Postdoctoral Fellow
Fire ecology, landscape simulation modelling
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 4107
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: Karen.King@anu.edu.au

In 1991 Karen graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Medical Laboratory Science from the University of Canberra. From 1991-2000 she worked as a Technical Officer with the Developmental Physiology Group at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU. Karen graduated with a Graduate Diploma in Resource and Environmental Science at the ANU in 2000. In February, 2004, she completed a PhD at the ANU titled 'Simulating the effects of anthropogenic burning on patterns of biodiversity'.

Professional Activities

I commenced a Postdoctoral Fellow position with the Bushfire CRC Project B1.2 in February 2004. The objective of this project is to investigate managing bushfire risk to identified values in a changing world. Four Australian study landscapes have been selected for investigation in this project - south west Tasmania, Southern Highlands, Sydney basin, and arid Australia. These represent a diversity of ecosystems and human value systems (eg property, biodiversity, water and air quality). My work involves using computer simulation modelling to explore fire regime dynamics, and to investigate the effects of a range of management options (alternate combinations of prescribed burning and suppression variables) on fire dynamics in these landscapes.