Price, Owen F.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2015	An empirical wildfire risk analysis: the probability of a fire spreading to the urban interface in Sydney, Australia Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2018	Comparing the height and area of wild and prescribed fire particle plumes in south-east Australia using weather radar Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2015	Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2013	Landscape scale influences of forest area and housing density on house loss in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Published in PLoS One
2016	Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires Published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
2011	Quantifying the influence of fuel age and weather on the annual extent of unplanned fires in the Sydney region of Australia Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2010	The effect of fuel age on the spread of fire in sclerophyll forest in the Sydney region of Australia. Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2012	The efficacy of fuel treatment in mitigating property loss during wildfires: insights from analysis of the severity of the catastrophic fires in 2009 in Victoria, Australia Published in Journal of Environmental Management
2012	The influence of prescribed fire on the extent of wildfire in savanna landscapes of western Arnhem Land, Australia Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2016	The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Research Overview

Owen conducts research on bushfire risk. This includes impacts on human health (smoke), assets (houses), and environmental values (fauna and flora).

The methods involve a range of field work (e.g. monitoring reptiles or smoke), data management (including advanced Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing) and statistical modelling.

The approach is a landscape one: understanding how risk varies across large areas.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country
International Transnational Region
New South Wales State or Province

Head Of

Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions Director 2018 -

Member Of

UOW Environmental Advisory Committee Faculty Representative 2018 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Analysis of variation in distance, number, and distribution of spotting in southeast Australian wildfires Published In Fire
2020	Australian forests, megafires and the risk of dwindling carbon stocks Published In Plant Cell and Environment
2020	Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2020	Effects of 38 years of wildfires on tree density in the Blue Mountains, Australia Published In Austral Ecology
2020	Modelling bushfire fuel hazard using biophysical parameters Published In Forests
2020	The Proximal Drivers of Large Fires: A Pyrogeographic Study Published In Frontiers in Earth Science
2020	Traffic exhaust to wildfires: PM2.5 measurements with fixed and portable, low-cost LoRaWAN-connected sensors Published In PLoS One
2020	Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: Paradigm change needed Published In Environmental Research Letters
2019	A temporal framework of large wildfire suppression in practice, a qualitative descriptive study Published In Forests

2019	Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2019	The influence of planting size and configuration on landscape fire risk Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2019	Using a statistical model of past wildfire spread to quantify and map the likelihood of fire reaching assets and prioritise fuel treatments Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2019	Wildfire recovery as a “hot moment” for creating fire-adapted communities Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

2018	Comparing the height and area of wild and prescribed fire particle plumes in south-east Australia using weather radar Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2018	Drought, wind and heat: when fire seasons start earlier and last longer Published In The Conversation
2018	How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia? Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire






2017	The remaining koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) of the Pilliga forests, north-west New South Wales: Refugial persistence or a population on the road to extinction? Published In Pacific Conservation Biology

2016	Determining fire dates and locating ignition points with satellite data Published In Remote Sensing
2016	Environmental values and fire hazard of eucalypt plantings Published In Ecosphere
2016	Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes Published In Environmental Research Letters
2016	Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires Published In Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences




2016	The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2016	Wildfires: weigh policy effectiveness Published In Science

2015	An empirical wildfire risk analysis: the probability of a fire spreading to the urban interface in Sydney, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire

2015	Ecological implications of fine-scale fire patchiness and severity in tropical savannas of Northern Australia Published In Fire Ecology
2015	Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2015	Huge fires are burning northern Australia every year: it’s time to get them under control Published In The Conversation

2015	Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires Published In Environmental Modelling and Software

2015	Tree hollows and forest stand structure in Australian warm temperate Eucalyptus forests are adversely affected by logging more than wildfire Published In Forest Ecology and Management

2014	Countervailing effects of urbanization and vegetation extent on fire frequency on the Wildland urban interface: disentangling fuel and ignition effects Published In Landscape and Urban Planning

2014	Logging and fire in Australian forests: errors by Attiwill et al. (2014) Published In Conservation Letters



2013	Examining the relative effects of fire weather, suppression and fuel treatment on fire behaviour - a simulation study Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2013	Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses Published In Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2013	Landscape scale influences of forest area and housing density on house loss in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Published In PLoS One
2013	Modelling the determinants of ignition in the Sydney Basin, Australia: implications for future management Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire






2012	The efficacy of fuel treatment in mitigating property loss during wildfires: insights from analysis of the severity of the catastrophic fires in 2009 in Victoria, Australia Published In Journal of Environmental Management

2012	The influence of prescribed fire on the extent of wildfire in savanna landscapes of western Arnhem Land, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire



2011	Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value? Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2011	Quantifying the influence of fuel age and weather on the annual extent of unplanned fires in the Sydney region of Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire

2010	Managing the matrix: decadal responses of eucalypt-dominated savanna to ambient fire regimes Published In Ecological Applications
2010	The effect of fuel age on the spread of fire in sclerophyll forest in the Sydney region of Australia. Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire


