Past Conferences/Workshops/SEQFBC Forums
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SEQFBC hosted Conference:
Bushfire 2006
The 10th Biennial Australasian Bushfire Conference: Bushfire2006 was held on 6 - 9 June 2006. It explored the theme Life in a Fire-Prone Environment: Translating Science into Practice and provided a forum to share new ideas on the complex issues of bushfire management.
2006 SEQFBC Conference.
SEQ Fire and Biodiversity Forums:
SEQFBC coordinate regular fire and biodiversity forums (formally known as Full Consortium Meetings) that are now open to the public. National, regional and local researchers, land managers, fire fighting professionals and policy officers are invited to speak on a range of topics from policy implications for biodiversity conservation to fire mapping and the impacts of fire on native flora and fauna (too many topics to include here). The forums also provide the opportunity for information exchange between land managers, policy officers, fire fighting professionals and researchers.
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SEQFBC Fire Science Forum 2017 April (111 people) Mount Coot-Tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. (thanks to Brisbane City Council)
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Chair – Chandra Wood, Brisbane City Council
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Grassy forests of North-Eastern NSW - Vegetation change over four decades associated with reduced fire frequency in Border Ranges: loss of grassy forests and associated decline of the endangered Eastern Bristlebird
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Dr Liz Tasker: NSW Office of Environment & Heritage
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Fire exclusion: an emerging threatening process in Subtropical Eastern Australia
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Andy Baker: Southern Cross University
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Optimising the spatial planning of prescribed burns to achieve multiple objectives in a fire-dependent ecosystem
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Brooke Williams: University of Queensland & Howard Taylor, The City of the Gold Coast
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Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in fire-affected forests
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Orpheus Butler: Griffith University
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Acid frogs can stand the heat
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Dr Katrin Lowe: Griffith University
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Bushfire Thunderstorms: Initial insights from portable radar
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Nicolas McCarthy: University of Qld
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Fire as a driver of Landscape Change
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Philip Stewart: University of Queensland
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Multiple objectives, multiple tenures: How can we better integrate fire management across SE Qld’s fragmented landscapes
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Susie Fifoot: University of Qld
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SEQFBC would like to thank the Weed Society of Queensland, Quik Corp and NRM Jobs for their support of the "Fire and Weeds" forum.
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SEQFBC October Forum – FIRE AND WEEDS 2015(151 people), Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane. Thanks to Brisbane City Council
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Chair – Mr Michael Reif - Sunshine Coast Regional Council
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SEQFBC overview of general business
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Dr Sam Lloyd & Craig Welden & SEQFBC
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“Fire, weeds and healthy ecosystems, a review of current literature and practices across NSW” – using fire to manage bushland weeds in the northern NSW area
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Kevin Taylor, Hotspots Fire Project - NCC NSW & NSW RFS
Link to Minyumai Seteria Grass Trials
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Frequent burning reduces Lantana camara regeneration
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Dr Tom Lewis - Department of Agriculture & Fisheries
 Frequent burning reduces Lantana density_Lewis T_SEQFBC Fire and Weeds Forum_October 2015 (3175 KB)
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Fire regimes & ecosystem & weed resilience
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Adrian Hansen, Ecological Natural Area Management
Fire_Weeds_Resilience_Adrian Hansen_SEQFBC Fire and Weeds Forum 2015 (920 KB)
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Tropical weedy fire regimes
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Dr Paul Williams, Vegetation Management Science
Tropical weedy fire regimes presentation_P Williams_ for SEQFBC Forum FIRE and WEEDS oct 2015 (6319 KB)
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Fire and pests in Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) statewide – post fire treatment
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Peter Leeson, QPWS
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Short & long term responses of weeds to prescribed fire in Allocasuarina littoralis forest.
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Dr Seonaid Melville, Vegetation Surveys Consultancy
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SEQ Fire and Biodiversity Research highlighted
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Fire affected habitat, forest health and the composition of cerambycid bettles - SEQFBC Scholarship program
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Martyn Eliott, University of the Sunshine Coast
Cerambycid Beetles: Potential Bio-indicators of Environmental Change Associated with Fire Affected H (6794 KB)
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Stoichiometric patterns in the responses of landscapes, ecosystems and organisms to fire
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Orpheus Butler, PhD Candidate Griffith University
SEQFBC Forum_Fire and Weeds_2015_Orpheus Butler_Stoichiometric patterns in the responses of landscap (2545 KB)
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SEQFBC Autumn 2015 Forum – Island Fire (116 people), Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island
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Chair – Chair Maree Manby, Redland City Council
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SEQFBC overview of general business
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Dr Sam Lloyd & Craig Welden & SEQFBC
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Managing fire and risk in a fragmented, multi-tenure landscape: a South Australian perspective
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Dr David McKenna Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (SA)
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Post fire recruitment and seasonal fire severity in heathland in the Eastern coastland
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Dr Mark Ooi – University of Wollongong
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Acid frogs can stand the heat: amphibian resilience to wildfire in coastal wetlands of eastern Australia
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Dr Katrin Lowe
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Effects of fire on endangered orchid Phaius australis: recovery after the Stradbroke Island fires
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Laura Simmons PhD Candidate, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Snapshot of events that lead to the fire on Stradbroke island, the fire behaviour and associated response.
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Chief Superintendent Michael Dwyer and Graeme Martin Station Officer QFES
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Field Trip
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Walk on Quandamooka Country (field trip)
Observations of post fire recovery
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Kathy Stephens Principal Botanist ,Terrestria and Co-author of “Flora of North Stradbroke Island”, Darren Burns, Joint Management Coordinator -Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation, Greg Litherland retired Forester and Brendan Yetman and Michael Nochling of Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service..
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SEQFBC November 2014 Forum – Bushfire Planning - protecting the things we value! Plus latest in fire and biodiversity research in Qld (162 people), St Lucia.
Thanks to The University of Queensland
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Chair – Noel Ainsworth - SEQ Catchments
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SEQFBC overview of general business
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Craig Welden & Dr Mark Schuster SEQFBC
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New approach being taken to bushfire risk management planning in Tasmania using bushfire modeling
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Sandra Wright - Tasmania State Fire Management Council
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Risk factors in the I-zone – how can planning and design modify bushfire risk
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A/PROF Alan March - University of Melbourne
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Next Generation Bushfire Planning - Climate change adaptation, urban growth modelling and bushfire hazard
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Laura Gammon - Jenson Bowers
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The new state planning policy- bushfire overlay codes for planners and the new bushfire risk mapping that includes non-remnant vegetation
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Susan Merser-Nightingale - Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning / Robert Preston - Public Safety Business Agency
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Planning for biodiversity – 2 case studies
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Dr Mark Schuster - SEQFBC
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Accounting for fire risk in the peri-urban zone within SE Queensland
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Professor Darryl Low Choy - Griffith University
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Bushfire Responsive Architecture: Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation and Bushfire safety with daily life
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Dr Ian Weir - Queensland University of Technology
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AS3959 and Bushfire Attack Levels, and implications for bushfire planning
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Philip Finnimore - Building Codes Queensland
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Strategic land use planning practices used in achieving community resilience
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Kale Hardie-Porter - GeoLink
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Latest in fire and biodiversity research in Qld
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Comparing the impacts of wildfire and prescribed burning on woody understorey composition and the reaction of eucalypt regeneration in a dry open forest
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Ross Waldron - University of The Sunshine Coast
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Spatiotemporal characterisation of fire severity over a 23 year period in South-East Queensland using data collected with Landsat sensors
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Brett Parker - University of The Sunshine Coast
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Managing fire for nature conservation in sub-tropical woodlands
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Ms Emma Burgess - University of Queensland
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The impact of wildfire on reptiles and micro bats in Chesterton Range National Park in Central Western Queensland.
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Jon-Paul Emery - University of Queensland
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April 3rd 2014, Nerang, City of Gold Coast. – attended by 73 people
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Chair - Rodney Anderson - City of Gold Coast
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SEQFBC overview of general business such as projects, workshops, research and fact sheets.
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Craig Welden SEQFBC
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Key note presentation –
Burning spinifex: getting it right for biodiversity conservation in Queensland.
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Dr Leasie Felderhof –FireScape Science
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Changing Fire Regimes of South East Queensland Great Sandy Region
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Phillip Stewart - University of Queensland
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Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium - fire and its use in Northern NSW.
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Tara Patel - Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium
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Bushfire Prone Area Mapping
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Robert Preston - Public Safety Business Agency
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City of Gold Coast – fire management
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Rodney Anderson - City of Gold Coast
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Field Trip – Beachmont, City of Gold Coast
Fire management in the Hinterland of the Gold Coast
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Rodney Anderson and Brett Galloway - City of Gold Coast
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SEQFBC 2014 Forum invitation flyer (728 KB)
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SEQFBC Spring November 2013
November 2013, Mt Coot Tha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane– Attended by 134 people
Thanks to BCC
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Chair – Chandra Wood – Brisbane City Council
Welcome to Phase Five of the Consortium – Noel Ainsworth SEQ Catchments
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SEQFBC overview of general business such as projects, workshops, research and fact sheets.
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Dr Samantha Lloyd & Craig Welden SEQFBC
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Frequent and infrequent fire in wet and dry eucalypt forest: lessons from long-term fire experiments in SE Qld.
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Dr Tom Lewis, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
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The Biggest Estate on Earth - An ecologists view
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Dr Rod Fensham, Queensland Herbarium
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Role of fire in maintaining grassy habitats for Eastern Bristle Birds.
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Dr Penny Watson, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage
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CAM for Roadside Burning + Somerset RC update
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CAM Team - Jules Selke, Mark Ready and Michael Patch.
Somerset RC - Trevor Page
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The influence of mosaic burning on bird diversity.
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Ms Emma Burgess University of Queensland + Murray Haseler Bush Heritage Australia
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QPWS SEQ Planned Burn Guidelines
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David Shevill, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service
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State wide bushfire prone area mapping update
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Robert Preston, Public Safety Business Agency
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BOM seasonal forecast and Next Gen
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Vikash Prasad, Bureau of Meteorology
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SEQFBC 2013 November forum invitation flyer (1029 KB)
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2013
Linking Traditional Owner & Western Fire Management (83 people), Beerwah.
SEQFBC
in partnership with Sunshine Coast Regional Council
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Welcome
to Country by Nurdon Serico (Gubbi Gubbi Elder)
Chair
– David Calland - Department of Natural
Resources and Mines
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SEQFBC
overview of general business such as projects, workshops, research and fact
sheets.
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Dr
Samantha Lloyd & Craig Welden SEQFBC
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Reconnecting
fire, culture and country in the Bunya Mountains of South East Queensland.
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Maurice
Mickelo - Bunya Murri Ranges Program
& David Calland - Department of
Natural Resources and Mines
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Fire
Sticks Project, Nature Conservation Council of NSW
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Oliver
Costello - Nature Conservation Council
of NSW;
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Developing
fire management guidelines that work in the Indigenous lands of the Gulf
Savannah.
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Andrew
Houley - Reef Catchments NRM
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mundu
binaaji: Cultural Landscapes - Linking Traditional Owner & Western Fire
Management
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John Locke - BioCultural
Consulting
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The
Burning Question
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Bernard
Trembath – Lacuna Resolve
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Regular SEQFBC forum program
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Fire Weather update and BOM NexGen forecasting
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Fergus Adrian – Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
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SEQFBC and Sunshine Coast RC 2013 Forum invitation flyer (1073 KB)
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2012 November Spring Forum (60 attendees), Laidley.
