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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bella
Vegetation cover and structure was measured in five plots in each of three bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis L.) treatment plot sites (Griner, Mile 149, Kenai, Figure 1, Table 1) on the western Kenai Peninsula on August 1st, 2013. Plots were circular one meter area…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norman
Presented by Steve Norman, USFS Southern Research Station, and sponsored by the US Forest Service, Research and Development. The Landscape Science Webinar Series occurs monthly on a Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern providing a forum to communicate research findings, promote awareness of…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Identifying indicators of state change and forecasting future vulnerability in Alaskan boreal forest
The slideshow for this project was presented at the February 2013 Bonanza Creek Long-term Ecological Research Symposium.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Magagi, Berg, Goita, Belair, Jackson, Toth, Walker, McNairn, O'Neill, Moghaddam, Gherboudj, Colliander, Cosh, Belanger, Burgin, Fisher, Kim, Rousseau, Djamai, Shang, Merzouki
The Canadian Experiment for Soil Moisture in 2010 (CanEx-SM10) was carried out in Saskatchewan, Canada, from 31 May to 16 June, 2010. Its main objective was to contribute to Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission validation and the prelaunch assessment of the proposed…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) brings the best available fire and fuel science and technology developed throughout the research community to bear in fire-related management issues. Although located within the Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program of the U.S. Forest Service…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Information about status and trend of wildlife habitat is important for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to accomplish its mission and meet its legal requirements. As the steward of 193 million acres (ac) of Federal land, the Forest Service needs to evaluate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pennypacker, Jakubowski, Kelly, Lampton, Schmidt, Stephens, Tripp
Current and planned wildfire detection systems are impressive but lack both sensitivity and rapid response times. A small telescope with modern detectors and significant computing capacity in geosynchronous orbit can detect small (12 m^2) fires on the surface of the earth, cover…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norman, Hargrove, Spruce, Christie, Schroeder
Satellite-based remote sensing can assist forest managers with their need to recognize disturbances and track recovery. Despite the long standing availability of raw imagery, the systematic delivery of spatially continuous, ready-to-use, processed products has evaded us until…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tsuyuzaki, Narita, Sawada, Harada
We aimed to detect the trajectories of forest-floor vegetation recovery in a Picea mariana forest after a wildfire. Since fire severity in boreal forests is expected to increase because of climate changes, we investigated the effects of ground-surface burn severity, a surrogate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roland, Schmidt, Nicklen
Recent studies suggest that climate warming in interior Alaska may result in major shifts from spruce-dominated forests to broadleaf-dominated forests or even grasslands. To quantify patterns in tree distribution and abundance and to investigate the potential for changes in…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Kimball, Jones
The rate of vegetation recovery from boreal wildfire influences terrestrial carbon cycle processes and climate feedbacks by affecting the surface energy budget and land-atmosphere carbon exchange. Previous forest recovery assessments using satellite optical-infrared normalized…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, York, Timm
In late April 2013, scientists from universities in Alaska, Florida, and Saskatchewan met with fire managers and resource specialists to share early results from a study called Identifying Indicators of State Change and Forecasting Future Vulnerability in Alaskan Boreal…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden, Rogan
Wildfires are historically infrequent in the arctic tundra, but are projected to increase with climate warming. Fire effects on tundra ecosystems are poorly understood and difficult to quantify in a remote region where a short growing season severely limits ground data…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malm, Hand
Filter-based samplers have long been employed by monitoring networks to measure aerosol mass concentrations because they are robust and the collected filters can be used for analysis of speciated mass concentrations. However, filter-based samplers have several disadvantages.…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roy, Boschetti, Smith
Space-borne sensors provide the only way to monitor the global distribution and characteristics of fire. Dramatic satellite maps showing fire activity across the entire Earth have been providing a unique picture of fire activity for the last three decades. This chapter…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gullett, Tabor, Bertrand, Touati
Both long duration (>6 h) and high temperature (up to 139 °C) sampling efforts were conducted using ambient air sampling methods to determine if either high volume throughput or higher than ambient air sampling temperatures resulted in loss of target polychlorinated…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In 2012 the AWFCG Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee (FMAC) identified the need to determine live fuel moisture contents as these are direct inputs into fire behavior modeling software currently being used in Alaska (e.g. WFDSS FSPro, Short-Term-Fire Behavior; BEHAVE; and…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
In 2012 the AWFCG Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee (FMAC) identified the need to determine live fuel moisture contents as these are direct inputs into fire behavior modeling software currently being used in Alaska (e.g. WFDSS FSPro, Short-Term-Fire Behavior; BEHAVE; and…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Heitz, Carlson
The Western Arctic Caribou Herd (WACH) has increased dramatically in size over the last forty years, from approximately 75,000 in 1970 to 490,000 in 2003, and is now estimated at approximately 348,000 animals (Dau 2005, Joly et al. 2006). With the increase in population size the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Higgins, Miller, Hrobak, Saperstein
Fuel moisture data entry spreadsheet for use in Alaska.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Higgins, Miller, Hrobak, Saperstein
Data sheet for field fuel moisture sampling in Alaska.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Grass is a prominent fuel type with fire behavior distinct from other carrier fuels, burning quickly and with sometimes surprising intensity. At its most specific level grass-like fuels include not just grass but also sedges and, more uncommonly, rushes. In Alaska grass-like…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Higgins, Miller, Hrobak, Saperstein
The methods below are generally based on R.A. Norum and M. Miller, 1984. Measuring Fuel Moisture Content in Alaska: Standard Methods and Procedures. USFS General Technical Report PNW-171. See also Fuel Moisture Collection Methods 2011, https://www.fs.usda.gov/t-d/pubs/pdf/…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Higgins, Miller, Hrobak, Saperstein
This method has been modified from the Fuel Moisture Sampling in Boreal Forest Duff manual (by Brenda Wilmore) for field use. For more information on volumetric or TDR (time domain reflectometry) probe sampling procedures, please refer to the full sampling manual. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LaBau
[From the introduction] The history of the Alaska Forest Survey program (later renamed to Forest Inventory Analysis-FIA), as it evolved within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, is an interesting story. The story begins in the early 1950s. This paper is…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES