Luba Volkova

Experience

• 2010–present
  Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne
• 2019–2020
  Visting Fellow, CSIRO

Education

• 2010 
  the University of Melbourne, PhD
• 1995 
  Moscow State Forestry University, Bachelor in Forest Engineering

Publications

• 2019
  Improving reporting of national greenhouse gas emissions from forest fires for emission reduction benefits: an example from Australia, Environmental Science & Policy
• 2019
  Investigation of mercury emissions from burning of Australian eucalypt forest surface fuels using a combustion wind tunnel and field observations, Atmospheric Environment
• 2019
  Fire intensity effects on post-fire fuel recovery in Eucalyptus open forests of south-eastern Australia, Science of the Total Environment
• 2019
  Effect of thinning and burning fuel reduction treatments on forest carbon and bushfire fuel hazard in Eucalyptus sieberi forests of South-Eastern Australia, Science of The Total Environment
• 2018
  A data - model fusion methodology for mapping bushfire fuels for smoke emissions forecasting in forested landscapes of south-eastern Australia, Journal of Environmental Management
• 2018
  Importance of disturbance history on Net Primary Productivity in the world’s most productive forests and implications for the global carbon cycle, Global Change Biology
• 2018
  Ground-based Field Measurements of PM2.5 Emission Factors from Flaming and Smouldering Combustion in Eucalypt Forests, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
• 2018
  Effect of woody debris on the rate of spread of surface fires in forest fuels in a combustion wind tunnel, Forest Ecology and Management
• 2017
  Impact of mechanical thinning on forest carbon, fuel hazard and simulated fire behaviour in Eucalyptus delegatensis forest of south-eastern Australia, Forest Ecology and Management
• 2017
  Emissions of trace gases from Australian temperate forest fires: emission factors and dependence on modified combustion efficiency, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• 2016
  Visual assessments of fuel loads are poorly related to destructively sampled fuel loads in eucalypt forests, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2015
  Carbon loss from planned fires in south-eastern Australian dry Eucalyptus forests, Forest Ecology and Management
• 2014
  ). Fuel reduction burning mitigates wildfire effects on forest carbon and greenhouse gas emission, International Journal of Wildland Fire
• 2013
  Redistribution and emission of forest carbon by planned burning in Eucalyptus obliqua (L. Hérit.) forest of south-eastern Australia, Forest Ecology and Management

Grants and Contracts

• 2019
  Improving Capacities Towards Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Peat Swamp Forest Fires In Indonesia

  Role:

  Lead CI for Australia

  Funding Source:

  APFNet and the Australian Government

• 2019
  Forest greenhouse gas balance

  Role:

  CSIRO Visiting Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Professional Memberships

• STEM Women

Research Areas

• Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change (050101)
• Environmental Impact Assessment (050204)
• Forestry Fire Management (070503)
• Forestry Management And Environment (070504)