Sarah McColl-Gausden
@sarahmccg.bsky.social
Postdoc researcher | wildfire 🔥| ecology 🌿 | restoration 🌳. Living and working on Wurundjeri country. She/her
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1/4 - Check our new paper in @ijwildlandfire.bsky.social
We use MOEA optimisation to support decisions for #wildfire risk reduction (e.g., where should we use prescribed burning to reduce risk?). Optimisation improves fuel treatment plan effectiveness by 80–280% and adapts to changing objectives.
We use MOEA optimisation to support decisions for #wildfire risk reduction (e.g., where should we use prescribed burning to reduce risk?). Optimisation improves fuel treatment plan effectiveness by 80–280% and adapts to changing objectives.
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
1/4 - Check our new paper in @ijwildlandfire.bsky.social
We use MOEA optimisation to support decisions for #wildfire risk reduction (e.g., where should we use prescribed burning to reduce risk?). Optimisation improves fuel treatment plan effectiveness by 80–280% and adapts to changing objectives.
We use MOEA optimisation to support decisions for #wildfire risk reduction (e.g., where should we use prescribed burning to reduce risk?). Optimisation improves fuel treatment plan effectiveness by 80–280% and adapts to changing objectives.
Reposted by Sarah McColl-Gausden
New paper out! This is a big, interdisciplinary reflection on the types of challenges that are likely to come our way in the context of wildfires in the next 50 years. Was fun to write this one. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Interdisciplinary challenges for wildfire futures
Wildfire has shaped many ecosystems across Earth, and humans have in turn shaped fire and its interactions within a range of socio-ecological systems.…
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July 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
New paper out! This is a big, interdisciplinary reflection on the types of challenges that are likely to come our way in the context of wildfires in the next 50 years. Was fun to write this one. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Have you ever been confused by the way the same fire term (e.g fire severity) is used to represent a whole range of metrics🔥? Particularly if you are new to the field? In this piece we emphasise the need to careful explain and link fire metrics to relevant ecological mechanisms. Hope it's useful!
🔥 Hot off the press ! 🔥
Originally “sparked” from a conversation between @sarahmccg.bsky.social , Luke Collins , @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social , Meg Krawchuk and I. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Originally “sparked” from a conversation between @sarahmccg.bsky.social , Luke Collins , @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social , Meg Krawchuk and I. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Have you ever been confused by the way the same fire term (e.g fire severity) is used to represent a whole range of metrics🔥? Particularly if you are new to the field? In this piece we emphasise the need to careful explain and link fire metrics to relevant ecological mechanisms. Hope it's useful!
Final chapter of my PhD has just been published (only a few years late 😃). Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
For a quicker read, check out this article which includes a super cute retro video game example 🌳🔥. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/vVi...
For a quicker read, check out this article which includes a super cute retro video game example 🌳🔥. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/vVi...
'Videogame ecology’ can help us understand the climate crisis in our forests
New University of Melbourne is using computer game models to ‘challenge’ Australian plant species to survive future climate and fire scenarios
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
December 17, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Final chapter of my PhD has just been published (only a few years late 😃). Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
For a quicker read, check out this article which includes a super cute retro video game example 🌳🔥. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/vVi...
For a quicker read, check out this article which includes a super cute retro video game example 🌳🔥. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/vVi...
Reposted by Sarah McColl-Gausden
The Marsden Fund was set up to support pure research. Diverting half of it to fund applied research undermines New Zealand’s potential to generate ideas that underpin commercial success.
Funding research for economic return sounds good – but that’s not how science really works
The Marsden Fund was set up to support pure research. Diverting half of it to fund applied research undermines New Zealand’s potential to generate ideas that underpin commercial success.
theconversation.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:46 PM
The Marsden Fund was set up to support pure research. Diverting half of it to fund applied research undermines New Zealand’s potential to generate ideas that underpin commercial success.
Reposted by Sarah McColl-Gausden
That's a wrap on the first two days of ESA2024 🎉 This might be our biggest conference in history, with over 1,300+ attendees and over 900+ presentations- but it's not over yet! Bring on more connection, sharing and celebration 💪
#ESAus2024 #ecology #conference
#ESAus2024 #ecology #conference
December 10, 2024 at 7:20 AM
That's a wrap on the first two days of ESA2024 🎉 This might be our biggest conference in history, with over 1,300+ attendees and over 900+ presentations- but it's not over yet! Bring on more connection, sharing and celebration 💪
#ESAus2024 #ecology #conference
#ESAus2024 #ecology #conference
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Albanese “has personally intervened to scupper a deal” with the Greens over an environmental reform promised last election… circumventing his own environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, who had been negotiating “for months and was close to striking a deal”.
Yikes.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Yikes.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Albanese intervenes to scupper Plibersek’s negotiations with the Greens
Tanya Plibersek’s negotiations with the Greens over a major environmental reform were close to bearing fruit. But the prime minister halted talks.
www.theage.com.au
November 27, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Albanese “has personally intervened to scupper a deal” with the Greens over an environmental reform promised last election… circumventing his own environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, who had been negotiating “for months and was close to striking a deal”.
Yikes.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Yikes.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Pretty nice to be back in the bush for a couple of weeks 🌿
This work is looking at forest regeneration post Black Summer with a range of previous disturbances (fire 🔥 or harvesting 🪵) in low elevation mixed forests around East Gippsland.
This work is looking at forest regeneration post Black Summer with a range of previous disturbances (fire 🔥 or harvesting 🪵) in low elevation mixed forests around East Gippsland.
November 19, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Pretty nice to be back in the bush for a couple of weeks 🌿
This work is looking at forest regeneration post Black Summer with a range of previous disturbances (fire 🔥 or harvesting 🪵) in low elevation mixed forests around East Gippsland.
This work is looking at forest regeneration post Black Summer with a range of previous disturbances (fire 🔥 or harvesting 🪵) in low elevation mixed forests around East Gippsland.