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

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....

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.

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...

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🧪🌐🌾

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...

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 🌎🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟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...

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

Our new paper is out in Plant and Soil! 1/2 We provide further evidence that aboveground traits are coordinated with belowground traits. Basically, if a plant has more acquisitive fine-root traits, it also has more acquisitive leaf traits (and vise-versa). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

Three manuscripts back from review in the span of a month! Papers on forest carbon in the Pacific Temperate Coastal Rainforest, plant root traits and disturbance, and disturbance interactions in the understory are on the horizon.

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...

Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.

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...

FYSA: Call *your* congressperson's. Not someone else's. If you are not their constituent they do not care and you're only tying up the line for the people they do represent.

All NSF panels have been cancelled until further notice.

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

Happy first day of the spring semester to those that observe!

Re-reading Grubb's 1977 classic The maintenance of species‐richness in plant communities: the importance of the regeneration niche A paper overflowing with ideas, most of which remain highly relevant to this day; really one of my favorites biomar.fciencias.unam.mx/Sobretiros/S...

Two proposals officially submitted this morning! Excited and hopeful to see what comes of them in February.

Congratulations to Andrew Siefert, Daniel Laughlin and Francesco Sabatini for securing the 2024 Editors' Award for the Journal of Vegetation Science! vegsciblog.org/2024/12/29/j... doi.or/10.1111/jvs....

Functional diversity vs simply biodiversity. Quantifying the value of sites may fall short if we simply count species, reckons @joshleecology.bsky.social , the winner of the Fundamental Ecology Award. Using traits such as structure is probably very important to consider. #ESAus2024

Turns out that this years capital Christmas tree is from the Tongass! Specifically Zarembo Island. That means, in some way, @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social and I modeled this trees existence before it ended up here in DC.

Not surprising sadly, but still oof: Functional R code is rare in species distribution and abundance papers esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Doing some interesting natural resource related research in the PNW? Come share a the @nwscience.bsky.social Annual Meeting in March! This years meeting is in Eugene, OR and we are offering travel grants to cover attendance and travel.

I just discovered the site macrostrat.org/map . It's great!!

The global carbon budget 2024 is out

I'm happy to share the second chapter of my dissertation out now in Ecology and Evolution! Forest management may prioritize C storage, but at what cost? Understory plant community diversity is inversely related to C storage in the Tongass NF. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I'm hiring a postdoc for a new project funded by Joint Fire Sciences to study juniper/pine invasion in the sagebrush steppe. Application due Tues. Join our wonderful research group @uoregon! #Postdocs careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

And here is a second (NSF-funded) phd position in the lab here at UNLV. Really looking for someone with dendro/tree ring experience. But those interested in computation modelling / synthesis of big data would also be a good fit.

Hi I am once again recruiting phd students and postdocs. Here is the first of a series of ads. This one is supported by the new Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center www.swcasc.arizona.edu/about/overview More info drewpeltier.com/opportunities