9-10 October

BMRC

Melbourne, Australia

Convener : Tom Keenan (BMRC/WWRP)

Conference Coordinating Committee : R. Wagoner, A. Riebau, J. Goldammer, , N. Nicholls, J. Coen, R. Ochoa, T. Keenan, G. Mills and F. Fujioka

Program: Day 1 Thursday 9 October

9.00: Housekeeping Mills (BMRC)

Welcome and opening Manton (BMRC)

Projects in the Bushfire CRC O'Loughlin(BCRC)

SESSION 1 - Overview of Activities by Institution/Research Program

9:30: Potential WWRP Interest In Fire Weather Keenan(BMRC)

9:50: The Application and Utilization of Climate and Weather Information for Fire Management and Policy Brown (DRI)

10:10: Morning Tea

10:30: Predictive Services:A New Tool For Proactive Wildland Fire Management Ochoa(BLM)

10:50: Wildland Fire R&D Collaboratory Wagoner/Coen(NCAR)

11:20: PSW National Fire Plan Review Weather Models for Area Coordination Centers

Fire Behavior Research at the Riverside Fire Lab Fujioka/Weise (USFS)

11:50: Fire Behaviour CSIRO Gould (CSIRO)

12:15 13:45 Lunch

13:45 Mesoscale numerical weather prediction and (extreme) fire weather Mills (BMRC)

14:05 Bushfire Observations and Modelling Griffiths(MU)

Break

SESSION 2: Research Area Discussions Facilitator/Rapporteur

15:00 Short Range Fire Weather Fujioka/Mills

16:00 Medium Range-Climate Range Fire weather Nicholls/Brown

DAY 2 FRIDAY 10 October

SESSION 2 CONTINUED

9:00 Fire Behaviour Coen/Gould

10:00 Morning Tea

10:30 Smoke Transport Bell/Hess

11:30 Decision Support Systems (DSS) End User Impacts Wagoner/Ochoa/Bally

DSS Summary

END OF SESSION 2

12:30 Lunch

SESSION 3

13:30 Plenary Session Research Area Summaries Research Area Facilitators

Identification of agreed bilateral/multilateral action items Chair Wagoner

16:00 Conference close Mills

Background (Workshop main page)

Conference Participants