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DoctorGrant Williamson

Senior Research Fellow in Fire Ecology

Biological Sciences

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  • Senior Research Fellow in Fire Ecology
    Biological Sciences
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  • School of Natural Sciences, Biological Sciences, 217 Old Medical Building, Sandy Bay Campus, TAS

RESEARCH SUMMARy

Expertise

Landscape fire
Smoke pollution
Remote sensing
Environmental epidemiology

Research Themes

Grant's research aligns to the University's research themes of Better Health and Environment, Resources and Sustainability, including the increasingly recognized nexus between the fields of human health and landscape ecology. Grant's current research into biomass smoke aims to improve our estimates of human exposure to the fine particulate pollution produced by landscape fires and wood heater usage. Smoke exposure can have significant impacts on human health for sufferers of asthma and cardio-vascular diseases, and biomass smoke is a significant contributor to atmospheric aerosol load in south-eastern Australia, where humans live in close proximity to vegetation that experiences significant wildfires in the summer, and undergoes prescribed burning to reduce fire risk in winter. In order to better understand the link between smoke exposure and human health impacts, we need improved models of smoke emissions from biomass burning, and smoke transport patterns. Grant is utilizing remotely-sensed data and geospatial modelling methods to improve empirical models of smoke exposure and physical atmospheric transport models, to better inform this epidemiological research.

Grant's research interests also include adapting real-time environmental data sources and the computing cloud to improve ecological and health knowledge. Grant has developed a real-time Forest Fire Danger Index map adopted by the Tasmanian Fire Service, a heat-wave warning system for the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Resources, and is a lead developer on the AirRater air pollution and pollen alert app project.

Collaboration

Grant has previously collaborated with NASA and South Dakota State University on a project understanding the dynamics of fire weather and occurrence using remotely sensed data. He was involved in the Fire and Vegetation team of the NERP Landscapes and Policy Hub, a multidisciplinary project involving the University of Tasmania, the Australian National University, Murdoch University, Griffith University and Charles Sturt University. Grant is currently working on the 'Bushfires, smoke and people' ARC linkage grant, a large project involving the University of Tasmania, the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, the Bushfire CRC, the CSIRO and a number of state Environmental Protection Authorities. He is also collaborating with the CSIRO and Victorian health authorities in modelling human exposure to smoke from the 2014 Hazelwood coal mine fire, and in developing the AQVx air quality visualization platform. He is currently work package co-leader with the NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre.

Current projects

AirRater (http://airrater.org)
Bushfires, Smoke and People ARC linkage grant
Hazelwood mine fire study
AQVx
NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre
NHRA Rural-Urban Interface Fuels
Discovery Project - Physics-aware machine learning for data-driven fire risk prediction

FUNDED PROJECTS

  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Ash forest recovery assessment
    1 Aug 2026 - 31 Dec 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cunningham C,
    • Bowman D,
    • Williamson G,
    • Prior L
    Project Total: $163,636; This project will evaluate postBlack Summer recovery across Victorian Ash forests by mapping the density, height, cover and maturity of eucalypt species in areas affected by the 201920 fires. We will develop a stratified study design and a methodology that integrates remotely sensed products, aerial photograph interpretation, and field or plot data to assess patterns of forest regeneration and state change. Our analysis will quantify how recovery varies with disturbance history (number of burns) and sowing rates, providing an evidence base for understanding the effectiveness of past recovery interventions. The final report will deliver actionable insights to support DEECA and Parks Victoria in future restoration planning and in applying the ResistAcceptDirect framework under a changing climate. We were approached directly by DEECA and requested to provide a quotation for this. Funded by: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action ($163,637); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Understanding TFS Bushfire Ready Neighbourhoods (2025-2026)
    13 Oct 2025 - 14 Nov 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Campbell S,
    • Williamson G
    Project Total: $12,000; Targeted analysis of the 2023 Tasmania Bushfire Survey data for 8 selected LGAs identified for the 2025-26 Bushfire Ready Neighbourhoods program. We included a profit margin at the time of quotation. Funded by: Tasmania Fire Service ($12,000); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Mitigating increasing risks from pollen storms by expanding and enhancing the Australian bioaerosol monitoring network.
    1 Jul 2025 - 1 Jul 2030
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnston F,
    • Lampugnani E,
    • Williamson G
    Project Total: $5,991,124; Pollen storms, including epidemic thunderstorm asthma (ETSA) events, are a growing natural hazard in Australia. Tasmania and Western Australia lack comprehensive real-time pollen monitoring and forecasting capabilities, leaving at-risk populations vulnerable. While grass pollen has been the primary focus, emerging research suggests tree and weed pollen may also contribute to severe respiratory events, particularly in South Australia, where the dominant allergen remains uncertain. In Disaster Ready Fund (DRF) Round 1, NEEMA funded a major expansion of pollen monitoring infrastructure in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, and the ACT, significantly enhancing real-time monitoring for grass pollen. However, gaps remain in Tasmania and Western Australia, and existing automated pollen counters lack validation for Australian-specific allergenic species. Purpose and Objectives Building on NEEMAs DRF Round 1 investment, this project expands Australias natural hazard monitoring infrastructure by: Deploying automated pollen counters in Tasmania and Western Australia, integrating them into the national hazard monitoring system.Enhancing machine learning-based pollen identification to recognize tree and weed pollen species, improving real-time data accuracy.Validating automated counters ensuring they can accurately differentiate multiple pollen types beyond grass pollen.Conducting a multi-region risk assessment to determine primary pollen storm drivers and their health impacts.Leveraging and integrating DRF Round 1 data, ensuring national consistency, improved risk communication, and coordinated emergency preparedness. Alignment with DRF Round 3 Priorities This project directly aligns with NEEMAs priorities on Natural Hazard Monitoring Infrastructure, addressing critical gaps in real-time pollen monitoring, prediction, and community disaster resilience across Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia. It extends NEEMAs DRF Round 1 investment, enhancing Australias ability to detect, forecast, and mitigate pollen storm risks, by ensuring effective monitoring of all major allergenic species, strengthening disaster preparedness and improving early warning systems for governments and emergency responders. Additionally, it integrates seamlessly into the national pollen hazard monitoring system, optimizing previous investments and ensuring a nationally consistent, high-quality forecasting framework. Funded by: National Emergency Management Agency - Grant-Disaster Ready Fund; Air Health; Department of Health (Tasmania); Edith Cowan University; South Western Sydney Local Health District; SA Health; Respiratory Care WA; Asthma Australia; Murrumbidgee Local Health District; Department of Premier and Cabinet; University of Tasmania ($301,204).
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Improve monitoring of vegetation post-fire
    1 Jan 2025 - 30 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williamson G,
    • Bowman D
    Project Total: $17,841; Award of additional funding from the NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre for a PhD scholarship top-up for student: Liu Zhao. This scholarship top-up is linked to existing NSW BNHRC project B0029591. Funded by: NSW Department of Planning and Environment; Western Sydney University; University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Optimisation of Strategic Fuel Management Planning
    NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water1 Jan 2025 - 30 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williamson G,
    • Bowman D,
    • Maier H,
    • Zecchin A
    Project Total: $67,314; Managing fire-adapted landscapes involves balancing trade-offs between different landscape values and management objectives, including those related to ecological outcomes (e.g., tolerable fire intervals) and those related to bushfire risk reduction objectives (e.g., reducing exposure of vulnerable assets fire). These trade-offs must be considered when planning where, when and how fuel management actions are undertaken, such as prescribed burning or mechanical fuel load reduction. Existing approaches to navigate these decisions require decision makers to choose between many options and are not well suited to managing trade-offs. This can result in decisions that do not achieve the decision-makers objectives and/or poorly balance trade-offs between these objectives. Optimisation approaches can help identify fuel management actions and support decision-making in the face of trade-offs. These structured approaches can sort through thousands of possible decisions to find those that best navigate trade-offs and most efficiently achieve a set of objectives. This project proposes a pilot study to combine existing tools for supporting fuel treatment planning (including the BNHRCs FireTools) with evolutionary algorithms to explore the potential benefits of using optimisation to guide decision-making. The optimisation approach will consider measures of bushfire risk (e.g., estimates of burn probability, head fire intensity) alongside FireTools metrics of ecological suitability for fuel management. Funded by: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - Grant; University of Adelaide; Western Sydney University; Adelaide University; University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Effectiveness of fuel-reduced areas on fire spread
    29 Feb 2024 - 30 Jun 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Price O,
    • Williamson G,
    • Bowman D,
    • Ellwood L
    Project Total: $136,364; This project will undertake a desk-top study using Victorian Government data to evaluate the effectiveness of roads, rivers and past fires on stopping bushfires. Owen Price will supervise, David Bowman and Grant Williamson will provide advice. We will hire a post-doctoral fellow to do the analysis and a casual technical editor to improve the report. Funded by: Natural Hazards Research Australia - Project ($136,364); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    NSW BUSHFIRE AND NATURAL HAZARDS RESEARCH CENTRE
    25 Sep 2023 - 25 Jun 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Boer M,
    • Williamson G,
    • Bowman D,
    • Johnston F
    Project Total: $16,976,335; Deliver and manage a world-leading, cross-disciplinary bushfire and natural hazards management research centre that drives innovation and exchange of knowledge, technology and skills between research partners and state government. Driven by end-user needs, the research centre will addresses key knowledge and technology gaps, extracts information and delivering data products, tools, and training and commercialisation opportunities to support forecasting, planning, forecasting and informed decision-making for management and policy development. Funded by: NSW Department of Planning and Environment - Expression of Interest; University of Melbourne; Australian National University; University of New South Wales; University of Wollongong; Western Sydney University; University of Tasmania ($156,000).
  • GRANT
    Assessing the Impact of Bushfire Smoke on Health
    Australian Research Data Commons1 Sep 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Hanigan I,
    • Johnston F,
    • Williamson G
    Project Total: $200,000; Supporting national data systems for storage of data relating to bushfire smoke air pollution. We will conduct a review of sources, and how these can be used to support real time national information needs. Other members of the national team are evaluating other aspects of bushfire data. Funded by: Australian Research Data Commons - Grant - Bushfire Data Challenges; Curtin University; University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Bushfire risk at the rural-urban interface
    1 Jun 2023 - 16 Nov 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bowman D,
    • Williamson G,
    • Ondei S
    Project Total: $723,748; The project will adopt a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the perceived and effective bushfire risk at the rural-urban interface (RUI). It will integrate three complementary streams, i) community centred/led risk reduction, ii) bushfire behaviour in interface fuels, and iii) innovative fuel management and mitigation strategies, to deliver substantial improvements in community bushfire preparedness through more effective communication strategies and new generalizable approaches for the assessment and mapping of fire hazards on the RUI based around geospatial analyses and empirical measurements. We will leverage on substantial existing investment on the subject made by the ARC (David Bowmans Laureate Fellowship; $3.4m) and Hobart City Council through the Sparking Conversations Igniting Action initiative ($1.7m) as well as an investment made by UTAS in a world-class fire lab facility (pyrotron) to deliver globally relevant and locally applicable transformational change in the way bushfire mitigation is perceived and approached. Funded by: Natural Hazards Research Australia - Project ($723,748); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Tasmanian Bushfire Preparedness Survey
    1 Mar 2023 - 31 May 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bowman D,
    • Johnston F,
    • Williamson G
    Project Total: $153,661; This project will co-design, with stakeholder agencies, a Tasmanian Public Bushfire Preparedness Survey, to be carried out in early 2023. The survey will include bushfire questions used in the Tasmanian Population Health Survey 2016, as well as additional questions on bushfire risk perception, planning and preparedness agreed by stakeholders. This will provide valuable data which will enable us to assess longitudinal trends in bushfire preparedness, and will act as baseline data against which to evaluate the success of community engagement programs aiming to improve bushfire preparedness. Funded by: Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management [TAS] - Grant-NDRRGP ($153,661); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Application of AQVx for research validation
    1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Jones P,
    • Williamson G
    Project Total: $10,000; This project will enhance the existing AQVx web-based smoke visualisation system to ensure a platform is available for all end users to validate the various smoke forecasts alongside observations. Funded by: Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC; University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    AQFx visualisation platform for air quality and smoke forecasting
    CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnston F,
    • Jones P,
    • Williamson G,
    • Campbell S,
    • Forsyth M
    Project Total: $87,003; This project objectives are to improve the underpinning science and near-real-time data capabilities to produce robust, accurate, timely and nationally consistent air quality (including smoke and dust) forecasts to ACS customers, other key stakeholders, at-risk industries, and the public. Further, the project aims to equip decision makers in emergency services, health and environment departments with the capabilities and information they need to issue advisory warnings about current and forecast air quality impacts. Funded by: CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation ($122,003); University of Tasmania ($36,297).
