🧪🌍🔥⚕️ Inter and intra-continental smoke transport impacts air quality and therefore, human health. A single bad fire season can have significant impacts in terms of premature death. A report on the 2023 fire season in Canada www.nature.com/articles/s41... (h/t @aberron.bsky.social )

New in Global Change Biology: Hydroclimatic rebound—wet periods fueling vegetation growth, followed by rapid drying—drives extreme fires in California’s non-forested biomes. Findings improve early warning & fire forecasts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.

New preprint alert 📢 We present a dataset of modern hydrochemistry, macrophyte diversity, and discuss the relationships to the surrounding terrestrial environment from 66 climate-sensitive lakes from Yakutia💧 Available for open discussion at: doi.org/10.5194/egus... #permafrost #alaas #sedDNA

Today I am joining @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher! Looking forward to evaluating long-term boreal #wildfires and #vegetation responses to past climatic changes, contributing paleoecological insights to an effort of improving ESMs and their future projections! 🔥🌲

The fact that this publication is fully published online right now is wild. Publishers need to be held accountable for failing to prevent AI sci-slop like this being published in their journals. It undermines any legitimacy whatsoever.

"We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is ... why we have to act really fast to cut down emissions,” says @rahmstorf.bsky.social in @theguardian.com's report on a new #AMOC study: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brief reminder that you can find a truly #decentralized platform, with no central authority able to just lock you out, over at #Mastodon: joinmastodon.org #Mississippi

Europe's wildfires worst on record - with a month of the burning season to go - More than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and toxic air pollutants #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

1/4 Please see our new paper just published in Global Change Biology: “Intensifying fire season aridity portends ongoing expansion of severe wildfire in western US forests”. 🧪🌍🔥

Very nice reporting on Portugal's leading role in adapting to more severe #wildfire seasons. Recommendation to watch (airing times in linked article) 🔥🌍🧪

Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

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

No #fieldwork this year, so time to look back. 2017 was my fieldwork at the #Batagay Megaslump in #Siberia, the largest known retrogressive thaw slump on earth. A prime example of abrupt #permafrost thaw that exposes ancient permafrost. In two photographs, see ellipses with people for scale.

Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe @climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social rdcu.be/evJkX #ClimateChange #Wildfires

Very glad to see this hot 🔥 journal! It fills what for me always felt like a gap in the fire research journal landscape. Happy to follow along and consider for future publications! #pyrogeography #wildfires 🌏🧪⚒️

I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x

1/4 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. 🧪🔥

Amidst all the news today, I missed that congressmen from Wisconsin and Minnesota sent Canada a letter demanding that they prevent wildfire smoke from entering the USA

It's been fantastic at the @pages-ipo.bsky.social Open Science Meeting 2025 in #Shanghai! While it had to be online in 2021 due to the pandemic, we could now meet many great researchers in person. Find a preprint for the study I presented here: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #GeoSky #OSM2025 🧪⚒️🌏🔥

Arrived to #Beijing together with Izabella Baisheva for a research visit at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences - looking forward to the collaboration and the next few months! Thanks to CAS-PIFI and the Helmholtz Association for enabling this visit! 🧪🌏⚒️ #GeoSky

We were interviewed about our PhD hats by the fantastic @mack-baysinger.bsky.social! Check out the Cryosphere Caps miniseries - thanks for the opportunity to discuss these lovely hats! 🧪🌎⚒️ #wildfires #permafrost #yakutia #dog

Timely recommendation: this great documentary on deep-sea #seabed #mining, which was shown at #EGU 2024 GeoCinema: youtu.be/sFVBqg41jms?... ⚒️🌎🧪

We stand united with US academia in defence of science! The Humboldt Foundation is deeply concerned about the growing threats to #AcademicFreedom in the USA. 📜 Our president Robert Schlögl calls for global solidarity to protect the science systems:

We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.

📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.

A lot of great fire ecology content here! 🔥

What are the ultimate factors controlling fire regimes? The case of boreal forests royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... Phil Trans Roy Soc B, @royalsociety.org With JE Keeley & @dramalamujer.bsky.social jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/04/17/t... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐🍁🌾 wildfire #philsci #ecoevo

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

You recently obtained a Ph.D. or are currently a postdoc, do not live in Canada but are looking to move to Canada? You are interested in watershed-scale carbon storage and transport? There is an oportunity to apply for a 3-year PDF fellowship in my institution (Université de Montréal), get in touch!

"In conclusion, our results underscore the adverse impact of a zero-fire policy on insect communities, including fruit-feeding butterflies, within this unique ecosystem." Freire-Jr et al. 🧪🌍🌿🔥🌳 wildfire 🦋 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

The first open science meeting of our new COST action happens in Prague in July! We want to attract all kinds of proxies 🐘🌲🐛🪲🔥🥀🧪🌾❄️🦠 - signup this week to get funding #PalaeOpen palaeopen.github.io/events/pragu...

While *all of this* is happening, somehow we are still doing science! My PhD student Thomas led this gigantic effort to develop a new chironomid-based transfer function for postglacial temperature reconstruction www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#FireScarFriday Here are some pics of fire-scarred trees from Tall Timbers Research Station in Northern Florida. Tall Timbers land is burned every 1.8 years, on average. Incredible! 🔥

Returned from an expedition to the Lower Ice Lake ("Unterer Eissee") beneath Hallstätter Glacier #Dachstein #Austria with @rglueckler.bsky.social , Ulrike Herzschuh (both @awi.de) and Jakob Korneli (@unileipzig.bsky.social) to take lake sediment cores to reconstruct the vegetation development.

🔥 How will climate & land-use change impact #wildfire risk in Europe? 🌍 Join our webinar on the 31st to explore future projections & policy opportunities in the EU. 🔥📅 🔗 Register here 🔽 fireurisk.eu/event/how-wi...

Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors. As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim: www.theclimatebrink....

New paper alert! Zombie fires overwinter, going underground to smolder through winter before reemerging. Until recently, we knew these fires occurred but knew little of their ecological or carbon impacts. Along with my amazing coauthors, we set out to change this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human dimension of Holocene wildfire dynamics in boreal eastern Siberia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643308v1

New preprint out! Using combined paleo-ecological and modeling methods, we uncover regional Holocene #wildfire dynamics in eastern #Siberia. Notably, our findings suggest potential human impacts as early as 5000 years ago - contrasting a common view of historically unmanaged forests 🔥 🧪⚒️🌏 1/4

Exciting Job Opportunity! UBC is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences. Accepting applications until April 30. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

Amazing PhD opportunity at the University of Adelaide to work on unpacking Kangaroo Island's past environments! www.earthworks-jobs.com/climate/adel...

How was past #wildfire activity in eastern #Siberia and how did it relate to climate/vegetation/human activity? 🔥 Now out in E&G Quaternary Science Journal: a thesis abstract summarizing main findings of my recent dissertation. Big thanks to @deuqua.bsky.social! 🧪🌏⚒️ doi.org/10.5194/egqs...

Now certified to wear a #SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) - or, as we say in Germany: #Atemschutzgeräteträger! Training at Potsdam fire department was very interesting (and equally exhausting) 🔥 #firefighting

While #Japan is no stranger to all kinds of natural hazards, it's not often making international headlines involving #wildfires. Currently, the country is experiencing the worst wildfire incident in more than 30 years, near the coast of northern Honshu (Iwate Prefecture):

Following a workshop on Earth system #tippingpoints at the @ec.europa.eu's Joint Research Centre, @pik-potsdam.bsky.social colleagues and I have contributed to a policy brief with recommendations for how the EU can/should move forward--check it out!: publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

🔥 Want to improve your wildfire research with climate data? Join our training on "Understanding Climate Scenarios & Data for Wildfire Studies" on February 25! 🌍📆 Learn key concepts, best practices, & hands-on data processing. Sign up now⬇️ fireurisk.eu/event/unders...