Key topics

fire

Fire is the product of a chemical reaction between fuel, oxygen and heat. Heat is necessary to start the reaction and once ignited, fire produces its own heat and becomes self-supporting.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
31 Aug 2020	Fire Surveillance and hazard mapping	Resource	save (634.69 KB)	fire, multi-hazard
20 Mar 2019	Research and innovation leader appointed Chair	Resource		communication, fire, multi-hazard
07 Jul 2017	Lightning presentation: bushfire and emergency risk management research projects	Resource	save (1.01 MB)	emergency management, fire, risk management
18 Sep 2018	Pyroconvective interactions and dynamic fire propagation	Resource	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
19 Sep 2018	Fuels3D	Resource	save (3.62 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
13 Dec 2018	The development of a pyrocumulonimbus prediction tool: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
03 Jul 2015	North Australian Bushfire and Natural Hazard Training	Resource	save (1.29 MB)	fire, multi-hazard
07 Sep 2017	An organisational response to Stage 3 Geography and the study of a contemporary bushfire event	Resource	save (860.25 KB)	child-centred, education, fire
29 Jun 2018	Queensland fire outlook 2018	Resource	save (1.4 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
06 May 2020	National Fire Fuels Science webinar - The thing about hazard reduction (webinar 1 of 3)	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
25 Nov 2020	Finding fires faster	Resource		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
18 Aug 2015	Mapping Bushfire Hazard and Impact	Resource	save (769.26 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
29 Jun 2017	Gaining benefits from adversity: standardising data obtained from bushfires	Resource	save (716.43 KB)	fire, fire impacts, guidelines
31 Oct 2017	Coupled fire-atmosphere modelling project: ACCESS-Fire	Resource	save (580.38 KB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
23 Nov 2018	The prescribed fire atlas	Resource	save (960.9 KB)	fire, prescribed burning
27 Aug 2019	Fuels3D and the assessment of bark hazard	Resource	save (13.38 MB)	fire, fire impacts
29 Jun 2017	The diurnal cycle and its role in fire detection using Himawari-8	Resource	save (1.64 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
08 Sep 2014	Threshold behaviour in dynamic fire propagation	Resource	save (2.41 MB)	fire, propagation
24 Sep 2019	Australian Fire Danger Ratings System Social Research Project	Resource	save (3.83 MB)	communication, fire, fire severity
08 May 2015	Physically Demanding Tasks Performed by Firefighters Presentation	Resource	save (369.49 KB)	fire, response
24 Oct 2016	Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for north Australia	Resource	save (3.85 MB)	fire, planning, prescribed burning
18 Sep 2018	Hazard smart remote communities in Northern Australia	Resource	save (1.29 MB)	fire, Northern Australia
01 Oct 2018	Keynote: Conflicting Evidence: prescribed burning: when ‘evidence’ is not the reality	Resource	save (6.32 MB)	fire, planning, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2015	Improving Fire Risk Estimation through Investigating Fire Intensity, Moisture and Temperature Anomalies	Resource	save (426.3 KB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
07 Sep 2017	Enhanced estimation of background temperature for fire detection using new geostationary sensors	Resource	save (1.11 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Phil Zylstra presentation	Resource	save (14.64 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
27 Mar 2015	Social science research insights into public support for wildfire mitigation	Resource	save (741.7 KB)	fire, risk management
05 Jul 2016	NT bushfire management planning framework	Resource	save (1.18 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
26 Nov 2020	AFAC Webinar: Future of the Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
08 Mar 2019	Sesa Singha Roy - early career researcher entry 2019	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, modelling
24 Apr 2015	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their homes?	Resource	save (413.6 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
21 Dec 2020	Fire Australia Issue Four 2020	Resource	save (4.58 MB)	communication, fire, flood
21 Mar 2014	Fire management training for northern Australia	Resource	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
18 Aug 2015	Influence of Fire Regime Variables and Growth Stage Distributions on Biodiviersity in Victorian Foothills Forest	Resource	save (454.46 KB)	fire, fire impacts
01 Jun 2020	Q&A with A/Prof Phil Zylstra - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the science of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
27 Aug 2019	Shifts to the new abnormal: riding the waves of climate change	Resource	save (1.16 MB)	decision making, fire
30 Aug 2016	The effects of turbulent plume dynamics on long-range spotting - Will Thurston	Resource	save (2.56 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
30 Jun 2017	The effect of wildfire on forested catchment water quality: empirical versus mechanistic models	Resource	save (928.65 KB)	fire, fire impacts, hydrology
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
14 Jul 2020	Prescribed Burning Atlas Launch 14 July 2020 - Hamish Clarke	Resource	save (2.49 MB)	fire, land management, prescribed burning