Bushfires

UQ Fire works on bushfires research, with a main focus on the flammability of vegetation.

UQ Fire research on bushfires include:

'Physical and fire behaviour characterisation of bushland fuels' led by Sergio Zarate (PhD).

'The role of moisture and the water cycle on the flammability of vegetation and risk of bushfires' led by Lutfi Ramadhan (PhD).

This project is aiming to contribute to the fundamental knowledge of environmental and forestry sciences on wildland fires or bushfires phenomena by implementing the fire safety engineering (fire science) point of view. The main objective of the work is to observe and understand clearly the changes of moisture content, and its impact to the flammability of vegetation and risk of bushfires using a wide range of experimental scenarios and several Australian vegetation species.