Alison Boak is risk analyst with the West Central Bushfire Risk landscape team based in Ballarat. Alison has a specialist role in operating the Phoenix bush fire simulation model to predict fire spread and identify areas where fuel management works can be undertaken to reduce the impact of bush fire on communities. This strategic work guides where on round fuel management operation take place to best reduce risk to the community.
On the Sunday morning, Alison spoke in the Focusing on risk session on Bushfire risk at landscape-scale.