Fire Severity Rating Monash University through To develop new fire danger rating/risk (Bushfire and the Bushfire and Natural assessment measures based on power of Natural Hazards Hazards Cooperative fire/energy release measures using national Cooperative Research Centre and international case studies. Research Centre Schedule 5) Severe Fire University of Melbourne To enable the programming Phoenix RapidFire Behaviour - through the Bushfire and to support bushfire management and other Improved Planning Natural Hazards planning responses by better characterising Responses (Bushfire Cooperative Research bushfire behaviour and damage potential, and and Natural Hazards Centre developing functions to better apply Phoenix Cooperative RapidFire to support land use and Research Centre development planning. Schedule 2) 2009 Black Saturday University of Wollongong To review and reconstruct landscape moisture and Other Large Fire and atmospheric factors associated with the Events - Moisture 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. and Atmospheric Conditions Project (Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre Schedule 3) Risk in Catchments University of Melbourne To assess the risk of prescribed burning and bushfire in catchments. Improved bushfire University of Melbourne To provide an improved scientific and technical hazard (for planning basis for bushfire risk assessment and and building) and management through finalising fuel and decision-making bushfire hazard (for building and planning) layer using updated vegetation information, and scope and design next generation approaches to hazard mapping and planning and building decision-making. Landscape Moisture CSIRO through the Bushfire To develop models to predict the flammability Modelling (Bushfire and Natural Hazards of forest fuels in the landscape as a result of and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research changes in fuel moisture content through the Cooperative Centre drying and wetting of fuels via exposure to the Research Centre weather and sun. Schedule 4) Managing bushfire University of Melbourne To assess the processes that drive the in tall mist forests - flammability of tall forests and the change as fuel hazard and forests age; and whether the conditions exist moisture whereby tall forests can be prescribed burned relationships with low intensity fire and what are these
Fire Severity Rating (Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre Schedule 5) Monash University through the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre To develop new fire danger rating/risk assessment measures based on power of fire/energy release measures using national and international case studies. Severe Fire Behaviour - Improved Planning Responses (Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre Schedule 2) University of Melbourne through the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre To enable the programming Phoenix RapidFire to support bushfire management and other planning responses by better characterising bushfire behaviour and damage potential, and developing functions to better apply Phoenix RapidFire to support land use and development planning. 2009 Black Saturday and Other Large Fire Events - Moisture and Atmospheric Conditions Project (Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre Schedule 3) University of Wollongong To review and reconstruct landscape moisture and atmospheric factors associated with the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. Risk in Catchments University of Melbourne To assess the risk of prescribed burning and bushfire in catchments. Improved bushfire hazard (for planning and building) and decision-making University of Melbourne To provide an improved scientific and technical basis for bushfire risk assessment and management through finalising fuel and bushfire hazard (for building and planning) layer using updated vegetation information, and scope and design next generation approaches to hazard mapping and planning and building decision-making. Landscape Moisture Modelling (Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre Schedule 4) CSIRO through the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre To develop models to predict the flammability of forest fuels in the landscape as a result of changes in fuel moisture content through the drying and wetting of fuels via exposure to the weather and sun. Managing bushfire in tall mist forests - fuel hazard and moisture relationships University of Melbourne To assess the processes that drive the flammability of tall forests and the change as forests age; and whether the conditions exist whereby tall forests can be prescribed burned with low intensity fire and what are these