Hobart 2007: Annual Conference

The 2007 Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre and Australasian Fire Authorities Council Annual Conference attracted almost 900 delegates from across Australia’s fire and emergency management industry and the fire research community to a waterfront venue in Hobart, Tasmania.

A broad program of speakers featured presentations from experts from around the globe.

All the Bushfire CRC speaker presentations and research posters are available on these pages.

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Research Stream Presentations

CRC Author	Author	Download
Dane Hansen Dr Mick Meyer Dr Fabienne Reisen		Characterisation of Particle emissions for the Combustion of Different Australian Vegetation
Matthew Phillips		Characterization Of The Physical Demands & Fitness For Purpose In Australian Tanker Based Bushfire Fighters
Tim Prior		Clearing away the undergrowth - shedding light on the factors that influence the decision to prepare for bushfires
Prof George Milne Bobby Chu		Coupling Bushfire Spread With A Sensor Network Detection System Model
Dr Neil Davidson		Eucalypt decline in the absence of fire
Dr Stephen Roxburgh		Fire, Fuel & Grazing in the Australian High Country - HighFire long-term grazing & fire experiments
Meaghan Jenkins Prof Mark Adams		Fire, vegetation change and potential feedback to the global carbon cycle
Dr Mick Meyer		Inventory Methodology Issues and Developments
Dr Stuart Anderson		Linking Field Observations With Remote Sensing To Determine Grassland Fire Hazard
		New Directions in Fire Research in the US
Annette Salter		New Technologies for Future learning –Providing training options in fire behaviour training
Phil Lacy Prof Rodney Weber Jim Gould Dr Wendy Anderson		Prescribed Fire in Young Eucalypt Plantations - Is it worth the risk?
Dr Lachlan McCaw Jim Gould		Project Vesta - Fire in Dry Eucalypt Forest:- fuel structure, fuel dynamics and fire behaviour
Alison O'Donnell Dr Lachlan McCaw Dr Matthias Boer		Reconstructing the Fire History of an Unmanaged Semi-arid Landscape: Lake Johnston Region, WA
Dr Danielle Martin Dr Ian Grant Dr Stuart Anderson		Spatial Techniques For Grassland Curing Across Australia And New Zealand
Claire Johnson Mary Omodei Prof Geoff Cumming		The Use of Worst Case Scenarios in Decision Making By Bushfire Fighters
Dr Katharine Haynes		Trends in Australian bushfire fatalities over the last 100 years
		Trends in deliberate vegetation fires in Australia: Implications for recording and preventing bushfires

Research Posters

Program A
Author	Title
Bobby Chu Prof George Milne	A sensor network detection simulation system
	A Tasmanian fire danger climatology
	Environmental management research
Dr Graham Mills	Impact of climate change on fire weather
Dr Miguel Cruz	Model system to predict wildfire behaviour in pine plantations
Jim Gould Dr Miguel Cruz	National Bushfire Behaviour Knowledge System
Annette Salter	New technologies for future learning
Phil Lacy Dr Wendy Anderson Jim Gould Prof Rodney Weber Ralph Smith	Prescribed fire in young eucalypt plantations
Dr Miguel Cruz Jim Gould	Project FuSE South Australia - progress update
Dr Matt Plucinski Jim Gould	Proposal for SOAR
Dr Danielle Martin Dr Ian Grant Dr Stuart Anderson	Spatial techniques for grassland curing
Prof George Milne	Varying fuel load in forest fires
Dr Graham Mills	Wind change forecasts from numerical weather prediction

