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Annual Conference: Auckland 2005

Annual Conference: Auckland (2005)

The Bushfire CRC / AFAC 2005 Conference was a huge success, with over 600 delegates from Australia, New Zealand and international guests from Asia and the Pacific.

The Bushfire CRC presentations and the poster sessions were well attended and received positive feedback from both researchers and end users.

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Author	Title
Dr Matt Plucinski Jim Gould	Application of fire Suppression Optimisation in Allocating Resources
Dr Fabienne Reisen	Fighting smoke when fighting fires
Jim Gould Dr Grant Pearce	Fire Behaviour Experiments in Shrubland Fuels
	Fire Bugged
	Health risks of airtoxics in bushfire smoke
Dr Lachlan McCaw Dr Neil Burrows	Integrating fire management and biodiversity
Alan Rhodes	Stay Or Go?
Prof Jim McLennan Adrian Birch	Volunteerism Findings

Program A
Author	Title
Dr Matt Plucinski Jim Gould	Aerial and ground supression evaluation project
Dr Stuart Anderson	Assessing and predicting the curing of grasslands
Dr Kevin Tolhurst Derek Chong	Bushfire risk management model
Dr Chris Lucas	Fire weather history of southeastern Australia
Brendan Pippen Jim Gould Dr Wendy Anderson	Predicting factors affecting fire behaviour in heathland vegetation
Jim Gould	Project Fuse - A study of fire behaviour on steep slopes in heath and shrub forests

Program B
Author	Title
Bevan McBeth	Fire - forest friend or foe
Dr Fiona Christie Dr Alan York	Fuel for thought
	HighFire
Dr Roy Wittkuhn Dr Lachlan McCaw	Learning from the past
Philip Zylstra	Lessons from the burning bush
Prof Ross Bradstock Dr Geoff Cary Prof Rodney Weber Dr Malcolm Gill	Managing bushfire risk in a changing world

Program C
Author	Title
Gerald Elsworth John Gilbert Helen Goodman Alan Rhodes	Concept mapping for community saftey outcomes
Josh Whittaker	Coping with bushfires in East Gippsland
Alan Rhodes	Does Community Education make a difference?
Prof John Handmer Mae Proudley	Evaluation of the stay or go policy
Francesca Harris-Spence	Fire management catchment groups
	Fire-bugged
Prof Douglas Paton	Living with bushfire risk
Prof John Handmer	The economics of bushfires and bushfire management
Dr Alison Cottrell	Understanding communities - locality remains important

Program D
Author	Title
Dr Brad Aisbett Dr David Nichols	Are our volunteer fire fighters fit for the task?
Justin Leonard	People and property safety
Dr Fabienne Reisen	Personal exposure of firefighters to air toxics
Prof Jim McLennan Adrian Birch	Recruiting and retaining Australia's volunteer firefighters
Annemarie De Vos	Respiratory health effects of occupational exposure to bushfire smoke
Mary Omodei Prof Jim McLennan Glenn Elliott Adrian Birch	Why do firefighters sometimes make unsafe decisions?