The latest work by @shivakhanal.bsky.social on carbon-dense forests in the Himalayas. Fascinating work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Welp, here it is. For better or worse. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Oh hey, I published a paper! Get it free the next 45 days The study used lab methods to show how post-fire crown scorch can change based on species, season, and age of foliage- work that can be used to improve tree mortality outcomes following prescribed fire. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screwworm control is one of those really famous stories you learn about in undergrad biology. It was one of the most successful biological control initiatives ever undertaken in human history. Hopefully we can do it again. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...

Why do fire scars form more on the leeward or uphill sides of trees? For #firescarfriday here's a little time lapse video showing the increased residence time of flame, and thus increased heating and potential cambial injury, in the eddy of air in the lee of this long leaf pine. Florida, USA, 2025.

📚🔥🛰️ I am proud to announce that my two companion articles using #Landsat data and #RemoteSensing methods to quantify fractional herbaceous cover in #wildfire-prone Mediterranean-type ecosystems are now published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing.

This isn't new but wow. Incredible paper. I mean look at this figure sites.ualberta.ca/~flanniga/pu... #wildfire #forestecol

I'm looking for an aridity map or model that accounts for south- versus north-facing slope aspect. Or some source regarding how slope aspect affects vegetation structure at the landscape scale. Suggestions? #gischat #wildfire #forestecol #ecology #microclimate #macroecology 🌐 🌎

Took a while, but I finally did it

Great interview about the LA fires with links to some neat stats and maps: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/califor...

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

Congratulations to Weiwei Wang (early career researcher) on her paper in Science out today - 'Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades' largely due to increases in fuel aridity. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Recovery Following Recurrent Fires Across Mediterranean Ecosystems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Open MS/PhD & postdoctoral researcher positions:

As the new year approaches, the already remarkable season-to-date "precipitation dipole" in California has further intensified. Much of SoCal has still not received meaningful rain this season, while NorCal continues to get soaked on a recurring basis. #CAwx #CAwater #CAfire

Coast live oaks showing off their pretty scars ... #firescarfriday 🌎🔥🍁🌳

Just learned that Acer negundo (boxelder) is called Manitoba maple in Canada and I think that’s wholesome as heck

What’s your favorite method of tiling rasters in R? I’m stuck with my old code and it’s unsatisfying. #rspatial

New paper by Alina Cansler and colleagues: "Drought before fire increases tree mortality after fire". I ❤️ results-oriented titles! #Wildfire 🔥🌏🧪

This week's seminar at the Missoula Fire Lab will be: "The Fire Weather Alert System: A new fire weather warning system for on-the-ground firefighters" Link in comments. #fire #firescience #gis

Trees store vast amounts of starch. As the weather warms, starch is hydrolyzed to sugar, creating osmotic potential that draws soil water into the stem, creating pressure. This pressure fills vessels that have embolized in winter. Sugar is now available for growth. And syrup! It's a grand show. 🧪🌏

The Missoula Fire Lab is hosting 1h seminars on tools and resources for fire managers every Thursday in February starting 11am MST. Link in comments. First seminar Feb 1st: "FastFuels and QUIC-Fire: 3D fuel and fire modeling systems supporting prescribed fire" by Russ Parsons #rspatial

Y'all know about this? #rstats

Here's another great one in case you missed it: "Pyrogeography in flux: Reorganization of Australian fire regimes in a hotter world" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Check out this really interesting work by my colleague Shiva Khanal, in which he examines high-elevation Himalayan forests with some of the densest biomass in the world. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Indigenous Erasure in Fire Ecology #FireCon2023 vimeo.com/892301554?fb...

Just tested positive for COVID after attending #FireCon2023. If you attended, please watch out for symptoms over the next few days. I’d encourage you to test as well.

Rachael Nolan received the AFE 2023 Early Career Award for her many outstanding contributions to fire science. No one is more deserving of such an honour! Congratulations Rachael! #FireCon2023