RIEL Seminar Series – Applying pyrogeography to achieve sustainable coexistence with wildfire
| Presenter | Prof David Bowman | |
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Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods
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| Location | Yellow 1, Level 2, Room 48 at CDU Casuarina Campus, and online via Zoom (see below for Zoom link). All times are ACST. | |
| Open to | CDU staff and students, Public | |
Prof David Bowman is Director of the Fire Centre at the University of Tasmania.
Using the city of Hobart as a model system, David has adopted a multidisciplinary and codesigned study to investigate bushfire risk management at the wildland urban interface (WUI). His team includes a diverse range of expertise from the social, geographic and ecological sciences. Collectively, the team’s research has developed novel conceptual models and assessment of fire hazards and illuminated opportunities and barriers to community bushfire preparedness, leading to the creation of new tools and techniques to assess and map fire hazards across the WUI.
In the seminar ‘Applying pyrogeography to achieve sustainable coexistence with wildfire’, David will reflect on the experience of running a complex codesigned ‘applied pyrogeographic’ research program, explaining how such multipronged research is critical for sustainable coexistence with wildfire.
David is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and the Director of the transdisciplinary Fire Centre at the University of Tasmania, where he holds a research chair in Pyrogeography and Fire Science. He is recognised as a thought leader in wildfire science and management publishing influential research in high-impact journals, providing policy advice to government, and serving as an expert media commentor. From 2019 to 2022 he was listed as a Clarivate highly cited cross-disciplinary researcher.
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