Associate Professor, Bushfire Science, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Geoff Cary is Associate Professor in bushfire science at The Australian National University. He graduated with a PhD in landscape fire modelling from ANU in 1999. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in bushfire science, including ‘Fire, Flood and Drought’ with Dr Joëlle Gergis and ‘Fire in the Environment’ with a range of bushfire experts, and supervises honours and graduate students investigating diverse wildland fire topics. Geoff is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for the International Journal of Wildland Fire, and has been a member of both the Australian Capital Territory Bushfire Council and the New South Wales Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council.
Geoff’s research interests include evaluating fire management and climate change impacts on fire regimes using landscape-scale simulation modelling, ecological investigations of interactions between fire and biota, empirical analysis of house loss in catastrophic bushfire events, and laboratory experimentation of fire behaviour.
Some say we've seen bushfires worse than this before. But they're ignoring a few key facts
Jan 14, 2020 23:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
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