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Price, Owen F. Dr

Senior Research Fellow, Bushfire Smoke

  • Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
  • Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions
  • Senior Research Fellow - School of Environment, Air and Life Sciences 2018 -

Top Publications

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.

Selected Publications

  • Journal Article

    Year Title
    2020
    Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    2020
    The Proximal Drivers of Large Fires: A Pyrogeographic Study
    Published In
    Frontiers in Earth Science
    Volume
    8
    ISSN
    2296-6463
    2020
    Traffic exhaust to wildfires: PM2.5 measurements with fixed and portable, low-cost LoRaWAN-connected sensors
    Published In
    PLoS One
    Volume
    15
    ISSN
    1932-6203
    2020
    Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: Paradigm change needed
    Published In
    Environmental Research Letters
    Volume
    15
    ISSN
    1748-9326
    2019
    A temporal framework of large wildfire suppression in practice, a qualitative descriptive study
    Published In
    Forests
    Volume
    10
    Pages
    884-1 - 884-30
     
    2019
    Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    Online First
    Pages
    1 - 13
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2019
    The influence of planting size and configuration on landscape fire risk
    Published In
    Journal of Environmental Management
    Volume
    248
    Pages
    109338-1 - 109338-7
    ISSN
    1095-8630
    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
    Volume
    Online First
    Pages
    1 - 13
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2019
    Wildfire recovery as a “hot moment” for creating fire-adapted communities
    Published In
    International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
    ISSN
    2212-4209
     
    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
    Volume
    27
    Pages
    525 - 537
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2018
    Drought, wind and heat: when fire seasons start earlier and last longer
    Published In
    The Conversation
    Volume
    17 August
    Pages
    1 - 4
    2018
    How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    27
    Pages
    85 - 98
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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
    Volume
    23
    Pages
    277 - 294
    ISSN
    1038-2097
     
    2016
    Determining fire dates and locating ignition points with satellite data
    Published In
    Remote Sensing
    Volume
    8
    Pages
    326-1 - 326-20
    ISSN
    2072-4292
    2016
    Environmental values and fire hazard of eucalypt plantings
    Published In
    Ecosphere
    Volume
    7
    Pages
    e01528-1 - e01528-14
    ISSN
    2150-8925
    2016
    Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes
    Published In
    Environmental Research Letters
    Volume
    11
    Pages
    065002-1 - 065002-13
    ISSN
    1748-9326
    2016
    Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires
    Published In
    Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
    Volume
    16
    Pages
    2247 - 2257
    ISSN
    1561-8633
     
     
     
     
    2016
    The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    25
    Pages
    1048 - 1060
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2016
    Wildfires: weigh policy effectiveness
    Published In
    Science
    Volume
    350
    Pages
    920 - 920
    ISSN
    0036-8075
     
    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
    Volume
    24
    Pages
    597 - 606
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
    2015
    Ecological implications of fine-scale fire patchiness and severity in tropical savannas of Northern Australia
    Published In
    Fire Ecology
    Volume
    11
    Pages
    10 - 31
    ISSN
    1933-9747
    2015
    Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    24
    Pages
    297 - 306
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2015
    Huge fires are burning northern Australia every year: it’s time to get them under control
    Published In
    The Conversation
    Volume
    22 October
    Pages
    1 - 3
     
    2015
    Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires
    Published In
    Environmental Modelling and Software
    Volume
    67
    Pages
    12 - 25
    ISSN
    1364-8152
     
    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
    Volume
    341
    Pages
    37 - 44
    ISSN
    0378-1127
     
    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
    Volume
    130
    Pages
    81 - 88
    ISSN
    0169-2046
     
    2014
    Logging and fire in Australian forests: errors by Attiwill et al. (2014)
    Published In
    Conservation Letters
    Volume
    7
    Pages
    419 - 420
    ISSN
    1755-263X
     
     
     
