Poster 101: Now Hear This! Community alert sirens in isolated communities
The telephone based National Emergency Warning System (Emergency Alert) has arguably solved the issue of community warning for emergencies.

Poster 102: Emergency Management in Iceland and the Response to the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Eruption
The international disruption caused by Eyjafjallajökull has been well documented. What is less known is the domestic crisis and emergency response that is ongoing in Iceland.

Poster 106: Building Specialist Alpine Search and Survival Capability in Volunteer Emergency Service Organisations
The alpine environment poses a number of unique challenges for emergency service organisations including the hostile climatic conditions, ever-changing terrain, remoteness and accessibility.

Poster 108: The Quad Map
Two exploratory data analysis techniques the comap and the quad plot are shown to have both strengths and shortcomings when analysing spatial multivariate datasets.

Poster 109: The New Millenium Emergency Services: How technology has changed and will change operations
The presentation will give a brief outlook into the challanges facing the services and industry due to technology between 2000 and 2020.

Poster 110: Highway Prescribed Buffer Burning in the Kimberley to Protect Remote Indigenous Communities
Highway prescribed buffer burning in the Kimberley by FESA and partners has proven to be very successful in reducing the adverse impact of late dry season unplanned bushfires.

Poster 112: InFlame: Turning community emotion into fire safety action
A large residential fire creates significant local interest driven by curiosity and emotion.

Poster 113: ACT Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Project
The Emergency Services commitment to the CaLD community is enabling communities to be in control, to have the knowledge and information to be able to better prepare and respond to emergencies in our community.

Poster 115: Why I'd Stay, and What I've Done to Prepare for it: The role of goals and worries in bushfire preparedness
Previous research into bushfire preparedness reveals that individuals vary considerably in the extent to which they undertake measures to protect themselves and their properties from bushfire threat.

Poster 116: Civilian Decision Making Under Stress: Use of fire agency websites on Black Saturday
One recommendation emerging from the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission is that "warnings provide timely and informative advice about the predicted passage of a fire and the actions to be taken by people in areas potentially in its path".

Poster 117: Quantification of Resources to Deliver Door-to-door Messages for Community Evacuation and Potential of Flagging Vacated Properties
In an emergency requiring evacuation of a community, mass communication systems will normally be used to recommend that the public relocates to a safer place.

Poster 123: Embedding Science in Broad Training Programs: The HighFire Risk Project
Initially a Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre funded project, the HighFire Risk Project has forged a fundamental rethink of the way that fires evolve in Australia's rugged landforms.

Poster 125: Applying EM Planning Arrangements to CT Events: Is it possible?
The aim of this paper is to critically analyse the Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery (PPRR) model of emergency management within the counter terrorism (CT) environment.

Poster 126: Describing New Zealand’s Current Fire Climate Severity
Understanding likely changes in fire risk across New Zealand is important for the country’s rural fire agencies. This study aimed to provide an improved description of current fire climate severity across New Zealand.

Poster 127: Validation of Satellite Assessment Methods for Grassland Curing in New Zealand
Grassland curing is a crucial input into fire danger and behaviour models. It describes the stage of seasonal die-off in grasses, which has a significant effect on a fire’s ease of ignition, rate of spread and suppression difficulty.

Poster 130: Increasing Expectations on Volunteers in Emergency Management: Captains Flat SES community first response
Community expectations with regard to the responsiveness of all government services have grown in recent years.

Poster 133: Ecologically Responsible Roadside Fire Management
In 2009 CFA South West Area was successful in attaining a grant from the World Wildlife Fund, through the Threatened Species Network Grants, to develop material and promote an ecologically responsible roadside fuel reduction program.

Poster 134: The Walla Walla Gerogery Fire of December 2009: The first on the new National Warning System
This presentation will focus on the first major fire incident that occurred in NSW after the new National Warning System was instigated prior to the fire season in 2009.

Poster 135: Estimation on Forest Fire Potential Hazard by Fuel Load Change of Forest Strata in Forest Stand
Fire behavior and fire severity are determined by characteristics and vertical and horizontal continuity of diverse fuel level, and fire danger on a particular stand affects on fire behaviour based on potential amount of fuel.

Poster 137: Sensing and Modelling Toxic Plumes in Urban Canopies
Electronic noses are improving technologies that can detect toxic or offensive gases in real time and may be developed as tools for assessing hazards.

Poster 139: Effect of Climate Change on New Zealand’s Future Fire Danger
This study aimed to provide improved estimates of the effects of climate change on future fire danger for New Zealand.

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