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
	Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels	Project		fire, modelling, propagation
	Models for lightning-caused wildfire ignition	Project		fire, modelling
	Development of an interface using penalisation method for improving computational performance of bushfire simulation tools	Project		fire, modelling, physics
	An evaluation of Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Project		child-centred, fire
	Spatially forecasting coupled litter and root moisture dynamics for bushfire management	Project		fire, fire impacts, modelling
	Identifying water sources using satellite imagery	Project		fire, fire weather, remote sensing
	Parameterisation for a simplified short-range firebrand model from physics-based modelling	Project		fire, modelling
	Predicting fire danger ratings from physical measures of fire behaviour	Project		fire, fire impacts, fire severity
	Informing Queensland's bushfire review 2018	Project		communication, fire, fire impacts
	Taking fire: the historical and contemporary politics of Indigenous burning in Australia and the western United States	Project		fire, indigenous communities
	Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project		economics, fire
	Investigating the effect of soil moisture, temperature and precipitation extremes on fire risk and intensity in Australia	Project		fire
	Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for 3D bushfire mapping	Project		fire, modelling, risk analysis
	Fire transitions across urban boundaries	Project		fire
	An investigation of the dynamics of fire-fire interactions using a coupled fire-atmosphere model	Project		fire, modelling
	Development of an integrated method to predict bushfire hazard	Project		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	The role of urban planning in urban fire mitigation	Project		fire, mitigation, planning
	Effectiveness of resources to supress bushfire: aerial and ground based	Project		capability, fire, fire severity
	Investigating bird responses to fire in the Heathy Dry Forests of Victoria, Australia	Project		fire, fire impacts
	Refinement and validation of the pyrolysis and firebrand transport sub-models for a physics based bushfire prediction model	Project		fire, modelling
	Mapping the area of Tathra to study, if Mechanical Fuel Load Reduction (MFLR) along with prescribed burning can save houses (in future) at Tathra NSW	Project		fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
	Locating gendered knowledge and practices in Aboriginal fire ecology	Project		fire, fire impacts, indigenous communities
	Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors	Project		fire, prescribed burning
	Towards fire-adaptive communities in Australia	Project		communities, fire, resilience
	Effects of prenatal bushfire stress on life history traits in humans	Project		fire
	Bushfire climatology in Victoria	Project		fire, fire weather
	Simulated self-paced wildfire suppression work in different thermal conditions	Project		decision making, exposure, fire
	A comparison of the performance of Australian Standard smoke alarms in real fire tests when compared to standards-compliant devices from other jurisdictions	Project		fire, risk analysis, warnings
28 Jun 2019	National awards for our research	Resource		emergency management, fire, modelling
01 Apr 2015	Fire Australia Autumn 2015	Resource	save (8.64 MB)	fire, modelling, severe weather
06 Feb 2017	Black Tuesday - 1967 Tasmania bushfires	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
19 Sep 2018	Dry conditions prompt an earlier bushfire season	Resource		cyclone, fire, modelling
13 May 2020	National Fire Fuels Science webinar - The science of hazard reduction (webinar 2 of 3)	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
07 Sep 2017	A unified approach to fire spread modelling	Resource	save (4.06 MB)	fire, modelling, propagation
18 Aug 2015	What Factors Contribute to Better and Worse Mental Health in Firefighters	Resource	save (576.91 KB)	emergency management, fire, resilience
29 Jun 2018	Review of seasonal bushfire outlook	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
20 May 2020	National Fire Fuels Science webinar - The practice of hazard reduction (webinar 3 of 3)	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
22 Jan 2021	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System: providing a clear picture of landscape dryness	Resource	save (768.18 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
23 Nov 2018	Fire spread prediction across fuel types by physics-based modelling	Resource	save (2.02 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
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