The Bushfire CRC multi-agency Research Taskforce has ended its
data collection phase with the last teams completing their field
tours in the final week of April.
With more than 650 recorded interviews, 22,000 photographs,
hours of video, and large quantities of other data, we are now
working hard to consolidate all this data before we can begin to
analyse it. The data is being added to a geospatial database, which
will be an invaluable resource for researchers and policy makers
well into the future.
Report
While this is being done we are now in the early stages of
writing up the research. The end result of this will be a report
that covers the three broad research themes of the Taskforce:
- Property assessment
- Human behaviour
- Fire behaviour
This report will first be presented to the Victorian sponsors of
the Taskforce in June. Shortly after, the report will be available
to other supporters of the Taskforce then, finally, to the
public.
Field Trip
Many Bushfire CRC Stakeholder Council and Bushfire CRC Governing
Board members took advantage of a field trip to several areas burnt
in February after their meetings in April. The field trip met with
Taskforce members in the field to discuss first hand the extent of
the research being undertaken. The day included visits to
Marysville, Kinglake and Strathewen.
Gary Morgan
CEO
Bushfire CRC