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Opening of Forum – Welcome by Chair Mr Peter Leeson - Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing
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SEQFBC overview of general business such as projects, workshops, research and fact sheets.
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Dr Samantha Lloyd & Craig Welden SEQFBC
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Keynote Presentation: Forest Carbon Balance and Emission Management.
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Dr Luba Volkova – University of Melbourne
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Late Quaternary vegetation and fire history from the Moon Point Patterned Fen, Fraser Island.
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Felicity Shapland - University of Queensland
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The National Burning Program – An Overview
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Dominic Adshead GHD.
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Quaternary fire and vegetation history of the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Queensland
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Dr Patrick Moss - University of Queensland
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SEQ Catchments: Coordinated Fire Management Planning Project - Opportunities for Engagement
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Dr Greg Leach SEQ Catchments
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Field Trip – Grandchester
Fire management in Power easements – how to lessen the fire risk to infrastructure
Grandchester project, Coordinated Fire Management Planning Project
Highly Erodible soils and management techniques including fire management.
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Murray Abel - Powerlink Queensland
Dr Greg Leach - SEQ Catchments & Murray Abel- Powerlink Queensland
Dr Greg Leach SEQ Catchments
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SEQFBC Spring Forum 2012 (461 KB)
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2012 Winter Forum (91 attendees), Mt Coo-tha.
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Findings from the NSW Bushfire Fuels Modelling Project.
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Dr Penny Watson University of Wollongong
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The Big Challenge - on the tightrope of managing biodiversity and asset protection within a legal framework.
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Dr Mark Schuster Logan City Council
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The Roadside Burning Guidelines Project.
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Dr Samantha Lloyd & Craig Welden SEQFBC
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The National Burning Program – An Overview.
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Dominic Adshead AFAC/GHD
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Responses of small vertebrates to repeated management burns and heterogeneous fire regimes at the patch and local scales in dry eucalypt forests of southeast Queensland.
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Dianna Virkki Griffith University
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Late Quaternary Fire and Vegetation History of North Stradbroke Island, South East Queensland.
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Dr Patrick Moss, University of Queensland
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Mechanisms of rainforest persistence and recruitment in frequently burnt wet tropical eucalypt forest
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Cuong Tran Serco Sodexo Defence Services.
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The Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium
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Greg Banks NSWNCC
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The BOM Fire Season Outlook
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Matthew Bass BOM
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SEQFBC Spring Forum 2012 (461 KB)
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2011 Spring Forum (90 attendees), University of the Sunshine Coast.
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The 2009 Victorian Royal Bushfires Commission and its implication for biodiversity conservation in Victoria.
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A/Prof Alan York University of Melbourne
York SEQFBC Nov 2011 (5281 KB)
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The effects of fire and fragmentation upon co-occurring threatened coastal heath plants in southern Queensland.
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Gabriel Conroy University of the Sunshine Coast
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QPWS Planned Burn Guidelines – SEQ Region and the Climate Q project update.
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David Sheville QPWS DERM
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Fire mapping and its implications on management for natural areas.
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Dr Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Fire and Fungi
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Dr Sapphire McMullan-Fisher, Queensland Mycological Society of Queensland
McMullan-Fisher - Fire and Fungi - Nov 2011 (3944 KB)
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Update on State Planning policy 1/03 Review and the State wide Natural Hazards Risk Assessment.
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Robert Preston Department of Community Safety
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Field Trip - Beerwah Scientific Area
and Relocated heath land site Sippy Downs.
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Dr Tom Lewis Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation.
Dr Alison Shapcott University of the Sunshine Coast.
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SEQFBC Spring Forum 2011 (943 KB)
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2011 June Forum (110 attendees), The Gap.
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Opening of Forum - Address by the Hon Kate Jones – then Minister for Environment and Resource Management
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Fuel Hazard Assessment—snapshot of the “Overall fuel hazard assessment guide”
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Michael Reif – Sunshine Coast Regional Council.
