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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Janas
Post traumatic stress and its impact on the lives of firefighters is under-investigated. Little has been written about the effects of chronic stress and even less on the profession of firefighting and traumatic stress. While coping has been studied over the years, investigation…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fronterhouse
The Alaska Fire Service (AFS) owns and maintains the Alaska Lightning Detection Network (ALDN). Working with the scientific community from the University of Arizona, Tucson, a prototype system was installed in Galena and field tested in 1976. Many transitions have occurred in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Mack, Goetz, Beck, Belshe
Fire activity in boreal forests has increased recently with climate warming, altering stand structure and composition in many areas. Changes in stand dynamics have the potential to alter C cycling and biophysical processes, with feedbacks to global and regional climate. Here, we…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Petrovic, Alderson, Carlson
Challenges associated with the allocation of limited resources to mitigate the impact of natural disasters inspire fundamentally new theoretical questions for dynamic decision making in coupled human and natural systems. Wildfires are one of several types of disaster phenomena,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arino, Casadio, Serpe
Global night-time fire counts for the years from 1995 to 2009 have been obtained by using the latest version of Along Track Scanning Radiometer Top of Atmosphere radiance products (level 1B), and related trends have been estimated. Possible biases due to cloud coverage…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reszka, Borowiec, Steinhaus, Torero
A methodology for the estimation of ignition times on solid materials is presented. It is based on the observation that the time to ignition is proportional to the squared time integral of the incident heat flux. This relationship can be readily demonstrated for the classical…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Ashmun
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, Ascher, Toman
Despite the importance of effective communication about forest and fuel management, little is known about how best to frame information to facilitate public understanding and increase support. The results presented here indicate that framing a fuel management plan as necessary…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden, Abatzoglou
Boreal forest fires are an important source of terrestrial carbon emissions, particularly during years of widespread wildfires. Most carbon emission models parameterize wildfire impacts and carbon flux to area burned by fires, therein making the assumption that fires consume a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mann, Rupp, Olson, Duffy
Many boreal forests grow in regions where climate is now warming rapidly. Changes in these vast, cold forests have the potential to affect global climate because they store huge amounts of carbon and because the relative abundances of their different tree species influence how…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Modeling large fire frequency and burned area in Canadian terrestrial ecosystems with Poisson models
Large wildland fires are major disturbances that strongly influence the carbon cycling and vegetation dynamics of Canadian boreal ecosystems. Although large wildland fires have recently received much scrutiny in scientific study, it is still a challenge for researchers to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weng, Luo, Wang, Wang, Hayes, McGuire, Hastings, Schimel
Disturbances have been recognized as a key factor shaping terrestrial ecosystem states and dynamics. A general model that quantitatively describes the relationship between carbon storage and disturbance regime is critical for better understanding large scale terrestrial…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Impact of wildfire on the thermal behavior of northern peatlands: observations and model simulations
Wildfire represents the single largest disturbance to the ecohydrological function of northern peatlands. Alterations to peatland thermal behavior as a result of wildfire will modify the carbon balance of these important long-term global carbon stores and regulate post-fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jin, Randerson, Goetz, Beck, Loranty, Goulden
Severity of burning can influence multiple aspects of forest composition, carbon cycling, and climate forcing. We quantified how burn severity affected vegetation recovery and albedo change during early succession in Canadian boreal regions by combining satellite observations…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boateng, Heineman, Bedford, Nemec, McClarnon, Powelson
We examined the effects of various mechanical site preparation methods and windrow burning on container-grown planted lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) survival and growth for 20 years after treatment at a sub-boreal site in north-central British Columbia, Canada.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harden, Manies, O'Donnell, Johnson, Frolking, Fan
Post-fire storage of carbon (C) in organic-soil horizons was measured in one Canadian and three Alaskan chronosequences in black spruce forests, together spanning stand ages of nearly 200 yrs. We used a simple mass balance model to derive estimates of inputs, losses, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Halloran, Law, Goulden, Wang, Barr, Schaaf, Brown, Fuentes, Göckede, Black, Engel
Forest disturbances are major sources of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and therefore impact global climate. Biogeophysical attributes, such as surface albedo (reflectivity), further control the climate-regulating properties of forests. Using both tower-based and remotely…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gartner, Treseder, Malcolm, Sinsabaugh
Saprotrophic microbes are typically credited with producing extracellular enzymes that recycle organic matter, though roots and mycorrhizal fungi also can contribute and may compete with the saprotrophs. We examined extracellular enzyme activity associated with the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Mack
In this study we characterized spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon and nitrogen pools, soil moisture, and soil pH of the first 15 cm of the soil profile; depth of the organic horizon; forest floor covers; and understory vegetation abundances in three sites (1999, 1987 and 1920…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dore, Montes-Helu, Hart, Hungate, Koch, Moon, Finkral, Kolb
Carbon uptake by forests is a major sink in the global carbon cycle, helping buffer the rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, yet the potential for future carbon uptake by forests is uncertain. Climate warming and drought can reduce forest carbon uptake by reducing…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden, Abatzoglou
Boreal forest fires are an important source of terrestrial carbon emissions, particularly during years of widespread wildfires. Most carbon emission models parameterize wildfire impacts and carbon flux to area burned by fires, therein making the assumption that fires consume a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES