📣One week today!! CSEE Members: check your mailbox for the event link.

Excited to help organize the 2026 Canadian Urban Forest Conference in Québec City (Oct 13–16)! 🌳 The call for proposals is open now, share your work in #urbanforestry, planning, or climate resilience with 400+ participants. Deadline: Feb 28, 2026 Link for more details: treecanada.ca/research-eng...

🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Urban nature based solutions are critical - but often hampered by a lack of collaboration across sectors. How can we do better? This was such a rewarding project to lead, alongside great colleagues from @environmentca.bsky.social, @treecanada.bsky.social, and many many others.

In their Open Letter, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, et al. highlight the importance of #UrbanForests as essential infrastructure to policy makers at #COP30, which begins today in Brazil 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #NatureBasedSolutions #PlantScience 🧵

Happy to share a new publication I contributed to, based on a full day of discussions in MTL on real barriers in cross-sector work. Thanks to Kayleigh Hutt-Taylor for leading it, and to Barbara Frei and @carlyziter.bsky.social for their support. Findings now published in @facetsjournal.bsky.social

Esperón-Rodriguez et al. (2025) Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers - @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers - Esperon‐Rodriguez - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Happy to contribute to this open letter on #UrbanForests as essential infrastructure. With recent federal climate cuts in #Canada, it’s time to rethink priorities. Thanks to Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez. @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social @cef-cfr.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Voters in roughly 1,100 municipalities across Quebec chose their local leaders on Sunday. Here are four things to know about the province’s municipal election results.

Passage de la rectrice en commission parlementaire sur le cahier de consultation intitulé La planification de l'immigration au Québec pour la période 2026-2029.

Élections municipales 2025 📣 | 81% des Québécois-e-s veulent que leur municipalité agisse contre les changements climatiques. À lire ➡️ naturequebec.org/elections-mu... #polmun #polqc #VireauVert @vivreenville.bsky.social @isabelleporter.bsky.social @fcarabin.bsky.social @aasimard.bsky.social

Getting our hands dirty — #urbansoil lab in progress! #urbanforestry #soilscience #teaching

🌱 Boston is turning vacant lots into edible forests, integrating food, nature, and community right into the city fabric. Urban climate justice in action. Shout out to @mayorwu.boston.gov for all of her great work! 🍓🌳 #foodforests #greencities 🔗

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Senescence to nutrient cycling: Top-down effects of climate change (New Phytol.) @dukesjeff.bsky.social (Summary by Xavier Ozowara) buff.ly/oOvMxnX #PlantaePSRW

The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=job_10-16-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Super excited to see that the last chapter of my PhD on root trait - ecosystem functioning relationships is now published in @newphyt.bsky.social! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Very cool initiative training citizens/residents in tree pruning & stewardship 🌳 Wonder if something like this will catch on here in Canada 🇨🇦

Field trip day! 🌳 Our Urban Forestry course is out in the field …Dominic, a master’s student in the lab, is leading a session on #tree plantation pits at our living lab site, where we’re testing 9 structural pit designs with the city. #UrbanForestry #FieldLearning #urbanforests

Urban expansion can lead to habitat loss. Yet, as IPBES #GlobalAssessment shows, smart city planning + nature-based solutions can create resilient, bird-friendly cities.🌍 This #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, let’s protect migratory birds in our #SharedSpaces 🏡 🧪https://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/

Savannah Bissegger O’Connor, Dominic Bartolacci et Ravosoa Ramaroson de la Chaire de recherche sur l’arbre urbain et son milieu présenteront leurs travaux au Rendez-vous #arboricole 🌳 Merci à la SIAQ pour l’organisation! 👉 Inscrivez-vous : siaq.org/fr/formation... #foresterieurbaine

Canadian cities can prepare for climate change by building with nature #Canada #Environment #ClimateChange #SustainableCities #NatureBasedSolutions #UrbanPlanning #ResilientCities #GreenInfrastructure #HousingCrisis #EcoFriendly #Cities #CityPlanning the-14.com/canadian-cit...

New greening project underway #installation #urbansoils #biochar #urbanforests

In a survey conducted by the Mental Health Foundation, 70% of adults agreed that being close to nature improves their mood. Bringing nature closer to home by sponsoring a street tree feels like the ideal way to observe Mental Health Day this year, don't you think?

