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• Boundary Fire study relates burn severity to permafrost degradation

  By akfireconsortium on October 15, 2016

  How about a little news from science?  The most important ecological effects of fire may not be evident for many years after burning.  Take permafrost, for example:   newly-published research is revealing extensive thawing and drying of soils in the… Read More ›

• Two-fer Tools day from Alaska Fire Science Consortium

  By akfireconsortium on April 22, 2015

  

  Check out new documents from AFSC:  there’s a freshly updated Quick Reference Guide to Alaska fire web products and web tools.  That’s everything you want to know about fire, smoke, fire effects, fire modeling, you name it–in one handy guide! … Read More ›

• Videos on sprinklers, landscape fire risk, and fire spread modeling from April workshop available!

  By akfireconsortium on April 8, 2015

  

  Alaska Fire Science Consortium just posted videos of some keynote presentations of fire management topics from the April 2015 Fire Science Workshop and Fire Management Officer’s meeting.  Devon Barnes, University of Alberta, discusses sprinkler array effectiveness and some deployment pointers;… Read More ›