A/Prof Trent Penman

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A/Prof Trent Penman

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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).
Research team:
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.
Research team:
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.
27 Aug 2019
Rising public and professional expectations require a greater, more transparent understanding of...
Extreme fire behaviours: Surveying fire management staff to determine behaviour frequencies and importance
19 Sep 2018
Extreme fire behaviours (EFBs) are phenomena that occur within intense fires that have been shown...
From hectares to tailor-made solutions
19 Sep 2018
How does the diverse and changing biophysical, climatic and human context of southern Australia...
From hectares to tailor-made solutions for prescribed burning
30 Jun 2017
How does prescribed burning effectiveness in mitigating risk depend on the diverse and changing...
Gaining benefits from adversity: standardising data obtained from bushfires
29 Jun 2017
The limited availability of high quality data about bushfires restricts the rate at which research...
Trent Penman Conference Poster 2016
14 Aug 2016
The bushfire behaviour and management group of the University of Melbourne is conducting a project...
Ross Bradstock Conference Poster 2016
14 Aug 2016
This project will deliver a prescribed burning atlas to guide implementation of ‘tailor-made’...
Trent Penman Conference Poster 2016
14 Aug 2016
Bushfire management involves making decisions about complex issues that involve people, communities...
Delivering Effective Prescribed Burning Across Southern Australia
18 Aug 2015
Although many jurisdictions are committed to prescribed burning, we do not understand its effects...

Resources credited

Type Released Title Download Key Topics
HazardNoteEdition 18 Feb 2022 Understanding what happens when bushfires merge PDF icon Save (1.28 MB) fire, fire impacts, fire severity
HazardNoteEdition 09 Dec 2020 The Prescribed Burning Atlas: a new system to plan effective prescribed burns PDF icon Save (872.25 KB) fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Presentation-Slideshow 17 Oct 2019 Thresholds for dynamic fire behaviours PDF icon Save (5.88 MB) fire, fire severity
Presentation-Slideshow 27 Aug 2019 From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: An integrated prescribed burning research project PDF icon Save (2.57 MB) decision making, fire, prescribed burning
Presentation-Slideshow 07 May 2019 The Prescribed Fire Atlas PDF icon Save (360.35 KB)
Presentation-Slideshow 07 May 2019 Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour PDF icon Save (923.77 KB)
Presentation-Slideshow 23 Nov 2018 Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour PDF icon Save (868.87 KB) fire, fire impacts
Presentation-Slideshow 18 Sep 2018 Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values PDF icon Save (1.96 MB) fire, fire impacts, prescribed burning
Presentation-Slideshow 31 Oct 2017 Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour: standardising data obtained from wildfires PDF icon Save (567.23 KB) fire, fire impacts, fire severity
HazardNoteEdition 25 Oct 2016 Next generation fire modelling PDF icon Save (1.35 MB) fire impacts, fire severity, fire weather
Presentation-Slideshow 24 Oct 2016 From hectares to tailor-made solutions for risk mitigation: systems to deliver effective prescribed burning across ecosystems PDF icon Save (1.83 MB) fire, prescribed burning, risk management
Presentation-Slideshow 24 Oct 2016 Determining threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour PDF icon Save (1.88 MB) fire severity, mitigation, severe weather
Presentation-Slideshow 04 Dec 2014 Threshold conditions for extreme fire behaviour PDF icon Save (610.43 KB) fire, fire severity, modelling

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