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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Pyne
To complement the narrative of recent fire history by writing short regional surveys under the collective title To the Last Smoke. These surveys will be focused on the Pacific Northwest, oak woodlands, and Alaska.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Singletary, Evans
This agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Joint Fire Science Program (BLM), and the University of Nevada Reno for the purpose of Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Consortia.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Barnes, Jandt
We propose to expand the Northwest Fire Research Clearinghouse (FIREHouse) (see http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/ fera/firehouse) to include projects relevant specifically to fire management in Alaska. FIREHouse was originally funded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in 2003 (…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Ager
In this proposal, we outline a methodology for the application of a novel, integrated modeling approach to analyze economic tradeoffs associated with alternative fuel management and suppression policies. The analytical process is designed to specifically target salient questions…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Grant, Herriges
Interior Alaska is experiencing significant environmental change due to a dramatic increases in the size and frequency of wildland fire (Beck et al. 2011a), novel forest insect infestations (Wagner et al. 2008), and a large-scale shift in forest biomes (Beck et al. 2011b). In…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Boschetti
Northern high latitude climates are rapidly changing nearly faster than the rest of the globe, suggesting that fire regimes in these ecosystems may be particularly vulnerable to future change. In Alaska, key JFSP research priorities are to understand climate linkages to past and…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Swetnam, Villalba, Whitlock
We propose a workshop in 2002 at the University of Arizona to discuss the current state of knowledge on fire and its linkages between climate and ecosystem change. Such discussion requires a concerted and collaborative effort among traditionally independent disciplines. We will…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Martinson
Objectives 1) To synthesize, in one document, existing information on historic fire regimes in the US; 2) To document fuel profile changes in these regimes to the extent possible, including a discussion of impacts on ecosystem function and consequent fire behavior; 3) To…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Swetnam, Bigio
Over the past three years, the Fire and Climate Synthesis (FACS) project has compiled 550 fire history datasets contributed by 29 research investigators from both universities and federal agencies. Researchers provided their data directly to the project for the purpose of…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
This goal of this project is to write two complementary book-length studies, each of approximately 130,000-150,000 words that would survey and analyze the past 50 years of American fire history. One text, Between Two Fires: A Fire History of America, 1960-2010, would relate the…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mann
As part of my dissertation, I propose to study the interactions between climate change, wildland fires, and post-fire permafrost thaw over the last 1,000 years (permafrost; permanently frozen ground occurring in boreal regions). The last 1,000 years has seen sizable climate…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Mighetto
The USDA Forest Service and the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) propose to organize and host an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together environmental historians and scientists to discuss the historical dimensions of the wildland urban interface and its…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Bradshaw, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Fine-scale weather data are becoming increasing available for fire weather and fire danger forecasting to support tactical fire preparedness and prescribed fire planning. Unfortunately, appropriate techniques to implement the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) with short…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Bothwell
Dry thunderstorms are a major source of wildfires, and are disproportionately responsible for igniting major wildfires, yet currently dry thunderstorm predictions at high spatial resolutions are unavailable for most of the country. We propose development of improved dry…
Year: 2010
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
Bytnerowicz
Presenting state-of-science information and discussion of broadly defined air pollution and forest fire issues. Among others, the following topics will be discussed: effects of forest fires on air quality in the remote and urban-wildland interface forests; effects of forest…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Rupp
Fire and fuels management goals in Alaska are hindered by a limited understanding of fire history and the controls of fire regimes. Nowhere is this statement more accurate that in tundra ecosystems that cover nearly one-third of the state. Over 60 communities and 348 native…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brooks, Bunting, Fuhlendorf, Miller
It has been over 20 years since the last major book on the ecology and management of fire was published that contained extensive information from non-forested ecosystems across western North America (Wright and Bailey 1982). During subsequent years there have been notable books…
Year: 2011
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
This project analyzed fire history patterns within the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge of interior Alaska. Tree ring samples were collected during 1999, and standard dendrochronological methods were used to date 40 fires on 27 landscape points within the refuge boundaries.
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
Between 1983 and 1988, tree cores and cookies were collected as part of a project conducted by the National Park Service to create final land cover maps for the GIS Thematic Mapper Landcover Mapping Project in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Vegetation type…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The boreal forest is the largest terrestrial ecosystem in North America, one of the least disturbed by humans, and most disturbed by fire. This combination makes it an ideal system to explore the environmental controls over species composition, the relative importance of abiotic…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Both of these Chena Lakes projects were designed to determine fuel treatment effectiveness, prescribed burn severity, and post-burn vegetative succession. Incident to the sampling, some tree cross-sections were collected in 2001 to determine approximate stand ages, and in one…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES