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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Vavra, Cook, Wisdom
Landscape Fire Succession Models (LFSMs) are not able to account for influences that large grazing herbivores have on succession and fuel dynamics. Grazing is nevertheless a highly variable disturbance agent that does influence the development of wild land fuels, and thus by…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Loehman
Climate projections for the next 20-50 years forecast higher temperatures and variable precipitation for many landscapes in the western United States and many ecosystem and fire modelers are using gridded future climate data generated and synthesized from one or more Global…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Gould, González, Hudak
Landscape fragmentation creates an increasingly complex environment in which to manage forests in the United States. The effects of fragmentation on productivity, mortality, and decomposition in forests vary with fragment size, forest type, and climate. Fragmentation can affect…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Mann
Land managers face unique challenges in Alaska. Most of the boreal forest is currently managed as wilderness. Though largely free of direct human impacts, the boreal forest grows in a region that is now experiencing significant climate changes. In addition, the fire ecology of…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sommers, Coloff, Conard
The proposed research will deliver a synthesis of Fire History information in relation to Climate Change (FHCC), which will include guidance for managers on how this information can be considered in making decisions. The synthesis and supporting literature knowledge base will be…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
In order to define the fire regime in Kenai NWR black spruce forests, a detailed fire and climate history study was undertaken. Utilizing techniques of dendrochronology I dated fire scars, and dated the outer-rings of fire-killed trees (burn poles) within areas of unknown fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A number of studies have been conducted to examine relationships between climate, fire and the growth and reproduction of dominant boreal tree species in Alaska.
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Larkin
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server that allows maps of ventilation potential to be…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
These symposia are designed to share experiences and new or changing techniques and technologies in weather and climate affecting fire, fuels, and smoke. The symposia began as a collaboration between the Society of American Foresters and the American Meteorological Society over…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This project synthesizes boreal forest research comparing long-term records of white spruce radial growth, seed production, climate data, and fire records to better understand growth and reproduction. Interior Alaska alternates between one- to four-decade-long periods with…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
High-latitude forests provide important feedbacks to global climate. The treeline margin between tundra and forest should be a particularly sensitive environment in which to detect climate change effects. Analysis of tree ring samples from 1155 trees older than 100 years…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This study examined the climate/growth relationship and factors that best promote and most limit growth of black spruce and Alaska birch at some sites around Interior Alaska. Birch had two opposite growth responses: positive responders grow more in warm summers, less in cool…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The boreal forest is a natural climate-driven system, but with recent warming over the past several decades, it is important to distinguish climate change (warming) effect from natural variability of this system. This project overlaps with other projects that are determining…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System Seasonal Fire Risk Forecasts (Wildland fire management agencies are increasingly interested in more long-term forecasts of fire business. Several short-term fire potential assessments are currently available ranging from Wildland Fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This conference was held in conjunction with the Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, November 16-20, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. Land management agencies and organizations and private landholders are increasingly faced with the complex issues of wildland fire, such as…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
FROSTFIRE was a landscape-scale prescribed research burn in the boreal forest of interior Alaska that occurred July 8-15, 1999. Within the 2200-acre perimeter, fire mimicked natural conditions by burning 900 acres of mostly black spruce, leaving the hardwoods standing. Boreal…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The boreal forest of interior Alaska contains approximately 60 million burnable hectares. Fire is the dominant disturbance mechanism and statistical modeling has shown that for the period 1950-2003 roughly 80% of the inter-annual variability in the logarithm of area burned in…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Fire is the keystone disturbance in the Alaskan boreal forest and is highly influenced by summer weather patterns. Records from 1950-2003 reveal high variability in the annual area burned in Alaska and corresponding high variability in weather occurring at multiple spatial and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
In order to assess the impact of forecast climate change on the structure and function of the Alaskan boreal forest, the interactions among climate, fire and vegetation need to be quantified. The results of this work demonstrate that monthly weather and teleconnection indices…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This research program is documenting the changing role of fire, particularly as affected by human activities, on the Arctic Climate System and its human residents, with specific focus on Alaska and the Yukon Territory. The program will assess the changing role of human…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Duffy, Olson, Chen, Howard, Glaser
An understanding of the processes that control wildland fuel accumulation, including the role that fire management activities play, is crucial for designing wildland management policies. Boreal ALFRESCO simulates the responses of subarctic and boreal vegetation to transient…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
BlueSky is a modeling framework designed to predict cumulative impacts of smoke from forest, agriculatural, and range fires. The BlueSky smoke modeling framework combines state of the art emissions, meteorology, and dispersion models to generate the best possible predictions of…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This program will correct data availability and quality assurance problems surrounding the Alaskan Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) and other Alaska weather station data. By placing all Alaska weather station data into a single quality controlled database, and automating…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Peterson, Carlino, Barnes, Eagle
FIREHouse provides user-friendly, web-based information about fire science and technology relevant to Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. For each project posted, the goal is to provide, as applicable, online, searchable access to: (1) project and tool descriptions, contact…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brenner, Masters
In order to keep our focus and avoid unnecessary mission creep that could ultimately prevent us from achieving our objectives, we plan to invite specific personnel and agencies to this work shop. Our plan is to place three focal points at the workshop to represent the…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES