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Selected Achievements |
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Expert witness to the Wangary Coronial Inquiry, South Australian Coroner’s Court (2007).
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Briefing of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee of the Victorian Parliament with respect of the Victorian 2007 Bushfire Inquiry, both in Parliament House and in the field (July and August 2007).
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David Ashton Biodiversity Award, 2005. “For outstanding achievement in furthering the understanding, conservation or management of Victoria’s biodiversity”. Presented by Prof. Lyndsay Neilson, Secretary, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria. December 2005.
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Victorian Parliamentary Briefing – Bushfires, Thursday 20 March 2003, 12:30 to 13:30, Victorian Legislative Council Committee Room. What we know about Bushfires and what we need to know - Prescribed Burning and Environmental Issues (Invited speaker)
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Assisting in the development of a National Fire Danger Rating System for South Africa in 1999/2000.
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Initiated and coordinated the Wombat Forest fire effects multidisciplinary project and produced a major report on the study in 1992.
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Authored or co-authored 132 reports and scientific papers covering a wide range of fire and ecology topics.
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Was the primary author of the Australian Forestry Council’s statement on “Public Land Fire Management”.
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Provided expert evidence to the Coronial Inquiry in the Creswick Fire of 1997 and the Linton Fire of 1998.
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Developed and arranged commercial production of the T-H Fine Fuel Moisture Meter. (Provisional Australian Patent PO-0193)
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Developed a new subject for B.For.Sci., 3rd year called “Landscape Ecology and Management, 211-301”
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Redeveloped “Fire Management 211-359” into “Fire Ecology and Management 211-359”
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Co-authored and brokered submission for a “Cooperative Research Centre for Bushfires” in the 2000 round of applications to AusIndustry.
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Major strategic role in the 2003 wildfires in SE Australia.
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