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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Greiner, Schultz, Kooistra
US fire scientists are developing Potential Wildfire Operational Delineations, also known as ‘PODs’, as a pre-fire season planning tool to promote safe and effective wildland fire response, strengthen risk management approaches in fire management and better align fire management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Santana, Mariano-Neto, de Vasconcelos, Dodonov, Medeiros
A combination of bibliometric and science mapping methods was carried out to explore characteristics of scientific production on the application of orbital remote sensing in fire ecology. The performance analyzes made it possible to identify the main actors responsible for the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Samet, Bromberg, Tong
In recent years, wildland fires have occurred more frequently and with increased intensity in many fire-prone areas. In addition to the direct life and economic losses attributable to wildfires, the emitted smoke is a major contributor to ambient air pollution, leading to…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abbott, Rocha, Shogren, Zarnetske, Iannucci, Bowden, Bratsman, Patch, Watts, Fulweber, Frei, Huebner, Ludwig, Carling, O'Donnell
Climate change is creating widespread ecosystem disturbance across the permafrost zone, including a rapid increase in the extent and severity of tundra wildfire. The expansion of this previously rare disturbance has unknown consequences for lateral nutrient flux from terrestrial…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zen, Thomas, Mueller, Dhurandher, Gallagher, Skowronski, Hadden
A new instrument to quantify firebrand dynamics during fires with particular focus on those associated with the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) has been developed. During WUI fires, firebrands can ignite spot fires, which can rapidly increase the rate of spread (ROS) of the fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rengers, McGuire
Wildfire is a landscape‐scale disturbance that changes the rate and magnitude of many earth surface processes. The impacts of fire on earth surface processes can vary substantially from place to place depending on a variety of site‐specific conditions, including topography, fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Navarro, Clark, Hardt, Reid, Lahm, Domitrovich, Butler, Balmes
Throughout the United States, wildland firefighters respond to wildfires, performing arduous work in remote locations. Wildfire incidents can be an ideal environment for the transmission of infectious diseases, particularly for wildland firefighters who congregate in work and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shi, Wang, Chen, Kong
The existing literature is short of exploring the interactions of stakeholders’ decisions during wildfires from a dynamic perspective. Evolutionary game theory proposed based on Darwin’s theory of evolution can capture the dynamic process and provide a method to analyze the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leverkus, Buma, Wagenbrenner, Burton, Lingua, Marzano, Thorn
After natural forest disturbances such as wildfires, windstorms and insect outbreaks, salvage logging is commonly applied to reduce economic losses and mitigate subsequent disturbance risk. However, this practice is controversial due to its potential ecological impacts, and its…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wei, Thompson, Belval, Gannon, Calkin, O'Connor
Contingency firelines can be used to back up primary lines to increase probability of fire containment, decrease fire losses, and improve firefighter safety. In this study, we classify firelines into primary, contingency, and response lines. We design a modeling process to…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Hu, Lara
The expansion of shrubs across the Arctic tundra may fundamentally modify land‐atmosphere interactions. However, it remains unclear how shrub expansion pattern is linked with key environmental drivers, such as climate change and fire disturbance. Here we used 40+ years of high‐…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Tsai, Liu, Tolić, Burton, Chu, Karanfil, Chow
Copper-based algaecides are usually used for controlling algae bloom triggered by the elevated levels of nutrients after wildfires, resulting in the promoted reactivity of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in forming disinfectant byproducts (DBPs). To identify the best strategy for…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Majumder, Guan, Reich, O'Neill, Rappold
Fine particulate matter, PM2.5, has been documented to have adverse health effects, and wildland fires are a major contributor to PM2.5 air pollution in the USA. Forecasters use numerical models to predict PM2.5 concentrations to warn the public of impending health risk.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Di Cristina, Skowronski, Simeoni, Rangwala, Im
The forced flow driven flame spread behavior along an array of discrete wooden fuel elements was experimentally investigated, which could be an important step to understanding the flow-flame interactions that govern fire spread. Fuel arrays with five different spacings (0.75, 0.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zema
Research about soil hydrology after wildfire has widely investigated the impacts of many post-fire management strategies on ecosystems with different characteristics. However, despite this ample literature, clear guidelines about the effectiveness and feasibility of the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, McDermott
As we learn to sustainably coexist with wildfire, there is an urgent need to improve our understanding of its multidimensional impacts on society. To this end, we undertake a nationwide study to estimate how megafires (wildfires > 100,000 acres in size) affect US labor market…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stonesifer, Calkin, Thompson, Belval
Across the globe, aircraft that apply water and suppressants during active wildfires play key roles in wildfire suppression, and these suppression resources can be highly effective. In the United States, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USFS) aircraft account for a…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bouvet, Link, Fink
A new approach to characterize airborne firebrands during Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires is detailed. The approach merges the following two imaging techniques in a single field-deployable diagnostic tool: (1) 3D Particle Tracking Velocimetry (3D-PTV), for time-resolved…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woo, Eskelson, Monleon
Propensity score matching (PSM) and distance-adjusted PSM enable estimation of causal effects from observational data by selecting controls that are similar to treated observations in terms of environmental covariates and spatial locations. Quantifying effects of natural…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day
Fire can drive selection for plant traits or strategies that enable populations to survive or recover from this disturbance. Two main persistence strategies are used by plants to regenerate after fire: resprouting, where individuals are termed ‘resprouters’; or from seed, known…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simpson, Jardine, Archibald, Forrestel, Lehmann, Thomas, Osborne
Plant populations persist under recurrent fire via resprouting from surviving tissues (resprouters) or seedling recruitment (seeders). Woody species are inherently slow maturing, meaning that seeders are confined to infrequent fire regimes. However, for grasses, which mature…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
De'Arman, York
Changing environmental and social forestry contexts present new challenges for forestry graduates. In contrast with previous generations, forestry students today must be prepared to handle the impacts of climate change and increasing fire severity and frequency, as well as…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ciprián-Sánchez, Ochoa-Ruiz, Rossi, Morandini
Wildfires stand as one of the most relevant natural disasters worldwide, particularly more so due to the effect of climate change and its impact on various societal and environmental levels. In this regard, a significant amount of research has been done in order to address this…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moumgiakmas, Samatas, Papakostas
Fire hazard is a condition that has potentially catastrophic consequences. Artificial intelligence, through Computer Vision, in combination with UAVs has assisted dramatically to identify this risk and avoid it in a timely manner. This work is a literature review on UAVs using…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sahila, Zekri, Clerc, Kaiss, Sahraoui
The dynamics of a spreading wildfire is modeled by using a variant of the Small World Network stochastic model (Zekri et al., 2005). The temporal evolution of the fire front width and its pattern’s fractal dimension exhibits an anomalous relaxation process before the extinction…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES