Owen Price | Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC

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Analysis and characterisation of bushfire-meets-prescribed burn Black Summer fires in NSW

This project is part of the Black Summer research program funded by the Commonwealth Government through the 10-year extension of funding into natural hazard research in Australia.

Investigation of the suitability of aviation tracking data for use in bushfire suppression effectiveness research

This project is part of the Black Summer research program funded by the Commonwealth Government through the 10-year extension of funding into natural hazard research in Australia.

Supervisory roles

Project	Student
Productivity and effectiveness of suppression resources and tactics on large fires	hsimpson
Empirical analysis of spot fire and ember behaviour during extreme fire weather conditions	mstorey

Research team

Type	Project	Research team
CRC Core Project	From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation	oprice, tpenman, mboer, hclarke, bcirulis, arawlins, mbedward, lcollins
Commissioned Research	2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project	mboer, oprice, tpenman
Commissioned Research	Black Summer bushfires: South Australia reconstructions	tpenman, oprice, rbradstock, mboer, sjones, ntrihantoro

Two burns implemented in Moreton National Park, NSW in February/March 2019. The left map shows the Fire Extent and Severity Map for the prescribed burns and the right map shows the Fire Extent and Severity Map in the Currowan bushfire in January 2020.

Analysis and characterisation of bushfire-meets-prescribed burn events...

Price,O.,Barker,J.,Rahmani,S.,Wilkinson,C.,MacDonald,D.

Investigating the suitability of aviation tracking data for use in bus...

Simpson,H.,Storey,M.,Plucinski,M.P.,Price,O.

Fire in the landscape. Photo credit: Fire and Emergency NZ.

Journal Article

Experiments on the influence of spot fire and topography interaction o...

Storey,M.,Price,O.,Almeida,M.,Ribeiro,C.,Bradstock,R.,Sharples,J.J.

Location of burn blocks, either edge or landscape, for fire behaviour simulations in Kangaroo Island.

Risk mitigation from prescribed burning in Kangaroo Island and Mount L...

Clarke,H.,Cirulis,B.,Price,O.,Bradstock,R.,Boer,M.M.,Rawlins,A.,Penman,T.

Fire in the landscape. Photo: TFS.

Journal Article

Derivation of a Bayesian fire spread model using large-scale wildfire...

Storey,M.,Bedward,M.,Price,O.,Bradstock,R.,Sharples,J.J.

Smoke plume from bushfire. Photo credit: DSE.

Journal Article

Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spottin...

Storey,M.,Price,O.,Bradstock,R.,Sharples,J.J.

Prescribed burn at Bowen Mountain in July 2019. Photo: Hamish Clarke

From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation – final pro...

Clarke,H.,Cirulis,B.,Penman,T.,Price,O.,Boer,M.M.,Bradstock,R.

Wye River Dec 2015. Photo: Keith Pakenham, CFA

Journal Article

Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Au...

Storey,M.,Price,O.,Sharples,J.J.,Bradstock,R.

Prescribed burn at Mt Solitary in May 2018. Photo: Beth Koperberg

From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: annual pro...

Clarke,H.,Price,O.,Boer,M.M.,Cirulis,B.,Penman,T.,Bradstock,R.

Delegates at AFAC19, Melbourne.

Conference Paper

A new decision support tool for prescribed burning risk assessment

Clarke,H.,Cirulis,B.,Bradstock,R.,Boer,M.M.,Penman,T.,Price,O.

Smoke on the horizon. Photo credit: Tasmania Fire Service.

Journal Article

Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from p...

Cirulis,B.,Clarke,H.,Boer,M.M.,Penman,T.,Price,O.,Bradstock,R.

Prescribed burning in New South Wales. Photo: NSW RFS.

Journal Article

Climate change effects on the frequency, seasonality and interannual v...

Clarke,H.,Tran,B.,Boer,M.M.,Price,O.,Kenny,B.,Bradstock,R.

Fire suppression activities by Queensland RFS crews. Photo credit: Qld RFS.

Journal Article

A Temporal Framework of Large Wildfire Suppression in Practice, a Qual...

Simpson,H.,Bradstock,R.,Price,O.

Prescribed burning used with aerial firefighting units. Credit CFA.

Journal Article

Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from p...

Cirulis,B.,Clarke,H.,Boer,M.M.,Penman,T.,Price,O.,Bradstock,R.

This research is testing new technology to help detect bushfires before they become too big to control. Photo: Mike Rowe (CC- BY-NC-2.0).

Conference Paper

A systematic exploration of the potential for bushfire risk mitigation...

