🧪🌎 SyncroSim modeling is coming to your browser. The new Tables feature in #SyncroSim Cloud is coming soon! View & explore your model datasheets online, no software install needed.

How do windstorms affect forests in Europe? In the latest addition to our Key Questions on Forests series, @drtomlocatelli.bsky.social from @forestresearchuk.bsky.social explores the complex impacts of windstorms on forests. 🔗 efi.int/forestquesti...

We’re hiring a Quantitative Ecologist (Internship)! ApexRMS is looking for an early-career ecologist who’s passionate about using data, models, and code to understand how ecosystems change including wildfire risk, carbon dynamics, species conservation, and land use.

🧪🌎 Want to boost your wildfire modeling skills? We’ve got a few spots left for our BurnP3+ training course, happening Nov 12–14 at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna!

🧪🌎 This summer, we kicked off a new collab with @csiro.bsky.social’s Ecological Knowledge System team, supporting Australia’s emerging Nature Repair Market, a voluntary biodiversity credit system rooted in science.

Are you a biologist or environmental professional looking to turn imagery into insights? Join us Nov 5th, 1–4 PM EST for the first-ever ecoClassify workshop, co-hosted by @westernu.ca and ApexRMS. Learn to classify satellite/UAV/DSLR imagery using transparent, reproducible workflows in #SyncroSim.

🧪🌎 Our latest #SyncroSim package is here! EcoClassify helps you turn raw aerial imagery into classified maps using machine learning, no coding needed. It's all about making image classification for ecology and remote sensing easier and faster.

🧪🌎 Natural resource management, powered by science-based modeling. We’re kicking off a new series spotlighting the impactful projects we lead at ApexRMS — starting with our featured Landscape Change projects.

🌎🧪 Not every insight needs a new model—sometimes, you just need a new way to see the one you’ve already built. With side-by-side map comparison in #SyncroSim Cloud, you can now view two model outputs next to each other and spot key differences across space, time, and scenarios.

🌎 Apex is making connections across the globe! Our President & Systems Ecologist Colin Daniel just wrapped up a tour across Australia strengthening international collaborations involving fire, carbon, and landscape change modeling 🧪

🌎 🧪 Earlier this summer, our team joined Swan River First Nation (SRFN) in Kinuso, AB, for a 2-day workshop on wildfire risk 🔥 Co-led with Todd Bailey (SRFN) & Trevor Wiens (Apropos Information Systems), we worked on plans for a decision-support tool to forecast wildfire risk across SRFN territory.

Celebrating 30 years of alpine science in the Rockies 🌎 🧪 This July, our teammates @afilazzola.bsky.social and Hannah Adams joined researchers in Alberta’s Kananaskis Country to help monitor an alpine butterfly and its host plant—a project that’s been running since 1995.

The #SyncroSim Support page just got a major upgrade with the launch of our new Help Center. Our new Help Center is your all-in-one destination for: ➡️ SyncroSim documentation ➡️ Forum access (browse or post questions) ➡️ Latest blog updates ➡️ Support requests

🌎🧪 Canada’s 2024 wildfire season is already on track to be one of the worst—and we’re only halfway through the year. With wildfire risk intensifying, Canada just launched the $11.7M Wildfire Resilience Consortium—a huge investment into wildfire research and mitigation efforts.

🧪 New BurnP3+ training events announced for Fall 2025! 🌎 Following the success of our sold-out spring course, we're excited to offer two new opportunities to learn about wildfire risk modeling using BurnP3+, our #SyncroSim package for simulating burn probability.

🧪 Our next #SyncroSim package highlight is WISDM—the Workbench for Integrated Species Distribution Modeling 🌎 WISDM is an open-source tool that brings modern species distribution modeling (SDM) workflows into the SyncroSim framework, turning raw data into informative maps faster than ever before.

Last week our team unplugged from screens and stepped into the forest as we gathered in the Haliburton Highlands for our annual in-person staff retreat 🌎

🧪 AI is coming to SyncroSim! We're working on ecoClassify — a new #SyncroSim package led by our team members, Hannah Adams and @afilazzola.bsky.social, that brings image classification into your workflows 🌎

Another successful BurnP3+ workshop is in the books 🔥 Last week, we partnered with NRCan’s Canadian Forest Service to deliver an in-person training workshop at the @ualberta.bsky.social, guiding participants through wildfire hazard modeling using the BurnP3+ package for #SyncroSim 🧪 🌎

🧪 We’re excited to unveil BurnP3+FireSTARR — the latest addition to our suite of wildfire 🔥 modeling tools for #SyncroSim 🌎

🌎 Next up in our package spotlight series is BurnP3+ 🔥, an open-source #SyncroSim package for simulating wildfire risk across landscapes 🧪

We’re starting a new series to highlight the full range of #SyncroSim packages, starting with ST-Sim—the package for creating simulation models of landscape change 🌎 🧪

🌎 We’re excited to announce the launch of prioritizr SyncroSim, a new SyncroSim package that makes systematic conservation planning more accessible, flexible, and reproducible. 🧪

🧪Earlier this month, team member Leonardo Frid visited the communities of Williams Lake and Clinton, BC to participate in landscape planning meetings with rightsholders from Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) and other Indigenous communities, and land managers from the BC government and forest sector

