The Royal Society of Tasmania's northern branch is hosting Professor David Bowman for the public lecture, Pyrogeographic thinking the key to tackling the global fire crisis.

Professor Bowman works in the field of pyrogeography - the study of the past, present, and projected distribution of wildfire.

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Professor Bowman said as the Royal Commission into the bushfires that occurred last summer showed, fire should not be thought about in a simple way as it was much more complicated.

"The point of pyrogeography is that it is an umbrella. It's a situation where you can think through all of the complexity, and most importantly come up with solutions," he said.

"You have to bring everybody into the conversation, and get people thinking about how we can solve the problem."

Professor Bowman said community education on fires was important, as was better fire-warning technology for smartphones.

He said climate change was making extreme events worse.

"We have to realise what used to work isn't likely to work because of climate change," he said.

"The bottom line is the lazy solution to this is more firebombers but you go bankrupt doing that ... they have a place but there is a bigger set of issues [to tackle]."

The lecture will be held on February 28, from 1.30pm in the meeting room at QVMAG, Inveresk. Alternatively, the lecture can be accessed via Zoom.

To register for Zoom visit rst.org.au. To register to attend in-person phone 0417 330 118 or email apcachris@gmail.com.