Melbourne
Australia

5th Fire Behaviour and Fuels Conference: Wicked Problem, New Solutions - Our Fire, Our Problem

Organizer(s) International Association of Wildland Fire Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
Venue
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf, Victoria 3006
Date
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What you can expect from this conference:

A highly educational/engaging and entertaining week featuring selected keynote addresses, numerous plenary, concurrent, and poster presentations, panel discussions, vendor exhibits/displays, and other special sessions (e.g. field trips, staff ride) that will advance the knowledge and practice of fire behavior and fuels management in the field of Wildland Fire and support sounds choices in fire management.

The 5th Fire Behaviour and Fuels conference will be in both Melbourne, Australia and Portland, Oregon. There will be a separate program for each venue but some sessions will overlap, providing the opportunity for some live presentations across both venues.

This conference will provide government and non-government professionals at all levels a valuable opportunity to share information globally about wildland fire behavior and fuels, especially as it pertains to physical, biological, economic, and social sciences.

The 5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference offers a forum where past experience and lessons learned are documented, current work showcased, and emerging ideas/technology presented to provide a strong foundation that will facilitate setting a course to the future that addresses and responds to developing challenges locally, regionally, and globally.

The conference objectives are:

  • To create a forum where presenters and participants can integrate across disciplines.
  • To describe lessons learned and discuss development of innovative and contemporary fuels management programs that reduce risks to communities and improve/ maintain ecosystem health.
  • To document fire environment trends as benchmarks for future challenges and program planning and implementation.
  • To raise awareness of the diversity of approaches, issues and ideas in wildland fire management.
  • To showcase and promote development of innovative management and research ideas.
  • To foster new collaborations among managers, researchers, firefighters, residents, communities, businesses, educational institutions and others in different regions and countries.

Who Should Attend this Event?

We encourage participation of government and non-government staff and volunteers at all levels, including:

  • Firefighters
  • Fire and Land Managers
  • Researchers and Scientists
  • Educators
  • Fire Management Consultants
  • Community engagement specialists
  • University Students
  • Members of the Public interested in planned burning
  • Anyone who has a vested interest in dealing with wildland fire and bushfire in the future.

Over 500 participants in Portland and over 300 in Melbourne from emergency services, state, federal and local government, industry, NGOs, research and education are expected to attend.

Call for presentations: 

Oral Presentations and Poster Presentations on topics including but not limited to:

  • Fuels and fuel modification incl. prescribed burning
  • Smoke modelling and management
  • Shared responsibility, Community Partnerships and Engagement
  • Contemporary bushfire policies and frameworks
  • Risk modelling and decision support systems
  • Fire Danger
  • Fire Weather and Climate
  • Fire Behaviour and Fire Behaviour Predictions
  • Fire impacts (communities, infrastructure, biodiversity, water, carbon etc)
  • Fire Suppression and Incident Management
  • Economics of bushfire management
  • Other

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