Invited Keynote Speakers

Keynote 1

Analysis of oscillatory fire behaviour and the role of atmospheric structure

Domingos Xavier Viegas, Emeritus Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Keynote 2

From fuel moisture to fire intelligence: remote sensing advances for proactive wildland fire management

Marta Yebra, Director of the Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence, Professor at the Fenner School of Environment & Society, College of Science and School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Australia

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Keynote 3

Why large extreme fires are like elephants, and what we can do about it

Sally Archibald, Professor at the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Keynote 4

Reignition: the urgent case for Indigenous and local leadership in fire

Amy Cardinal Christianson, Indigenous Leadership Initiative, Canada

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Keynote 5

Challenging assumptions and leveraging new knowledge to reframe the future of wildland fire intelligence

W. Matt Jolly, US Forest Service, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, United States of America

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Keynote 6

Fire in tropical and subtropical regions: ecological, climatic and societal dimensions

Imma Oliveras Menor, UMR AMAP (Botany & Modelling of Plants and Vegetation), Research Institute for Development (IRD), Montpellier, France

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Keynote 7

How physics can contribute to the understanding of wildfire behaviour

Dominique Morvan, Emeritus Professor at the Aix-Marseille University, France

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