    2013
    Examining the relative effects of fire weather, suppression and fuel treatment on fire behaviour - a simulation study
    Published In
    Journal of Environmental Management
    Volume
    131
    Pages
    325 - 333
    ISSN
    1095-8630
    2013
    Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses
    Published In
    Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
    Volume
    11
    Pages
    66 - 68
    ISSN
    1540-9295
    2013
    Landscape scale influences of forest area and housing density on house loss in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires
    Published In
    PLoS One
    Volume
    8
    Pages
    e73421-1 - e73421-6
    ISSN
    1932-6203
    2013
    Modelling the determinants of ignition in the Sydney Basin, Australia: implications for future management
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    22
    Pages
    469 - 478
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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
    Volume
    113
    Pages
    146 - 157
    ISSN
    1095-8630
     
    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
    Volume
    21
    Pages
    297 - 305
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
     
     
    2011
    Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value?
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    20
    Pages
    721 - 733
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    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
    Volume
    20
    Pages
    142 - 151
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
    2010
    Managing the matrix: decadal responses of eucalypt-dominated savanna to ambient fire regimes
    Published In
    Ecological Applications
    Volume
    20
    Pages
    1615 - 1632
    ISSN
    1051-0761
    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
    Volume
    19
    Pages
    35 - 45
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
     
    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
    Volume
    32
    Pages
    446 - 452
    ISSN
    1442-9985

  • 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: CSIRO Publishing
    Pages
    273 - 291
    ISBN
    9780643104822

  • 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
    Pages
    221 - 227
    2014
    Abiotic surrogates for temperate rocky reef biodiversity: implications for Marine Protected Areas
    Published In
    GEOHAB 2014: Abstract Volume
    Pages
    85 - 85
    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
    Pages
    1 - 1
    2014
    The potential of satellite data to study individual wildfire events
    Published In
    Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
    Pages
    1 - 1

  • Report

    Year Title
    2014
    Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)
    ISBN
    9780992502799
    Publisher
    Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre
    External URL
    Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)

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

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 spot-fire and fore brand behaviuor during extreme fire weather conditions. 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

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.

Selected Publications

  • Journal Article

    Year Title
    2020
    Drivers of long-distance spotting during wildfires in south-eastern Australia
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    2020
    The Proximal Drivers of Large Fires: A Pyrogeographic Study
    Published In
    Frontiers in Earth Science
    Volume
    8
    ISSN
    2296-6463
    2020
    Traffic exhaust to wildfires: PM2.5 measurements with fixed and portable, low-cost LoRaWAN-connected sensors
    Published In
    PLoS One
    Volume
    15
    ISSN
    1932-6203
    2020
    Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: Paradigm change needed
    Published In
    Environmental Research Letters
    Volume
    15
    ISSN
    1748-9326
    2019
    A temporal framework of large wildfire suppression in practice, a qualitative descriptive study
    Published In
    Forests
    Volume
    10
    Pages
    884-1 - 884-30
     
    2019
    Quantification of inter-regional differences in risk mitigation from prescribed burning across multiple management values
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    Online First
    Pages
    1 - 13
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2019
    The influence of planting size and configuration on landscape fire risk
    Published In
    Journal of Environmental Management
    Volume
    248
    Pages
    109338-1 - 109338-7
    ISSN
    1095-8630
    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
    Volume
    Online First
    Pages
    1 - 13
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2019
    Wildfire recovery as a “hot moment” for creating fire-adapted communities
    Published In
    International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
    ISSN
    2212-4209
     
    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
    Volume
    27
    Pages
    525 - 537
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2018
    Drought, wind and heat: when fire seasons start earlier and last longer
    Published In
    The Conversation
    Volume
    17 August
    Pages
    1 - 4
    2018
    How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    27
    Pages
    85 - 98
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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
    Volume
    23
    Pages
    277 - 294
    ISSN
    1038-2097
     
    2016
    Determining fire dates and locating ignition points with satellite data
    Published In
    Remote Sensing
    Volume
    8
    Pages
    326-1 - 326-20
    ISSN
    2072-4292
    2016
    Environmental values and fire hazard of eucalypt plantings
    Published In
    Ecosphere
    Volume
    7
    Pages
    e01528-1 - e01528-14
    ISSN
    2150-8925
    2016
    Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes
    Published In
    Environmental Research Letters
    Volume
    11
    Pages
    065002-1 - 065002-13
    ISSN
    1748-9326
    2016
    Local and regional smoke impacts from prescribed fires
    Published In
    Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
    Volume
    16
    Pages
    2247 - 2257
    ISSN
    1561-8633
     
     
     
     
    2016
    The role of weather, past fire and topography in crown fire occurrence in eastern Australia
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    25
    Pages
    1048 - 1060
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2016
    Wildfires: weigh policy effectiveness
    Published In
    Science
    Volume
    350
    Pages
    920 - 920
    ISSN
    0036-8075
     
    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
    Volume
    24
    Pages
    597 - 606
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
    2015
    Ecological implications of fine-scale fire patchiness and severity in tropical savannas of Northern Australia
    Published In
    Fire Ecology
    Volume
    11
    Pages
    10 - 31
    ISSN
    1933-9747
    2015
    Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    24
    Pages
    297 - 306
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    2015
    Huge fires are burning northern Australia every year: it’s time to get them under control
    Published In
    The Conversation
    Volume
    22 October
    Pages
    1 - 3
     
    2015
    Reducing the risk of house loss due to wildfires
    Published In
    Environmental Modelling and Software
    Volume
    67
    Pages
    12 - 25
    ISSN
    1364-8152
     
    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
    Volume
    341
    Pages
    37 - 44
    ISSN
    0378-1127
     
    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
    Volume
    130
    Pages
    81 - 88
    ISSN
    0169-2046
     
    2014
    Logging and fire in Australian forests: errors by Attiwill et al. (2014)
    Published In
    Conservation Letters
    Volume
    7
    Pages
    419 - 420
    ISSN
    1755-263X
     
     
     
    2013
    Examining the relative effects of fire weather, suppression and fuel treatment on fire behaviour - a simulation study
    Published In
    Journal of Environmental Management
    Volume
    131
    Pages
    325 - 333
    ISSN
    1095-8630
    2013
    Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses
    Published In
    Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
    Volume
    11
    Pages
    66 - 68
    ISSN
    1540-9295
    2013
    Landscape scale influences of forest area and housing density on house loss in the 2009 Victorian Bushfires
    Published In
    PLoS One
    Volume
    8
    Pages
    e73421-1 - e73421-6
    ISSN
    1932-6203
    2013
    Modelling the determinants of ignition in the Sydney Basin, Australia: implications for future management
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    22
    Pages
    469 - 478
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
     
     
     
     
     
    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
    Volume
    113
    Pages
    146 - 157
    ISSN
    1095-8630
     
    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
    Volume
    21
    Pages
    297 - 305
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
     
     
    2011
    Prescribed burning: how can it work to conserve the things we value?
    Published In
    International Journal of Wildland Fire
    Volume
    20
    Pages
    721 - 733
    ISSN
    1049-8001
    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
    Volume
    20
    Pages
    142 - 151
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
    2010
    Managing the matrix: decadal responses of eucalypt-dominated savanna to ambient fire regimes
    Published In
    Ecological Applications
    Volume
    20
    Pages
    1615 - 1632
    ISSN
    1051-0761
    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
    Volume
    19
    Pages
    35 - 45
    ISSN
    1049-8001
     
     
    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
    Volume
    32
    Pages
    446 - 452
    ISSN
    1442-9985

  • 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: CSIRO Publishing
    Pages
    273 - 291
    ISBN
    9780643104822

  • 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
    Pages
    221 - 227
    2014
    Abiotic surrogates for temperate rocky reef biodiversity: implications for Marine Protected Areas
    Published In
    GEOHAB 2014: Abstract Volume
    Pages
    85 - 85
    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
    Pages
    1 - 1
    2014
    The potential of satellite data to study individual wildfire events
    Published In
    Geophysical Research Abstracts of EGU General Assembly 2014
    Pages
    1 - 1

  • Report

    Year Title
    2014
    Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)
    ISBN
    9780992502799
    Publisher
    Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre
    External URL
    Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)

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

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 spot-fire and fore brand behaviuor during extreme fire weather conditions. 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
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