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
07 Oct 2019	Inquiries housed in database	Resource		decision making, emergency management, fire
08 May 2015	Effective Communication of Household Bushfire Risk Poster	Resource	save (821.14 KB)	communication, fire
28 Jun 2019	National awards for our research	Resource		emergency management, fire, modelling
19 Sep 2018	The problem of context – understanding the estimation of fire background temperature in South-Eastern Australia	Resource	save (1.6 MB)	fire
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Tina Bell presentation	Resource	save (8.48 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
03 Apr 2018	Australian Flammability Monitoring System: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts
04 Dec 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe hazards	Resource	save (1.62 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
31 Aug 2020	Flammability of live plants, do we need a new testing approach?	Resource	save (394.59 KB)	fire, fire weather
18 Feb 2022	Understanding what happens when bushfires merge	Resource	save (1.28 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
07 Sep 2017	Thermodynamics of pyrocumulus formation	Resource	save (2.79 MB)	fire, fire weather, severe weather
29 Mar 2017	Can we predict bushfires from space?—Dr Marta Yebra	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
13 May 2020	Questions and comments from the audience: 13 May 2020 - The science of hazard reduction: what do we know, what are the knowledge gaps?	Resource	save (215.66 KB)	fire, fire weather, prescribed burning
29 Jun 2018	Savanna monitoring and reporting framework	Resource	save (1.84 MB)	fire, fire severity, Northern Australia
18 Aug 2015	What Factors Contribute to Better and Worse Mental Health in Firefighters	Resource	save (576.91 KB)	emergency management, fire, resilience
31 Oct 2017	Three Minute Thesis: The burning question	Resource	save (97.66 KB)	emergency management, fire, response
18 Aug 2015	The Probability of Bushfire Ignition in Victoria	Resource	save (2.02 MB)	fire, modelling
12 Aug 2016	The Australian flammability monitoring system	Resource	save (362.43 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Aug 2019	The Australian Fire Danger Rating System	Resource	save (1.28 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
31 Oct 2017	Mapping the fire landscape: active fire surveillance and fuel hazard assessments	Resource	save (869.85 KB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
23 Nov 2018	The savanna and rangelands monitoring and evaluation reporting framework	Resource	save (1.67 MB)	fire, fire weather, Northern Australia
31 Jul 2020	Readiness for the next major bushfire emergency	Resource		emergency management, fire, fire impacts
24 Apr 2015	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their homes?	Resource	save (2.1 MB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
30 Jun 2017	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for prescribed burning	Resource	save (1.72 MB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
08 May 2015	The Interactions of Physical Work, Sleep Deprivation and Stress Poster	Resource	save (556.87 KB)	fire, response
18 Sep 2018	Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values	Resource	save (1.96 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
06 May 2020	Webinar 1 (6 May): Justin Leonard presentation	Resource	save (4.48 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
19 Apr 2018	Three Minute Thesis: Sprinkler systems to improve the bushfire resilience of buildings	Resource	save (791.13 KB)	fire, fire impacts
27 Oct 2014	Mitigating the effects of severe fires, floods and heatwaves	Resource		fire, flood, forecasting
25 Nov 2020	Carbon abatement through better fire mapping	Resource		fire, Northern Australia, prescribed burning
19 Sep 2018	Resilient or suicidal giants: what types of fires do the world’s tallest flowering forests support?	Resource	save (1.8 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, mitigation
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Valerie Densmore presentation	Resource	save (1.42 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
29 Jun 2018	Indigenous cultures in the north	Resource	save (954.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
07 Feb 2019	Black Saturday ten years on – what did we discover?	Resource	save (240.52 KB)	communities, fire, warnings
31 Aug 2020	A participatory approach to school bushfire emergency management planning.	Resource	save (478.91 KB)	fire
03 Jul 2015	Northern Territory Jurisdictional Issues	Resource	save (577.71 KB)	fire, governance, policy
11 Jun 2020	Q&A with Ruth Ryan - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the practice of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
10 Apr 2015	Community Resilience in Northern Australia 2015 NSW RAF Presentation	Resource	save (2.26 MB)	communities, fire, Northern Australia
31 Aug 2016	Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2016	Resource	save (1.03 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
27 Aug 2019	Probability and consequence of water contamination from post-fire debris flow	Resource	save (6.57 MB)	fire
09 Apr 2019	Coexisting with combustion: the future of bushfire management	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts