Sarah McColl-Gausden is a fire scientist who works as a Future Fire Risk Analyst at the School of Ecosystem & Forest Sciences at The University of Melbourne. She has a background in fire ecology, simulation modelling, and fire behaviour analysis. Sarah holds a PhD in fire science, specifically the prediction of future fire regimes under a changing climate and the implications for biodiversity.
Experience
2022–2022
Future fire risk analyst, The University of Melbourne
Education
2022
The University of Melbourne, PhD
2017
The University of Melbourne, Masters of Science (Ecosystem Science)
2015
The University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Science
Publications
2022
Future fire regimes increase risks to obligate-seeder forests, Diversity and Distributions
2021
Climatic and edaphic gradients predict variation in wildland fuel hazard in south‐eastern Australia, Ecography
2019
Pathways of change: Predicting the effects of fire on flammability, Journal of Environmental Management
2017
Visual assessment of surface fuel loads does not align with destructively sampled surface fuels, Forests