Love sitting on my deck with my morning coffee.

So wonderful to have Michelle Mack visit @uoregon.bsky.social to talk about boreal forests! @bnzlter.bsky.social

I'm thrilled to share that my first first-author paper has been published in the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology journal. This project couldn't have been completed without the support of my collaborators, field assistants, and staff at UC Santa Barbara's Sedgwick Reserve🔥🌳 rdcu.be/ffQSU

New paper published by #TEEL_Lab postdoc @kbrande1.bsky.social Brande, K, Davis, FW & Kendall, BE. 2026. Bark traits and fire vulnerability in three California foothill oak species. Fire Ecol 22, 43. doi.org/10.1186/s424...

New paper published by Clearwater, PhD student in our lab #TEEL_Lab Hutchinson, J.T., Clearwater, T, Kent, J, Kapoor, V, Dessouky, S. 2026. Spontaneous vegetation diversity in managed stormwater swales and detention basins in Central Texas. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Excited to host Michelle Mack @bnzlter.bsky.social at @uoregon.bsky.social this week. Lots of talk about #wildfire, #forests, and #boreal ecosystems!

#GoDucks 🦆🦆 #uoregon

I'm so proud of how hard my students and PDs work but still carve out to time to hike, run, ski, knit, bike, surf...

Mentoring is the best part of my job #TEEL_Lab 2 PDs, 1 PhD, 1 MS and 3 undergrads

Enjoying springtime on our deck

New paper led by @jameslamping.bsky.social mapping #old-growth forests in SE #Alaska and SW B.C. Take home messages:

Interested in landscape modeling and are looking to use LANDIS-II? The LANDIS community is hosting a virtual workshop in May!

LANDIS-II Virtual Training Workshop in May! May 13, 15, 20, and 22 from 8a - 12p Pacific. This is a fast-paced, hands-on virtual workshop designed to give new users the background they need to start running LANDIS-II. Participation is capped at 20. Cost: $500 USD (Credit Card or Check only)

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.

Just saw this new paper by Tang et al. out of NCAR :/... Excited to check it out! Emissions from burned structures in wildfires as significant yet unaccounted sources of US air pollution doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Yet another journal rejects modeling papers. "is assigning low priority to studies of this nature (e.g., bench-scale experiments, modeling-focused studies...)" In these chaotic scientific times, they're rejecting all studies using an acceptable scientific tool? So... annoyed.

Excited to give a talk on #LANDIS_ii wildfire modeling with @robertscheller.bsky.social tomorrow!

Time I got to do a review=10 days. Time it took a journal to make a decision about my paper= 6 months. Please give reviewers at least 2 weeks. We are volunteering our time!

Because every research lab website should give a shoutout to the real MVPs—our pets—for supporting us during these challenging times. www.melissalucash.com/who-we-are

History of steel production is not nearly as tidy as depicted on the placards. #Bethlehem

This term speaks to me- “credentialism,” by which women hoped that if they accrued enough credentials, their gender became irrelevant. (It did not.)

One of the best parts of science is working with smart, wonderful collaborators. Burn table experiments with Lisa Ellsworth today @oregonstate.edu

Canada's Satellite-Based Forest Inventory uses image segmentation to create stand-level maps for forest science & monitoring, including tree species & biomass. #SBFI Paper: doi.org/10.1093/fore... Download data opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nf... Data on #GEE: gee-community-catalog.org/projects/ca_...

Sometimes they are too big to hug. #oldgrowth #Oregon

Saw a huge explosion of CA tortoiseshell butterflies today in the Cascades. So beautiful to witness!

Hiked at Silver Falls today- my fav state park in Oregon

Always grateful for all the public beaches in Oregon

What's the most disgusting thing you've found in the lab you inherited? 🌍 Summer #TEEL_Lab cleaning today revealed this tasty chocolate bunny that pre-dated me (at least 5yo).

Our fun field day taught me: 1) upland ash exist (i.e. its not just a stream tree), 2) poison oak likes to hang out with ash, 3) baking soda helps to relieve itching of poison oak.

New GNN maps of SE Alaska made by the incredible @jameslamping.bsky.social with help from Dave Bell, Dan Irvine and Matt Gregory. news.uoregon.edu/uo-researche...

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Upcoming @uoregon.bsky.social seminar. 🌍🌲

New @carbonpulse.bsky.social article: “Forest carbon protocols are currently yielding low-quality credits, and need to be strengthened according to a report published on Thursday led by top forest scientists.” 🌲 Check out CATF’s new scorecard and report: www.forestcarbonprotocols.org

What's the skinny from our new paper on forest carbon credits? They are of LOW quality! Our report outlines strategies to improve them @cleanaircatf.bsky.social 🌲🌍

Writeup about our new pub: “There’s been a lot of appetite for carbon credits so corporations can meet their sustainability goals, but some of the credits that have been sold have been found to be dubious at best". #TEEL_Lab www.bu.edu/articles/202...

🚨BREAKING🚨 Weak forest carbon credit protocols undermine trust in carbon markets. In a new study, leading scientists recommend ways to strengthen standards to ensure lasting climate impacts. forestcarbonprotocols.org

Our new study about the need to overhaul the protocols for carbon credits in forests. www.forestcarbonprotocols.org

Never tire of seeing irises

My first Trillium of the year

Next “Exploring Careers in Ecology” webinar series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social * April 15, 2-3 PM EST * Panelists Rese Cloyd (also incoming ESA President!) & me * Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #ConservationJobs

Happy Friday! #Geography #GIS #mapping #cartography Maps by @jameslamping.bsky.social #TEEL_LAB

Our new paper is out in Forest Ecology and Management! Utilizing data from multiple forest inventory programs, we created 35 spatially complete estimates of forest structure and composition across the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia. 🌍🌐 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kgiv1L%7E...

Just got off a call with a long-running collaboration supporting transboundary climate resilience in Washington & British Columbia, and I've never felt more viscerally how transboundary work is as much about building trust and goodwill among nations as its more tangible outcomes.

Excited to share my MS research! We used the LANDIS-II model to explore how landscape planning can balance wood demand, biodiversity, and carbon storage in a changing climate. Huge thanks to @mattbetts42.bsky.social, @melissalucash.bsky.social, and Neil Williams for all their help along the way!

Increased demand for wood, in combination with climate change and fires, pose serious challenges for biodiversity and carbon storage. Which landscape planning strategies minimize negative impacts? New paper by @colinmast.bsky.social! 🧪https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10980-024-02041-5

“History has proven that extremism will only cause the people to rise. It will not cause the people to hide, to back up, to bow down. Injustice will always cause justice and those who believe in it to rise. It always has. It always will.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

#TEEL_LAB at UO

Every year at UO, I have a new group of students/staff who are smart, kind and productive. I think the world of them, and I can't wait to see what their future holds.

Postdoc opportunity w/Solomon Dobrowski and me! U Montana, in partnership with the NC Climate Adaptation Science Center, is hiring a talented scientist with an interest in climate connectivity and species range shifts among protected areas. $70k/year. #SpeciesOnTheMove #RangeShifts

I spend my days supporting my grad students, but today they supported me. #TEEL_LAB After another rejection on Fri, I’ve officially given up my dream of becoming a tenure-track professor.