Brett P. Murphy is a tropical fire ecologist at
the University of Melbourne, whose work focuses on the broad
question of how to optimally manage landscape fire for the
conservation of biodiversity, especially in the vast savanna
landscapes of northern Australia. His current research examines the
role of altered fire regimes in the ongoing decline of northern
Australian mammals, and the role of fire in controlling the
structure and function of northern Australian savanna
vegetation.
Andrew C. Edwards is a fire ecologist and
remote-sensing specialist at the Darwin Centre for Bushfire
Research at Charles Darwin University. He played a central role in
developing the extensive spatial datasets for the groundbreaking
West Arnhem Land Fire Abatement project. This work underpinned the
development of the first Savanna Burning methodology for greenhouse
gas emissions abatement. He was also part of the team that
undertook extensive survey work to describe the seasonality of
patchiness and fire severity, and the accumulation of bio-fuels for
that methodology. Andrew has since developed satellite-derived fire
severity mapping.
Mick Meyer is an atmospheric scientist at the
CSIRO with 35 years’ experience measuring emissions and uptake of
pollutants and greenhouse gases and developing methods for their
accounting. Mick is the author of the current national accounting
methodologies for greenhouse gas emissions from bushfires, and is
an active contributor to UN and IPCC accounting methodologies for
combustion processes.
Jeremy Russell-Smith is a consultant ecologist
with 25 years’ experience in northern Australia. He coordinates
fire research programs for the Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research
and works on other natural resource management projects in
South-East Asia. He has an abiding interest in the ecology,
biogeography and management of monsoon rainforests and sandstone
heaths. He often works with Indigenous people on landscape and
resource management issues.
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