A presentation delivred to by Caroline Noble to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Smoke Committee (SmoC) in November 2020. The presentation focuses on the current features of the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Noble
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
Excerpt: The fire history and fuels data certainly have implications for resource management and park planning in the Kananaskis Park. In the long run, we would like to let ecosystems run themselves, and that can mean allowing wildfires to burn in...
Person: Quintilio, Miller
Year:
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildland firefighters are exposed to health hazards including inhaling hazardous pollutants from the combustion of live and dead vegetation (smoke) and breathe soil dust, while working long shifts with no respiratory protection. This research brief...
Person: Navarro, Mutch
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions with Timmons Group presents the latest developments in the Shared Wildfire Risk Mitigation (SWRM) Dashboard Tool that uses GIS data to provide mapped communities at risk, a consistent approach across 13...
Person: Ballard
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
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...
Person: Shi, Wang, Chen, Kong
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
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...
Person: Leverkus, Buma, Wagenbrenner, Burton, Lingua, Marzano, Thorn
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
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...
Person: Wei, Thompson, Belval, Gannon, Calkin, O'Connor
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire is a global disturbance that is predicted to increase in frequency and severity in many parts of the world due to climate change. Biological soil crust (biocrust) communities are often overlooked in fire studies despite having a substantial effect...
Person: Palmer, Hernandez, Lipson
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burning firebrands generated by wildland or prescribed fires may lead to the initiation of spot fires and fire escapes. At the present time, there are no methods that provide information on the thermal characteristics and number of such firebrands with...
Person: Prohanov, Filkov, Kasymov, Agafontsev, Reyno
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
It is crucial for wildland fire professionals today to be technically competent in their jobs. What is less obvious and less understood is the cognitive competency needed for our professional job performance. Join the IAWF for this event to better...
Person: Martin
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES