Participating in the public dialogue about the deadly wildfire of July 23, 2018 in Attica, Greece.

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The IAWF annually awards a range of scholarships to students, scholars, and researchers working in the wide range of interdisciplinary fields that increase our knowledge and management of wildfires and bushfires. Dr. Miltiadis Athanasiou was awarded the IAWF Doctoral Student Scholarship in 2014. Read more about what he has been up to since as a scientist, a teacher and a fire fighter.

 

 

 

Increasing fire management effectiveness in prevention, pre-suppression planning and fire suppression by training the trainers, the decision makers and the citizens through interactive workshops.

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View the embedded image gallery online at:
https://m-athanasiou.gr/en/gallery-2.html#sigProIdb8b4bd5112

 

 

Teaching the "Topography & Geoinformatics in Disaster Relief and Rescue Operations" Course, in the Hellenic Fire Academy since 2016.

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On a fire assignment in 2017, with the Special Units of Disaster Response, Hellenic Fire Corps and volunteer firefighters.

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Giving lectures at fire stations across Greece, teaching both professional and volunteer firefighters about the topics of wildfire behaviour, hazards, human factors, safety and health of the fire line, and forest firefighting tactics.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2017. “Wildfire behaviour: Hazards and safety during firefighting” and “Firefighting accidents in Greece and Southern Europe”. Lectures to the firefighters of the Fire Stations of Amfissa, Itea, Polydroso and Lidoriki, February 10, 2017, Amfissa, Greece.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2016. "Citizens and Wildfires: self protection and prevention".

Lecture to citizens of Kifisia Municipality, Civil Protection of Kifisia, Attica, June 28, 2016.

Lecture to citizens of Philothei-Psychiko Municipality, OKAPA, Emergency and Safety Commitee, Attica, June 10, 2016.

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Lecture to citizens of Acharnes Municipality, Parent-Teacher Association of 7th Primary School of Acharnes, Attica, May 30, 2016.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2016. “Wildfire behaviour: Hazards, safety and tactics during firefighting” and “Firefighting accidents in Greece and Southern Europe”. Lectures to the Volunteer Forest Firefighters & Rescuers of Ekali, Attica, May 22, 2016.

 

Athanasiou Μ. 2016. “Wildfire behaviour: Hazards, safety and tactics during firefighting”, “Firefighting accidents in Greece and Southern Europe” and "Methods for Forecasting wildfire behaviour in Greece". Lectures to the Volunteer Team OMIKRON and Wildfire field training, May, 13, 14 and 15, 2016, Chios, Greece.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2016. “Wildfire behaviour: Hazards, safety and tactics during firefighting” and “Firefighting accidents in Greece and Southern Europe”. Lectures to the Volunteer Team of Papagos - Cholargos Municipality, to “Delta” and EP.OM.E.A. M.K. Volunteer Teams (Fire Academy Training Program for the General Secretariat of Civil Protection Volunteer Teams) and Wildfire field training, May 6, 7 and 8, 2016, Hymettus mountain, Athens, Greece.

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Field training with the Volunteers of E.DAS.A., April 23 and 24, 2016, Parnitha, Greece.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2016. “Wildfire behaviour: Hazards, safety and tactics during firefighting” and “Firefighting accidents in Greece and Southern Europe”. Lectures to the Volunteer Team of Forest Fire Protection Volunteers of Attica (E.DAS.A.) April 6, 2016, Athens, Greece.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2016. “Wildfire behaviour: Hazards, safety and tactics during firefighting” and “Firefighting accidents in Greece and Southern Europe”. Lectures to the Volunteer Teams of Karystos, Marmari and Styra and Wildfire field training, April 1 - 3, 2016, Marmari, Southern Evia, Greece.

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Athanasiou, M. and G. Xanthopoulos 2015. Wildfires in Mediterranean shrublands, phrygana and grasslands, in Greece: Comparisons of observed fire behavior to BehavePlus predictions. Presentation in the 17th  Hellenic Forestry Conference, October 5, 2015, Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2015. “Wildfire behaviour: Hazards and safety during firefighting” and “Firefighting accidents in Greece and Southern Europe”. Lectures to the 1st Fire Station of Athens, August 3, 2015, Athens, Greece.

