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Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
1994 …2024

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Personal profile

Biography

Research

Geoff’s research interests include: landscape-scale simulation of fire management & climate change effects on fire regimes; fire ecology from genes to communities; house loss in wildland fire; and laboratory experimentation of fire behaviour. He co-led an international group of landscape-scale wildland fire simulation modellers.

Geoff gave a keynote address, on fuel management & house loss, at the Wildland Fire Canada Conference (Kananaskis, 2012). He was an invited speaker at the 10th World Wilderness Congress (Spain, 2013), the International Association of Landscape Ecology World Congress (USA, 2015), Banff International Research Station fire management workshop (Canada, 2017), an International Workshop of Fire Ecology (China, 2019), and the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop on greenhouse gas emissions from wildland fires (2023).

Media engagement includes Voice of America and ABC Radio National ‘The World Today’.

Google Scholar publication list.

Teaching

Geoff teaches bushfire dynamics and management in ANU courses, including ‘Fire in the Environment (Convenor), with contributions to: ‘Island Sustainable Development’, 'Environment & Society'; 'Climate Change Vulnerability & Adaptation'; 'Biodiversity Conservation'; 'Environmental Policy'; and 'Contemporary Perspectives in Environment-Society Interaction'.

Graduate and Honours research supervision

Geoff has supervised/co-supervised 25 Higher Degree Research scholars (18 completed and 5 current PhD; 2 completed MPhil or equivalent), and 18 Honours scholars, largely in bushfire related topics. Honours and PhD scholars supervised have published ~30 journal articles from their thesis research.

Service

Geoff is Associate Director (Research) in the Fenner School and was Associate Director (Higher Degree Research). He is on the Editorial Advisory Committee, and was Associate Editor (2002-2023), for the International Journal of Wildland Fire. He sits on the CoS Research Committee & Fenner School Executive Committee, and served on the CoS Reconciliation Action Plan Committee, FSES Local Area Consultative Committee, ANU WHS Fieldwork Advisory Group, ANU Statistical Consulting Unit Advisory Committee, and NSW Parks & Wildlife Advisory Council. He mentored in the ANU NECTAR early career program.

Qualifications

BAppSc (Environmental Biology) (Hons) UTS; PhD (Ecology) ANU

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Predicting fire regimes and their ecological effects in spatially complex landscapes, 1999, The Australian National University

Bachelor, Applied Science (Environmental Biology), Honours, 1992, University of Technology Sydney

External Scholarly Memberships and Affiliations

Visiting Scientist, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation

Feb 2023Oct 2023

Bushfire Science Roundtable, convened by Minister for Industry, Science and Technology

2020

Editorial Advisory Committee, International Journal of Wildland Fire

2009 → …

NSW Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council

20052008

Bushfire Research Advisory Group, providing advice to the Commonwealth Minister for Science

2003

Member, International Association of Wildland Fire

2002 → …

Associate Editor, International Journal of Wildland Fire

20022023

Commonwealth Standing Committee on Forestry, Research Working Group on Fire management

19962004

Research student supervision

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