Kevin Tolhurst

No evidence that timber harvesting increased the scale or severity of the 2019/20 bushfires in south-eastern Australia

RJ Keenan, P Kanowski, PJ Baker, C Brack, T Bartlett, K Tolhurst

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY

In the summer of 2019/20, bushfires of unprecedented scale in south-eastern Australia focused attention on how forest management m..

Exploring the key drivers of forest flammability in wet eucalypt forests using expert-derived conceptual models

Jane G Cawson, Victoria Hemming, Andrew Ackland, Wendy Anderson, David Bowman, Ross Bradstock, Tegan P Brown, Jamie Burton, Geoffrey J Cary, Thomas J Duff, Alexander Filkov, James M Furlaud, Tim Gazzard, Musa Kilinc, Petter Nyman, Ross Peacock, Mike Ryan, Jason Sharples, Gary Sheridan, Kevin Tolhurst, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Context: Fire behaviour research has largely focused on dry ecosystems that burn frequently, with far less attention on wetter for..

Prescribed burning in south-eastern Australia: history and future directions

GW Morgan, KG Tolhurst, MW Poynter, N Cooper, T McGuffog, R Ryan, MA Wouters, N Stephens, P Black, D Sheehan, P Leeson, S Whight, SM Davey

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY

Fire has been part of the natural environment of south-eastern Australia for tens of millions of years. Aboriginal people used fir..

Sub-canopy forest winds: understanding wind profiles for fire behaviour simulation

K Moon, TJ Duff, KG Tolhurst

Journal article  |  2019  |  Fire Safety Journal

Operational forest fire simulation models typically incorporate reduction factors to modify winds forecast to meteorological stand..

Conditional Performance Evaluation: Using Wildfire Observations for Systematic Fire Simulator Development

Thomas J Duff, Jane G Cawson, Brett Cirulis, Petter Nyman, Gary J Sheridan, Kevin G Tolhurst

Journal article  |  2018  |  FORESTS

Faster than real-time wildland fire simulators are being increasingly adopted by land managers to provide decision support for tac..

Fuel moisture in Mountain Ash forests with contrasting fire histories

Jane G Cawson, Thomas J Duff, Kevin G Tolhurst, Craig C Baillie, Trent D Penman

Journal article  |  2017  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fuel moisture is a key driver of forest flammability as it influences ignition likelihood, fire intensity and resultant fire sever..

RevisitingWildland Fire Fuel Quantification Methods: The Challenge of Understanding a Dynamic, Biotic Entity

Thomas J Duff, Robert E Keane, Trent D Penman, Kevin G Tolhurst

Journal article  |  2017  |  FORESTS

Wildland fires are a function of properties of the fuels that sustain them. These fuels are themselves a function of vegetation, a..

Hillslope-scale prediction of terrain and forest canopy effects on temperature and near-surface soil moisture deficit

Sean F Walsh, Petter Nyman, Gary J Sheridan, Craig C Baillie, Kevin G Tolhurst, Thomas J Duff

Journal article  |  2017  |  International Journal of Wildland Fire

Soil moisture has important effects on fuel availability, but is often assessed using drought indices at coarse spatial resolution..

Indices for for the evaluation of wildfire spread simulations using contemporaneous predictions and observations of burnt area

Thomas J Duff, Derek M Chong, Kevin G Tolhurst

Journal article  |  2016  |  ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Methods to objectively evaluate performance are critical for model development. In contrast to recent advances in wildfire simulat..

Real-time estimation of wildfire perimeters from curated crowdsourcing

Xu Zhong, Matt Duckham, Derek Chong, Kevin Tolhurst

Journal article  |  2016  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Real-time information about the spatial extents of evolving natural disasters, such as wildfire or flood perimeters, can assist bo..