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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
18 May 2017	Towards an improved land dryness estimate for fire prediction	Resource	save (5.71 MB)	fire, flood, remote sensing
08 May 2017	Science-backed tools enhance water catchment management	News		fire, fire impacts, land management
03 Apr 2017	Fire mapping with satellites and smart phones	News		fire, fuel reduction, modelling
29 Mar 2017	Can we predict bushfires from space?	News		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
29 Mar 2017	Can we predict bushfires from space?—Dr Marta Yebra	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Mar 2017	Study seeks insights from farmers on fire and animals	News		animals, emergency management, fire
15 Mar 2017	Researcher wins accolade	News		fire, prescribed burning
15 Mar 2017	25 years of rural fire research in New Zealand	Blog		fire, prescribed burning
07 Feb 2017	7 February – lessons from two historic fires	News		communities, fire, fire impacts
06 Feb 2017	Black Tuesday - 1967 Tasmania bushfires	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communities, fire, fire impacts
16 Jan 2017	Research opportunities available for bushfire risk management	News		fire, modelling, risk management
05 Dec 2016	CRC student wins best paper award	News		fire, fire impacts, modelling
30 Nov 2016	Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2016-17: November update	Resource	save (951.14 KB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
28 Nov 2016	Participants needed for bushfire community preparation survey	News		animals, communities, fire
11 Nov 2016	Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand	News		fire, fire severity, fire weather
11 Nov 2016	Increasing cost of natural hazards as climate changes	News		fire, fire severity, fire weather
07 Nov 2016	A great opportunity to network with colleagues	Blog		fire, fuel reduction
27 Oct 2016	Project update three - From hectares to tailor-made solutions	News		fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
24 Oct 2016	Disaster landscape attribution, active fire detection and hazard mapping	Resource	save (1.9 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
24 Oct 2016	Savanna fire management and bushfire and natural hazard scenario planning for north Australia	Resource	save (3.85 MB)	fire, planning, prescribed burning
24 Oct 2016	Smouldering combustion in bushfires	Resource	save (317.63 KB)	fire, prescribed burning
24 Oct 2016	Forest fuel structural measurement and fuel load estimation using LiDAR data	Resource	save (660.29 KB)	fire, fuel reduction, modelling
24 Oct 2016	Flammable grassy weeds	Resource	save (3.42 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, Northern Australia
24 Oct 2016	Mitigating the effects of sever fires, floods and heatwaves through improvement to land dryness measures and forecasts	Resource	save (3.12 MB)	fire, flood, forecasting
24 Oct 2016	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: systems to deliver effective prescribed burning across ecosystems	Resource	save (1.83 MB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
24 Oct 2016	Wet forest fuels: managing Tasmania's most dangerous fuel type	Resource	save (1.41 MB)	fire, fuel reduction, modelling
24 Oct 2016	Fire coalescence and mass spot fire dynamics	Resource	save (4.18 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
11 Oct 2016	Your vote needed for Google Impact Challenge	News		child-centred, fire, infrastructure
11 Oct 2016	School bushfire education program draws on research	News		child-centred, education, fire
11 Oct 2016	PhD ideas from international conferences	Blog		fire, fire severity, fire weather
13 Sep 2016	Royal award for forest student	News		fire, fire impacts, modelling
01 Sep 2016	You own the fuel, but who owns the fire? - Michael Eburn	Resource	save (328.64 KB)	fire, policy, risk management
31 Aug 2016	Southern Australia Seasonal Bushfire Outlook 2016	Resource	save (1.03 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
30 Aug 2016	"I’m going to be frightened out of my wits": Insights on psychological preparedness from the Sampson Flat fire - Danielle Every	Resource	save (970.63 KB)	communication, communities, fire
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
30 Aug 2016	The bushfire convective plume experiment - Nicholas McCarthy	Resource	save (4.38 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
30 Aug 2016	The social life of science: tales from Victoria and the Northern Territory - Jessica Weir	Resource	save (1.49 MB)	decision making, fire, policy
30 Aug 2016	Wind speed reduction induced by post-fire vegetation regrowth - Rachael Quill	Resource	save (4.44 MB)	fire, fire impacts, fire weather
30 Aug 2016	Using participatory mapping in bushfire preparation - Billy Haworth	Resource	save (2.32 MB)	communication, fire, volunteering
15 Aug 2016	Travel report - Rachael Quill 2016	Resource	save (265.92 KB)	fire