🌎 Did you know that you can run SyncroSim through your IDE of choice? Whether working in RStudio, VS Code, or another IDE, you can integrate SyncroSim’s scenario management, access leading scientific models, and streamline data pipelines all while coding in an environment you’re comfortable with

🔥 Don’t miss your chance to level up your wildfire modeling skills! The early-bird deadline for our BurnP3+ Workshop is this Friday, Feb 28 🧪 Come April 28-30 to the University of Alberta for a hands-on dive into this open-source package in SyncroSim. Hosted with NRCAN’s Canadian Forest Service. 🌎

🗺️ SyncroSim now defaults to Miniforge! 🧪 Why it matters: • No licensing restrictions for research—unlike Anaconda’s new terms • Open-source first for transparent, reproducible workflows • Seamless switch—use Miniforge or keep your existing Conda setup Get started at https://syncrosim.com

🔥 Due to high demand, we're running another BurnP3+ wildfire risk modeling workshop! 1/ After a sold-out session last November, ApexRMS and NRCAN are co-hosting a hands-on BurnP3+ course at @ualberta.bsky.social in Edmonton, April 28-30. 🌲🔥

🌲Our collaborator, Chris Stockdale (Canadian Forest Service), is presenting a session on BurnP3+, a SyncroSim tool for modeling 🔥wildfire burn probability on January 29, 2025. https://buff.ly/3Egmhqg

🗺️ApexRMS & @Mapbox are innovating together🌎 Our work was featured by Mapbox as a leading example of using movement data. Mapbox provides a great dataset of human activity that we collaborated with the University of Toronto to help make informed decisions about city parks. https://buff.ly/2E5Yie4

Happy New Year! We’re taking a moment to reflect on some of the highlights that shaped our journey this past year: 🧪 We launch the beta-release of SyncroSim 3.0 and a new product SyncroSim Cloud, reflecting our commitment to supporting ecological research with cutting-edge and intuitive tools. 🌎

Recently, we had the privilege of collaborating with Swan River First Nation and Trevor Wiens of Apropos for a workshop on land cover change modeling. We explored tools like SyncroSim and the LOUIS Toolkit to forecast landscape outcomes 🌲 and identify conservation priorities 🌎

Heya BlueSky, been a little while. I'm back for live-skeeting #ESAus2024. Check out the #StarterPack to find other attendees. Reply here if you're attending and would like to be added. 🧪🌏🌾 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Seeing so many amazing talks coming out of #ESAus2024 on open science and ecology! 🧪🌏 We couldn't make it this year, but hope to be in Australia 2025!

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂: daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too! #ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

🧪 We're attending this year's @agu.org Conference in Washington, D.C.! Our president, Colin Daniel, will be showcasing an innovative tool to help predict the carbon impacts of wetland restoration projects 🌎

This week, the ApexRMS team was in northern Alberta, collaborating with the local community to discuss plans for sustainable land management. Using #SyncroSim, we’re building a land-change model to forecast how land development🌲, wildfire 🔥, and restoration practices shape the landscape over time

Due to an amazing response, there are now two Conservation + biodiversity 🌱 starter packs: go.bsky.app/SSa4Azz go.bsky.app/SDWEKyn Click both links to follow some great people + organizations. Let me know if you'd like to be included. (Check both lists to make sure you aren't already.) 🍄🐝🦍🦠🌵🏔️

A greatest hits of tools for doing species distribution models. This paper is great! We actually use many of these packages in our SDM software apexrms.github.io/wisdm/

🧪 🌎 Last week, we had the privilege of co-hosting the Wildfire Risk Modeling using BurnP3+ workshop in Kelowna, BC, alongside NRCan’s Canadian Forest Service. We’re thrilled to share that the workshop was a success and feedback from participants has been incredibly encouraging.

🧪 We're excited to announce we’ll be partnering with the #Haliburton Highlands Land Trust on an innovative wetland classification project beginning in early 2025! 🌎

Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2

Yesterday, we participated in a great workshop at UoT Scaborough kicking off a massive project, towards sustainable agriculture for Net-Zero food systems 👩‍🌾. We presented an initial inventory of urban agriculture for Toronto, sparking a discussion on sustainable agriculture strategies

ApexRMS is in Kelowna this week! We are co-hosting a course at UBC Okanagan on Wildfire Risk Modeling using BurnP3+ in partnership with the Canadian Forest Service. From Nov 13-15, participants will dive into BurnP3+, an open-source SyncroSim package, and learn how to model wildfire risk 🔥

🌍 ecoClassify is on its way — a new open-source SyncroSim package crafted to make image classification with machine learning more accessible 🧪. Designed with ease in mind, ecoClassify makes creating purpose-built image classifiers simple within SyncroSim Studio or through R and Python.

🎃 Just in time for the spooky season! With 🧪SyncroSim 🌍 , you can set your inital conditions to anything… even a jack-o’-lantern! Discover the flexibility of SyncroSim at https://buff.ly/3A6rkrD

Our team member just co-authored a new paper examining climate effects ❄️ on genetic diversity of an alpine butterfly 🦋. In this project, we helped to model the distribution of the butterfly across the Rocky Mountains using MaxEnt. 🧪 Out now in Molecular Ecology

🌎This August, our own Alessandro Filazzola teamed up with the Fort McMurray Métis and a dedicated group of experts in northern Alberta for a hands-on week of fieldwork. Together the group focused on understanding the critical connection between the Ronald Lake Buffalo Herd and its habitat.