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"Professor Geoff Cary specialises in bushfire (wildland fire) science in the Fenner School of Environment & Society at the Australian National University (ANU). He was awarded a Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental Biology) (Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a PhD in the topic of landscape fire modelling from ANU.Geoff is Associate Director (Research) (2020 - ) in the Fenner School and previously served as Associate Director (Higher Degree Research). He is on the Editorial Advisory Committee, and was Associate Editor (2002-2023), for the International Journal of Wildland Fire. He was Discipline Panel Member for Excellence in Research for Australia 2015 & 2018 ANU submissions. Geoff sits on the CoS Research Committee and Fenner School Executive Committee, and has served on the CoS Reconciliation Action Plan Committee, FSES Local Area Consultative Committee, ANU WHS Fieldwork Advisory Group, ANU Statistical Consulting Unit Advisory Committee, NSW Parks & Wildlife Advisory Council, and was a mentor in the ANU NECTAR early career Mentoring Program.Geoff gave a keynote address, on fuel management & house loss, at the Wildland Fire Canada Conference (Kananaskis, 2012). He was an invited speaker at the 10th World Wilderness Congress (Salamanca, Spain, 2013), the International Association of Landscape Ecology World Congress (Portland, USA, 2015), Banff International Research Station fire management workshop (Canada, 2017), an International Workshop of Fire Ecology (China, 2019), and the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop on greenhouse gas emissions from wildland fires (2023).Geoff also co-led an international group of landscape-scale wildland fire simulation modellers from 2001 to 2018. Media engagement includes Voice of America and ABC Radio National ‘The World Today’."
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