Research Fellow in Physical Pyrogeography
Dr Calum Cunningham is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Pyrogeography in the School of Natural Sciences, where he currently researches the effects of climate change on fire regimes, and in turn, ecosystems and societies. Calum’s wide-ranging interests include fire ecology, wildlife and conservation, animal movements, global change, invasive species, and wildlife-vehicle collisions. Calum’s research ultimately aims to provide information that can help us to better manage the natural world.
Calum obtained his PhD in 2020 for research that revealed a series of cascading effects of Tasmanian devil decline. Since then, Calum has completed three postdoctoral positions. At the University of Tasmania, he completed a short postdoc revealing the historical and projected explosion of Tasmania’s deer population. He then moved to the University of Washington for two years, where he jointly completed a Fulbright Fellowship studying the ecological effects of wolf recolonisation, and a NASA-funded postdoc studying the effects of climate change on snow and wildlife movements. In Calum’s current position at the University of Tasmania, he is investigating changes to Australian fire regimes and global fire disasters to provide knowledge that can help society prepare for a hotter and more flammable world.”
