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
2019	A temporal framework of large wildfire suppression in practice, a qualitative descriptive study Published In Forests Volume 10 Pages 884-1 - 884-30 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
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 0301-4797 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
2019	Wildfire recovery as a “hot moment” for creating fire-adapted communities Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ISSN 2212-4209 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric






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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
2016	Environmental values and fire hazard of eucalypt plantings Published In Ecosphere Volume 7 Pages e01528-1 - e01528-14 ISSN 2150-8925 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric




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 Altmetric
2016	Wildfires: weigh policy effectiveness Published In Science Volume 350 Pages 920 - 920 ISSN 0036-8075 Altmetric

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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric



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 0301-4797 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric






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 0301-4797 Altmetric

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 Altmetric



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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric


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 Altmetric

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
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)

Investigator On

Year	Title
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
	Maximising return from environmental plantings in flammable systems Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program

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 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

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
2019	A temporal framework of large wildfire suppression in practice, a qualitative descriptive study Published In Forests Volume 10 Pages 884-1 - 884-30 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
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 0301-4797 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
2019	Wildfire recovery as a “hot moment” for creating fire-adapted communities Published In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ISSN 2212-4209 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric






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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
2016	Environmental values and fire hazard of eucalypt plantings Published In Ecosphere Volume 7 Pages e01528-1 - e01528-14 ISSN 2150-8925 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric




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 Altmetric
2016	Wildfires: weigh policy effectiveness Published In Science Volume 350 Pages 920 - 920 ISSN 0036-8075 Altmetric

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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric



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 0301-4797 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric






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 0301-4797 Altmetric

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 Altmetric



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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric

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 Altmetric
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 Altmetric


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 Altmetric

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
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)

Investigator On

Year	Title
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
	Maximising return from environmental plantings in flammable systems Awarded by: NSW Environmental Trust Funding Scheme: Environmental Research Program

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 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

Overview

Top Publications

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Head Of

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Chapter

Conference Paper

Report

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

Report

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Visualisations

Geographic Focus