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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The Global Wildfire Information System is a joint initiative of the GEO and the Copernicus Work Programs. In the new GEO GWIS work program for the years 2020-2022 , the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) aims at bringing together existing information sources at regional…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Gilmour, Dye, Hays, Hazari, Higuchi
Short-term exposures to ambient particulate matter (PM) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in the exposed population, and these same patterns have been noted during wildland fire episodes. Since the scale and frequency of wildfires are expected to increase…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reich, Broome, Cope, Fann, Johnston, Morgan, Rappold
Fire smoke is a major contributor to both particulate matter (PM) and ozone exposure in urban centers. Epidemiological, clinical, and toxicological studies have demonstrated a casual relationship between these pollutants and cardiovascular and respiratory related deaths and…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Chung, Lamb, Strand, Vaughan
Fires are a major source of gaseous and particulate pollutant, including black carbon (BC). In combination with organic carbon (OC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), BC from fire emissions causes air quality degradation. BC is also increasingly…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Naughton, Urbanski
An accurate, reliable wildland fire emissions inventory is likely the most important criteria in assessing the impacts of prescribed burning and wildfires on regional air quality and global climate. Significant progress has been made in the past ten years to develop fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kreidenweis, Pierce
Although representing only a small mass fraction of the emissions from biomass burning, the emitted particle-phase organic species (organic aerosol, OA) exert importance influences on visibility, climate, and human health. Wildland fire, both prescribed and wildfires, is a…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, French, Kolden, Raffuse, Strand, Sullivan, Wendland
The demand for fire emissions information has increased over the last decade due to a number of factors from increased needs for smoke impact assessments to more demand for carbon accounting. With the likelihood of more stringent air quality standards, state and federal…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Moore
The 3-year PMDETAIL project will quantify the impact of prescribed and other fire sources on particulate matter (characterized as PM2.5 and PM10, hereafter PM) levels across the continental U.S. It will also develop new fire emissions inventories and computational modules for…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Domitrovich, Ottmar
In summary, the toxicological and epidemiological evidence of adverse effects for those with chronic exposure to smoke is troubling, especially so for those with preexisting cardiovascular health conditions. What the research means for healthy workers is less clear. It seems…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pierce, Heald, Robinson, Val Martin
Emissions of aerosols and gases from fires have been shown to adversely affect US air quality at local to regional scales as well as downwind regions far away from the source. Fire activity is strongly related to weather and climate. Recent observations have shown an upward…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Kurz, Reinhardt
Project Objectives: We request support from the JFSP to: 1. adapt FFE-FVS to support fire-related economic analysis by linking FFE-FVS to IASELECT (Wiitala 1992) and CHEAPOII (Horn and others 1986). IASELECT quantifies the optimal economic performance of a fire organization in…
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Albini, Bevins, Brittain, Butler, Catchpole, Finney
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ferguson
The primary objective of this work is to assess the local, regional, and national risks to air quality and visibility from wildland fire. This will be done by generating and analyzing statistics of daily and nightly variability of surface wind, mixing height, and dispersion…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado, Ferguson, Leuschen, McKenzie, O'Neill, Ottmar, Peterson
The primary objective of the Emission Production Model project is: To improve the usability, accuracy, and applicability of an Emission Production Model to predict air pollutant source strength, heat release rate, and plume buoyancy from all fire environments and all fuel types…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Malm, Molenar
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has a requirement for assistance to the JFSP Governing Board and Program Manager in a comprehensive data analysis and literature review as described in the recently developed JFSP Smoke Science Plan (SSP). Assistance shall include the…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
French, Billmire, Kennedy, Larkin, McKenzie
Fuel loadings, from canopy to litter and duff, are key variables for informing wildland fire emissions inventories. At regional to national scales, fuel loadings and their spatial patterns vary in both space and time, but current geospatial fuel datasets do not account for this…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Fitch, Garbe, O'Neill, Peterson, Rorig, Ruminski, Stajner, Stone, White
This proposal directly addresses critical aspects of FA-FON0015-0001 Task 2 'Smoke hazard warning system' by creating a needed conduit for aggregating and distilling smoke and smoke-related information, including health information, and distributing it to end users and the…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
The purpose of this project is to actively distribute fire science research results through two currently scheduled international conferences. These conferences are currently being coordinated by the International Association of Wildland Fire. It is anticipated that between 40-…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Birdsey
This project involves a review of relevant literature and preparation of a review paper to be submitted to a prominent journal. Lead Author (Anping Chen) will select and work with a team of respected scientists with expertise in fire emissions, national emissions inventories,…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Volckens
Emissions from prescribed burns and wild fires have important impacts on air quality. The quantification and tracking of emissions from wildfires and prescribed burns has proven to be a difficult task, due to the high cost of comprehensive monitoring. Sensors being developed for…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Pierce
This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency modeling team proposes to provide expertise related to smoke emissions, modeling, and transport to support the design of future field studies focused on fire behavior. As part of that commitment, we plan to model all of the pre-burn…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Linn
The physics-based models FIRETEC and WFDS have been used to simulate a number of field experiments involving fire in wildland fuels. These models work by simulating the coupled physical processes driving fire behavior including the drying and thermal degradation of vegetation,…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kochanski, Fournier, Jenkins, Mandel
Recent advancements in fire-atmosphere modeling have increased the number of physical processes integrated into the coupled models. This greater complexity allows for more comprehensive representation of the complex interactions between the fire and the atmosphere; however, as a…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski
This proposal responds to JFSP FON #16-04 Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, Task 4: Smoke Emissions, Chemistry, and Transport. Over the past decade, significant progress has been gained in characterizing the composition, transport, and processing of wildland fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES