s livelihoods and food security. Soil moisture and biomass are important determinants of wildfire hazard. Corresponding novel satellite-based observations therefore present an opportunity to better…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vitolo, Di Giuseppe, Barnard, SanMiguel-Ayanz, Libertà, Krzeminski
Forest fires are an integral part of the natural Earth system dynamics, however they are becoming more devastating and less predictable as anthropogenic climate change exacerbates their impacts. In order to advance fire science, fire danger reanalysis products can be used as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Canelles, Aquilué, James, Lawler, Brotons
Context
Forest landscapes worldwide are shaped by abiotic drivers such as fire, windstorms, and drought, but also by biotic drivers like insect pests and pathogens. Although the effects of such drivers on forest dynamics have been studied extensively, knowledge of the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ke, Wang, Zou, Song, Liu
The fire plume height (smoke injection height) is an important parameter for calculating the transport and lifetime of smoke particles, which can significantly affect regional and global air quality and atmospheric radiation budget. To develop an observation‐based global fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report assesses recent forest disturbance in the Western United States and discusses implications for sustainability. Individual chapters focus on fire, drought, insects, disease, invasive plants, and socioeconomic impacts. Disturbance data came from a variety of sources,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Massman
With the increasing frequency and severity of fire, there is an increasing desire to better manage fuels and minimize, as much as possible, the impacts of fire on soils and other natural resources. Piling and/or burning slash is one method of managing fuels and reducing the risk…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larsen, Hanigan, Reich, Qin, Cope, Morgan, Rappold
Background
Wildland fire (wildfire; bushfire) pollution contributes to poor air quality, a risk factor for premature death. The frequency and intensity of wildfires are expected to increase; improved tools for estimating exposure to fire smoke are vital. New-generation satellite…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowman, Kolden, Abatzoglou, Johnston, Van der Werf, Flannigan
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental damage. Contemporary fire regimes are increasingly impacted by human activities and climate change, but, owing…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Watts
The 193 million acres managed by the Forest Service play a significant role in the United States’ mitigation of climate change by serving the dual role of removing carbon from the atmosphere and providing long-term carbon storage. In acknowledgment of the importance of these…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kooistra, Schultz, Huber-Stearns, Abrams, Greiner, Sinkular
In 2018, in response to calls from Congress to accelerate cross-boundary fire hazard reduction and improve forest resilience, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) published the Shared Stewardship Strategy (USFS 2018). The document emphasizes partnership with the states, Tribes, and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
This AFSC Researh Brief reviews several recent papers, projects and conference presentations to gain a synthetic understanding of forest composition change in Alaska and whether the predicted shift toward hardwood forests is occurring.
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kramer, Jones
This webinar mini-series will inform discussions for a breakout session on Climate change and extreme hydrologic events: A temporal perspective on carbon fluxes across the aquatic continuum (March 19, 2021, 4:30-6 pm EST) at the 7th NACP Open Science Meeting being held on Friday…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wright
This seminar is part of the University of Idaho's Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences 2021 Spring Semester Seminar Series.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES