📢 Last call for abstracts! Send yours soon to join this amazing conference. Details here: www.ibfra2026.org (deadline has been extended to February 15)

Fires on the Rise in the Far North with input from @jmccartygeo.bsky.social and the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social AMAP Arctic Climate Update Report published last year science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... @mikeflannigan.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @gwandaii.bsky.social

Rounding out 2025 with exciting news… I’m honoured to join the 2026–2030 Landsat Science Team! A full-circle moment for me after starting my career using Landsat for fire monitoring. #EOChat #GISChat Announcement from USGS + NASA here: www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...

Rounding out 2025 with exciting news… I’m honoured to join the 2026–2030 Landsat Science Team! A full-circle moment for me after starting my career using Landsat for fire monitoring. #EOChat #GISChat Announcement from USGS + NASA here: www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...

Great episode of the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social This Way Up podcast on The Arctic on Fire www.highnorthnews.com/en/arctic-fire featuring @gwandaii.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social @permafrostpathways.bsky.social @highnorthnews.bsky.social #wildfires #ArcticFire

Lots of active fires in the NWT this evening. Some pyrocu to the right of the gold line. Notice the south winds near the surface but as the column rises the winds shift to westerly

“Recent rain and cooler temperatures are bringing relief to Manitoba's wildfire zones. That's giving hope to evacuees still waiting to go home.” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... - CBC Manitoba #Manitoba #MBFire #Wildfires

🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous

The heat is coming to BC. An upper ridge will bring 7-10 days of hot dry weather (ECMWF 500 mb height anomaly map below). Forecast for Kamloops below with 6+ days 30C or higher. Fortunately, it does not look like much lightning activity until the ridge breakdown - this is a classic fire situation

Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @mparrington.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @jmccartygeo.bsky.social on climate change, Arctic and high-latitude wildfires: risk, permafrost processes, air quality and fire emissions; remote sensing data products; and monitoring.

First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social

Are you subscribed to our Open Jobs in Geospatial newsletter on LinkedIn? Every Friday, we publish a list of career opportunities crowdsourced from our community. Check out this week's list here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-j...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Check out our new white paper that (for the first time) systematically counts the wildland fire workforce: What Color is your Nomex? by Abigail Varner et al. Varner provides interesting insights into growing privatization of the workforce in the US. drive.google.com/file/d/1RcRO...

The Wildfire Commons will launch its community platform and FireForge in July 2025, featuring community datasets and more in a single, curated space. Stay connected about the launch by signing up at forms.gle/manchSbssWL7...

Women leaders in insect ecology (conservation, diversity) research are underrepresented. Discipline diversity improving but geographically dominated by usual places (Nth America, UK, Euro), slowly increasing in Australia, NZ, Sth America. Do you know any women researchers in Africa, Asia, Pacific?

Curious to learn more #geospatial skills? Check out this library of free courses from EO college! Topics include radar, remote sensing, and EO for zero hunger. Most are in English & some are in German. eo-college.org

For over four decades, the Canada/ESA Cooperation Agreement has led to mutually beneficial activities in a wide range of space activities. From protecting our planet, exploring our Universe, to enhancing our autonomies and resilience, ESA and Canada have been friends a long time, eh? #ESAxCanada🍁

Are you attending ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025? 🌎🔭🌌🌱 together with Women+ in Geospatial IEEE (GRSS) IDEA, geoinclusion 🌎🛰️ we are organizing a Networking Event 🚀🌌🔭 Mark your calendar for Weds 25th of June 19h! 🚀🎉 Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-... See you there 🤗

Numerous high intensity wildfires from NE BC to NW Ontario today. GOES-West Mid-ir loop below showing parts of SK and MB. White areas are intense fires, and red areas are extremely intense fires with some pyrocbs (geocolor loop coming).

With authors from across this globe, we did a few things in this paper worth calling out: 🔥 outline experiments for different fire regions 🔥 include ways to understand impacts of fire on air quality and how smoke can both warm and cool the atmosphere 🔥 highlight transparent ways to do this.

Boreal wildfires are, yet again, raging near historical smelting toxic metal pollution sources. The peatlands, forests, and lakes near Flin Flon MB have elevated toxic metals (e.g. Hg, As, Pb) that current wildfires can remobilize to our air, land, and water (similar to tinyurl.com/yv7usr6b). 1/2

Smoke aerosols from wildfires in Canda were this afternoon observed over Europe (Ireland, UK, Denmark, Germany and Poland) with the Copernicus S5P Satellite. The aerosol layer over the North Sea was at an altitude of 5-6 km. @knmi.nl @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #tropomi

With the recent rapid increases in #wildfires as we head into summer, a timely reminder of this excellent starter pack on #wildfire experts put together by @fkearns.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RmQuXhp #IIFF

It’s likely going to be an active wildfire season in boreal + Arctic North America *and* Eurasia. Normally one or the other. Both Canada & Siberia have early extreme fires & fire activity. Climate change will make this worse. Be prepared with evacuation plans, air purifiers, masks, & go bags.

Area burned over 1 million hectares in Canada and increasing. Second only to the 2023 in terms of area burned for this time of year. @ciffc.bsky.social ciffc.ca cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?typ...

Right now, there are wildland firefighters from Alaska in Manitoba fighting wildfires. www.npr.org/2025/05/30/n... Canada sent elite crews to assist with L.A. fires. This 🇺🇸-🇨🇦 cooperation is vital for human safety, economic survival, and ecological + natural resource protection.

Much of the smoke from the Manitoba fires has blown across the Hudson Bay and the North Atlantic towards Europe (mparrington.bsky.social has great shares on this). Folks in Great Lakes region of U.S. & Canada could be impacted if winds change. Wildfire smoke is toxic - please mask, stay indoors.

Come join our growing TRU Wildfire team. We are looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Fire Behaviour and Management (CRC-Tier II). Details - see link to TRU careers page below. tru.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posti...

🧪🛰️🔥 That white spot is the sun seen through a thick smoke clouds during the sunrise in Tadoule and Lynn lakes (Manitoba, yellow arrow). (airport webcams) @morganahcrowley.bsky.social

Thank you to En’owkin Center & Penticton Indian Band for hosting my Indigenous Ecology Lab @ sharing time & knowledges on Syilx lands with us today. Incredible wetland restoration project & so many good words shared! #ecology #traditionalecologicalknowledge #invasivespecies

Minnesota has 3 active wildfires in the northeast region near Lake Superior, with a 🚩 warning ending this evening. The same conditions that lead to spring fires in Canada are at play here in the southern boreal and hemiboreal forests. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

In memory of those who lost their lives 45 yrs ago today including USGS scientist David Johnston who “…gave his life in pursuit of scientific research on behalf of the US Geological Survey”. I often walked by this memorial on the USGS Menlo Park campus and thought of his work at Mt St Helens.

I know lots of awesome women in geospatial so it’s still kind of jarring to me when I see a group photo from an event and it’s 95% men. There’s not a simple solution to making things more balanced but it’s a good reminder for myself to keep amplifying and giving space to other women.

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR: “A wildfire burning near Whitbourne is now under control, says provincial forest fire duty officer Jeff Motty.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC Newfoundland and Labrador #NewfoundlandandLabrador #NLFire #Whitbourne #Wildfires

MANITOBA: “Mounties confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the bodies of two people, believed to be an adult man and woman, were recovered that morning in the area of Wendigo Road in the RM of Lac du Bonnet.” www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art... - CTV News Winnipeg #Manitoba #MBFire #Wildfires

Lots of active fires in Manitoba, NW Ontario and NE Minnesota this afternoon/early eveining. Mid-ir shows some very active fires (red/bright white) and significant smoke plumes as seen by GOES-East Geocolor.

Does anyone have the aerial detection tree surveys collected by the U.S. Forest Service? All years data go to 404 warnings: www.fs.usda.gov/r05/natural-... #Wildfires #Wildlands #Forests #GIS #Data #Geospatial #Science

Graduation cap: prescribed fire edition 🔥🌲

CANADA: “‘Out of control’ wildfire hits areas of N.L., evacuation orders in some parts of Edmonton” www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-... - CTV News #ABFire #Alberta #NewfoundlandANDLabrador #NLFire #NLwx #Wildfires

Wanna watch NASA Earth Science & NASA Airborne Science in action? PACE validation flights this week in Monterey Bay, California. NASA Ames Research Center’s Earth Science Division project, AirSHARP, is collecting data for oceans 🌊 products. Track real-time: airbornescience.nasa.gov/tracker/#pag...

AFE beat me to the post! Excited to share this paper. We lived through these massive wildfires in 2014 and 2015 and can now share some lessons from them, including areas that have started to reburn.

Interested in coming to Canada for a postdoc? The new Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program now has details (there's additional $$ to recruit Black postdocs to Canada). So if you're interested in geohazards, remote sensing, GIS, etc send me a note 🧪⚒️❄️🏔️🛰️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

It's timely that I re-post a tweet from July, 2022 (if you know why, you know), which I made soon after I left my first postdoc. Many empathized with me then and still do today. *the original tweet is gone b/c I quit Twitter, but it has been archived elsewhere: www.instagram.com/p/CgCRxO5OIG...

Absolutely horrific news to wake up to out of Vancouver. My heart goes out to the Filipino community.