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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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MacGregor
This proposal is in response to the Joint Fire Science Program RFP2001-1, Task 7: Develop scientifically based support tools to improve fire management decision processes. The proposed project takes the perspective that prescribed fire planning is inherently a problem of…
Year: 2006
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
Smith, Munger, Randall, Ryan, Smith, Sutherland, Zouhar
This project will update and increase the information on invasive plant species available in the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS), link FEIS to other Internet sites with high-quality information on invasive species, and report on information gaps in the scientific…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Randall, Ryan, Saveland
This proposal addresses Tasks 1 & 2 of Joint Fire Sciences AFP 2003-4: Develop information structures, tools, or decision support systems for accessing, disseminating, and applying wildland fire and fuels research results ... Produce readily understandable and useable…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Evaluation of Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Mitigation Methods and Development of Decision-Support Tools
The production of debris flows can be one of the most hazardous consequences of wildfires in the urban/wildland interface. Debris flows can occur with little warning, are capable of transporting large material over relatively gentle gradients, and may develop momentum and impact…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Abt
Decades of fire suppression in fire-prone forested regions of the western and southern United States has created conditions favorable for catastrophic wildfires. Systematic stand density reduction through mechanical methods or a combination of mechanical methods and prescribed…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Arbaugh, Chew, Jones, Kimberlin, Kurz, Merzenich, Snell, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala
Project Objectives: In addition to the 4 original objectives, we will: 1. Develop the data necessary to parameterize the 3 models for a selected site in Alaska. 2. Simulate potential fuel treatments for the Alaskan site. 3. Examine and model fire-size and landscape fragmentation…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler
This proposal outlines a request for funding to pay for equipment and travel costs incurred by a team that can be rapidly deployed to obtain measurements of energy transfer as naturally burning fires burn into and around clearings that may be characterized as firefighter safety…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Eberhardt
Knowing the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics, and potential fuel consumption and emissions production is becoming increasingly important for making informed decisions on the use of prescribed fire, wildfires and wildland fire use fires. Consequently the Joint…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zeller, Mathewson, Nikolov
Reliable forecasting of regional weather and wind flow patterns is critical for effective fighting of wildland fires and the operational management of prescribed burns. Accurate prediction of future wind fields is essential for predicting fire behavior; smoke dispersion, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Ferguson, Wilson
We propose to develop training resources to facilitate application of the BlueSky modeling framework and its Rapid Access Information System (RAINS) to Smoke and Fire Management and Operations. BlueSkyRAINS, developed under the National Fire Plan in cooperation with the…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Key, Ohlen
This proposal responds to Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Request for Proposals 2001-1, Task 4. Specifically, the proposed research is in direct response to JFSP statements that research is needed to 'develop, apply, and validate improved remote sensing applications for…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Bradshaw, Butler
The following constitutes a proposal submitted in response to JFSP RFP 2003-2 Task-i. One major source of uncertainty in fire behavior predictions is spatial variation in the wind fields used in the fire models. Mountainsides, valleys, ridges, and the fire itself, influence both…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Agee, Baldwin, Barbour, Beall, Boerner, Brown, Busse, Edminster, Fiedler, Haase, Harrington, Hodgson, Keeley, Landram, Laudenslayer, Lehmkuhl, Otrosina, Ottmar, Ritchie, Ryan, Shea, Skinner, Stephens, Stephenson, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Waldrop, Weatherspoon, Yaussy, Zack
Objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Quantify the initial effects (first five years) of fire and fire surrogate treatments on a number of specific core response variables within the general groupings of (a) vegetation, (b) fuel and fire behavior, (c) soils and forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Haase, Hardy, Regelbrugge, Reinhardt, Sackett, Sandberg, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Wright
The primary objective of the fuel consumption project is: Improve existing models to better predict fuel consumption during the smoldering phase of wildland fires; develop new fuel consumption models for shrubland hardwood, and boreal forest fuel types; implement modified and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Gollberg, Keane, Cook, Queen, Twery
Throughout history, bold ideas would have faded and disappeared without the tools and technology transfer necessary to help advance them. Today, a variety of tools are critical to wildland fire and fuels management. They range from the Pulaski to the latest fire behavior model.…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Gabbert, Mangan
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will sponsor a conference to address fuels management and how to measure success. IAWF has worked with the Interagency Fule Committee on initial planning. There is general recognition of the need for such a conference. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES