Scott Foyster

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Research Technician

Biography

Scott has been a Research Technician at the Fire Centre for the past four years. In that time, he has worked across a range of projects including, forest fuel assessments, post-fire vegetation recovery surveys, fire-soil interactions, grape taint, plant flammability and low fire risk garden design.

Scott is currently the senior technician in the FireLab³ working across the plant flammability projects and various smoke exposure studies. He is heavily involved in the collection and testing of the assessing the flammability of both native and ornamental garden plants as well as the commissioning of Venn Exposure Lab equipment and facilitating research in this space.

Scott has a Bachelor of Science with Honours having completed his Honours on the role that soil nutrients play in the post-fire recovery of a south-western Tasmanian buttongrass-forest mosaic. You can find him most days in FireLab³ burning various plant samples to determine their flammability or testing various machines.

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Address

Fire Centre Research Hub, The University of Tasmania
Private Bag 55, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia

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Acknowledgement of Country:

‘The Fire Centre acknowledges the Palawa and Pakana people as the traditional and ongoing custodians of lutruwita (Tasmania), paying respect to their culture and identity which has been bound up with the Land, Sea, Waterways and Sky for generations. The Fire Centre commits to being culturally inclusive and respectful in our relationships”