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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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 growing complexity and duration of wildland fires continues to challenge the capability and expertise of U.S. Forest Service agency administrators, fire managers and the wildfire response system as a whole. As wildfires become more complex and the risk to firefighters, the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Robinne
Learn about: how forests contribute to water security; how fire, forests, and humans interact to impact water security; what is the state of wildfire-watershed risk research in Canada; and, what are the tools, methods, and data available to advance research and management of…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cline
Dr. Cline presents a way to resolve complex adaptive problems in an immersive, but constrained (five minutes or less), temporal environments, where the consequence of failure can be critical.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Finney
FlamMap is a fire analysis desktop application that runs in a 64-bit Windows Operating System environment. It can simulate potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.), fire growth and spread and conditional burn probabilities…
Year: 2022
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Grassfires in Canada’s western prairies have been observed to propagate over multi-hour periods with sustained rates of spread in excess of 6.0 km/h. For example, on December 14, 1997, a human-caused grassfire starting west of Claresholm in southern Alberta advanced eastward…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Billmire, Vander Bilt
This webinar is part of the ABoVE Northwest Territories-focus webinar series.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Riley, Grenfell
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
We used a random forests machine learning process to produce a tree-level model of the US by assigning forest plot data from Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) to landscape data from LANDFIRE at 30x30 resolution.…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Roise, Barker
For the wildland firefighter, deploying a shelter is the last thing they want to do – it’s the final resort, the last line of defense. While there’s no such thing as ‘fire-proof,’ NC State University researchers are seeking to develop new fire shelters that can buy more time.…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Improving fire outcomes for communities requires local organizing and action. The Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Pathways Tool helps communities identify a set of strategies which are tailored to their strengths and needs, and based on practices which have been successful in…
Year: 2022
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
This webinar provides an introduction and overview of the FlamMap modeling system and its new capabilities in version 6.2, with focus on several new additions. Hosted by the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network, a regional fire science exchange funded by the Joint Fire Science…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smith, D’Evelyn
Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a transdisciplinary perspective. This presentation will summarize a recently published article in Current Environmental Health…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will explore themes of slack and scarcity and how they relate to multi-scale concepts of strategy, performance, and analytics in wildfire. While the description is short, this webinar contained a fascinating collection of concepts, statistics,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lake
As collaborative fire management projects between tribal and non-tribal entities are increasingly recognized for their potential to achieve both ecological and cultural fire management goals in a warming climate, it’s important that non-tribal researchers and resource managers…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McQuerry, Kwon
Structural and wildland firefighting personal protective clothing (PPC) is primarily developed for the male firefighter, despite the growing number of female firefighters in the fire protection community. Female firefighters wear the same turnout suits and wildland gear as their…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dockter
In this Open Office Hour, KBR Vegetation Scientist, Daryn Dockter discusses the ins and outs of how LANDFIRE maps Existing Vegetation Cover and Existing Vegetation Height products. Throughout the talk, he describes the update process and methods used to develop these highly…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
Fire management in the United States is currently facing numerous challenges. While many of these challenges involve questions about how to increase pace and scale of fuels treatments and adapt to longer, sometimes year-round, fire seasons and more frequent extreme fires, there…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Franz
The topic of “managed wildfire” is mired in complexity, starting with what to call it. This fire management approach has been known as “prescribed natural fire,” “wildland fire use,” “resource objective fire,” and more. All names refer to the same essential idea: leveraging…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg
It's no secret that wildfires in the west have been drastically increasing in size and destructive power. But what, if anything, can be done about it? Join world-renown and award-winning USFS research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as he explains how we got here and restores our…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how these changes, coupled with a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pilgrim
Kristy Pilgrim is a Researcher for the Wildlife and Terrestrial Ecosystems program at Rocky Mountain Research Station, and Laboratory Supervisor for the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation. She presents interesting case studies of DNA species…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Flores, Rushing, Redmore
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by David Flores, Jaclyn Rushing and Lauren Redmore
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nakazawa, Cain, Kenyon, Munson, Cooke
The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau hosted this public workshop to promote the use of multilingual emergency alerting. The workshop included presentations related to the multilingual capabilities of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
La Puma
Inga La Puma, Fire Scientist & Technical Lead* discusses the nuanced role that LANDFIRE plays as it provides foundational data for multiple tools within the natural resource community.
0:00 Intro
0:58 What's LANDFIRE?
1:29 LANDFIRE Milestones
2:36 Interrelationship between…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hood, McKinney, Ott, Hanberry, Jain
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. Rocky Mountain Research Station…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stevens, Dillon, Manley, Povak, Nepal
Introduction to SCIENCE x Day 4, brief overview by Jens StevensDelivering wildfire risk information targeted to the community level, presented by Greg DillonJuggling risks and tradeoffs toward a more resilient future: the known, unknown, unknowable, and the unpleasant, presented…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES