Sarita Chaulagain

Sarita Chaulagain

Sarita is a PhD candidate investigating the impact of fire regimes on plants, especially understory plant communities. She is examining the effects of fire through systematic reviews and the collection of field data. She is also interested in simulation modelling to...
Habtamu Getnet Gessesse

Habtamu Getnet Gessesse

Habtamu Getnet Gessesse is a PhD candidate studying the “effects of fire intensity and aridity on plant resprouting” in FLARE. He is focussing on the effects of different combinations of fire intensity and dryness level on the resprouting ability of grasses and the...
Tamika Farley-Lehmer

Tamika Farley-Lehmer

Tamika began working in the fire space as a forest firefighter in 2019, before moving into fire ecology. In her ecologist role, she focussed on implementing science-based burning regimes in the Otways region with the Conservation Ecology Centre. She collaborated on...
Breanna Iredale

Breanna Iredale

Bree is a PhD candidate researching the implications of weed invasions on native fuels and fire regimes. Her background is in practical weed control and fire management. Working for many years as a bushland regenerator and seasonal firefighter she developed an...
Anuj Singh

Anuj Singh

Anuj is a PhD candidate interested in researching the impacts of extreme storms on forest ecosystems, with a focus on wind throw events in temperate Australian forests. He aims to understand the key drivers influencing wind throw severity, map vulnerable areas using...