2007	Land management affects grass biomass in the Eucalyptus tetrodonta savannas of monsoonal Australia Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere

Chapter

Year	Title
2012	Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation Published In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World Publisher Collingwood, Vic

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2020	The effect of fire channelling on fire severity in the 2009 Victorian fires, Australia Published In Proceedings - 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM 2013
2014	Abiotic surrogates for temperate rocky reef biodiversity: implications for Marine Protected Areas Published In GEOHAB 2014: Abstract Volume
2014	Modelling the response of surface fuel to climate change across south-eastern Australia: consequences for future fire regimes Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
2014	The potential of satellite data to study individual wildfire events Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014

Other Publications

Year	Title
2014	Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)

Investigator On

Year	Title
2014 - 2015	Maximising return from environmental plantings in flammable systems Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2013	Bushfires, smoke and people: assessing the risks and benefits from planned burnng on the urban-rural interface Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2008	Understanding the health effects of landscape burning and biomass smoke in Australian towns and cities Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Other Research Activities

OEH Bushfire Research Hub Theme Leaser 2018 -

Potential Supervision Topics

Use of satellite imagery and LiDAR to model bushfire behaviour, fuel and impacts

The influence of fire regimes on animal communities

Reconstructing fire regimes in pre-history

Validating fire prediction systems (fire spread, smoke dispersion).

Cost-benefit analysis of fire suppression strategies

Teaching Activities

Conservation Biology Instructor 2014 - 2019

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Productivity and Effectiveness of Suppression Resources and Tactics on Large Fires	Simpson, Heather
Master of Philosophy	Diversity Relationships Between Standing Vegetation and Soil Seed Banks in Semi-Arid Dune Mallee Vegetation	Harris, Mark
Doctor of Philosophy	Empirical analysis of wildfire spread and spotting in southern Australia	Storey, Michael
Doctor of Philosophy	Avian responses to fire regimes in montane dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia	Franklin, Michael
Doctor of Philosophy	Severity and flammability feedbacks in SE Australian forest fire regimes	Barker, James
Doctor of Philosophy	Can logging alter landscape function in fire prone forests?	Wilson, Nicholas
Doctor of Philosophy	The Influence of Fire Regimes on Forest Reptiles	Roberts, Bridget
Doctor of Philosophy	Flammability of Australian Forests: Variation and Feedback	Rahmani, Simin

Top Publications

Year	Title
2015	An empirical wildfire risk analysis: the probability of a fire spreading to the urban interface in Sydney, Australia Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2018	Comparing the height and area of wild and prescribed fire particle plumes in south-east Australia using weather radar Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2015	Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2013	Landscape scale influences of forest area and housing density on house loss in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Published in PLoS One
2016	Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires Published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
2011	Quantifying the influence of fuel age and weather on the annual extent of unplanned fires in the Sydney region of Australia Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2010	The effect of fuel age on the spread of fire in sclerophyll forest in the Sydney region of Australia. Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2012	The efficacy of fuel treatment in mitigating property loss during wildfires: insights from analysis of the severity of the catastrophic fires in 2009 in Victoria, Australia Published in Journal of Environmental Management
2012	The influence of prescribed fire on the extent of wildfire in savanna landscapes of western Arnhem Land, Australia Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire
2016	The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia Published in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Research Overview

Owen conducts research on bushfire risk. This includes impacts on human health (smoke), assets (houses), and environmental values (fauna and flora).

The methods involve a range of field work (e.g. monitoring reptiles or smoke), data management (including advanced Geographic Information Systems and remote sensing) and statistical modelling.

The approach is a landscape one: understanding how risk varies across large areas.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country
International Transnational Region
New South Wales State or Province

Head Of

Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions Director 2018 -

Member Of

UOW Environmental Advisory Committee Faculty Representative 2018 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Analysis of variation in distance, number, and distribution of spotting in southeast Australian wildfires Published In Fire
2020	Australian forests, megafires and the risk of dwindling carbon stocks Published In Plant Cell and Environment
2020	Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2020	Effects of 38 years of wildfires on tree density in the Blue Mountains, Australia Published In Austral Ecology
2020	Modelling bushfire fuel hazard using biophysical parameters Published In Forests
2020	The Proximal Drivers of Large Fires: A Pyrogeographic Study Published In Frontiers in Earth Science
2020	Traffic exhaust to wildfires: PM2.5 measurements with fixed and portable, low-cost LoRaWAN-connected sensors Published In PLoS One
2020	Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: Paradigm change needed Published In Environmental Research Letters
2019	A temporal framework of large wildfire suppression in practice, a qualitative descriptive study Published In Forests

2019	Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2019	The influence of planting size and configuration on landscape fire risk Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2019	Using a statistical model of past wildfire spread to quantify and map the likelihood of fire reaching assets and prioritise fuel treatments Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2019	Wildfire recovery as a “hot moment” for creating fire-adapted communities Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

