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
30 Jun 2017	Improving our knowledge of the mental health and wellbeing of firefighters	Resource	save (570.31 KB)	emergency management, fire
09 Apr 2019	Coexisting with combustion: the future of bushfire management	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
18 Sep 2018	Pyroconvective interactions and dynamic fire propagation	Resource	save (2.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
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	Fuels3D	Resource	save (3.62 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
03 Jul 2015	North Australian Bushfire and Natural Hazard Training	Resource	save (1.29 MB)	fire, multi-hazard
13 Dec 2018	The development of a pyrocumulonimbus prediction tool: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
29 Jun 2018	An overview of national fire research	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
17 May 2016	North Australian bushfire and natural hazard training	Resource	save (2.01 MB)	fire, local knowledge, Northern Australia
27 Mar 2015	Social science research insights into public support for wildfire mitigation	Resource	save (741.7 KB)	fire, risk management
14 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Mark Adams presentation	Resource	save (4.21 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
08 Mar 2019	Sesa Singha Roy - early career researcher entry 2019	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, modelling
23 Aug 2018	Queenslanders upgraded with cyclone research	Resource		cyclone, fire, resilience
27 Aug 2019	Physics based simulations of grassfire propagation on up-sloped terrain – A parametric study	Resource	save (831.32 KB)	environments, fire, fire weather
23 Nov 2018	The prescribed fire atlas	Resource	save (960.9 KB)	fire, prescribed burning
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
08 Sep 2014	Threshold behaviour in dynamic fire propagation	Resource	save (2.41 MB)	fire, propagation
07 Jul 2017	Building bushfire predictive services capability - Simon Heemstra	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
08 May 2015	Physically Demanding Tasks Performed by Firefighters Presentation	Resource	save (369.49 KB)	fire, response
24 May 2019	Public health and natural hazards: New policies and preparedness initiatives developed from an Australian bushfire case study	Resource	save (84.72 KB)	decision making, emergency management, fire
02 Jul 2015	Billy Haworth - volunteered geographic information, community engagement & bushfire preparation in Tasmania	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communication, communities, fire
17 Oct 2019	Fuels3D	Resource	save (5.15 MB)	fire, fire impacts
18 Sep 2018	Hazard smart remote communities in Northern Australia	Resource	save (1.29 MB)	fire, Northern Australia
15 Sep 2015	Vicky Aerts - The effect of smoke from prescribed burning & bushfires on plant physiology	Resource	save (0 bytes)	environments, exposure, fire
01 Oct 2018	Keynote: Conflicting Evidence: prescribed burning: when ‘evidence’ is not the reality	Resource	save (6.32 MB)	fire, planning, prescribed burning
28 Apr 2020	Submission the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements	Resource	save (2.4 MB)	fire, fire severity
07 Sep 2017	Large-eddy simulation of neutral atmospheric surface layer flow over heterogeneous tree canopies	Resource	save (885.3 KB)	fire, modelling, propagation
18 Aug 2015	Improving Fire Risk Estimation through Investigating Fire Intensity, Moisture and Temperature Anomalies	Resource	save (426.3 KB)	fire, modelling, remote sensing
29 Jun 2018	3D fire simulation for Northern Australia	Resource	save (1.18 MB)	fire, fire weather, savanna grasslands
29 Mar 2017	Can we predict bushfires from space?—Dr Marta Yebra	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
18 Aug 2015	Towards Culturally Appropriate Fire Management in the Waanyi and Garawa Lands	Resource	save (147.24 KB)	fire, governance, indigenous communities
25 Nov 2020	Satellites to help show when the bush is ready to burn	Resource		fire, remote sensing, vulnerability
03 Jul 2018	Queensland 2017 fire review and 2018 outlook	Resource	save (3.09 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
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
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Adam Leavesley presentation	Resource	save (4.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
29 Jun 2017	Statistical characterisation of wind fields over complex terrain for bushfire modelling	Resource	save (2.33 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
31 Oct 2017	Prescribed burning and predictive services	Resource	save (4.46 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2015	Meteorology of the Sampson Flat Fire in January 2015	Resource	save (1.63 MB)	fire, fire weather
16 Dec 2020	AFAC Webinar 'Where are we going with soil moisture' 2020	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, land management