Colin Simpson's Bushfire CRC PhD is investigating the dynamic interactions between a wildfire and the surrounding atmosphere. This video was recorded at the 2010 Annual Conference in Darwin.
Fire Note 81: This Fire Note focuses on two studies investigating the role of prescribing fluids before firefighters deploy to the fire ground and the prescription of fluids during their fire ground shift. The effect of these hydration strategies on firefighters' physiology and productivity when working to curtail the spread of bushfires is outlined and discussed.
This Fire Note is part of the Bushfire CRC Firefighter health and safety research project.
Fire Note 80: This document provides a current overview of the key findings to date from the Bushfire CRC Firefighter health and safety research project.
University of Sydney PhD student Jafar Hamra used social network analysis to identify if there were network patterns of people’s interactions, and how the network relationships among emergency management groups affected their learning.
Alireza Abbasi, at the University of Sydney, analysed the emergence of social networks of personnel involved in managing the 2009 Kilmore bushfire in Victoria. This study helped investigate the emerging structure of inter-personal response dynamics during emerging disasters and its effect on improving coordination output.
Fire Note 77: La Trobe University Bushfire CRC PhD scholar Claire Johnson studied the extent to which firefighters prepare for the worst during incidents, highlighting the importance of being ready for a worst-case scenario and finding inconsistencies in preparation for such scenarios.
Community response to fire is currently dependent on many aspects of volunteer engagement ranging from official agencies whose employees are expected to volunteer into support roles during fire seasons, to informal institutions like local community fireguard groups.
Tarnya Kruger's PhD research is establishing who the stakeholders are in three locations (ACT, South Australia and Victoria) and exploring how the organisation of volunteer support groups contribute to surge capacity.
RMIT University’s Marco De Sisto focused his PhD research on how fire and land management agencies in Australia and Italy collaborated on intelligence from bushfire investigations. His findings will assist agencies develop knowledge sharing processes that contribute to fire prevention.