2018	Comparing the height and area of wild and prescribed fire particle plumes in south-east Australia using weather radar Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2018	Drought, wind and heat: when fire seasons start earlier and last longer Published In The Conversation
2018	How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia? Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire






2017	The remaining koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) of the Pilliga forests, north-west New South Wales: Refugial persistence or a population on the road to extinction? Published In Pacific Conservation Biology

2016	Determining fire dates and locating ignition points with satellite data Published In Remote Sensing
2016	Environmental values and fire hazard of eucalypt plantings Published In Ecosphere
2016	Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes Published In Environmental Research Letters
2016	Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires Published In Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences




2016	The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2016	Wildfires: weigh policy effectiveness Published In Science

2015	An empirical wildfire risk analysis: the probability of a fire spreading to the urban interface in Sydney, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire

2015	Ecological implications of fine-scale fire patchiness and severity in tropical savannas of Northern Australia Published In Fire Ecology
2015	Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2015	Huge fires are burning northern Australia every year: it’s time to get them under control Published In The Conversation

2015	Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires Published In Environmental Modelling and Software

2015	Tree hollows and forest stand structure in Australian warm temperate Eucalyptus forests are adversely affected by logging more than wildfire Published In Forest Ecology and Management

2014	Countervailing effects of urbanization and vegetation extent on fire frequency on the Wildland urban interface: disentangling fuel and ignition effects Published In Landscape and Urban Planning

2014	Logging and fire in Australian forests: errors by Attiwill et al. (2014) Published In Conservation Letters



2013	Examining the relative effects of fire weather, suppression and fuel treatment on fire behaviour - a simulation study Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2013	Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses Published In Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
2013	Landscape scale influences of forest area and housing density on house loss in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Published In PLoS One
2013	Modelling the determinants of ignition in the Sydney Basin, Australia: implications for future management Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire






2012	The efficacy of fuel treatment in mitigating property loss during wildfires: insights from analysis of the severity of the catastrophic fires in 2009 in Victoria, Australia Published In Journal of Environmental Management

2012	The influence of prescribed fire on the extent of wildfire in savanna landscapes of western Arnhem Land, Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire



2011	Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value? Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire
2011	Quantifying the influence of fuel age and weather on the annual extent of unplanned fires in the Sydney region of Australia Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire

2010	Managing the matrix: decadal responses of eucalypt-dominated savanna to ambient fire regimes Published In Ecological Applications
2010	The effect of fuel age on the spread of fire in sclerophyll forest in the Sydney region of Australia. Published In International Journal of Wildland Fire


2007	Land management affects grass biomass in the Eucalyptus tetrodonta savannas of monsoonal Australia Published In Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere

Chapter

Year	Title
2012	Fire regimes and carbon in Australian vegetation Published In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World Publisher Collingwood, Vic

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2020	The effect of fire channelling on fire severity in the 2009 Victorian fires, Australia Published In Proceedings - 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM 2013
2014	Abiotic surrogates for temperate rocky reef biodiversity: implications for Marine Protected Areas Published In GEOHAB 2014: Abstract Volume
2014	Modelling the response of surface fuel to climate change across south-eastern Australia: consequences for future fire regimes Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
2014	The potential of satellite data to study individual wildfire events Published In Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014

Other Publications

Year	Title
2014	Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)

Investigator On

Year	Title
2014 - 2015	Maximising return from environmental plantings in flammable systems Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program
2013	Bushfires, smoke and people: assessing the risks and benefits from planned burnng on the urban-rural interface Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2008	Understanding the health effects of landscape burning and biomass smoke in Australian towns and cities Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Other Research Activities

OEH Bushfire Research Hub Theme Leaser 2018 -

Potential Supervision Topics

Use of satellite imagery and LiDAR to model bushfire behaviour, fuel and impacts

The influence of fire regimes on animal communities

Reconstructing fire regimes in pre-history

Validating fire prediction systems (fire spread, smoke dispersion).

Cost-benefit analysis of fire suppression strategies

Teaching Activities

Conservation Biology Instructor 2014 - 2019

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Productivity and Effectiveness of Suppression Resources and Tactics on Large Fires	Simpson, Heather
Master of Philosophy	Diversity Relationships Between Standing Vegetation and Soil Seed Banks in Semi-Arid Dune Mallee Vegetation	Harris, Mark
Doctor of Philosophy	Empirical analysis of wildfire spread and spotting in southern Australia	Storey, Michael
Doctor of Philosophy	Avian responses to fire regimes in montane dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia	Franklin, Michael
Doctor of Philosophy	Severity and flammability feedbacks in SE Australian forest fire regimes	Barker, James
Doctor of Philosophy	Can logging alter landscape function in fire prone forests?	Wilson, Nicholas
Doctor of Philosophy	The Influence of Fire Regimes on Forest Reptiles	Roberts, Bridget
Doctor of Philosophy	Flammability of Australian Forests: Variation and Feedback	Rahmani, Simin

Overview

Top Publications

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Head Of

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Overview

Top Publications

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Head Of

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Visualisations

Geographic Focus