Recovery Capitals team at the 2021 Resilient Australia Awards.
The Recovery Capitals project has been named a joint winner at the 2021 Resilient Australia Awards, while two more CRC projects were also recognised.
Recovery research honoured with Resilient Australia Award
Public safety messages for floods and storms are being broadcast on ABC Radio this severe weather season, backed by Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC research.
Taking protective action during floods and storms
A new interactive mental health module is making it easier for young volunteers and emergency agencies to learn, practice and promote positive mental health and wellbeing.
Accessible support for young volunteer mental health
Fire generated vortex (Victoria, Corryong fire) 30 December 2019. Photo courtesy Ms Janice Newnham.
New research is offering insights into the destructive Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20, which were at times driven by complex interactions between the fire and the atmosphere that produced extreme local fire behaviour.
Bushfire insights uncovered with new fire-atmosphere modelling
Cultural burning in southern Australia resources.
New research-backed storytelling resources to help fire agencies and land management departments better understand cultural burning.
Stories of cultural burning in southern Australia
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A new online documentary series profiles key research about warnings, public information and recovery to support emergency services in protecting communities. Watch now.
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Exploring future development pathways and associated dis...
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Assessing the impact of spatial planning on disaster ris...
Hedwig van Delden, Roel Vanhout, Douglas Radford, Holger Maier, Aaron Zecchin, Graeme Dandy
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Wind terrain filters for VLS prone landscapes - utilisat...
Jason J. Sharples, R Badlan, Nusrat Mehnaz
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Embedding foresight into disaster risk assessment and re...
Hedwig van Delden, Robin van den Honert, Graeme Riddell, Douglas Radford, Holger Maier, Aaron Zecchin, Graeme Dandy
11/2024
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Improved decision support for natural hazard risk reduct...
Hedwig van Delden, Holger Maier, Aaron Zecchin, Roel Vanhout, Graeme Riddell, Jeffrey Newman, Graeme Dandy, James Daniell, Andreas Schafer, Sofanit Araya, Amelie Jeanneau, Douglas Radford, Charles Newland, Ariella Helfgott, Michael O'Flaherty
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Positive mental health in young adult life saving volunt...
Amanda Taylor, Miranda Van Hooff, Sharon Lawn, David Lawrence, Wavne Rikkers, Louise Roberts, Maureen Ashe, Alexander McFarlane, Rachel Roberts, Jane Cocks, Holly Caruso, Isabella Ferraro
03/2024
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Exploring Volunteer Turnover Reasons, Intentions, and Be...
Djurre Holtrop, Christine Soo, Marylène Gagné, Darja Kragt, Patrick Dunlop, Aleksandra Luksyte
05/2023
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Implementation of spatially-varying wind adjustment fact...
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21 Jan 2022
Key warnings guidelines backed by latest CRC research
The latest version of a key guide for issuing warnings in Australia, the Public Information and Warnings handbook, has been revised to include the latest Bushfire...
Incident management team. Photo: CFA
21 Jul 2022
New guide to utilise non-technical skills in emergency management
20 Jan 2022
A wave of PhD completions
Geographical Society of New South Wales 2021 Awards Ceremony
15 Dec 2021
Best Paper in 2021 awarded to CRC researchers
Prof Holger Maier presenting at AFAC19.
15 Dec 2021
CRC researcher wins biennial medal for modelling research
Recovery Capitals team at the 2021 Resilient Australia Awards.
14 Dec 2021
Recovery research honoured with Resilient Australia Award
Prof Jason Sharples presenting at AFAC17.
10 Dec 2021
CRC researcher appointed Fellow
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Another day, another flood:...
07 Apr 2022
Climate change is making disasters more frequent and severe, so how should we be preparing for these inevitable events?
Celeste Young
Disaster recovery and wellbeing
29 Mar 2022
Irrespective of taking on a volunteer or paid role, working in disaster recovery has the potential to pose risks to our wellbeing.
Dr Fiona Jennings
Completed PhD student
A new set of priorities to guide...
08 Oct 2021
It’s not often that you have the opportunity to contribute to a set of research priorities across any sector, but that is what we...
Dr John Bates
Dr John Bates
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Developing our research priorities...
30 Sep 2021
The first few months for us at Natural Hazards Research Australia have seen plenty happening, although not all the activities...
Dr Richard Thornton
Chief Executive Officer
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21 Oct
ABC Goulburn Murray
Scientists working to predict 'freak' fire weather simulate some of Australia's toughest blazes
20 Oct
Meteorological Technology International
Research sheds light on unexpected behavior of Australia’s Black Summer bushfires
20 Oct
Beef Central
Report finds weather played significant role 2019-20 fires
19 Oct
Bureau of Meteorology
Bushfire insights uncovered with new fire-atmosphere modelling
19 Oct
South Coast Register
New insights into Black Summer’s terrible fires uncovered
19 Oct
Mirage News
Bushfire insights uncovered with new fire-atmosphere modelling
11 Oct
ABC Weather
BOM severe weather outlook for 2021-22 suggests floods, cyclones on the cards
08 Oct
news.com.au
Former fire chief warns of inextinguishable firestorms as climate change poses unprecedented threat to Australia
07 Oct
University of Western Australia
Survey reveals mental health impact of Black Summer fires on emergency workers
07 Oct
Mirage News
Survey reveals mental health impact of Black Summer fires on emergency workers
06 Oct
Busselton-Dunsborough Mail
Time to prepare properties ahead of the bushfire season
27 Sep
Herald Sun
Quake would’ve killed 1400 if it hit Melbourne
27 Sep
The Age
‘We are not safe’: Warning on city buildings as more quakes predicted
27 Sep
Brisbane Times
‘We are not safe’: Warning on city buildings as more quakes predicted
24 Sep
University of Melbourne Pursuit
What Victoria's earthquake tells us about the safety of our structures

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