L’étalement urbain et la densification sont au cœur des préoccupations à Repentigny. #logement

🤩✋

A new paper out in Land Use Policy - “Land tenure (in)security in the context of urban flood risk in Ghana.” We show that flood risk management through post-flood land use planning has potential to have dual impacts on community resilience and tenure security. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach: Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.

Loved spending the summer with the @jananisivarajah.bsky.social lab and @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social. Lots of new projects on the horizon, and great to learn from another lab group. Next up, a quick visit to U-Windsor!

Merci à @phessenauer.bsky.social pour son intervention et l’animation d’une super session sur les #pathogènes urbains! #foresterieurbaine @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social @cef-cfr.bsky.social

Farewell to visiting prof @carlyziter.bsky.social…thanks for 4 great months of insight & #collaboration! Best wishes to Sheetal Rimal as she starts a new PDF at UofA. Excited to welcome Giles (PDF) & Maïa (UG researcher) to the lab! @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social @cef-cfr.bsky.social

Ce projet de recherche mesurait les attitudes et les perceptions des Québécois face à la crise climatique.

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

My department @geographieudem.bsky.social is looking for a professor in human geography specializing in the study of social-ecological transformations, political ecology, climate change, environmental justice and/or the geography of risks and infrastructures. Deadline November 10, share widely!

📣 Opportunity for early career researchers from developing countries who work on climate change. IPCC is calling for chapter scientists for assessment round 7. Successful applicants will receive a stipend for 48 months. 🧪🌎 www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

Rethinking nature in the Anthropocene. From ownership to reciprocity — this paper explores relational values, nature’s rights & “methodological animism” as a path to more just human–nature relations: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #RightsOfNature #RelationalValues #Sustainability

📢 Save the date! 🌳 16th Canadian #UrbanForestry Conference (CUFC) 🗓️ Oct 14–16, 2026 | 📍 Quebec City, Canada Our Research Chair on Urban Trees and Their Environment (craum.ffgg.ulaval.ca) is proud to support the City of Quebec + Tree Canada in hosting this event. treecanada.ca/research-eng...

Great opportunity!!!!!

ICYMI: “Paris is uniquely positioned to celebrate & platform bold action from cities all over the world…really exemplifying those key words ‘further & faster.’ Not because they’ve been perfect but because they’ve been strategic, determined, & fearless.” My @forbes.com interview with @carltonreid.com

Autumn’s got me walking slower…taking it all in 🍂🍁 #urbanforests #trees #fall #nature #fallcolors #autumnvibes

Inauguration du projet Constellation Verte. Îlots végétalisés sur 4 axes hautement achalandés de la ville de Québec dont le Grand Théâtre de Québec! Au bénéfice de la biodiversité ET de la communauté 🙌

Our Faculty, in the department of geomatics, is a hiring a tenure-track professor in spatial cognition and interactional modeling See details below: @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social www.ffgg.ulaval.ca/actualites/p...

Très inspirant @edelplopez.bsky.social

Visited one of our partner’s offices @naturequebec.bsky.social and impressed to see medium-sized #trees thriving on #greenroofs 🌳

🧡 Portons le orange pour rendre hommage aux enfants disparus ainsi qu'aux survivant(e)s inuit(e)s et des Premières Nations. Depuis plus de 30 ans, l’INSPQ met son expertise au service des Autochtones afin d’améliorer leur santé et leur bien-être ➡️ www.inspq.qc.ca/sante-des-autochtones. #JNVR

Benefits of trees and #urbanforests include: *reduced energy costs *improved mental well being *carbon storage *decreased runoff *increased home values and income source - NC State University, College of Natural Resources

Every Child Matters. Tomorrow is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and we are taking a moment to remember and honour victims and survivors of Canada’s residential school system. #NDTR #TruthAndReconciliation 1/2 www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/ndtr-2025

Final call to get your applications in! If you are interested in doing a postdoc in #urbanecology. A multi-city project across three Canadian cities; Vancouver, Montréal, and Québec @ffgg-ulaval.bsky.social @cef-cfr.bsky.social See details below ⬇️