Key topics

fire

Fire is the product of a chemical reaction between fuel, oxygen and heat. Heat is necessary to start the reaction and once ignited, fire produces its own heat and becomes self-supporting.

Date	Item	Type		Key Topics
	An organisational response to Stage 3 Geography and the study of a contemporary bushfire event	Biblio	save (533.99 KB)	child-centred, education, fire
29 Jun 2018	An overview of national fire research	Resource	save (3.25 MB)	fire, fire severity, fire weather
04 Dec 2020	An upcoming Prescribed Burning Atlas webinar	News		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
	Analysis of RapidEye imagery to map fire severity and ground truthing	Project		fire, risk analysis
	Analysis of the physical processes associated with junction fires at laboratory and field scales	Biblio		emergency management, fire, planning
	Analysis of Variation in Distance, Number, and Distribution of Spotting in Southeast Australian Wildfires	Biblio	save (8.88 MB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
26 Nov 2019	Answering burning questions	News		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
	Approaches for investigating fire impacts on catchment hydrology	Project		fire, hydrology
	Approaches for investigating wildfire impacts on catchment hydrology	Biblio	save (2.91 MB)	environments, fire, fire impacts
	Ardity index as a predictor of the hydrogeomorphic response of burnt landscapes	Project		fire, fuel reduction, land management
03 Jul 2015	Area Fire Management Groups Project	Resource	save (982.39 KB)	emergency management, fire
18 Dec 2019	As bushfires intensify, we need to acknowledge the strain on our volunteers	Blog		fire, fire impacts, volunteering
	Assessing Metrics for Estimating Fire Induced Change in the Forest Understorey Structure Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning	Biblio	save (9.28 MB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
19 Sep 2018	Assessing SWAT model sensitivity to fire-related soil organic carbon changes using digital soil mapping products	Resource	save (478.39 KB)	fire, hydrology
	Assessing the utility of the TET-1 hotspot detection and characterization algorithm for determining wildfire size and temperature	Biblio		fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
	Assessment and calibration of fuel moisture sensors	Project		fire, prescribed burning
	Assessment framework for the evaluation of wildfire risk reduction strategies	Project		economics, fire
	Assessment of potentially toxic metal contamination in the soils of a legacy mine site in Central Victoria, Australia.	Biblio		environments, fire, land management
28 Jan 2021	Australia Day Honours for CRC experts	News		fire, fire impacts, risk management
08 Sep 2014	Australia facing 'above normal' bushfire season	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
19 Apr 2018	Australia joins European network to mitigate against fires	News		emergency management, fire, planning
20 Oct 2014	Australia prepares for 'dangerous' bushfire season	Press Clipping		decision making, fire, fire weather
	Australia's future national heatwave forecast and warning service: operational considerations.	Biblio	save (1.17 MB)	communities, fire, heat transfer
02 Sep 2014	Australian bushfire outlook 2014 - 15	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather
24 Sep 2019	Australian Fire Danger Ratings System Social Research Project	Resource	save (3.83 MB)	communication, fire, fire severity
	Australian Flammability Monitoring System Version 1.0: User feedback and priorities for further development	Biblio	save (688.21 KB)	fire, fire weather, modelling
19 Sep 2018	Australian flammability monitoring system website	Resource	save (1006.31 KB)	fire, fire impacts, remote sensing
27 Aug 2019	Australian Flammability Monitoring System Website	Resource	save (1.31 MB)	fire, remote sensing
03 Apr 2018	Australian Flammability Monitoring System: AFAC webinar	Resource	save (0 bytes)	fire, fire impacts
	Australian householders’ psychological preparedness for potential natural hazard threats: An exploration of contributing factors	Biblio		communities, emergency management, fire
09 Sep 2019	Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: August 2019	Resource		decision making, emergency management, fire
31 Jul 2017	Authorities issue fire warning as fuel loads increase	Press Clipping		fire, fire weather, forecasting
16 Jul 2015	Average but prolonged fire season predicted for Northern Territory	Press Clipping		fire, forecasting, Northern Australia
14 Nov 2017	Awards for fire detection research	News		fire, fire severity, prescribed burning
29 Sep 2021	Best PhD Thesis awarded to CRC student	News		fire, indigenous communities
25 Nov 2020	Better fire danger ratings	Resource		fire, fire severity, warnings
12 Dec 2018	Better fire danger ratings	News		fire, fire severity, warnings
02 Jul 2015	Billy Haworth - volunteered geographic information, community engagement & bushfire preparation in Tasmania	Resource	save (0 bytes)	communication, communities, fire
	Biogeographical variation in the potential effectiveness of prescribed fire in south-eastern Australia	Biblio		fire, prescribed burning, risk management
15 May 2019	Black Saturday bushfires: counting the cost	Resource		communities, economics, fire