Covey Associates is highly experienced in providing Bushfire Management & Ecology services. Our unique and award-winning team have many years of experience managing, modelling and preventing catastrophic bushfires across our country and the globe.
We employ the latest bushfire simulation software to provide a range of bushfire analytics, including CSIRO SPARK and our own fire weather software called Ember.
What We Do
Covey Associates is a Bushfire Management & Ecology services leader with extensive experience and an award-winning team. Our experts have spent years managing and modelling bushfires across Australia. We utilise the latest bushfire simulation tools, including CSIRO SPARK, QGIS, and our proprietary fire weather software, Ember and Inferno, to deliver comprehensive bushfire analytics.
Bushfire Analysis and Modelling
Bushfire impact analyses and fire behaviour modelling are often critical project components. It is vitally vital for project stakeholders to understand the risks associated with bushfires. We can model a range of scenarios with high accuracy. Our approach enables us to communicate these risks effectively and develop robust mitigation and risk management strategies. We work across various scales and industries, from urban development and land management to the energy sector. Our modelling includes radiant heat flux, prediction, ensemble fire modelling and historical simulation analysis.
Fire Weather Analysis
Weather is one of the five primary drivers of fire behaviour. It's crucial to analyse fire weather to understand potential fire behaviour. By leveraging Big Data, we analyse decades of weather data to determine return periods for the fire danger index, the fire behaviour index, and the seasonality and profiles of fire weather across Australia.
Fuel Surveys
Our bushfire team specialises in fuel characterisation, employing destructive and visual assessment techniques. We have conducted hundreds of fuel assessments, focusing on metrics essential for fire behaviour modelling and fuel management. Covey is the steward of one of Queensland's largest scientifically curated fuel data sets.
Expert Witness Services
We have handled numerous projects involving complex legal matters related to bushfire services. We focus on delivering the highest technical advice and reporting standard, prioritising accuracy and reliability. With a thorough understanding of the expert witness process, we strive to ensure timely and efficient resolutions.
Prescribed Burn Planning
Covey can plan and arrange prescribed burns on your behalf. Prescribed burns are a simple way to mitigate the bushfire risk by removing the fuel. It is an old indigenous treatment that we have adopted - because it works.
Fire Management Plans
Based on our simulation modelling, Covey develops cost-effective fire management plans and strategies to support local government risk analysis and policy and assist land developers and infrastructure partners in safeguarding their assets.
Our Team
Our bushfire consultants are capable of simulating a vast array of bushfires, recreating historical burns and modelling and assessing the risk potential of a bushfire in any location. We carry out fire behaviour analysis and use fire weather tools, techniques and applications which help us with land use planning, designing fire scenarios and land management.
We work on regional and local bushfire risk projects to provide scientifically robust and practical solutions to bushfire management problems.
Our team is experienced and capable of developing new techniques, including fire behaviour modelling, radiant heat flux modelling, fire weather analysis and development of on-ground fire activity documentation and specifications.
Our team has tertiary level qualifications in bushfire management as well as extensive fire ground level experience.
Marzia Coslan
Bushfire Team Leader
Marzia is the Bushfire Team Leader at Covey, with advanced skills in GIS, bushfire analysis, and modelling techniques. She excels in bushfire field assessment, including both destructive and visual fuel assessments. Marzia is a qualified environmental practitioner and firefighter. Marzia has delivered some of Covey's most innovative bushfire projects.
Anthony Power
Bushfire Technical Lead
Anthony founded the Covey Bushfire Team and specialises in fire behaviour, modelling, and weather analysis. With expertise in bushfire research, GIS, landscape design, and prescribed burn planning, he has led numerous complex and innovative large-scale bushfire analysis projects across Australia. Anthony is also a qualified Town Planner, Firefighter, and Registered Landscape Architect.