  • GRANT
    Developing a pathway for reducing the peri-urban backyard bushfire hazard in Hobart
    Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management [TAS]1 May 2022 - 1 Sep 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bowman D,
    • Ondei S,
    • Rumsby C,
    • Williamson G,
    • Wallace L
    Project Total: $187,721; This project will help the City of Hobart refine its fuel hazard assessment methods for use in gardens and native bushland, and help develop engagement pathways to encourage fuel hazard reduction on private property in Hobart Funded by: Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management [TAS] - Grant-NDRRGP ($187,721); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    NESP SCAW: Sustainable Communities and Waste hub : IP4
    1 Jul 2021 - 31 Jan 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnston F,
    • Jones P,
    • Williamson G,
    • Sahajwalla V
    Project Total: $853,232; NESP 2 is the second round of the National Environmental Science Program, a $149 M, 7 year, program funded by the federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, to: o Conserve, protect and sustainably manage Australia's biodiversity, ecosystems, environment and heritage through research, information management, supporting natural resource management, establishing and managing Commonwealth protected areas, and reducing and regulating the use of pollutants and hazardous substances. *The Sustainable Communities and Waste hub is a new hub, that will be funded with $20M over 7 years to deliver research that supports: o targeted information and management tools to reduce the impact of plastic and other material on the environment o applied scenario modelling to support sustainable people-environment interactions in communities including urban heat island impacts and liveability analysis o effective and efficient management options for hazardous waste, substances and pollutants throughout their lifecycle to minimise environmental and human health impacts o maintained and improved air quality * Two key aspects of the new hub structure particularly relevant to UTas are: o A focus on research on, and delivery to, urban and regional communities o Indigenous leadership is embedded throughout the program, and the hub must establish and maintain long-term, two-way partnerships with traditional owners and Indigenous communities. * The proposed consortia will be led by UNSW, and includes CSIRO and Monash, Swinburne and Curtin universities, in addition to UTas. * UTas is leading or co-leading 2 of the 4 themes (IP1 people-nature interactions and IP4 air quality) and has one of the three strategic lead positions (knowledge broker) * There final allocation of funds is determined annually #this project links back to K0028098 which will serve as the umbrella agreement for this project. Funded by: Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment - Grant-National Environmental Science Prgm (NESP); University of New South Wales; Asthma Australia; University of Tasmania ($417,226).
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    AirRater in the ACT 2021 to 2023
    ACT Health1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnston F,
    • Jones P,
    • Williamson G,
    • Haberle S
    Project Total: $123,000; We will operate AirRater in the ACT for the period 2021-2023. These funds will specifically support AirRater's contribution towards funding the ANU for year-round, full taxa pollen monitoring, ongoing server and technical support costs, app user support and a contribution to ongoing upgrades of the AirRater app. Funded by: ACT Health ($123,000); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    AirRater in the NT - 2021-2023
    Northern Territory Dept of Health1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnston F,
    • Jones P,
    • Campbell S,
    • Williamson G
    Project Total: $60,000; This project will support the AirRater app service to operate in the NT from 2021-2023. Funded by: Northern Territory Dept of Health ($60,000); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    DHHS Tasmania Heatwave Warning System
    1 Jan 2021 - 4 Oct 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Williamson G
    Project Total: $7,146; Maintain Tasmanian Heatwave Warning System. This system was developed by Grant Williamson to automatically generate a daily predictive forecast model of 3-day heatwave risk, which produces a web-based map and sends email and SMS alerts to staff of the Tasmanian DHHS and Ambulance Tasmania. Project includes improvements to the system, annual maintenance and testing of the system, maintenance of the alerts contact list, as well as managing the server hosting and SMS message sending systems. Funded by: Department of Health (Tasmania) ($7,146); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Fire risk forecasting in space-time using physics-aware machine learning
    1 Jan 2021 - 30 Jun 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Boer M,
    • Williamson G,
    • Bowman D,
    • Nolan R,
    • Hurley P
    Project Total: $485,000; The fire seasons of 2019/20 saw millions of hectares burned in southeast Australia. The events were unprecedented in scale and shared extreme drought and heat as dominant preconditioning factors for unconstrained fire spread. With the likelihood of megafire events projected to increase under climate change, there is growing concern that existing fire management policies, strategies and decision-making structures will no longer be fit for purpose. This project aims to utilize globally available satellite and climate data, including on fire detections, vegetation, topography and climate to develop a physics-aware machine learning model to predict medium-term fire risk for the temperate eucalyptus ecosystems of southeast Australia. Model performance will be validated against the 2019/2020 fires in order to understand whether these fires fit within the bounds of historically-observed fire behaviour. The project will be divided into three work packages; WP1 develops a regionalisation of fire regime with differing parameters for model development, and develops the machine learning model; WP2 automates the machine learning model into an iterative forecast system; and WP3 uses the model to diagnose the drivers and historical context of the 2019/20 fire season. Funded by: Australian Research Council - Grant-Discovery Projects; University of Wollongong; Washington State University; Western Sydney University; University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    NESP SCAW: Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub - NESP 2
