James Furlaud - Improving fire modelling for Tasmanian wet eucalypt forests

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28 Oct 2016

James Furlaud - Improving fire modelling for Tasmanian wet eucalypt forests

Fire models for Tasmania currently use Victorian data. With the different fuel types, the modelling is not as good as it could be. PhD student James Furlaud (University of Tasmania) is gathering the data required to improve bushfire modelling for Tasmania.

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fire impacts
fire severity
modelling

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Dr James Furlaud
Completed PhD student
James.Furlaud@utas.edu.au

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