Team Profile
Jeremy Russell-Smith
Professor Jeremy Russell-Smith is a consultant ecologist with 35 years’ experience in northern Australia. He coordinates fire research programs for the Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research and works on other natural resource management projects in South-East Asia. He has an abiding interest in the ecology, biogeography and management of savannas, monsoon rainforests and sandstone heaths. He often works with Indigenous people on landscape and resource management issues. Professor Russell-Smith has authored many articles and books on traditional approaches to fire management, fire ecology, and savanna burning greenhouse gas accounting methodologies, and is a leading global expert in this field.