    1 Jan 2021 - 31 Jan 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    • Flies E,
    • Sahajwalla V,
    • Byrne J,
    • Anders R,
    • Williamson G
    Project Total: $20,000,000; * NESP 2 is the second round of the National Environmental Science Program, a $149 M program funded by the federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, to: o Conserve, protect and sustainably manage Australia's biodiversity, ecosystems, environment and heritage through research, information management, supporting natural resource management, establishing and managing Commonwealth protected areas, and reducing and regulating the use of pollutants and hazardous substances. * The Sustainable Communities and Waste hub is a new hub, that will be funded with $20M over 7 years to deliver research that supports: o targeted information and management tools to reduce the impact of plastic and other material on the environment o applied scenario modelling to support sustainable people-environment interactions in communities including urban heat island impacts and liveability analysis o effective and efficient management options for hazardous waste, substances and pollutants throughout their lifecycle to minimise environmental and human health impacts o maintained and improved air quality * Two key aspects of the new hub structure particularly relevant to UTas are: o A focus on research on, and delivery to, urban and regional communities o Indigenous leadership is embedded throughout the program, and the hub must establish and maintain long-term, two-way partnerships with traditional owners and Indigenous communities. * The proposed consortia will be led by UNSW, and includes CSIRO and Monash, Swinburne and Curtin universities, in addition to UTas. * UTas is leading or co-leading 2 of the 4 themes (people-nature interactions and air quality) Funded by: Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment - Grant-National Environmental Science Prgm (NESP); University of New South Wales; University of Tasmania ($456,150).
  • GRANT
    The Social and Biophysical Effects of Alternative Strategies to Reduce Bushfire Danger in Hobart
    Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management [TAS]1 Jan 2021 - 1 Apr 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bowman D,
    • Williamson G,
    • Furlaud J,
    • Rumsby C
    Project Total: $199,039; This project aims to evaluate the social and biophysical effects of innovative bushfire risk reduction strategies undertaken by the City of Hobart. It further aims to recommend ways to maximise the effectiveness of future interventions. Funded by: Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management [TAS] - Grant-Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Program ($199,039); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    AirRater NT Health air quality analysis
    Northern Territory Dept of Health1 Jan 2020 - 1 Jan 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnston F,
    • Jones P,
    • Williamson G
    Project Total: $10,490; We will provide the NT Department of Health with an analysis of air quality (PM2.5) trends, including GIS-based source apportionment. We will provide policy recommendations based on this analysis. Funded by: Northern Territory Dept of Health ($10,490); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    AQVx (Air Quality Visualisation)
    Dept of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Vic)1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnston F,
    • Williamson G,
    • Jones P,
    • Wheeler A
    Project Total: $44,589; Operation and maintenance of the Air Quality Visualisation framework developed as part of a prior project funded by a subcontract with CSIRO. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) will fund the continuation of the tool under a consultancy. This will provide opportunity to assess the tool under a range of fire risks. Funded by: Dept of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Vic) ($44,589); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Nationally integrated air quality forecasting and dissemination - AirRater, AQVx and AQFx
    CSIRO-Atmospheric Research1 Jan 2020 - 30 Jun 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnston F,
    • Jones P,
    • Williamson G,
    • Wheeler A
    Project Total: $142,050; If Federal funding is secured we will work with CSIRO to roll out a new air quality forecasting system, AQFx, across Australia. CSIRO will provide the AQFx air quality forecast model and UTAS will provide two dissemination tools: AirRater (for dissemination to the public) and AQVx (an integrated visualisation tool for state fire and air quality agencies). In addition to providing AirRater and AQVx as services the project will involve research evaluation and optimisation of AQFx and evaluation of AirRater symptom data with respect to air quality. Funded by: CSIRO-Atmospheric Research ($142,050); University of Tasmania.
  • CONSULTANCY/CONTRACT RESEARCH
    OzAirRater: Evaluation of AirRater as a public health surveillance system
    ACT Health1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Johnston F,
    • Jones P,
    • Williamson G,
    • Wheeler A,
    • Haberle S
    Project Total: $35,000; We will operate AirRater in the ACT for the duration of 2020. We will evaluate AirRater as a respiratory symptom surveillance tool. Funded by: ACT Health ($35,000); University of Tasmania.
  • GRANT
    Using pre and post LIDAR to assess the severity of the 2019 Tasmanian Bushfires
    Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC1 Aug 2019 - 31 Oct 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Bowman D,
    • Leonard S,
    • Baker S,
    • Harris R,
    • Jordan G
    Project Total: $88,105; This project aims to use pre and post fire high resolution three-dimensional remote sensing data (LiDAR) to understand the geographic variation of the environmental impacts of bushfire in unlogged and logged forested landscapes in southern Tasmania and develop new tools for post fire fuel hazard score assessment. Funded by: Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC - Grant; University of Tasmania.