2011 FIRE WEATHER & RISK WORKSHOP
Friday 2 Sept
Saturday 3 Sept
Sunday am 4 Sept
Theme: "Research to operations."
- To improve liaison between meteorologists, researchers, risk managers and fire managers;
- Progress key national agenda items;
- Keep up with the latest developments here and abroad, as a professional development stream;
- Provide papers for the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal; and
- Produce a report that provides guidance on addressing the issues raised and discussed.
Outcomes:
- "Report on Fire Weather and Risk Workshop, Bowral, 1 - 4 Sept, 2011". This is currently in draft form, but when finalised will be available in printed form, but also will be posted here in PDF format. Watch this space.
- A special edition of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal, for which abstracts are being collected now.
- A collection of on-line resources, including PowerPoint presentations and videos, presented at the workshop. When approved there will be a link to this collection here.
Particpants are reminded to make sure that they return feedback forms, permission forms and abstracts as sson as possible, to allow prompt finishing of output.
Concept:
Who attended?
- Policy and operational fire weather meteorologists,
- Researchers into fire weather and fire behaviour systems,
- Bushfire risk analysts and managers,
- Key staff from fire and land management agencies and state or territory policy staff,
- Private sector consultants, providers of services or equipment.
The Workshop organsiers would like to thank everyone who participated and made this such a successful event!
Agenda:
- A show-and-tell of what’s new;
- A research review with presentations from the researchers and questions;
- Industry-specific issues (research, forecasting and fire management);
- Developments in wildfire risk management;
- Forecasting practices for wildfires, hazard reduction and risk assessment;
- Future research agenda; and
- Drafting a report from the workshop.
Program:
In collaboration with the Bushfire CRC and its Science Conference the day before, we invited two key fire weather researchers from the US to participate in the workshop.
- Mike Fromm, of the US Naval Research Laboratories, the lead international researcher on violent ypro-convection, currently studying aspects of Black Saturday.
- Brian Potter, leader of the Atmosphere and Fire Interactions Research Team at the US Forest Service Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab.
As this is part of a long-running series of workshops, we have posted the outcomes of past events to show what has changed - and what hasn't.
- 4th Fire Weather Workshop at ACDC, Mt Macedon, Vic, June 1991. Report, outcomes & (for nostalgia) the invite.
- 5th Fire Weather Workshop at the Craigieburn, Bowral, May 1993. Report, and a special treat RM's hand written notes from the talks!
- 6th Fire Weather Workshop at Hahndorf, SA, June 1995.Report and abstracts.
- 7th Fire Weather Workshop at Hobart, Tas, September 1997.
