Rachael H. Nolan graduated from Monash University in 2004 with an honors degree in Environmental Science. She then worked as a research assistant at Monash University. She received her PhD from The University of Melbourne in 2013. Before her Ph.D., she worked as a consultant ecologist/botanist. Rachael is currently based at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University. She works at the intersection of plant ecophysiology, fire ecology, and forest fire management. Her research bridges science, policy, and management, aiming to provide an early warning of the risk of bushfires and to predict their impacts on ecosystems under a changing climate.
Research Keywords & Expertise
Forest
Wildfire
Fire
fuel moisture
Evapotranspiration
ecophysiology
Forest carbon dynamics
Fingerprints
52%
Fire
40%
Forest
32%
Wildfire
15%
fuel moisture
6%
ecophysiology
5%
Evapotranspiration
Short Biography
Rachael H. Nolan graduated from Monash University in 2004 with an honors degree in Environmental Science. She then worked as a research assistant at Monash University. She received her PhD from The University of Melbourne in 2013. Before her Ph.D., she worked as a consultant ecologist/botanist. Rachael is currently based at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University. She works at the intersection of plant ecophysiology, fire ecology, and forest fire management. Her research bridges science, policy, and management, aiming to provide an early warning of the risk of bushfires and to predict their impacts on ecosystems under a changing climate.