Geoff Cary

Experience

• 2022–present
  Professor, The Australian National University
• 2012–2021
  Associate Professor, The Australian National University
• 2005–2012
  Senior Lecturer, The Australian National University

Education

• 1999 
  The Australian National University, PhD
• 1992 
  University of Technology, Sydney, B.App.Sci.(Environmental Biology)(Hons)

Publications

• 2025
  Mercury in an Australian sclerophyll Eucalyptus forest and emissions from fuel reduction prescribed burning, Environmental Chemistry
• 2025
  Responses of small mammals to prescribed low-intensity fire: Genetic insights from a northern Australian fire experiment, Biological Conservation
• 2025
  Evaluating Australian forest fire rate of spread models using VIIRS satellite observations, Environmental Modelling & Software
• 2025
  Plant Responses to a Re‐emergence of Cultural Burning in Long‐Unburnt, Threatened Temperate Woodlands, Global Change Biology
• 2024
  A Statistical Forecasting Model for Extremes of the Fire Behaviour Index in Australia, Atmosphere
• 2024
  Observed Associations between Fire Danger and Climate Modes and their Representation in ACCESS-S2, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
• 2024
  How Important Is Informed Natal Dispersal for Modelling the Demographic and Genetic Effects of Environmental Variability?, Ecology and Evolution
• 2024
  Past fire shaping future fuel: influence of recent fire history on forest foliage chemistry, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2024
  Native herbivore browsing alters plant physical and chemical traits in a eucalypt forest understory, Ecosphere
• 2023
  Untangling fuel, weather and management effects on fire severity: Insights from large-sample LiDAR remote sensing analysis of conditions preceding the 2019-20 Australian wildfires, Journal of Environmental Management
• 2023
  Perspectives: Better managing fire in flammable tree plantations, Forest Ecology and Management
• 2023
  Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2022
  Direct and indirect effects of fire on microbial communities in a pyrodiverse dry‐sclerophyll forest, Journal of Ecology
• 2022
  Relating McArthur fire danger indices to remote sensing derived burned area across Australia, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2022
  Representing vapour and capillary rise from the soil improves a leaf litter moisture model, Journal of Hydrology
• 2022
  Comparison of contrasting optical and LiDAR fire severity remote sensing methods in a heterogeneous forested landscape in south-eastern Australia, International Journal of Remote Sensing
• 2022
  Controlled field experiment clarifies the influence of soil moisture on litter moisture content, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
• 2022
  What determines variation in remotely sensed fire severity? Consideration of remote sensing limitations and confounding factors, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2022
  Time since fire influences macropod occurrence in a fire‐prone coastal ecosystem, Austral Ecology
• 2021
  The influence of soil moisture on surface and sub-surface litter fuel moisture simulation at five Australian sites, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
• 2021
  Forest fire fuel through the lens of remote sensing: Review of approaches, challenges and future directions in the remote sensing of biotic determinants of fire behaviour, Remote Sensing of Environment
• 2021
  Stand boundary effects on obligate seeding Eucalyptus delegatensis regeneration and fuel dynamics following high and low severity fire: Implications for species resilience to recurrent fire, Austral Ecology
• 2021
  Effects of altered fire intervals on critical timber production and conservation values, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2021
  Unburnt habitat patches are critical for survival and in situ population recovery in a small mammal after fire, Journal of Applied Ecology
• 2020
  Exploring the key drivers of forest flammability in wet eucalypt forests using expert-derived conceptual models, Landscape Ecology
• 2020
  The proximal drivers of large fires: a pyrogeographic study, Frontiers in Earth Science
• 2020
  Animals as agents in fire regimes, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• 2019
  Features associated with effective biodiversity monitoring and evaluation, Biological Conservation
• 2019
  More long‐unburnt forest will benefit mammals in Australian sub‐alpine forests and woodlands, Austral Ecology
• 2018
  You own the fuel, but who owns the fire?, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2018
  Options for reducing house-losses during wildfires without clearing trees and shrubs, Landscape and Urban Planning
• 2018
  A fuel moisture content and flammability monitoring methodology for continental Australia based on optical remote sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment
• 2018
  A comparison of fuel hazard in recently burned and long-unburned forests and woodlands, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2017
  Importance of fuel treatment for limiting moderate-to-high intensity fire: findings from comparative fire modelling, Landscape Ecology
• 2017
  Importance of fuel treatment for limiting moderate-to-high intensity fire: findings from comparative fire modelling, Landscape Ecology
• 2016
  Repeatability of free-burning fire experiments using heterogeneous forest fuel beds in a combustion wind tunnel, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2016
  Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes, Environmental Research Letters
• 2016
  Biophysical mechanistic modelling quantifies the effects of plant traits on fire severity: species, not surface fuel loads, determine flame dimensions in eucalypt forests, PLoS ONE
• 2016
  Natural hazards in Australia: extreme bushfire, Climatic Change
• 2015
  Long-distance spotting potential of bark strips of a ribbon gum (Eucalyptus viminalis), International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2014
  Exploring the use of economic evaluation in Australian wildland fire management decision-making, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2014
  Evaluating benefits and costs of wildland fires: critical review and future applications, Environmental Hazards
• 2013
  How does ecological disturbance influence genetic diversity?, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
• 2013
  Forest fire management, climate change, and the risk of catastrophic carbon losses, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• 2013
  Fire regimes of Australia: a pyrogeographic model system, Journal of Biogeography
• 2013
  A conceptual framework for predicting temperate ecosystem sensitivity to human impacts on fire regimes, Global Ecology and Biogeogrpahy
• 2013
  Exploring the role of fire, succession, climate, and weather on landscape dynamics using comparative modeling, Ecological Modelling
• 2013
  The worldwide “wildfire” problem, Ecological Applications
• 2013
  Contrasting fire responses to climate and management: insights from two Australian ecosystems, Global Change Biology
• 2012
  Global change and fire regimes in Australia, Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World
• 2012
  Land Management Practices Associated with House Loss in Wildfires, PLOS ONE

Research Areas

• Forestry Fire Management (070503)
• Environmental Management (050205)
• Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change (050101)