Marty Alexander (Wild Rose Fire Behavior) and Luc Bibeau (FireSmart Specialist with Yukon Wildland Fire Management, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory) discuss the 3-m tree crown spacing guideline for the prevention of crowning wildfires.
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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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: Bibeau, Alexander
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
Heat accumulation from wearing personal protective equipment can result in the development of heat-related illnesses. This study aimed to investigate factors of heat stress with and without a US standard issue wildland firefighter helmet. Ten male...
Person: Gurney, Christison, Stenersen, Dumke
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The advancement of three-dimensional, time-dependent fire behaviour models is best supported by publicly available, co-located, synchronised, quality-assured measures of pre-fire, active fire and post-fire conditions (i.e. integrated datasets)....
Person: McNamara, Mell
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire is a primary disturbance in the world’s forested ecosystems and its impacts are projected to increase in many regions due to global climate change. Fire impacts have been studied for decades, but integrative assessments of its effects on multiple...
Person: Roces-Díaz, Santín, Martinez-Vilalta, Doerr
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire is capable of rapidly releasing the energy stored in forests, with the amount of water in live and dead biomass acting as a regulator on the amount and rate of energy release. Here we used temperature and fuel moisture data to examine climate-...
Person: Goodwin, Zald, North, Hurteau
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
This project concerned tundra fires in Alaska and how climate-driven changes in fire regimes could impact Alaska’s Arctic ecosystems. We used remote sensing, dendrochronology, field vegetation surveys, and paleoclimate reconstructions to accomplish...
Person: Mann, Gaglioti, Jones, Miller
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smoke from fires significantly influences climate, weather, and human health. Fire smoke is traditionally detected using an aerosol index calculated from spectral contrast changes. However, such methods usually miss thin smoke plumes. It also remains...
Person: Lu, Zhang, Li, Cochrane, Ciren
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire weather tools, such as the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), have been developed to support wildland fire management decisions. However, little is known about how these tools are used...
Person: Toman, Wilson, Jolly, Olsen
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
In response to this unprecedented threat, our team developed a model to examine the potential impacts of COVID-19 spread in fire camps. The model is based upon Wu et al (2020) and has been tailored to the context of fire camp (i.e., population turnover...
Person: Bayham, Belval, Thompson
Year:
Resource Group: Project
Source: FRAMES
Motivation. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 just as the southwestern region begins to see increased fire activity. The project PIs had been collaborating on other wildfire projects but also had...
Person: Bayham, Belval, Thompson
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES