Bushfire CRC - Book launch and Fire Notes

A new book that draws together the work of 35 fire sector academics has been launched by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre in Melbourne.

Titled “Community Bushfire Safety”, the 200 page book reports the outcome of five years' work by researchers and validates much of the current approach Australian fire agencies take in educating communities about bushfire.

Click on the play button below to watch interviews recorded by CAF Public Affairs from the book launch with Australia's leading researchers and fire agency representatives. (See below for details of new CRC Fire Notes.)



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New Fire Notes released
The Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) has just released two new Fire Notes. They were presented at last week’s Stakeholder Council Meeting by two Bushfire CRC students, Brendan Pippen and Ken Scott, who have just completed their PhD studies.

Brendan’s research is on “Fuel moisture and fuel dynamics in woodland and heathland vegetation of the Sydney Basin.”

Ken’s topic is “Measuring responses to fire regimes in northern Australia.”

Fire Notes from the other completed Bushfire CRC students who presented at the Stakeholder meeting will follow in coming weeks.

Fire Note: Fuel Moisture and fuel dynamics in woodland and heathland vegetation, Issue 18 - Brendan Pippen PhD research in the Sydney Basin. [pdf 382.9 kb] Download it at:
http://www.bushfirecrc.com/publications/downloads/Pippen-Fire-Note-18.pdf

Fire Note: Measuring responses to fire regimes in northern Australia, Issue 19 - Ken Scott PhD research. [pdf 222.5 kb]
http://www.bushfirecrc.com/publications/downloads/Scott-Fire-Note-19.pdf

All editions of Fire Update (brief research summaries) and Fire Note (more detailed outcomes of Bushfire CRC research) are available for download on the Bushfire CRC website:

http://www.bushfirecrc.com/publications/index.html