Community safety sectors Academia
Last updated:18 June 2024
Every sector we work with is managing the rapid acceleration of knowledge and capabilities within community safety. We help our collaborators manage this growth by contributing data, tools, applications, and guidance needed to prepare for the future.
Working together
Our community safety team collaborate with the academic sector to:
- Conduct research to address current and future community safety needs of all sectors
- Connect research centres of excellence with end-users to drive stronger outcomes
- Sustain and enhance our science excellence, and to translate research to actionable data and technology solutions aligned to government priorities
- Glean new insights from observational data to better predict future hazards and their impacts, and to improve and refine future mitigation strategies
- Discover innovative approaches to collecting impact data in a cost-effective way
- Further the quantification and communication of uncertainty for a more risk-informed society
- Gain a deeper understanding to quantifying the socio-economic benefit of mitigation strategies and analysing the policy and financial triggers to achieve enhanced resilience
Learn more about our research and innovation collaborations geared towards improving the preparedness, response and recovery cycle of natural hazard events
Top products
Elevation Information System (Elvis)
Use the national portal of elevation datasets which describe the shape and height of Australia’s landforms and depth of the seabed.
AusSeabed Marine Data portal
Explore seafloor mapping products, such as bathymetry, backscatter, side scan sonar data, as well as a suite of analytical assessment tools, across Australia’s marine jurisdiction prior to downloading.
DEA Coastlines
Satellite data with tidal modelling combined to map typical annual locations of mean sea level coastlines since 1988.
Tropical Cyclone Risk Model Software (TCRM)
Estimate average recurrence interval wind speeds and potential tropical cyclone wind hazard.
Australian Neotectonic Features Database (NFD)
Visit our inventory of over 370 Australian intraplate faults, fault-related folds and other features relating to earthquakes large enough to deform the Earth’s surface.
Case study Retrofitting Melbourne’s buildings to withstand earthquakes
Cost-effective mitigation strategy development for building-related earthquake risk.
Talk to us about your challenges
Contact us
To find out how our natural hazard information and research could help you, please call the Community Safety team on 1800 800 173 or email hazards@ga.gov.au
Collaborate with us
To discuss how we can work together to manage the impacts of Australia's natural hazards, please call the Community Safety team on 1800 800 173 or email hazards@ga.gov.au
Work with us
To find out more about joining Geoscience Australia's Community Safety team, please email clientservices@ga.gov.au or visit our careers portal