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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Brown
GOALS: Deepen the scope of the Symposium as it addresses the relation of weather and climate to the four principle purposes of the Joint Fire Science Plan: a) fuels inventory and mapping, b) evaluation of fuels treatments, c) scheduling fuels treatments, and d) monitoring and…
Year: 2002
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
Wickland, Kasischke
ABoVE is a NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program field campaign that will be conducted in Alaska and Western Canada (West of the Hudson Bay). The planning started in 2009 with a scoping study and in 2013 the science definition team wrote a concise experiment plan that was completed…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kokaly, McAdams, Root, Walker
For the past several decades, prescribed fire has proven to be a valuable tool for managing federal lands. It is an economical and efficient way to reduce accumulated fuel loads resulting from prolonged policies of suppressing wildfires, Prescribed fire helps to control the…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Kovalev, Susott
The proposal addresses AFP 2004-1, Task 1. The goal of this project is to demonstrate and implement the most advanced technologies for measurements of smoke particulates in real-time. It will focus on obtaining and documenting critical, time-sensitive information on the three-…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Caratti, Gangi, Hann, Key
Monitoring the effects of wildland fire is critical for (1) documenting fire effects, (2) assessing ecosystem damage and benefit, (3) evaluating the success or failure of a burn, and (4) appraising the potential for future treatments. Many fire managers do not collect monitoring…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Gessler, Jain, Lannom, Robichaud, Ryan
We propose a rapid response project to collect fire behavior, fire effects, and fuels data from five 2003 active 2004 wildfires across the US. It is critical that field and remotely sensed data be collected soon (two weeks to the first growing season) after wildfires are burning…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hood
This project will synthesize the literature and current state of knowledge of burning duff mounds and the impact on tree mortality.
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinnings) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
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
Andersen, McGaughey, Reutebuch
This study explores the use of airborne laser scanning (also known as light detection and ranging or LIDAR) and high-resolution imagery for estimating some forest structure and composition variables measured in Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots. LIDAR data have been…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Three pairs of burned and recent unburned plots were established after the Noatak 2004 Uvgoon Cr (Fire #127 - A35A) to study the effects of tundra fires on vegetation and permafrost. Six plots (3 burned in 2004 and 3 'controls') were established. The goals of the study are to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of the NPS Alaska Fire Ecology Program is to understand the ecological effects of fire on the landscape. Information is collected and analyzed about the effects of fire on vegetation, fuels, soil, and wildlife habitat. Information is also collected on the fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A number of fuels management and forest inventory projects are being conducted by the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) Forestry Program. The TCC forestry program provides a wide range of forestry and fire management services to Native allotments and their owners via the trust…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This long-term monitoring project measures survival and height growth of seedlings and saplings in an area burned in the 1983 Rosie Creek Fire, near Fairbanks, Alaska. The fifteenth year of measurements occurred in 2003. All seedlings belong to the 1983, 1987, or 1990 seed crops…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Seven regional workshops were conducted across the country to teach land managers enough about three FERA tools so that they can go out and teach others. These workshops were three days each and attended by approximately 10-15 managers. A teaching cadre of 5 demonstrated in the…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
As part of the Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation and Stabilization plan for Alaska's 2004 fires, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alaska Natural Heritage Program are studying the interaction of burn severity and weed invasion in selected sites on five National…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Despite the fact that high-intensity crown fires account for an overwhelming proportion of the area burned by forest fires in Canada, fully understanding and subsequently modeling the initiation, propagation, and spread of crown fires remains an elusive goal for fire research…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This conference was held November 13-17, 2006, in San Diego, California. It focused on the science and technology that are the basis for the management of wildland fire. The plenary session addressed the context and consequences of changing fire regimes, while the concurrent…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Several volume tables/equations (statewide and local) exist for aspen in Alaska, however, differences occur among them. No equations are available addressing taper, bole cambial area, or bole biomass. The objective of this study is to develop statewide or regional cubic-foot…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The statewide volume table for Alaskan balsam poplar/black cottonwood is a composite that includes birch (smaller trees). No tables/equations specific to poplar exist for volume, taper, bole cambial area, or bole biomass. The objective of this study is to develop statewide or…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The statewide volume table for Alaskan birch is a composite that includes balsam poplar (larger trees). No tables/equations specific to birch exist for volume, taper, bole cambial area, or bole biomass. The objective of this study is to develop statewide or regional cubic-foot…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Several volume tables/equations (statewide and local) exist for white spruce in Alaska, however, significant differences occur among them. No equations are available addressing taper, bole cambial area, or bole biomass. The objective of this study is to develop statewide or…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black spruce, Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P., in Alaska is largely overlooked in terms of growth and yield research because of its small size and slow growth. Growth and yield information is therefore limited or nonexistent. This study developed the first polymorphic site index (…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES