Prof David Bowman

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Prof David Bowman

David Bowman is a fire ecologist who is developing a new discipline of pyrogeography. A feature of pyrogeography is a synthetic understanding of landscape burning that unites human, physical and biological dimensions of fire:  Exemplars of this approach has been his research into: global fire regimes, the history and ecology of indigenous landscape burning, and the health effects of biomass smoke. He is committed to translating his research to affect management outcomes and shape policy concerning prescribed burning, management of the wildland-urban interface and  management of carbon in forested landscapes.

Project leadership

This project assessed the post fire impact of the 2016 World Heritage Area fires in the Pencil Pine forests in Tasmania
How effective is LiDAR data in creating high resolution maps of fire severity? This Tactical Research Fund project surveyed an area burnt in the 2019 Tasmanian bushfires that was previously mapped in 2014.
This project was completed with the support of the CRC's funding for quick response. It investigated the effects of fire at 12 permanent plots that burned in the 2019 Tasmanian fires by comparing the predicted and actual fire severity.
This project was completed with the support of the CRC's funding for quick response. It undertook a rapid assessment of the post-fire impact of the 2019 Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area fires on subalpine shrublands.
Research team:
This project was completed with the support of the CRC's funding for quick response. It investigated the effect of fuel load and structure on fire severity across Australian wet eucalypt forests by measuring four of the eight Ausplots in southern NSW that burned in the 2019-20 fires.

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