We’ve all seen footage of out-of-control bushfires sweeping the Australian landscape, burning out hectares of native forest in their wake. But you might not have heard of a fire tornado, let alone seen…
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Engineers are aiming to help fire fighters investigate and battle dangerous blazes via new computer modelling of house fires…
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is co-ordinating a new venture to tackle short-lived global warming agents such as black carbon. Should we be paying more attention to black carbon? Yes…
The evidence for a rapid shift in state of the terrestrial atmosphere-ocean system over the last two centuries (see figure 1) requires a deep time perspective, beyond events of the day. Tracing the original…
Wooden power poles are at fire risk from leaked current. Current leakage occurs when the the insulator degrades due to salt…
Researchers have discovered a new bushfire phenomenon called “fire channelling” that occurs only on steep slopes facing away…
A University of Tasmania scientists has suggested that introducing elephants, rhinoceros and Komodo dragons in mainland Australia…
Scientists are increasingly expected to engage with the media to communicate their findings. My research leads me to believe Hobart is at risk from a severe bushfire disaster – but what are my responsibilities…
For thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians burned forests to promote grasslands for hunting and other purposes. Recent research suggests that these burning practices also affected the timing and intensity…
Aboriginal people worked hard to make plants and animals abundant, convenient and predictable. By distributing plants and associating them in mosaics, then using these to lure and locate animals, Aborigines…
By analysing nearly a decade of satellite data, a team of scientists has created a model that can successfully predict the…
The “reasonable person” would agree that disaster risk is best avoided. Under a changing climate, how exposed people are to risk and how socially and physically vulnerable they are affects how often disasters…
Bushfires are part of the Australian landscape and the psyche of its human inhabitants. This is particularly true as months of hot, dry weather approach. Recent warnings have predicted a dire summer ahead…
Climate change, land use and other human-driven factors could pit savannas and forests against each other. Without this harmony…
It’s true: many species will go extinct due to the direct and indirect impacts of climate change. We will have to make some hard decisions about where to invest conservation dollars for the best effect…
We have been fascinated and repelled by fire for millennia. It’s the defining feature of humanity and it has powered all cultures. But our relationship with this fundamental element, whether wild or contained…
The issue of firewood management has recently attracted renewed attention in Victoria, where the State Government has changed the regulations on collecting firewood from State Forests. Firewood is cheap…
Last summer, the Victorian government allowed cattle to graze in the Alpine National Park. They claimed it was part of a scientific trial to assess grazing as a tool to reduce fire risk. Now it seems there…
Lizard populations have been brought back in America’s Ozark glades through the burning of entire mountains and valleys…
Fire – one of nature’s primary carbon-cycling mechanisms – will become an increasingly important driver of atmospheric change…
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in Quantitative Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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Emeritus professor, University of Wollongong
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Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Construction Management, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Postdoctoral researcher, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Richmond
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Future Fire Risk Analyst, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Charles Darwin University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