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Athanasiou M. 2015. “Wildfire behaviour”, presentation in the Seminar “Protecting the forest”. Management Authority of mount Aenos, July 24, 2015, Cephalonia, Greece.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2015. "Wildfire behaviour, safety and firefighting tactics". Lecture to the Volunteer Team of Papagos - Cholargos Municipality, the Delta Volunteer Team and the Armed Forces Reserves Association Volunteer Team, May 30, 2015, Athens, Greece.

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Xanthopoulos G., Athanasiou M. and Zirogiannis N. 2015. "Use of fire for wildfire suppression during the fires of 2007 in Greece". In book of abstracts of the 2nd International Conference on Fire Behaviour and Risk. 26 - 29 May 2015. Alghero, Sardinia, Italy. Abstract p. 111.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2015. "The mega-fires of 2007 in Ileia: Findings and proposals for the future". International Workshop: Large wildfires. Prevention, suppression, restoration and lessons learned from the mega-fires of 2007 in Ileia, eight years later. Hellenic Fire Corps, Municipality of Ancient Olympia, I.Ο.Α. Conference Center, May 19 - 20 2015, Ancient Olympia.

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Athanasiou, M., and G. Xanthopoulos. 2014. "Wildfires in Mediterranean shrubs and grasslands, in Greece: In situ fire behaviour observations versus predictions", presentation in the 7th International Conference on Forest Fire Research: Advances in Forest Fire Research, 17 - 20 November 2014, Coimbra, Portugal.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2014. “Wildfire behaviour: Hazards and safety during firefighting” and “Firefighting accidents in Greece and Southern Europe”. Lectures to the Handcrew of the 6th Special Unit of Disaster Response, Greek Fire Dept. (6th E.M.A.K.), September 22, 2014, Patras, Greece.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2014. “Wildfire behaviour: Hazards and safety during firefighting” and “Firefighting accidents in Greece and Southern Europe”. Lectures to the Volunteer Team of Papagos - Cholargos Municipality and Wildfire field training, August 30 & 31, 2014, Athens, Greece.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2014. “Wildfire behaviour: Firefighting hazards and safety”. Lecture to the Volunteer Team of Papagos - Cholargos Municipality and the “Delta” Volunteer Team. Fire Academy Training Program for the General Secretariat of Civil Protection Volunteer Teams, May, 2014.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2014. “Management operational plans and wildfires spread simulations in Kaiafa lake protected area and Zakynthos island”. Presentation, 22nd ArcGIS Software Users Meeting, Marathon Data Systems, May 8 - 9, 2014, Athens, Greece.

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Athanasiou Μ. 2013. “Forest fires scenarios for mount Parnonas and the burned area of the fire of August 23, 2007”, presentation in the Workshop of the project “Restoration of Pinus nigra forests on Mount Parnonas (GR2520006) through a structured approach”. Management Authority of mount Parnonas, May 15, 2013, Sparta, Greece.

Layman's report for the project LIFE PINUS

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Athanasiou M. 2012. “Forest fires scenarios for mount Aenos National Park of Cephallonia, Greece”, presentation in the Workshop “50 years of protection of mount Aenos National Park – 10 years of existence of Management Authority of mount Aenos National Park”. Management Authority of mount Aenos, December 16, 2012, Cephalonia, Greece.

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Athanasiou, M., and G. Xanthopoulos. 2010. “Fire behaviour of the large fires of 2007 in Greece”, presentation in the 6th International Conference on Forest Fire Research, November 15-18, 2010, Coimbra, Portugal.

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Documentary on 2007 mega fires in Peloponnese, Greece

«The Fire Factor» is a documentary that investigates the causes of the fatal 2007 fires in the Peloponnese. Scientists, specialists but, most importantly, the people who were in the front-line of the fight to put out the fires, talk about the catastrophe and its causes.The film draws two basic conclusions: firstly, that the Greek forest protection service needs urgent re-organisation and that, since 2007, almost nothing has changed. The 2009 fire in northeast Attica is a dramatic illustration that the huge problems and shortfalls of the forest protection system, remain.

 

“Prometheus” Natural Disaster Response and Relief Volunteer Team (2000 - 2003)

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