About
A/Prof Trent Penman
Project leadership
This study is identifying the thresholds beyond which dynamic fire behaviour becomes a dominant factor, the effects that these dynamic effects have on the overall power output of a fire, and the impacts that such dynamic effects have on fire severity. This will necessarily include consideration of other factors such as how fine fuel moisture varies across a landscape. The research team is investigating the conditions and processes under which bushfire behaviour undergoes major transitions, including fire convection and plume dynamics, evaluating the consequences of eruptive fire behaviour (spotting, convection driven wind damage, rapid fire spread) and determining the combination of conditions for such behaviours to occur (unstable atmosphere, fuel properties and weather conditions).
This project was commissioned and funded entirely by Energy Networks Australia and is aiming to create a standardised approach for assessing the cost of catastrophic bushfires that involve powerlines.
This project was commissioned and funded entirely by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria.
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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CRC Core Project | From hectares to tailor made solutions for risk mitigation | oprice, tpenman, mboer, hclarke, bcirulis, arawlins, mbedward, lcollins |
Commissioned Research | October 2013 NSW post-incident task force | abirch, tpenman, Lyndsey Wright |
Commissioned Research | 2009 Black Saturday and other large fire events - moisture content project | mboer, oprice, tpenman |
Commissioned Research | Update to the 2008 Wood and Water Study | phill, rnathan, rbenyon, tpenman, bhenley, amilligan, kszabo |
Commissioned Research | Black Summer bushfires: South Australia reconstructions | tpenman, oprice, rbradstock, mboer, sjones, ntrihantoro |
27 Aug 2019
27 Aug 2019
Rising public and professional expectations require a greater, more transparent understanding of...
19 Sep 2018
Extreme fire behaviours (EFBs) are phenomena that occur within intense fires that have been shown...
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
The limited availability of high quality data about bushfires restricts the rate at which research...
14 Aug 2016
The bushfire behaviour and management group of the University of Melbourne is conducting a project...
14 Aug 2016
This project will deliver a prescribed burning atlas to guide implementation of ‘tailor-made’...
14 Aug 2016
Bushfire management involves making decisions about complex issues that involve people, communities...
18 Aug 2015
Although many jurisdictions are committed to prescribed burning, we do not understand its effects...