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Annual Conference: Melbourne 2006

Bushfire CRC / AFAC 2006 Conference

The annual Bushfire CRC conference is run jointly with the conference of the Australasian Fire Authorities Council and attracted almost 1400 delegates to Melbourne in 2006.

Workshops

Bushfire CRC Research Workshops

In conjunction with the conference, the Bushfire CRC held a series of workshops on 10th August 2006, highlighting recent research in Australia and internationally in the bushfire management field covering legal issues, community education, planning and economics.

Attended by staff from fire and land management agencies, bushfire researchers, students and others with an interest in bushfire research and planning, the workshops examined and discussed new and emerging research with Bushfire CRC researchers and international experts.

News from the Event

The Day the Flames Came - DVD

The story of the devastating bushfire that destroyed the town of Dwellingup in Western Australia in 1961 is the focus of a new education program on bushfire awareness for fire agencies and local communities across Australia. This DVD was launched at the 2006 Bushfire CRC annual conference in Melbourne.

Research Posters

Author	Title
Dr Fabienne Reisen	Assessing the impact of bushfire smoke on the fire ground
Ken Scott	Changes to the grass layer after fire in a tropical savanna
Dr Kevin Tolhurst	Decision tools for risk management
Justin Leonard	Measuring house loss risk at the interface
Prof John Handmer	The costs and benefits of bushfire management and research
Dr Chris Lucas	Understanding the interactions of climate and bushfire in Australia
Prof Jim McLennan	Volunteerism: Facing the Challenge
Gerald Elsworth	What should community safety programs for bushfire achieve?

Program A
Author	Title
Dr Graham Mills	A proposed global early warning system for wildland fire
Dr Matt Plucinski	Application of compressed air foam tankers for grassfire fighting
Dr Chris Lucas	Australian fire weather data set: 1957 - 2003
Dr Stuart Anderson Dr Wendy Anderson Jennifer Hollis	Development of a field method for assessment of degree of curing in grasslands
Dr Chris Lucas	Forest Fire Danger Index from gridded VS station-based data
Prof George Milne	Heat transfer model for wildfire spread
Dr Graham Mills	PAWS at Wilsons Promontory in April 2005
Dr Matt Plucinski	Penetration of persistence of water and foam drops from a medium helicopter
Dr Kevin Tolhurst Derek Chong	Phoenix – a fire characteristic mapping model
Dr Miguel Cruz Dr Peter Ellis Jim Gould	Project FuSE SA
Phil Lacy Dr Wendy Anderson Ralph Smith Prof Rodney Weber Jim Gould	Response of bark to fire
Danielle Martin Dr Ian Grant	Satellite vegetation indices to assess grassland curing
Dr Graham Mills	Spatially distributed fire warnings thresholds
Dr Graham Mills	Upper level dry air and reduced surface humidity
Bobby Chu Prof George Milne	Wireless wildfire sensor networks

Program B
Author	Title
Dr Alan Andersen	Burning for biodiversity northern Australia
Dr Jason Sharples Prof Rodney Weber Rick McRae	Bushfire risk management in high country landscapes
Meaghan Jenkins Prof Mark Adams Dr Tina Bell	Carbon budgets, fuel load and flammability of shrub-dominated ecosystems
Dr Alan York Dr Tina Bell Dr Kevin Tolhurst Anne Miehs	Ecological burning, fuel management and conservation objectives
Alison O'Donnell Dr Lachlan McCaw Dr Matthias Boer Dr Pauline Grierson	Fire and vegetation patterns in semi-arid southern WA
Dr Matthias Boer Dr Pauline Grierson	Fire weather events and fuel recovery rates and prescribed burning strategies
Madeline Osborn	Fire, fungal richness and functional groups
Philip Zylstra	Flame propagation in shrubs and trees from the Australian Alps
Rick McRae Prof Rodney Weber Dr Jason Sharples	High Fire risk: fire size-class transition model
Dr Jason Sharples Prof Rodney Weber Rick McRae	HighFire risk: collaborations sought
Dr Roy Wittkuhn Dr Lachlan McCaw	Historical fire data and biodiversity in South WA
Dr Pauline Grierson	Imagery based method for charting fire driven dynamics
Ken Scott Dr Alan Andersen	Mortality of dominant tropical grasses after fire
Dr Trent Penman	Patchiness of prescribed burns in dry sclerophyll forests in SE Australia
Rowena Morris Dr Alan York	Prescribed burning and sediment movement in the Mt Lofty Ranges
Dr Alan Wain	Smoke plume behaviour – variable source heights
Prof Ross Bradstock Dr Malcolm Gill	Weather indices and large fires in Sydney region
Dr Perpetua Turner	Wildfire chronosequence project

Program C
Author	Title
Mae Proudley	Bushfire risk and household decision making
Dr Alison Cottrell	Communities living with bushfire - Thuringowa case study
Tim Prior Prof Douglas Paton Dr Alison Cottrell	Community responses to bushfire threat
Prof John Handmer	Economics of bushfires and bushfire management
Briony Towers Prof Douglas Paton	Educating children about bushfire risk management and mitigation
Francesca Harris-Spence	Fire catchment management groups
Gerald Elsworth	Importance and difficulty of achieving community safety outcomes
	Media in Grampian fires 2006
John Gilbert	Program logic approach to evaluating the Street FireWise program
Josh Whittaker	Rural resilience and bushfires in East Gippsland
	Spatial and temporal trends in bushfire arson
Prof John Handmer Mae Proudley	Stay and defend or leave early
Alan Rhodes Helen Goodman	Where there’s smoke there’s fire
Laura Kelly	Wildfire, resilience and recovery

Program D
Author	Title
Raphaele Blanchi Dr Malcolm Gill	2003 Canberra bushfire
	Bushfires and asthma WA
Dr Brad Aisbett Matthew Phillips David Nichols	Cardiovascular responses during CFA recruit training
Sean Cowlishaw Prof Jim McLennan	Impact of firefighting on the families of volunteers
Dr Christine Owen	Maximising (inter)agency team effectiveness
Ian Dwyer	Maximising (inter)agency team effectiveness
Raphaele Blanchi Dr Chris Lucas Justin Leonard	Meteorological conditions and wildfire related house loss
Mary Omodei Glenn Elliott	Networked fire chief wildfire scenario generator
David Nichols	Proposed firefighter clothing test method
Matthew Phillips Dr Brad Aisbett David Nichols	Quantifying a safe standard of fitness and health in CFA volunteers
Annemarie De Vos	Respiratory health of firefighters
Raphaele Blanchi Justin Leonard Bob Leicester	Risk model
Matthew Phillips Dr Brad Aisbett David Nichols	Safe standard of fitness and health in CFA volunteers
Adrian Birch Prof Jim McLennan	The availability of potential volunteers in communities in regional NSW
Dane Hansen Dr Fabienne Reisen	Volatile organic components and heavy metals
Claire Johnson Mary Omodei	Worst case scenarios in decision making