New paper led by Subham Banerjee, classifying coastal redwoods from Sentinel satellite data and mapping them across their entire natural range (true positive rate: 89%, false positive rate: 17%), all in GEE so that maps can be updated with new field training points and imagery over time!
Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to
develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐
Applications due Feb 5
Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1
Headlights these days are too bright
I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉
gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
Looking for a postdoc with a specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions.
The fellow will work at the intersection of forest ecology and environmental policy, investigating the effectiveness of forest carbon offset programs
title: wood you believe it? Aspen interactions with fire and wildfire spread in the southwestern USA. Webinar, November 20, 2:00-3:00 pm MST body: Have you wondered how aspen interacts with fire, or how fire managers approach aspen forests during fire planning and suppression? Join us for a webinar with presenters Matt Harris, Max Cook, and Trevor Carter where we dive into various aspects of fire x aspen interactions. This webinar is eligible for 1.5 Category 1 Continuing Forestry Education (CFE) credits through the Society of American Foresters. Learn about: the ability of aspen to slow fire growth and act as a firebreak, Fire radiative power/burn severity in aspen forests of the Southern Rockies, The relationship between stand composition and suppression strategies: whether fire lines are more likely to hold when built through aspen. Presented by the Joint Fire Science Program. Registration is required. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/rda9cb77STC-2EFkFdRtxA
I'm stoked to be able to talk alongside several talented scientists about aspen and fire management! Join us on November 20th 2:00-3:30pm MST.
Registration is required!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
One of the most important stories of this fire season -- how USFS repeatedly dragged it's feet every step of the way to prevent prescribed burning in the Teakettle Forest, which as a result burned to a crisp in the Garnet fire. An avoidable tragedy. 🌎 fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
Today we visited our research site in a CALFIRE demonstration forest, where the forest has been actively managed for uneven aged structure. See below, site of a successful prescribed burn done in June!
The first time I did field work in Big Basin was 14 years ago. I haven’t had any projects there since 2019, and then in 2020 the forest burned at high severity in the CZU fire. Today as part of a new project on management, fire, and carbon in redwood forests, I got to see big basin post-fire.
Oh man, this is just heartbreaking to read
Looks neat!! Will have to check this one out
Congrats Katherine!
definitely counts! That’s great to hear. Thanks for sharing
Hi bluesky, have any of my followers published in the journal Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, and willing to comment on the experience (timely, reasonable, constructive?) My group is considering submitting there for the first time and I’m interested in others’ experiences there. Thanks!
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Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".
Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
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Map of the United States showing Forest Service research lab locations as well as experimental forests and other offices.
There are 6 Forest Service research stations that also manage research labs, 80 experimental forests, a forest product laboratory, & the International Institute of Tropical Forestry. This is the most extensive natural resource research operation in the world--a hidden crown jewel of our country. 2/
Postdoctoral position offer in sedaDNA in our team to work on insect outbreaks in forests!! 🌲🐛🧬
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Please check out our new review in BioScience!
We describe how spatial climate analogs can be used in climate change research, impact assessment, decision-making, and communication.
#MacroEcology
#ClimateChange
#GlobalChange
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Interested in fire ecology & forests? Working in the Cascade Mountains?
the Harvey Lab at UW-SEFS is hiring 6 full-time field assistants + 2 full-time field crew leads on projects exploring forest resilience to wildfire, reburns, & management.
Application review begins May 2. Links below...
So grateful for the amazing members of the Francis lab, @colinmast.bsky.social @lilianvallet.bsky.social, Ashley Zwick and Subham Banerjee (not pictured here)! So much creativity, quantitative thinking, and geospatial fire science data wizardry. Working with these folks is the best.
I love this 😂. secret superpower: I’m old
😂 elucidate needs to go
Congrats Doug’s fish nibblers!! Well deserved!
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Our team just published a new paper in Global Change Biology 🧪🔥
The title succinctly describes the main take home message, but here's the deal:
We produced gridded, fine-scale (resolution = 30m) daily fire progression maps for 623 wildfires in the SW US using satellite fire data.
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Multiple faculty positions available in our department at Trinity College Dublin, including plant conservation, biogeography and biodiversity genomics. #sciencejobs 🧪🌎🌾
4/4 Fir engraver and western pine beetle are less well-studied than other bark beetles such as mountain pine beetle or spruce beetle, but have caused substantial tree mortality in drought-affected forests in the last decade. Our results call for more attention on fir engraver and western pine beetle
3/4 A key result was the finding that large areas of forest in the western US are potentially at risk of tree mortality by fir engraver and, to a lesser extent, western pine beetle.
2/4 Unsurprisingly, host basal area had a positive effect on probability of mortality for all eight bark beetle species we studied.
1/4 We have a new paper in Forest Ecology and Management! We modeled bark beetle caused tree mortality as a function of host basal area for eight bark beetle species across the western US. With Jeff Hicke, Chang Gyo Jung, and @mhurteau.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We are getting caught up on research briefs. This one, from Kevin Willson's first PhD chapter, summarizes the influences of abiotic factors on ponderosa pine dispersal distance.
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