News from the CRC
New publications on the website in the last month include a number of reports and journal papers.
A literature review from the Improved predictions of severe weather to reduce community impact study presents the available knowledge to date on pyrocumulus clouds, while the Mapping bushfire hazards and impacts project has completed a report on a framework for estimating fuel properties, vegetation growth, carbon storage and the water balance at hillslope scale. A report by Jim McLennan details the ethics provisions for post emergency event research.
PhD student Ryan Hoult has a number of new papers available on his engineering work into earthquakes and reinforced contcrete. They are all available on his project page, under the 'publications' tab.
New journal articles online include papers from the Disaster landscape attribution: fire surveillance and hazard mapping, data scaling and validation project and the Scientific diversity, scientific uncertainty and risk mitigation policy and planning study.