How are natural hazards changing and how can we reduce future disaster risks? 

Join trailblazing researchers seeking data-driven answers for NSW and beyond, in this National Science Week webinar.

Speakers include:

• Facilitator: Dr Mel Taylor, Senior Knowledge Exchange Officer, NSW DCCEEW
• Dr Chantelle Blachut (UNSW Canberra), who uses mathematics to study how bushfires behave around ridgelines, helping emergency services understand how best to mitigate extreme events to save lives, livelihoods and property.
• Dr Assaf Inbar (Western Sydney University), an ecosystem modeller who studies the interactions between climate, vegetation and fire to better forecast how ecosystems might change across Australia in the coming decades.
• Dr Max Desservettaz (University of Wollongong), an atmospheric chemist who studies bushfire smoke and its effects, plus the risks of backburning as a firefighting tool.
• Vanessa Cavanagh (University of Wollongong / NSW DCCEEW), a Bundjalung and Wonnarua woman exploring Aboriginal women’s engagement in cultural burning in NSW, including barriers to participation, meanings and outcomes.
• Dr Rosie Steinberg (NSW DCCEEW), a community ecologist who studies how human changes in both marine and terrestrial landscapes affect the species of and relationships between plants, animals, and microbes.

More information on the NSW BNHRC can be found here - https://www.nsw-bnhrc.org/