Program B
Author	Title
Dr Jason Sharples Prof Rodney Weber Rick McRae	A simple fuel moisture index for eucalypt litter
Dr Alan Andersen	Aboriginal wetland burning in Kakadu National Park
Dr Jason Sharples Prof Rodney Weber Rick McRae	Bushfire risk management in high country landscapes
Lyndsey Vivian Dr Geoff Cary Prof Ross Bradstock Dr Malcolm Gill	Classifying the fire response traits of plants: Is a species-level classification adequate?
Dr Jason Sharples Prof Rodney Weber Rick McRae Dr Graham Mills	Elevated fire danger conditions associated with Foehn-like winds in eastern Victoria
Rick McRae Prof Rodney Weber Dr Jason Sharples	Fire size-class transition model
Meaghan Jenkins Prof Mark Adams	Fire, vegetation change and potential feedbacks to the global carbon cycle
Ken Scott Dr Alan Andersen	Fire-related soil temperature in the Top End
Bryony Horton Dr Neil Davidson	Fungi and forest health in the absence of fire
Dr Jason Sharples Prof Rodney Weber Rick McRae	HighFire risk: collaborations sought
Adam Leavesley Dr Geoff Cary Prof Ross Bradstock	Is a fine-scaled fire mosaic good for avian diversity?
Dr Stephen Roxburgh Prof Mark Adams	Managing fuels in sub-alpine grassland and snowgum woodland
Dr Tina Bell Vicky Aerts	Potential nutrient loss in smoke and ash from different fuel types
Rowena Morris	Scanning sediment movement at Mount Bold Reservoir
Andrew Edwards	Spectral characterisation of fire severity in tropical savannas
Kerryn McTaggart Dr Tina Bell Dr Chris Weston	Unseen effects of fire on Australian alpine ecosystems
Philip Zylstra	What difference do plants make to fire behavior?
Dr Perpetua Turner	Wildfire chronosequence benchmark plots
Dr Jason Sharples Prof Rodney Weber Rick McRae	Wind-terrain effects on rugged landscape fire propagation

Program C
Author	Title
Josh Whittaker Prof John Handmer	A case study of Hobart's urban interface
Briony Towers Prof Douglas Paton	Children and bushfire risk
Dr Alison Cottrell	Community profiling framework
Gerald Elsworth John Gilbert Helen Goodman Alan Rhodes	Concept map of the community safety approach to bushfire
	Deliberate vegetation fires in Australia
Prof John Handmer	Economics of bushfires and bushfire management
	Effective risk communications - warnings
Francesca Harris-Spence	Fire catchment management groups
Mae Proudley	Fire, families and decisions
Tim Prior Prof Douglas Paton Dr Alison Cottrell	Improving risk communication
	Local knowledge and fire management
Prof John Handmer	NSW fire brigade's Community Fire Unit
Karyn Bosomworth Prof John Handmer	Policy and community bushfire resilience in light of climate change
Josh Whittaker	Policy problems and experiences during the 2003 Victorian bushfires
Josh Whittaker	Rural resilience and bushfires

Program D
Author	Title
Julian Black Justin Leonard Raphaele Blanchi	Bushfire risk to a neighbourhood in the wildland-urban interface
Annemarie De Vos	Fresh air for FESA career fire fighters
Sean Cowlishaw Prof Jim McLennan	Impacts of emergency service volunteering on volunteer families
Dr Christine Owen	Information flow and collaboration in multi-agency IMT
Matthew Phillips Jenni Raines Dr David Nichols Dr Brad Aisbett	Initial fitness levels of CFA recruit firefighters
Greg Hickey	Multiple agency approaches to emergency management
Dane Hansen Dr Mick Meyer Dr Fabienne Reisen	Particle emissions from the combustion of different Australian vegetation
Matthew Phillips Jenni Raines Dr David Nichols Dr Brad Aisbett	Physical demands of tanker-based bushfire fighting
Matthew Phillips Jenni Raines Dr David Nichols Dr Brad Aisbett	Tanker-based bushfire suppression by Australian volunteer firefighters in southern Australia
Ian Dwyer	Teamwork and collaborative work practices in fire management agencies
Prof Jim McLennan Adrian Birch Sean Cowlishaw	Volunteer firefighting: a suitable job for a woman?
Claire Johnson Mary Omodei	Worst case scenarios and decision making by bushfire fighters

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