The intensity and duration of the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires were unprecedented, as were the global impacts. The area burnt was greater than the size of South Korea or Scotland and Wales combined. These bushfires took 7 months to contain or extinguish. The smoke plume, which spread ...
The cost of dealing with the bushfires has well exceeded the $4.4 billion of the 2009 Black Saturday fires, with Australian tourism sector revenues falling more than $1.5 billion. The financial, social and ecological costs are numbers unseen before. Extra reinforcements were called upon early in ...
Australia’s record-breaking 2019/20 Black Summer fire weather resulted from a combination of natural and anthropogenic climate factors, but the full range of natural variability in fire weather is unknown. We reconstruct southeast Australian fire weathe
The Australian bushfires around the turn of the year 2020 generated an unprecedented perturbation of stratospheric composition, dynamical circulation and radiative balance. Here we show from satellite observations that the resulting planetary-scale blocking of solar radiation by the smoke is larger than ...
yet the community’s enthusiasm to learn about the history of our local rivers and bushfire recovery works could not be dampened by the sporadic rain experienced throughout the trip. This was an excellent opportunity for the community to get out on the river after a tough couple of years, re...
The Strategic Bushfire Management Plan (SBMP) is the overarching document that strategically drives bushfire management throughout the Australian Capital Territory. The preparation of the SBMP is the responsibility of the ACT Emergency Services Agency (ESA) and is a requirement of theEmergencies Act ...
Purpose This paper aims to explore the themes and nature of sentiment of Twitter content that discussed the Australian bushfire disaster 2019–2020 and its associated wildlife devastation, with considerations for the future of Australia's tourism industry. Design/methodology/approach A large, qualitative...
This research was part of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC’s Black Summer research program, funded by the Australian Government and the CRC to investigate key issues from the 2019-20 bushfire season. The research team consisted of Dr Mika Peace, Barry Hanstrum, Dr Jesse Greenslade, Dr Dr...
We emailed leaders of projects studying post-fire biodiversity impacts that were funded by the Australian Government’s Wildlife and Habitat Bushfire Recovery Program. We promoted our proposal on social media in summer 2021–2022, ran a workshop at the Ecological Society of Australia conference in ...
Evaluation of aerosol iron solubility over Australian coastal regions based on inverse modeling: implications of bushfires on bioaccessible iron concentrations in the Southern Hemisphere. Prog. Earth Planet. Sci. 7, 42 (2020). Article ADS Google Scholar Khaykin, S. et al. The 2019/20 ...