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Bush Heritage Sites and Fire Management.
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Murray Haseler, Bush Heritage Australia & Dr Paul Williams, Vegetation Management Science.
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The role topography plays in creating spatial heterogeneity in fire impacts on fauna and their habitat.
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Luke Collins - PhD Candidate, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong.
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Case Study– planned burns and fire behaviour.
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Peter Leeson - Department of Environment and Resource Management.
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Field Trip, run in conjunction with the Queensland Fire Consortium.
Topic—“Understorey composition and fire management” D’Aguilar NP
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Dave Kington and Mark Burnham—Department of Environment and Resource Management.
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SEQFBC and Queensland Bushfire Consortium Diary Claimer (108 KB)
SEQFBC June 2011 Forum invitation (338 KB)
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2010 Phase 4 Full Consortium Meeting (90 attendees), Redlands Indigiscapes Centre.
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NCC and NSW RFS successful Hotspots program
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Waminda Parker from NSW Nature Conservation Council
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Victoria’s Future Fire Project - Managing fire regimes for multiple outcomes
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Andrew Blackett of Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment
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SEQ Catchments Coordinated Fire Management Planning Project - Opportunities for Engagement
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Shannon Mooney and Greg Leach SEQ Catchments
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Queensland Bushfire Consortium Website
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Andrew Houley Reef Catchments
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Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission - Recommendations and implications for SEQ
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Bernard Trembath QFRS
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QFRS's "Prepare Act Survive" 2010/2011 campaign
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Paul Storrs QFRS
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Fire regimes and reptile assemblages
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Diana Virkki Griffith University
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NPRSP (formally DERM) Improved fire management in NP's and planned burn guidelines update".
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David Shevill and Wayne Kington QPWS
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SEQFBC Full Consortium meeting 2010 invite (535 KB)
Other Conferences/Symposiums:
Meeting the challenges of floods and bushfires - the Energex Experience
18 November 2015, Brisbane. Russell Gordon, Energex
In December 2013, lightning sparked bushfires on Stradbroke Island which lead to the burning of 60% of the vegetation (on the island) and causing widespread network damage. Energex responded to the event by deploying over 100 staff and had to replace a number of transmission and distribution poles.
Bushfire in the Landscape: Different Values, a Shared Vision
23 and 24 June 2011- NSW Teacher’s Federation Centre Sydney.
The Nature Conservation Council of NSW Bushfire Program proudly presented it's Eighth Biennial Bushfire Conference.
This conference explored how differing values and land uses influence the application of fire in the Australian landscape and investigated the impacts this has had on biodiversity. New scientific research, policy updates and on ground management issues and success stories were presented. Facilitated sessions provided delegates with the opportunity to contribute to a shared vision for progressing ecologically sustainable bushfire management.
A copy of the presentations will be made available on the NCC of NSW Website in the coming months.
Click here for more information.
2011 Fire Weather and Risk Workshop
September 2011 Busselton, Western Australia.
A 3 day workshop, following the main AFAC/BCRC conference, aimed at addressing key issues with fire weather and risk.
Click here for more information, including arrangements for the next Fire Weather Workshop in 2013.
2011 Proceedings of the Fire Weather and Risk Workshop (3130 KB)
2011 Bushfire Smoke Issues Research Symposium
Edith Cowan University, Perth
The syposium was structured with a series of keynote presentations and workshop sessions. Participants were able to share information and develop ideas on focus topics: smoke modelling, smoke management, composition and monitoring, human and ecological health impacts. No link can be found.
Forest Fires 2008
International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires
The 1st International Conference on Forest Fires: Modelling, Monitoring and Management was held in Toledo, organised by the University of Castilla La-Mancha (UCLM) and the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) as part of one of their joint activities under the existing link agreement between the two institutions.
Post Conference Report:
Click here for more information.
