Jim Gould is Research Leader with CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products Bushfire Behaviour and Management Group. Jim has been working with CSIRO since 1982 with his first project in evaluation of air tankers and a cost-benefit study of aerial suppression of bushfires. Completion of this study, Jim concentrated his research into fire behaviour and fuel management of various vegetation types throughout Australia. The results of this research has been a revision of grassland fire behaviour models, prescribed burning guidelines for regrowth forest in SE New South Wales. He has published a number of scientific papers on fire behaviour science in national and international journals. Jim is currently working with other bushfire scientists from CSIRO and Western Australia investigating the behaviour and spread of high-intensity bushfires in dry eucalypt forests with different fuel ages and understorey vegetation structures.
