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The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station conducts research on a wide range of topics to improve the management and use of natural resources. Categorizing this research is often difficult because in many cases the crux of an issue lies in its connection to many natural…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Aquatic
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire, wildlife, climate change, watersheds, community sustainability, forests and grasslands, learning events

Smoldering fires in organic soils have negative effects on air quality and motorist safety as well as global implications from their release of large quantities of refractory C. However, the ecological implications of their occurrence are relatively unexplored despite their…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, smoldering combustion, wetlands, pyrogeomorphology, peat fires, hydrologic processes, fire feedbacks

Wildfires can cause immediate and drastic impacts on the structure and functioning of ecosystems, and there has been an increasing interest in wildfire effects on water chemistry and aquatic biota. Wildfires are increasingly recognized as a diffuse source of contamination of…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, ash, chemical elements, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, ecotoxicological effects, freshwater organisms, water chemistry, Portugal, fire frequency, bacteria, hydrocarbons, toxicity, water quality, fire management, forest management

Size-resolved aerosol composition measurements were conducted at a coastal site in central California during the Nucleation in California Experiment (NiCE) between July and August of 2013. The site is just east of ship and marine emission sources and is also influenced by…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass burning, aerosol, composition, soil

In Southeast Asia, peatland is widely distributed and has accumulated a massive amount of soil carbon, coexisting with peat swamp forest (PSF). The peatland, however, has been rapidly degraded by deforestation, fires, and drainage for the last two decades. Such disturbances…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, disturbance, drainage, energy, ENSO, evapotranspiration, hydrology, soil nutrients, water, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Asia, fire management, forest management, watershed management, peatlands, swamps, tropical regions, disturbances, drainage, eddy covariance, energy balance, ENSO, groundwater level, Southeast Asia

Fire occurs frequently over wetland, but little is known of its impact on soil carbon variations and carbon mineralization, process that are potentially important in global carbon cycle. To investigate this issue, we have designed and implemented a two-year field campaign to…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, season of fire, wildfires, C - carbon, nutrient cycling, soil nutrients, China, Asia, fire management, soil management, watershed management, wetlands, carbon cycling, soil carbon, wetland, mineralization, microbial biomass carbon

We used land-cover maps and active fire detection based on satellite imagery to evaluate the rates and spatial distribution of peatland deforestation in Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2010. Over this time period, the proportion of forest cover in the peatlands of Peninsular…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Aquatic
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, deforestation, mosaic, remote sensing, Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sumatra, Asia, fire management, forest management, peatlands, swamps