About
Prof Ross Bradstock
Ross Bradstock is the Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires at the University of Wollongong.
His research interests include Fire ecology, Conservation biology, Landscape ecology and Climate change.
Blog posts on Views & Visions
Project leadership
The key finding of the project is that the effectiveness of prescribed burning at mitigating area burnt by bushfire and other key values varies considerably across landscapes and values. This has major implications for fire managers, suggesting that tailored prescribed burning solutions are possible based on the unique risk mitigation profile for any given suite of management values in that region. The key product of the project is the Prescribed Burning Atlas, a new website that informs prescribed burning strategies and helps fire and land managers tailor their approaches to outcomes that will best reduce risk in a target area within available budgets.
This project was commissioned and funded entirely by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria.
Supervisory roles
Research team
Type | Project | Research team |
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Commissioned Research | Ecosystem resilience – establishment of collection and analyses for two priority ecological fire groups | jmorgan, mclarke, abennett, ahaslem, sleonard, lcollins, Josephine Machunter, gnewell, rbradstock, mooi, dkeith, amuir |
Commissioned Research | Black Summer bushfires: South Australia reconstructions | tpenman, oprice, rbradstock, mboer, sjones, ntrihantoro |
27 Aug 2019
Rising public and professional expectations require a greater, more transparent understanding of...
19 Sep 2018
Large bushfires (over 500ha) account for a disproportionate amount of both hectares burned and...
19 Sep 2018
How does the diverse and changing biophysical, climatic and human context of southern Australia...
30 Jun 2017
How does prescribed burning effectiveness in mitigating risk depend on the diverse and changing...
29 Jun 2017
This project will seek to answer the following questions:What are the productivity rates of...
14 Aug 2016
This project will deliver a prescribed burning atlas to guide implementation of ‘tailor-made’...
14 Aug 2016
This project strives to determine what effect suppression operations have on large fires.
14 Aug 2016
To describe the actual and potential costs and benefits of bushfire preparedness and response...
18 Aug 2015
Although many jurisdictions are committed to prescribed burning, we do not understand its effects...
25 Aug 2014
Fuel moisture (FM) is a primary driver of the ignition and spread of wildfires. Monitoring FM is...