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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jandt
AFSC fire ecologist Randi Jandt reviews the most recent evidence on how wildfire smoke affects human health, including the health of firefighters. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
U.S. EPA researchers are using an innovative smoke combustion system in a laboratory in Research Triangle Park, NC, to study the toxicity of smoke from fires in controlled conditions. The studies are showing the potential health effects of smoke from different burned wood and…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jain, Sikkink, Keefe, Byrne
Forest managers use mastication to grind or shed vegetation to remove competition, prepare a site for natural or artificial regeneration, or release sapling-sized trees; or they use mastication to convert ladder fuels to surface fuels and enhance decomposition of biomass.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gilmour, Kim, Higuchi, Hays, Farraj, DeMarini
Acute and chronic exposure to wildfire smoke can cause numerous documented cardiopulmonary effects, although determining the casual components within the thousands of different chemicals found in both the particle and gas phases remains a toxicological challenge. Specifically,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gilmour, Dye, Hays, Hazari, Higuchi
Short-term exposures to ambient particulate matter (PM) are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in the exposed population, and these same patterns have been noted during wildland fire episodes. Since the scale and frequency of wildfires are expected to increase…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Becker, Hohner, Rosario-Ortiz, DeWolfe
Utilities can recover from wildfires and extreme weather events with resiliency plans and operation designs that address subsequent water quality challenges.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane
October 10th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fall Fire Review, Kelly Kane, USFS Risk Management Program Specialist, presents on human performance.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Moore
October 11th, 2018. Part of the annual Fall Fire Review, the presentation assessed the new National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) vs the Fire Weather Index (FWI) for Alaska.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Plumb
October 11th, 2018. Part of the annual Fall Fire Review, the presentation presented the National Weather Services analysis the affects of forecast precipitation on fire weather predictions and how they plan to solve them.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Falke
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation introduced the project on fire effects on boreal aquatic ecosystems.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Little, Jandt
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a final report on fuel treatments.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Coker
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a report on the effects of a fire season on fire fighters.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hickman, Ziel
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview of the available for use with a live demo through UAF Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA).
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This compendium is a freely available resource of every article related to fire ecology published in the Natural Areas Journal from 2010-2017.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt, Veazey
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a progress report on seasonal and subseasonal predictions as well as an introduction to a EPSCoR project.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration (Seed Strategy) recognizes the importance of native plants and healthy plant communities in our lives, in our economy, and in our future. Native plants and native plant communities are nature’s infrastructure. Native…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Boschetti, Roy, Humber, Justice
The two Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on-board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites have provided nearly two decades of global fire data. Here, we describe refinements made to the 500-m global burned area mapping algorithm that were implemented in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wei, Hayes, Fraver, Chen
Fires play an important role in the terrestrial biosphere carbon cycle, not only through direct carbon release but also contributing to a potential long‐term storage as pyrogenic carbon (PyC). PyC is formed through fires, and, because it may resist further biological and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
FireWorks provides students with interactive, hands-on materials to study wildland fire. It is highly interdisciplinary and students learn about properties of matter, chemical and physical processes, ecosystem fluctuations and cycles, habitat and survival, and human interactions…
Year: 2018
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Boughton
Archbold-UF LTAR Project: Manipulating fire and grazing to enhance the delivery of ecosystem services from subtropical humid grasslands was presented by Elizabeth Boughton. Dr. Boughton is an associate research biologist and the program director at the MacArthur Agro-ecology…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fawcett, Clontz
'Learn and Burn' workshops are an excellent way for private landowners and others to gain hands-on burning experience and knowledge from expert mentors. This webinar will provide some lessons learned from coordinating these events, and tips to putting one on in the future.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Phillips
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation introduced the project on carbon cost analysis and feedback.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hawley, Loudermilk, Rowell, Pokswinski
Surface fuels are the critical link between structure and function in frequently burned pine ecosystems, which are found globally (Williamson and Black, 1981; Rebertus et al., 1989; Glitzenstein et al., 1995) [[1], [2], [3]]. We bring fuels to the forefront of fire ecology…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), completed in November 2018, is a comprehensive and authoritative report on climate change and its impacts in the United States.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire management applications. BehavePlus is…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES