This billabong on Gunaikurnai Country lies in the middle of this 1800s painting depicting a much more open landscape than today. The Gunaikurnai managed this country with #culturalburning and we are investigating how that management impacted bushfire activity.

My favourite part of the job, working with students from different universities. Itrax is running and some students can travel. We're back in the swing of things. ANSTO University of Adelaide Palaeontologists UOM Palaeoecology-Palaeoclimatology UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences #STEM #postgrad

The AQUA 2021 virtual conference is coming up this week! The conference is open to all, if you would like to join any sessions please register via the AQUA website aqua.org.au/conference/aqu… Here is the schedule of amazing Aus & NZ quaternary talks coming up on Day 1!

The third session will be a series of rapid-fire PICO talks again with a strong focus on #fire and #charcoal Agathe Lisé-Pronovost Lulu Duxbury Alice Laming Rebecca Ryan Anthony Dosseto

Great talks by Alice Laming @magee_harriet and @Cait27072758

So great to see all the Indigenous lands that participants of the AQUA virtual conference are Zooming in from today across Australia and NZ! Interactive and engaging presentation from Simon Connor too! #NAIDOCWeek2021

Don’t forget to submit an abstract for the Ecological Society of Australia 2021 conference in Darwin (November) by THIS FRIDAY July 23. We have a symposium at the conference: PF-FIRE: Past Fire Frequency and Intensity Reconstruction. See the link below to submit: kaigi.eventsair.com/PresentationPo…

.Tony Armstrong on Taylor Walkers' video apology to Robbie Young. "It is always on Indigenous people, always taking the high road and always having to extend the olive branch out and be the ones to help...even then in the wording we heard, Taylor will be the one leaning on Robbie."

Really rewarding to present today alongside Cait and Callum S on our current findings for our master’s theses PF-FIRE 🔥

There's so much fascinating work getting talked about today at #ESAus21 Alice Laming Alice Laming Fire activity, paleoecology, past landscape Using pollen and charcoal records to investigate changes in landscapes depicted in paintings. Loved the presentation Alice!

World-first Nottingham Geography research confirms Australia’s forests became catastrophic fire risk after British invasion Read the full story by Dr. Michela Mariani🇪🇺 and colleagues in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/world-first-re… Nottingham Research UoN Social Sciences

Excellent to hear from Wiradjuri man Michael Fletcher @theotheroad on neglect of Country + the rise of catastrophic bushfires in Australia: "Wilderness is is a cultural paradigm...this ideology underpins terra nullius. This country was considered wilderness." #FireClimate2022

Day 2 Stream 1 begins with discussions of Indigenous burning impacts on extreme fire. #FireClimate2022 Dr Michela Mariani Dr. Michela Mariani🇪🇺 Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN kicks off, sharing her work on how the disruption of cultural burning lead to unprecedented bushfire during #BlackSummer.

Great talk by Anthony Romano 🏳️‍🌈 providing an overview of the PF-FIRE project at #FireClimate2022 🎉🌸

Anthony Romano University of Melbourne looks at whether fires have always burned so hot: "A core pillar of our project is palaeoecology…we take sediment cores from water bodies and examine charcoal, which represents fire, and pollen, which represents vegetation." #FireClimate2022

Anthony Romano describes how landscapes have changed since colonisation as indigenous peoples have been dispossessed and cultural burning has been suppressed. #IAG2022 @GeogResearch

"there is no such thing as wilderness" a beautiful radio piece for all environmentalists by Wiradjuri man A/Prof Michael Shawn-Fletcher @theotheroad for Ockham's Razor and ABC Science abc.net.au/radionational/…

NEW: The Curse of Conservation: Empirical Evidence Demonstrating That Changes in Land-Use Legislation Drove Catastrophic Bushfires in Southeast Australia in Fire MDPI OPEN ACCESS! Alice Laming @theotheroad Dr. Michela Mariani🇪🇺 Dr S. Yoshi Maezumi Patricia Gadd mdpi.com/2571-6255/5/6/…