Day 0 | Monday 27 APRIL 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Conference ealry registration check-in
Day 1 | TUESDAY 28 APRIL 07:30 - 5:00
Conference registration and information desk open Grand Ballroom
8:30 - 8:45
Welcome to Country
8:45 - 8:55
Opening by IAWF President: Trevor Howard, National Manager, Prescribed Burning Strategy, Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC)
8:55 - 9:00
Conference Chair's Welcome: Sarah Harris, Manager Research & Development, Country Fire Authority (CFA), Chris Collins, Director, Community Fire Safety, Tasmania Fire Service (TFS)
Chair: Hamish Clarke, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne 9:00 - 9:30
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Amanda McKenzie, CEO Climate Council
9:30 - 10:30
PANEL: Fire and Climate Risk Panelists: Amanda McKenzie, CEO Climate Council | Mika Peace, Fire Meteorology Research Scientist, Bureau of Meteorology | Tegan Brown, Applied Fire Scientist, DEECA | Stefan Doerr, Professor, Swansea University | Grant Williamson, Senior Research Fellow, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania
10:30 - 11:00
MORNING TEA (Federation Ballroom) Grand Ballroom One
Grand Ballroom Two Fire Fighting Effectiveness
Prescribed Burning
Chair: Brian Levine
Chair: Simon Heemstra
11:00 - 11:20
Lessons from Prescribed Burn Escapes in the ACT over the Past 20 Years
11:20 - 11:40
Is prescribed burning an efficient tool for fire prevention in southeastern France ?
11:40 - 12:00
Bringing Water to the Fire – Building a network of remote water points for helicopters in Victoria Anne Ganteaume A Drop in the Bucket: What Makes Aerial Suppression Efficient
Tim Gazzard
Empirical Models of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in Western USA Wildfires
C. Alina Cansler
Matt Plucinski
12:00 - 12:20
Interface Protection Burning Pilot Project: Testing High Frequency Low Intensity Planned Burning at NSW's Bushland-Urban Interface
NSW RFS Defensive Firefighting: Where is the Predictive Services research? Team, Wendy Smith
12:20 - 12:40
Fuel for Thought: Efficacy and Effectiveness Lori Daniels of Fuel Treatments in British Columbia, Canada
12:40 - 1:40
Adam Leavesley
2:00 - 2:20
2:20 - 2:40
Automating the reporting of wildfire risk mitigation effectiveness
Nick McCarthy
Harbour View Room One
Smoke, Fuel, Satellite
Indigenous Knowledge and Collaborative Fire Stewardship
Chair: Merinda Day-Smith
Chair: Donna Sherwen
Beyond PM2.5: Assessing Practitioners' Maximilien Desservettaz Cumulative Smoke Exposure and Chemical Hazards From Bush Fire Testing AQFx Sensitivity to variation in Luba Volkova Coarse Woody Debris loads - a Wildfire Case Study Bushfire Emissions: Evaluating the Hafsa Yousuf Nipa Impact on Air Quality and Human Health in Katherine, Northern Ter
Fire stewardship for plants through an emerging knowledge exchange Traditional Practices and Challenges of Grassland Controlled Burning in Japan Reimagining Post-Fire Recovery Through Indigenous Governance and Native Seeds Capacity Building Australian first - Translating knowledge into practice Aboriginal Cultural Incident Management Exercise Enhancing Collaborative fire management: Translation knowledge into practice
Developing pyrosilviculture in Eucalyptus forests - bark traits, fuel energy release and mortality
Chris Weston
Owen Price
Enhancing prescribed burning planning Laura Alonso in shrublands through satellite-derived fuel moisture data LUNCH (provided)
Grand Ballroom One
Grand Ballroom Two
Grand Ballroom Three
Atmosphere - Fire interactions
Initial Attack
Fire Management Systems
Chair: Tegan Brown 1:40 - 2:00
What can case studies teach us about the operational use and effectiveness of firebombing aircraft?
Andy Ackland
Grand Ballroom Three
Assessing the potential for fire-generated thunderstorms. Operationalising research to protect firefighters Persistent extreme blocking highs drive enhanced wildfire activity across Europe
Chair: Nick McCarthy David Field
Kerryn Little
Data-driven optimization for wildfire suppression resource deployment: A case study of Alberta wildfire Do initial attack models work for triage?
Meteorological Analysis and Reconstruction Jasmina Dobranić Validated Dynamic Fire Risk Assessment to of the July 2022 Wildfire in the Northern Support Operational Decision-Making Adriatic
Chair: Chris Collins Mostafa Rezaei Improved Long-Term, Risk-Informed Natural Hazard Risk Reduction
Holger Maier
Elena Tartaglia
Trent Penman
Macarena Ortega
Understanding future fire regimes to inform management: One size does not fit all Rainbow’s End: A Unified Theory of Forest Fire Management
Rick McRae
Renee Woodward
Chiho Ochiai
Madison Daniel
Gregory Summerell
Graham Moore
Harbour View Room One Indigenous Knowledge and Collaborative Fire Stewardship Chair: Madison Daniel Territorial patrol: an Indigenous Sarah Dickson-Hoyle model of land-based engagement and fire stewardship Returning Cultural Burning to the Tonya Smith Forests of Lil'wat Tmicw Indigenous communities empower Sarah Smith-Tripp transdisciplinary collaborations that overcome barriers in landscape-