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Sarah McColl-Gausden

@sarahmccg.bsky.social

Postdoc researcher | wildfire ๐Ÿ”ฅ| ecology ๐ŸŒฟ | restoration ๐ŸŒณ. Living and working on Wurundjeri country. She/her

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1/4 - Check our new paper in @ijwildlandfire.bsky.social

We use MOEA optimisation to support decisions for #wildfire risk reduction (e.g., where should we use prescribed burning to reduce risk?). Optimisation improves fuel treatment plan effectiveness by 80โ€“280% and adapts to changing objectives.

31.10.2025 00:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Interdisciplinary challenges for wildfire futures Wildfire has shaped many ecosystems across Earth, and humans have in turn shaped fire and its interactions within a range of socio-ecological systems.โ€ฆ

New paper out! This is a big, interdisciplinary reflection on the types of challenges that are likely to come our way in the context of wildfires in the next 50 years. Was fun to write this one. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

31.07.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have you ever been confused by the way the same fire term (e.g fire severity) is used to represent a whole range of metrics๐Ÿ”ฅ? Particularly if you are new to the field? In this piece we emphasise the need to careful explain and link fire metrics to relevant ecological mechanisms. Hope it's useful!

16.07.2025 22:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pursuit - Using โ€˜videogame ecologyโ€™ to understand the climate crisis in our forests
YouTube video by The University of Melbourne Pursuit - Using โ€˜videogame ecologyโ€™ to understand the climate crisis in our forests

Here is a link directly to the video game example (thanks to the unimelb media team ! ) youtu.be/NE7d5oDhnCQ?...

17.12.2024 23:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'Videogame ecologyโ€™ can help us understand the climate crisis in our forests New University of Melbourne is using computer game models to โ€˜challengeโ€™ Australian plant species to survive future climate and fire scenarios

Final chapter of my PhD has just been published (only a few years late ๐Ÿ˜ƒ). Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
For a quicker read, check out this article which includes a super cute retro video game example ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ”ฅ. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/vVi...

17.12.2024 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Funding research for economic return sounds good โ€“ but thatโ€™s not how science really works The Marsden Fund was set up to support pure research. Diverting half of it to fund applied research undermines New Zealandโ€™s potential to generate ideas that underpin commercial success.

The Marsden Fund was set up to support pure research. Diverting half of it to fund applied research undermines New Zealandโ€™s potential to generate ideas that underpin commercial success.

10.12.2024 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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That's a wrap on the first two days of ESA2024 ๐ŸŽ‰ This might be our biggest conference in history, with over 1,300+ attendees and over 900+ presentations- but it's not over yet! Bring on more connection, sharing and celebration ๐Ÿ’ช

#ESAus2024 #ecology #conference

10.12.2024 07:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Albanese intervenes to scupper Plibersekโ€™s negotiations with the Greens Tanya Plibersekโ€™s negotiations with the Greens over a major environmental reform were close to bearing fruit. But the prime minister halted talks.

Albanese โ€œhas personally intervened to scupper a dealโ€ with the Greens over an environmental reform promised last electionโ€ฆ circumventing his own environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, who had been negotiating โ€œfor months and was close to striking a dealโ€.
Yikes.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

27.11.2024 04:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 295    ๐Ÿ” 150    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 61    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42
Vertical image of eucalypt trees with a shrubby understory and 2 people wearing hard hats.

Vertical image of eucalypt trees with a shrubby understory and 2 people wearing hard hats.

Green shrub with bipinnate leaves and rounded seed pods. Acacia terminalis.

Green shrub with bipinnate leaves and rounded seed pods. Acacia terminalis.

Bright purple flower with 3 large petals covered in tiny hairs. Fringe Lily- Thysanotus tuberosus

Bright purple flower with 3 large petals covered in tiny hairs. Fringe Lily- Thysanotus tuberosus

Pretty nice to be back in the bush for a couple of weeks ๐ŸŒฟ
This work is looking at forest regeneration post Black Summer with a range of previous disturbances (fire ๐Ÿ”ฅ or harvesting ๐Ÿชต) in low elevation mixed forests around East Gippsland.

19.11.2024 09:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0