Cirulis,B.,Clarke,H.,Bradstock,R.,Boer,M.M.,Penman,T.,Price,O.

Photo credit: CFA

Journal Article

How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Au...

Lahaye,S.,Sharples,J.J.,Matthews,S.,Heemstra,S.,Price,O.,Badlan,R.

Prescribed burn at Mt Solitary in May 2018. Photo: Beth Koperberg

From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: annual pro...

Clarke,H.,Price,O.,Boer,M.M.,Cirulis,B.,Penman,T.,Bradstock,R.

Conference Paper

What are the safety implications of dynamic fire behaviours?

Lahave,S.,Sharples,J.J.,Matthews,S.,Heemstra,S.,Price,O.

From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation - systems t...

Clarke,H.,Price,O.,Boer,M.M.,Cirulis,B.,Penman,T.,Bradstock,R.

Journal Article

Resolving future fire management conflicts using multi-criteria decisi...

Driscoll,D.A.,Bode,M.,Bradstock,R.,Keith,D.A.,Penman,T.,Price,O.

Journal Article

The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence...

Storey,M.,Price,O.

Journal Article

Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires

Penman,T.,Nicholson,A.E.,Bradstock,R.,Collins,L.,Penman,S.H.,Price,O.

Journal Article

Biogeographical variation in the potential effectiveness of prescribed...

Price,O.,Penman,T.,Bradstock,R.,Boer,M.M.,Clarke,H.

Journal Article

Modelling the potential for prescribed burning to mitigate carbon emis...

Gill,M.,Hutley,L.B.,Cook,G.D.,Russell-Smith,J.,Maier,S.,Roxburgh,S.,Meyer,C.P.(Mick),Barrett,D.J.,Keith,H.,Bradstock,R.,Cary,G.J.,Price,O.,Williams,R.J.

Journal Article

Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value?

Penman,T.,Christie,F.J.,Andersen,A.N.,Bradstock,R.,Cary,G.J.,Henderson,M.K.,Price,O.,Tran,C.,Wardle,G.M.,Williams,R.J.,York,A.

Journal Article

Efficacy of permanent firebreaks and aerial prescribed burning in west...

Price,O.,Edwards,A.C.,Russell-Smith,J.

27 Aug 2019

From hectares to tailor-made solutions to prescribed burning

Rising public and professional expectations require a greater, more transparent understanding of...

19 Sep 2018

From hectares to tailor-made solutions

fire, prescribed burning

How does the diverse and changing biophysical, climatic and human context of southern Australia...

19 Sep 2018

Deconstructing Suppression Efforts on Large Bushfires

decision making, prescribed burning

Large bushfires (over 500ha) account for a disproportionate amount of both hectares burned and...

30 Jun 2017

From hectares to tailor-made solutions for prescribed burning

fire, prescribed burning

How does prescribed burning effectiveness in mitigating risk depend on the diverse and changing...

29 Jun 2017

Productivity of firefighting resources on large bushfires

decision making, prescribed burning

This project will seek to answer the following questions:What are the productivity rates of...

14 Aug 2016

From hectares to tailor-made solutions for prescribed burning

prescribed burning

This project will deliver a prescribed burning atlas to guide implementation of ‘tailor-made’...

14 Aug 2016

Productivity and effectiveness of suppression resource and tactics on large bushfires

This project strives to determine what effect suppression operations have on large fires.

14 Aug 2016

Economic and environmental costs and benefits of bushfire preparedness and response - pilot study

To describe the actual and potential costs and benefits of bushfire preparedness and response...

18 Aug 2015

Delivering Effective Prescribed Burning Across Southern Australia

fire, prescribed burning

Although many jurisdictions are committed to prescribed burning, we do not understand its effects...

Resources credited

Type	Released	Title	Download	Key Topics
HazardNoteEdition	09 Dec 2020	The Prescribed Burning Atlas: a new system to plan effective prescribed burns	Save (872.25 KB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Presentation-Slideshow	27 Aug 2019	From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: An integrated prescribed burning research project	Save (2.57 MB)	decision making, fire, prescribed burning
Presentation-Slideshow	07 May 2019	The Prescribed Fire Atlas	Save (360.35 KB)
Presentation-Slideshow	07 May 2019	Fighting smoke with smoke	Save (3.38 MB)
Presentation-Slideshow	23 Nov 2018	The prescribed fire atlas	Save (960.9 KB)	fire, prescribed burning
Presentation-Slideshow	18 Sep 2018	Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values	Save (1.96 MB)	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	Save (1.83 MB)	fire, prescribed burning, risk management

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