Geoff Cary is a Professor in bushfire science at The Australian National University. He graduated with a PhD in landscape fire modelling from ANU in 1999. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in bushfire science, including ‘Fire, Flood and Drought’ with Dr Joëlle Gergis and ‘Fire in the Environment’ with a range of bushfire experts, and supervises honours and graduate students investigating diverse wildland fire topics. Geoff is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for the International Journal of Wildland Fire, and has been a member of both the Australian Capital Territory Bushfire Council and the New South Wales Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council.
Geoff’s research interests include evaluating fire management and climate change impacts on fire regimes using landscape-scale simulation modelling, ecological investigations of interactions between fire and biota, empirical analysis of house loss in catastrophic bushfire events, and laboratory experimentation of fire behaviour.
Experience
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2022–presentProfessor, The Australian National University
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2012–2021Associate Professor, The Australian National University
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2005–2012Senior Lecturer, The Australian National University
Education
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1999The Australian National University, PhD
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1992University of Technology, Sydney, B.App.Sci.(Environmental Biology)(Hons)
Publications
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2020Animals as agents in fire regimes, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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2020The proximal drivers of large fires: a pyrogeographic study, Frontiers in Earth Science
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2020Exploring the key drivers of forest flammability in wet eucalypt forests using expert-derived conceptual models, Landscape Ecology
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2019Features associated with effective biodiversity monitoring and evaluation, Biological Conservation
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2019More long‐unburnt forest will benefit mammals in Australian sub‐alpine forests and woodlands, Austral Ecology
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2018A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment
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2018You own the fuel, but who owns the fire?, International Journal of Wildland Fire
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2018Options for reducing house-losses during wildfires without clearing trees and shrubs, Landscape and Urban Planning
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2018A comparison of fuel hazard in recently burned and long-unburned forests and woodlands, International Journal of Wildland Fire
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2017Importance of fuel treatment for limiting moderate-to-high intensity fire: findings from comparative fire modelling, Landscape Ecology
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2017Importance of fuel treatment for limiting moderate-to-high intensity fire: findings from comparative fire modelling, Landscape Ecology
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2016Biophysical mechanistic modelling quantifies the effects of plant traits on fire severity: species, not surface fuel loads, determine flame dimensions in eucalypt forests, PLoS ONE
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2016Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes, Environmental Research Letters
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2016Repeatability of free-burning fire experiments using heterogeneous forest fuel beds in a combustion wind tunnel, International Journal of Wildland Fire
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2016Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire, Climatic Change
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2015Long-distance spotting potential of bark strips of a ribbon gum (Eucalyptus viminalis), International Journal of Wildland Fire
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2014Evaluating benefits and costs of wildland fires: critical review and future applications, Environmental Hazards
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2014Exploring the use of economic evaluation in Australian wildland fire management decision-making, International Journal of Wildland Fire
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2013Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
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2013How does ecological disturbance influence genetic diversity?, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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2013Contrasting fire responses to climate and management: insights from two Australian ecosystems, Global Change Biology
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2013The worldwide “wildfire” problem, Ecological Applications
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2013A conceptual framework for predicting temperate ecosystem sensitivity to human impacts on fire regimes, Global Ecology and Biogeogrpahy
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2013Fire regimes of Australia: a pyrogeographic model system, Journal of Biogeography
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2013Exploring the role of fire, succession, climate, and weather on landscape dynamics using comparative modeling, Ecological Modelling
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2012Global change and fire regimes in Australia, Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World
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2012Land Management Practices Associated with House Loss in Wildfires, PLOS ONE
Research Areas
- Forestry Fire Management (070503)
- Environmental Management (050205)
- Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change (050101)
- Fenner School of Environment & Society, The Australian National University
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- geoffrey.cary@anu.edu.au
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