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
29 Jun 2018	NAFM at 20 - challenges of fire management at QFES	Resource	save (525.46 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
04 Dec 2014	Challenges in physics based bushfire modelling	Resource	save (885.16 KB)	fire, fire severity, modelling
06 May 2020	Webinar 1 (6 May): Sarah Harris presentation	Resource	save (4.4 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
03 Jul 2015	Northern Queensland Fire Season Potential Outlook	Resource	save (3.65 MB)	fire, forecasting
16 Aug 2019	The Australian Flammability Monitoring System	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
25 Nov 2020	Satellites to help show when the bush is ready to burn	Resource		fire, remote sensing, vulnerability
03 Jul 2018	Queensland 2017 fire review and 2018 outlook	Resource	save (3.09 MB)	fire, Northern Australia, savanna grasslands
24 Jan 2020	More of the same is not the answer	Resource		communication, fire, mitigation
18 Aug 2015	Influence of Fire Regime Variables and Growth Stage Distributions on Biodiviersity in Victorian Foothills Forest	Resource	save (454.46 KB)	fire, fire impacts
18 Feb 2022	Understanding what happens when bushfires merge	Resource	save (1.28 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
30 Aug 2016	The effects of turbulent plume dynamics on long-range spotting - Will Thurston	Resource	save (2.56 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
20 May 2020	Webinar 3 (20 May): Adam Leavesley presentation	Resource	save (4.22 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
18 Aug 2015	Towards Culturally Appropriate Fire Management in the Waanyi and Garawa Lands	Resource	save (147.24 KB)	fire, governance, indigenous communities
31 Oct 2017	Prescribed burning and predictive services	Resource	save (4.46 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
27 Aug 2019	Australian Flammability Monitoring System Website	Resource	save (1.31 MB)	fire, remote sensing
23 Nov 2018	Fire spread prediction across fuel types by physics-based modelling	Resource	save (2.02 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fuel reduction
16 Dec 2020	AFAC Webinar 'Where are we going with soil moisture' 2020	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, land management
24 Apr 2015	How do residents in bushfire prone areas view the risk of their homes?	Resource	save (413.6 KB)	communities, fire, risk analysis
29 Jun 2017	Improved measures and forecasts of soil dryness	Resource	save (1.17 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
24 Oct 2016	Smouldering combustion in bushfires	Resource	save (317.63 KB)	fire, prescribed burning
17 Jun 2020	Q&A with Dr Valerie Densmore - National Fire Fuels Science webinar: the practice of hazard reduction	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
21 Mar 2014	Fire management training for northern Australia	Resource	save (1.22 MB)	fire, indigenous communities, Northern Australia
01 Apr 2015	Fire Australia Autumn 2015	Resource	save (8.64 MB)	fire, modelling, severe weather
06 Feb 2017	Black Tuesday - 1967 Tasmania bushfires	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
18 Sep 2018	Multi-temporal and spatial remote sensing imagery to monitor flammability in Australia	Resource	save (3.56 MB)	fire, fire impacts, modelling
31 Jul 2020	Bushfire lessons from cultural burns	Resource		fire, indigenous communities, land management
15 Feb 2018	Research gives insights into community fire response	Resource	save (2.46 MB)	communities, emergency management, fire
07 Aug 2014	Measuring the impacts of bushfires on human fatalities and building losses	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	engineering, fire
19 Sep 2018	Dry conditions prompt an earlier bushfire season	Resource		cyclone, fire, modelling
05 Jul 2016	Queensland bushfire season 2015-16	Resource	save (602.05 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
07 Sep 2017	Youth justice conferencing for youth misuse of fire: a case study of collaboration	Resource	save (1.98 MB)	child-centred, fire
30 Jul 2019	ACCESS-Fire	Resource	save (773.27 KB)	fire, modelling
03 Jul 2017	Bushfire - a statement on research priorities for natural hazards emergency management in Australia	Resource	save (653.5 KB)	fire, fire impacts, fire severity
29 Jun 2018	Northern Territory 2017 and 2018 Outlook	Resource	save (1.55 MB)	fire, fire impacts, savanna grasslands
13 May 2020	Webinar 2 (13 May): Neil Burrows presentation	Resource	save (4.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
09 Dec 2020	The Prescribed Burning Atlas: a new system to plan effective prescribed burns	Resource	save (872.25 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
11 Sep 2015	Linking local wildfire dynamics to PyroCB development	Resource	save (8.53 MB)	fire, modelling
18 Aug 2015	Impact of Vegetation Regrowth on Wind Direction Over Complex Terrain	Resource	save (250.9 KB)	fire, severe weather
27 Aug 2019	JASMIN: A high-resolution soil moisture analysis for fire prediction	Resource	save (2.15 MB)	fire, flood
07 Jul 2017	Three Minute Thesis: Youth Justice Conferencing for youth misuse of fire	Resource	save (526.52 KB)	child-centred, fire