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
18 Sep 2018	Factors contributing to firefighters' mental health and wellbeing	Resource	save (899.79 KB)	emergency management, fire
08 May 2015	The Interactions of Physical Work, Sleep Deprivation and Stress Poster	Resource	save (556.87 KB)	fire, response
24 Oct 2016	Forest fuel structural measurement and fuel load estimation using LiDAR data	Resource	save (660.29 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, modelling
13 Aug 2020	Q&A with Dr Hamish Clarke - Prescribed Burning Atlas launch webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, land management, prescribed burning
19 Sep 2018	Collaboration with women caring for country on Australia’s frontier	Resource	save (6.16 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, local knowledge
02 Oct 2018	Launch of the Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2018	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
26 Jun 2015	Verification of Soil Moisture from Multiple Models for Bushfire Danger Rating Applications	Resource	save (4.32 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
07 Sep 2017	A new quantitative smoke forecasting system for Victoria	Resource	save (1.36 MB)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
17 May 2016	North Australian bushfire and natural hazard training	Resource	save (2.01 MB)	fire, local knowledge, Northern Australia
29 Jun 2018	NAFI - map of North Australia fire history	Resource	save (1.37 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
25 Nov 2020	A seasonal view of bushfire	Resource		fire, fire weather
18 Aug 2015	Community-Led Bushfire Preparedness in Action: The Case of Be Ready Warrandyte	Resource	save (382.81 KB)	communities, fire
09 Sep 2019	Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: August 2019	Resource		decision making, emergency management, fire
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Simon Heemstra presentation	Resource	save (1.98 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
10 Apr 2015	Community Resilience in Northern Australia 2015 NSW RAF Presentation	Resource	save (2.26 MB)	communities, fire, Northern Australia
07 Jul 2020	AFAC webinar: Active fire detection using the Himawari-8 satellite	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
23 Nov 2018	Spot-fire project: research and utilisation	Resource	save (1.26 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
18 Aug 2015	An Emprical Model for Assessing Daily Bushfire Community Smoke Exposure Over Large Geographic Areas	Resource	save (508.5 KB)	exposure, fire
30 Aug 2016	The bushfire convective plume experiment - Nicholas McCarthy	Resource	save (4.38 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
08 Sep 2014	The effects of fire plume dynamics on the lateral and longitudinal spread of long-range spotting	Resource	save (2.25 MB)	fire, fire impacts
02 Jul 2015	Billy Haworth - volunteered geographic information, community engagement & bushfire preparation in Tasmania	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communication, communities, fire
19 Sep 2018	Cloudy with a chance of fire	Resource	save (1.6 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
05 Dec 2017	Lessons learned from the Waroona fire: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire weather, modelling
15 Sep 2015	Vicky Aerts - The effect of smoke from prescribed burning & bushfires on plant physiology	Resource	save (0 bytes)	environments, exposure, fire
29 Jun 2018	Twenty five years with the RFS in north Queensland	Resource	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire severity
28 Apr 2020	Submission the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements	Resource	save (2.4 MB)	fire, fire severity
03 Jul 2015	Building Community Resilience in Northern Australia	Resource	save (2.2 MB)	communities, fire, resilience
03 Jul 2018	NAFM at 20 - research objectives	Resource	save (2.92 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, prescribed burning
14 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Mark Adams presentation	Resource	save (4.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2015	Disaster Landscape Attribution: Low Cost 3D Monitoring of Fuel Hazard	Resource	save (190.78 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
31 Oct 2017	Fire spread across fuel types	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
27 Aug 2019	Fuels3D and the assessment of bark hazard	Resource	save (13.38 MB)	fire, fire impacts
20 May 2020	Questions and comments from the audience: 20 May 2020 - The practice of hazard reduction: what are the potentials and limitations?	Resource	save (175.44 KB)	fire, fire weather, prescribed burning
24 Apr 2015	Living with bushfires	Resource	save (498.75 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
29 Jun 2017	An evaluation of youth justice conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Resource	save (472.5 KB)	child-centred, fire
24 Sep 2019	Australian Fire Danger Ratings System Social Research Project	Resource	save (3.83 MB)	communication, fire, fire severity
18 Sep 2018	Simulations of the effect of canopy density profile on sub-canopy wind speed profiles	Resource	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fuel reduction
08 May 2015	Cardiovascular Risk Screening and Stratification of Victorian Volunteer Firefighters Presentation	Resource	save (946.08 KB)	fire, response
17 Oct 2019	Mapping bushfire hazard and impacts	Resource	save (8.51 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
31 Jul 2020	Bushfire lessons from cultural burns	Resource		fire, indigenous communities, land management