Hazard News

September

Hazard News is a collection of articles published on our website. The enewsletter is published monthly for our research partners, end-users, participants and the general public.

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Keeping Your Animals Safe in an Emergency (Blue Mountains)
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Keeping Your Animals Safe in an Emergency (Hawkesbury-Nepean region)
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Emergency warning messages: do colours and icons improve community readiness to act?
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Emergency warning messages: encouraging readiness to act
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Emergency warning messages: how do community members comprehend them?
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On the frontline: the roles of pharmacists in disasters
Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: September - November 2020
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Australian Seasonal Bushfire Outlook: September - November 2020
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Enabling sustainable volunteering - leading volunteers young and old: research study
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2020 Dr Laurie Hammond Oration - Dr Alan Finkel, Chief Scientist of Australia
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Young volunteers needed for new mental health survey
The latest CRC research is available online now.
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New online - September 2020
A forum discussion at Queensland University of Technology for the International Day of Disaster Reduction.
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Let’s talk about reducing disaster risk
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Animal guides informed by research
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Ideas shared on France–Australia bushfire science
The community regulary hears about resilience through their local fire agency. Photo: Country Fire Authority
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Resilience research central to blueprint
Gondwana rainforest, New England National Park NSW. Photo: Tatters Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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PhD chance to assess temperate rainforest community resilience
Kangaroo Island estuary. Photo: Patrick Reis Santos
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New study is investigating how bushfires affect estuaries on Kangaroo Island
Dr Alan Finkel AO, Australia's Chief Scientist
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Natural hazards science is a sound investment for Australia: Chief Scientist
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2020
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International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2020
Australian and French researchers sharing their findings at the workshop.
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International engagement – why does it matter?
Sarah Mizzi at Melbourne's International Women's Day event for emergency services in 2019.
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Returning to work from mat leave
Photo: Bigstock Photo Library
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Valuing each other - why diversity and inclusion matters
NSW RFS Schools Program. Photo: Ben Shepherd, NSW RFS
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More bushfires, less volcanoes: young Australians need to learn about more relevant disasters
Forest fire in Victoria. Photo: CFA.
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Effect of weather forecast errors on fire growth model projections
Hazard reduction burn in Victoria by CFA. Photo credit: Sarah Dickson-Hoyle.
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A Culture of Burning: Social-Ecological Memory, Social Learning and Adaptation in Australian Volunteer Fire Brigades
Savanna grasslands fire. Photo credit: Tina Holt, Bushfires NT.
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Seasonal fine fuel and coarse woody debris dynamics in north Australian savannas
Wind and rain hazards. Photo: Harald Richter.
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Impact-based forecasting for the coastal zone – East Coast Lows: annual report 2019-2020
Damage due to Cyclone Debbie. Photo: Cyclone Testing Station
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Improving the resilience of existing housing to severe wind events: annual report 2019-2020
Approach to a field site in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Source: D Parnell.
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Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes: annual report 2019-2020
Victoria floods 2011
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Compound natural disasters in Australia: a historical analysis
Animal Evac NZ searching for wildlife at the request of the land owner Black Summer Fires 2020. Photo credit: Steve Glassey.
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Legal Complexities of Entry, Rescue, Seizure and Disposal of Disaster-Affected Companion Animals in New Zealand
Cover photo used with the permission of the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, Western Australia, Photographer: Evan Collis
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A handbook of wildfire engineering: guidance for wildfire suppression and resilient urban design
Lower estuary in Stun’Sail Boom and surrounding burnt dunes. Photo: Patrick Reis Santos
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Effects of the January 2020 bushfires on estuarine systems of Kangaroo Island: post event field data collection
Photo: Bigstock Photo Library
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Diversity and inclusion framework for emergency management policy and practice
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In the media

21 Oct
ABC Goulburn Murray
Scientists working to predict 'freak' fire weather simulate some of Australia's toughest blazes
21 Oct
Meteorological Technology International
Research sheds light on unexpected behavior of Australia’s Black Summer bushfires
20 Oct
Beef Central
Report finds weather played significant role 2019-20 fires
19 Oct
Bureau of Meteorology
Bushfire insights uncovered with new fire-atmosphere modelling
19 Oct
South Coast Register
New insights into Black Summer’s terrible fires uncovered
19 Oct
Mirage News
Bushfire insights uncovered with new fire-atmosphere modelling
11 Oct
ABC Weather
BOM severe weather outlook for 2021-22 suggests floods, cyclones on the cards
08 Oct
news.com.au
Former fire chief warns of inextinguishable firestorms as climate change poses unprecedented threat to Australia
07 Oct
Mirage News
Survey reveals mental health impact of Black Summer fires on emergency workers
07 Oct
University of Western Australia
Survey reveals mental health impact of Black Summer fires on emergency workers
06 Oct
Busselton-Dunsborough Mail
Time to prepare properties ahead of the bushfire season
27 Sep
Herald Sun
Quake would’ve killed 1400 if it hit Melbourne
27 Sep
The Age
‘We are not safe’: Warning on city buildings as more quakes predicted
27 Sep
Brisbane Times
‘We are not safe’: Warning on city buildings as more quakes predicted
24 Sep
University of Melbourne Pursuit
What Victoria's earthquake tells us about the safety of our structures

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