Members of the Scion rural fire research team recently gave several presentations as part of Fire and Emergency New Zealand’s Fire Risk Management continuing professional development online seminar series.
The three presentations are now available for wider viewing on Vimeo, and include:
- An overview of the Scion Rural Research Programme (by Grant Pearce)
- An introduction to the Fire environment and fire behaviour (by Veronica Clifford)
- Smoke forecasting, fire detection and fire weather: an update on recent Scion research activities (by Ilze Pretorius)
A range of presentations on structural fire science, detection and suppression systems, and hazardous wastes givan as part of the seminar series are also available (contact seminar organiser Trent Fearnley).
Further seminars are being planned for 2021, including more from the Scion team.
The videos have also been uploaded to the the Scion Rural Fire Research Youtube channel.
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