Ross Bradstock is the Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires at the University of Wollongong.
His research interests include Fire ecology, Conservation biology, Landscape ecology and Climate change.
Project leadership
This project aims to deliver:
1. A Prescribed Burning Atlas to guide implementation of tailor-made prescribed burning strategies to suit the biophysical, climatic and human context of all bioregions across southern Australia. The Atlas will define the quantitative trajectory of risk reduction (including resultant residual risk) for multiple values (such as property, water, carbon, vegetation structure) in response to differing prescribed burning strategies (including spatial configurations and rates of treatment), across different Australian environments based on their unique climatic, biophysical and human characteristics.
2. Continental-scale, biophysically-based models of ignition and fuel accumulation for Australian ecosystems, for use in dynamic risk management planning and operational decision-making about prescribed burning at seasonal and inter-annual time scales, accessible via the Atlas.
3. Detailed scenarios of future change in risk mitigation effectiveness of prescribed burning strategies in response to integrated scenarios of changes to climate, fuel (including elevated CO2 effects) and ignitions. These will also be accessible through the Atlas.
Supervisory roles
Research team
| Type | Project | Research team |
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| Commissioned Research | Ecosystem resilience – establishment of collection and analyses for two priority ecological fire groups | jmorgan, mclarke, abennett, ahaslem, sleonard, lcollins, Josephine Machunter, gnewell, rbradstock, mooi, dkeith, amuir |
Resources credited
| Type | Released | Title | Download | Key Topics |
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| Presentation-Slideshow | 07 May 2019 | The Prescribed Fire Atlas |
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| Presentation-Slideshow | 18 Sep 2018 | Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values |
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fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 24 Oct 2016 | From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: systems to deliver effective prescribed burning across ecosystems |
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fire, prescribed burning, risk management |
| Presentation-Slideshow | 04 Dec 2014 | From hectares to tailor-made solutions for prescribed burning |
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mitigation, prescribed burning, risk management |
