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Rohan Fisher

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North Aust NRM/fire scientist - supporting best practice land management. Landscape knowledge visualisation and sim innovation. http://linktr.ee/rohanfisher

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · Jan 28

An analysis by month over the last 25 years shows 🔥distribution across Australia's most flammable landscapes. Fire is not bad for the Australian environment, fire IS the environment. Fire is not good, nor bad, it is where we live. It is our responsibility to engage with it across our vast continent.

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 43m

NEW NAFI YEAR TO DATE QUICK REPORTING SITE.
Launching today, a new site that pulls in the NAFI burnt area mapping across 80% of Australia and provides a summary of what's going on in your patch.
ACCESS is here nafi-bam-data-map.lkvl.net

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 2d

Dry lightning storms ripped through the Great Sandy, Gibson, and Tanami deserts a few days ago. Constrained by low fuel and previous burns, these desert fires are mostly small and really quite beautiful. Sentinel 2 imagery from Sunday.

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 3d

However resilient country can be built, fuels at scale can be managed. Fund the tools to monitor fuels, fund the rangers on country. Watch these fires, especially their behavior related to previous burning, on the NAFI Moblie app.

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 3d

750,000ha burnt across the NT over the last 5 days! This clip from yesterday - from the excellent Zoom Earth app. Mostly remote lightning strike fires. These fires can not be fought, these ignitions can't be controlled.

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 4d

Kicking off wars is a bit of an obsession of the U. S. The new domestic focus will fit the MAGA ethos of keeping things a home. Might also make the rest of the world slightly less fearful of US aggression abroad...

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 4d

100% ... Facism coming home. One thing to respect about this administration is a degree of honesty in their application of violence, no pretense. The delusion that bugs me is folks blaming Trump. He is simply symptomatic of a system that has long be a violent pesudo-democracy.

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 5d

Acknowledging the Blitzortung and NAFI mobile apps for these data.

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 5d

A shit-ton of lightning strikes through remote Tanami and Great Sandy deserts resulting in a similarly shit-ton of ignitions. Will be keeping a close eye on them over the coming days.

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 5d

With potentially massive fires sparking up in the Central NT and WA deserts over the last few days I chucked this video together showing how to monitor their spread and asses their tradgectory using the North Australian Fire Information NAFI mobile app. Available on both Android and Apple

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 8d

So many mind blowing pieces...

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 8d

*wish

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 8d

I just qish NT gov would recognise the real asset of value in the NT ia the people, the culture, the creativity - not the minerals not the gas... wake up to the reality that AI will never replace...

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 8d

Yolgnu Power exhibition is a ripper. So so much power! NT art power house of the nation! Go see it if you get the chance. NSW art gallery...

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 10d

IPCC reports #renewables now 10 times more efficient than new #nuclear at #climate mitigation.
92.5% new power generation capacity added worldwide in 2024 was from renewables - with new nuclear nowhere.
New nuclear vastly over-cost and over-time.

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 11d

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The Clash - I'm so Bored with the U.S.A. (Official Audio)

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 11d

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The Clash - I'm so Bored with the U.S.A. (Official Audio)

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 11d

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 14d

I had great fun yapping away about fire and complexity with Rick Hind yesterday on ABC radio Darwin. 1:21 in . A long sprawling chat, kept thinking we were done before getting another question. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 20d

Looks boring

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 21d

On the Tiwi Islands this week, working with the Tiwi Junior Ranger program, delivering 3D tactile 🔥education models to Tiwi students. The models engage the kids - provide a platform for Tiwi to discuss their sophisticated work on country. The next generation thinking about fire and land management.

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Mark Ranger @markr4nger.bsky.social · 23d

Oak‑savanna birds thrive after fire, a new study found.

Dozens of species preferred areas that burned in the 2018 Mendocino Complex Fire over unburned areas. So far, these ecosystems are proving resilient to increasingly severe wildfires, the authors concluded. 🧪🌿🌎

Mendocino County’s Burned Oak Savannas Attract Birds – KneeDeep Times

A new study has found that birds are thriving in the nutrient rich oak savannas that burned in the 2018 Mendocino Complex Fire.

www.kneedeeptimes.org

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 23d

Yes - Yikes!

Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 23d

Absolutely massive fire racing through country S.E. of Broome at the moment. This (s2)image captured yesterday..visible are attempts to buffer burn ahead of the front. Latest data suggest it has jumped containment and is continuing to rip south-west. Follow it in real time on www.firenorth.org.au

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · 28d

I wish I was here;

hypestudies.bsky.social @hypestudies.bsky.social · Sep 4

We’re excited to share the final programme for the first Hype Studies Conference: (Don’t) Believe the Hype?!

📅 10–12 September 2025
📍 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
🌐 Fully hybrid & free

👉 Full schedule:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...

👉 All speakers & abstracts:
hypestudies.org/media/pages/...

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Rohan Fisher @rohanfisher.bsky.social · Sep 8

Everybody else says agenda driven idiot should shut the fuck up....