Dr Phillipa McCormack is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide. Her project is titled: ‘Preparing Australia for a fiery future: Strategies to guide law reform’. In this work, Phil is investigating opportunities for legal and policy reform to facilitate climate adaptation as extreme fires become larger, more frequent and more destructive. Phil is also a research affiliate of Natural Hazards Research Australia and sits on a committee of the International Association of Wildland Fire.

I am a recent Bachelor of Science (Honours) graduate. I majored in Environmental Science/Ecology and Conservation Biology at Monash University. I am currently in the DEECA Science Graduate program at the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, working in Bushfire and Forest Services. This work is a project I have been working on with the Forest and Fire Ecosystem Science Unit.

Shawn Scott is a PhD Candidate at the University of South Australia and Ecologist with Bush Heritage Australia. He is primarily interested in disturbance ecology, with previous and ongoing projects involving the effects of anthropocentric fire regimes, landscape fragmentation, and pest species on native taxa, particularly herpetofauna.

Jana is a soil ecologist whose research focuses on using soil biology to investigate restoration, ecosystem management, and environmental stressors. She is passionate about better incorporating soil and all its underrepresented taxa into ecosystem management.

Jemma Dutton – National Strategy Manager – Land Management, Pest and Vermin, Training Area and Range Management – Defence Base Services, Ventia Bachelor of Environmental Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control Jemma is a highly experienced Environmental and Land Management Professional who has worked in the Defence industry for over 5 years after a previous experience in civil construction in both Australia and New Zealand. Giles Standish – National Lead – Natural Resource Management – Defence Base Services, Ventia Bachelor of Environmental Management, Certificate III in Horticulture, Certified in Quantified Tree Risk Assessment (QTRA) Giles is a highly experienced Environmental and Land Management Professional who has worked in the Defence industry for the past 7 years after a previous experience in the rail industry and mining in remote areas of South Australia. Daniel Foot-Connolly – Regional Environmental Manager Victoria/Tasmania – Defence Base Services, Ventia Bachelor of Environments and Landscape Management, Diploma of Landscape Design, Daniel is an experienced Environmental and Land Management Professional who has vast experience in Bushfire Mitigation, having managed the Bushfire Mitigation program in Victoria for the past 5 years, including managing a strategic controlled burning program for Defence.

Stephen is an ecologist with Bush Heritage Australia working across subtropical Central Queensland. He has a background in conservation biology and is particularly interested in the impacts and management of threatening processes.

Max Tibby is a PhD candidate in the Reptile Ecology and Environmental Disturbance (REED) Lab at the University of New England. Max's work centres on the intersection of fire ecology and thermal biology, specifically on how reptile species are constrained by a changed thermal landscape in the aftermath of fire events, and how these constraints drive population-level changes.

Dr Annabel Smith leads a fire ecology research group at University of Queensland. Her research examines biological and demographic processes that underlie how plant and animal species respond to variation in fire regimes. She works closely with land managers - both Indigenous and non-Indigenous - to improve fire management for biodiversity conservation.