It’s not too late to register for the International Association of Wildland Fire’s 16th Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 6th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, being held virtually this week.
Partnered with the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, the conference will present real world risks and opportunities in an online environment, connecting an international audience with global topics and speakers on three different continents and time zones.
The conference will address the issues that make the global wildland fire community safe, smart and supported, by covering five fire themes—safety, health, risk, decisions and knowledge—across three fire spotlights—fire (wildland and prescribed), people (operations, health, politics and science), and planet (climate, technology and urban growth). The North American partner is the Association for Fire Ecology and the European partner is the Pau Costa Foundation.
The CRC will run a virtual booth in the exhibition zone of the conference and summit, and the program will feature presentations from multiple CRC researchers, as well as end-users from various emergency services agencies across Australia. These include:
Dr Josh Whittaker (NSW Rural Fire Service) on his latest research for the CRC in his presentation, Lessons from Black Summer: how people experienced the 2019/20 NSW fire season
Associate student Sarah Dickson-Hoyle (University of British Columbia) on her PhD research findings to date in Joint leadership in wildfire management: lessons learned from the ‘Elephant Hill’ fire in Secwepemcúl’ecw, British Columbia
Zoë D'Arcy, associate student from RMIT University, on her PhD research in Fire-adaptive communities in an Australian context: what lessons can be learnt from current work with communities?
Matt Plucinski (CSIRO) and Heather Simpson (University of Wollongong) in Measuring operational effectiveness in large wildfire management: challenges, progress, and future directions