New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! "Limited conifer regeneration but widespread regeneration of aspen seedlings following the Cameron Peak fire, northwestern Colorado" by Sarah V. Carter and Sarah J. Hart #SNFECO 🔥Read it here: https://ow.ly/FIKY50YgGwR
Going into the weekend with a new grant from Jefferson County Parks and Open Space to continue our work on the impacts of fire-retardant on post fire vegetation and soils! Woohoo!
How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9
Map of Western US showing snow-water equivalent by basin. Most basins are well below the historical median with the Northwest, Great Basin, NorCal, and the Southwest all below 50% of historical averages.
OK, as we go into February, I'm officially worried about our snowpack numbers across the Western US. Less snow means dryer soils and fuels heading into the summer and I don't like fire years where the high country comes online early.
New article with @dovciak-lab.bsky.social, Jordon Tourville, and Jay Wason out in Journal of Biogeography: “Conspecific adult dominance interacts with microsite factors to influence forest regeneration patterns across elevation” doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
While likely not perfect, I have given all of my students multiple attempts on an exam (after providing brief feedback). My goal as instructor is to increase student comprehension and this seems to work. It is a lot of work though
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!
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
Come work with us in beautiful Santa Barbara!
Anyone out there have thoughts on how to remove duplicates from NIFC fire polygon data? There are a lot of observations that aren't 100% matches (spelling errors, slight name differences) but are clearly the same fire. I don't think using an erase in terra will work because data span multiple years
I hope I’m not the only one who has an ever growing folder of screenshots on my phone of recommended Google Scholar articles that I never look at again
I love e-bikes and all, but how hard is it to use a bell or say "on your left" when you're zooming on the bike trail in the morning?
If you're interested in working with me on a master's or PhD with questions related to genomics, biodiversity, and climate change, I'd love to chat about the CAMBIUM fellowship! There's an informational webinar next week and applications are due December 1st.
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!
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
reminds me of the southern most trees on the planet (nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...). The farthest south individual trees I wouldn't mind on my disc golf drives. The appendix has a good photo
Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...
You still have 5 days to apply for this awesome postdoc opportunity in the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab at the University of Colorado-Boulder! This could be your backyard!
REMINDER ‼️Early registration rates for #FireCon2025 end on Saturday, August 30! And, poster abstracts are due on Monday, August 25. To join us in New Orleans in December, see more details on afefirecongress.org 🔥
There's a huge disconnect between people's love for bees and their knowledge about them.
We explore this, and proposed pollinator conservation policies, in our most recent publication. Open access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains?
My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙
Apply by Nov 1!
Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This paper by Turbek and colleagues has been helpful to show my undergrads doi.org/10.1002/bes2...
Big Colorado River news: “Arizona will again go without 18% of its total Colorado River allocation, while Mexico loses 5%. The reduction for Nevada will stay at 7%. California won’t face any cuts because it has senior water rights and is last to lose in times of shortage.” apnews.com/article/colo...
POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY:
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!
We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...
Application review starts Aug 31
Excited to be heading to #ESA2025 soon! Let me know if you're going and would like to connect!
Important new paper out in FEM out about the limitations of carbon offsets as nature-based solutions
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A photo collage of the 2025 class of ESA's fellows and early career fellows. Click through the link for a full list of fellows and their individual bona fides.
🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...
Here are some tips from ESA on how to craft a public comment
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Not seeing much here but the USFWS proposed a new rule that could limit the scope of the Endangered Species Act. We have until May 19th to provide public comments.
Go to www.regulations.gov
Search FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034 (docket number for this rulemaking)
Leave a comment and let your voice be heard
2/2 Surprisingly, fine-root traits were not important predictors of the response of the understory plant community to a widespread spruce beetle outbreak. This could be a for a few reasons, discussed in-depth the paper.
