Every hour yesterday, it seemed, the top of the hour news brought an increase in the number of deaths caused by these fires; right now the count is 181, and is expected to climb.
The image above is courtesy of NASA’s Earth Observatory, which has an informative page on the Bushfires in Southeast Australia. Google News for this topic can be found here, and the local news services are hugely informative. That’s how I found this: The Centre for Risk and Community Safety, at RMIT University in Melbourne.
About Us
The Centre for Risk and Community Safety was established in January 2001 and is a collaborative project by Geospatial Science (RMIT University), Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES) (Australian National University), and Emergency Management Australia.
The collaborative group combines internationally recognised research, research management and training expertise with the peak emergency management body in Australia. These partnerships help ensure that the Centre serves the sector’s strategic research needs.
Aims
- To identify the strategic research needs of emergency management;
- To publicise these needs, undertake research to satisfy them, and to encourage others to contribute to the research effort; and
- To help develop the next generation of researchers in the field – through recruiting and training.
Their Research Agenda is intriguing and wide-ranging. Undoubtedly, this latest event (or series of events) will yield much fruit for study.