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
19 Apr 2018	Three Minute Thesis: Sprinkler systems to improve the bushfire resilience of buildings	Resource	save (791.13 KB)	fire, fire impacts
07 Aug 2014	Community Members' Responses to Bushfire Threat	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	communities, decision making, fire
08 May 2015	Fighting Fires while Fighting Fatigue Poster	Resource	save (210.36 KB)	fire, response
19 Sep 2018	A new soil dryness product for fire prediction applications	Resource	save (1.97 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
29 Jun 2018	Indigenous cultures in the north	Resource	save (954.79 KB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
04 Dec 2014	Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour	Resource	save (610.43 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
29 Jun 2018	NAFI - map of North Australia fire history	Resource	save (1.37 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
05 Jul 2016	Developing a national natural hazards research agenda	Resource	save (739.58 KB)	fire, multi-hazard, Northern Australia
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Mike Clarke presentation	Resource	save (12.62 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
15 Aug 2016	Travel report - Rachael Quill 2016	Resource	save (265.92 KB)	fire
18 Aug 2015	Evaluation of Operational Models for Wind Variability Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (253.23 KB)	fire, severe weather
23 Nov 2018	Spot-fire project: research and utilisation	Resource	save (1.26 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
27 Aug 2019	Simulation Of Heat Fluxes On A Structure From A Fire In An Idealised Shrubland	Resource	save (495.46 KB)	decision making, fire
11 Sep 2015	Social ties matter - Experiencing and recovering from bushfires	Resource	save (762.23 KB)	communities, fire
24 Apr 2019	Why do you value diversity & inclusion - Steve O'Malley from MFB	Resource	save (0 bytes)	diversity and inclusion, emergency management, fire
08 Sep 2014	The effect of the degree of grass curing on the behaviour of grassland fires	Resource	save (17.65 MB)	fire
17 Oct 2019	Thresholds for dynamic fire behaviours	Resource	save (5.88 MB)	fire, fire severity
19 Sep 2018	Collaboration with women caring for country on Australia’s frontier	Resource	save (6.16 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, local knowledge
27 Oct 2014	Environmental thresholds for dynamic fire propagation	Resource		fire, propagation
02 Oct 2018	Launch of the Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2018	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
07 Sep 2017	A new quantitative smoke forecasting system for Victoria	Resource	save (1.36 MB)	fire, fire weather, forecasting
03 Jul 2018	NAFM at 20 - research objectives	Resource	save (2.92 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, prescribed burning
19 May 2020	Q&A with ABC's Sascha Rundle - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the thing about hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2015	Cost Effective Suppression on Campaign Fires	Resource	save (869.18 KB)	decision making, fire, response
31 Oct 2017	Fire spread across fuel types	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, forecasting, modelling
31 Aug 2020	Scenario Planning for Remote Community Risk Management in northern Australia	Resource	save (1.52 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, resilience
18 Aug 2015	Modelling Forest Fuel Temporal Change Using LiDAR	Resource	save (235.14 KB)	fire, modelling
30 Aug 2016	Using participatory mapping in bushfire preparation - Billy Haworth	Resource	save (2.32 MB)	communication, fire, volunteering
29 Jun 2017	An evaluation of youth justice conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Resource	save (472.5 KB)	child-centred, fire
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
24 Oct 2016	Fire coalescence and mass spot fire dynamics	Resource	save (4.18 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
08 May 2015	"Should I Stay or Should I Go?" Presentation	Resource	save (2.08 MB)	communication, fire
19 Sep 2018	Cloudy with a chance of fire	Resource	save (1.6 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
11 Apr 2016	Public response to fire management across countries: more similarities than differences	Resource	save (1.09 MB)	communication, communities, fire
05 Dec 2017	Lessons learned from the Waroona fire: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire weather, modelling
29 Jun 2018	Twenty five years with the RFS in north Queensland	Resource	save (1.08 MB)	fire, fire severity
04 Dec 2014	Optimising fuel reduction burning	Resource	save (605.15 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, prescribed burning
17 May 2016	Scientific diversity, scientific uncertainty and bushfire and flood risk mitigation project	Resource	save (1.14 MB)	fire, flood, mitigation
03 Jul 2015	Area Fire Management Groups Project	Resource	save (982.39 KB)	emergency management, fire
29 Jun 2018	Review of seasonal bushfire outlook	Resource	save (1.1 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather