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!

Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

Looking for a postdoc with a specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions. The fellow will work at the intersection of forest ecology and environmental policy, investigating the effectiveness of forest carbon offset programs

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...

One of the most important stories of this fire season -- how USFS repeatedly dragged it's feet every step of the way to prevent prescribed burning in the Teakettle Forest, which as a result burned to a crisp in the Garnet fire. An avoidable tragedy. 🌎 fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...

The first time I did field work in Big Basin was 14 years ago. I haven’t had any projects there since 2019, and then in 2020 the forest burned at high severity in the CZU fire. Today as part of a new project on management, fire, and carbon in redwood forests, I got to see big basin post-fire.

Hi bluesky, have any of my followers published in the journal Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, and willing to comment on the experience (timely, reasonable, constructive?) My group is considering submitting there for the first time and I’m interested in others’ experiences there. Thanks!

1/4 Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes". Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied. 🧪🔥

There are 6 Forest Service research stations that also manage research labs, 80 experimental forests, a forest product laboratory, & the International Institute of Tropical Forestry. This is the most extensive natural resource research operation in the world--a hidden crown jewel of our country. 2/

Postdoctoral position offer in sedaDNA in our team to work on insect outbreaks in forests!! 🌲🐛🧬 Please Repost!

Please check out our new review in BioScience! We describe how spatial climate analogs can be used in climate change research, impact assessment, decision-making, and communication. #MacroEcology #ClimateChange #GlobalChange 1/4

🔥🏔🌲 Interested in fire ecology & forests? Working in the Cascade Mountains? the Harvey Lab at UW-SEFS is hiring 6 full-time field assistants + 2 full-time field crew leads on projects exploring forest resilience to wildfire, reburns, & management. Application review begins May 2. Links below...

So grateful for the amazing members of the Francis lab, @colinmast.bsky.social @lilianvallet.bsky.social, Ashley Zwick and Subham Banerjee (not pictured here)! So much creativity, quantitative thinking, and geospatial fire science data wizardry. Working with these folks is the best.

1/n Our team just published a new paper in Global Change Biology 🧪🔥 The title succinctly describes the main take home message, but here's the deal: We produced gridded, fine-scale (resolution = 30m) daily fire progression maps for 623 wildfires in the SW US using satellite fire data. read on ...

Multiple faculty positions available in our department at Trinity College Dublin, including plant conservation, biogeography and biodiversity genomics. #sciencejobs 🧪🌎🌾

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...

We are getting caught up on research briefs. This one, from Kevin Willson's first PhD chapter, summarizes the influences of abiotic factors on ponderosa pine dispersal distance. www.hurteaulab.org/uploads/3/8/...

6/6 I'll end here with our conceptual model showing that a) fires were historically more prevalent yet served as a stabilizing feedback to ecosystems and humans by reducing fuel loads and risk of higher severity wildfires and b) contemporary fires are now destabilizing to forests and people.

1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...

In a prescribed fire burn scar today on Mt. Tamalpais SP. So alive. So beautiful. Feels very special there right now. Landscape fire is a profound creative force. Deer Park FR for those that are interested.

We are recruiting a postdoctoral ORISE fellow to join an interdisciplinary team focused on issues of ecosystem type conversion, directional biodiversity change, and what to do about it. Please spread the word! 🌎🌐🧪 Details here: www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...

Ponderosa pine woodlands make me feel like the future is worth fighting for

Great new article describing how federal environmental laws are inhibiting rather than enabling agencies and practitioners from using prescribed and cultural fire to restore forest health and combat the #wildfire crisis.🧪🌏🔥

One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.

🌍 Exciting opportunity from the Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI)! 📢 Fully Funded MSc & PhD Scholarships starting Sep 2025 🔍 Join the 1st cohort of CBSI grad student researchers ✅ Open to natls of Cameroon, DRC, Gabon, and Rep of Congo 📅 Due 28 Feb 2025 🔗 congobasinscience.net/scholarships/

Some useful fire resources that I’ve sent to family in LA: Sign up for alerts app.watchduty.org

I've seen a few posts asking what those who have lost everything in #LAFires can do now. Strongly recommend looking at resources from @afterthefireusa.bsky.social on their website. Started by Tubbs Fire survivors. They've been through it, follow their advice. afterthefireusa.org

1/n 🧪🌏🔥 On the other site, I started what can only be considered a viral hashtag called #FireScarFriday. It's time to introduce #FireScarFriday to BlueSky! What are fire scars and fire-scarred trees? Trees can often survive a #wildfire but are damaged by said fire. ...

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

There are THREE! Count em THREE memoirs coming out in 2025/2026 by women/non-binary folks who have worked as wildland firefighters or hotshots. Here they are, for those interested in pre-orders or learning more about the authors.

New paper out on climate change, drought and consequences for wildlife! 🌎 🧪 Led by the tenacious Dr. van den Bosch (new to blue sky; give him a follow)

New paper led by Matt Hurteau (@mhurteau.bsky.social) out today on southwestern US forests. My favorite take-home nugget is this: “Managing for heterogeneity will serve as a hedge against uncertainty” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Long term, the 🔥 risks to communities are much worse if we don’t see prescribed fire on the ground, Lenya Quinn-Davidson @ucanr.bsky.social tells @dventon.bsky.social www.kqed.org/science/1994...

First field work trip for the Francis lab! @colinmast.bsky.social and Subham Banerjee collecting training data in coastal redwood forests. We're working on developing methods to classify forest types from satellite observations to observe changes over time and in response to disturbances!

New wildfire paper in Science by Jennifer Batch and colleagues! Here's the press release. 🧪🌏🔥

Kevin Willson’s new paper shows that trees growing in a fire maintained forest had consistent post fire growth recovery, even as conditions became more arid. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our new paper on Rusty Patched Bumble Bee population genetics is out Open Access in @entsocamerica.bsky.social's Journal of Insect Science: academic.oup.com/jinsectscien...

Please check out our new paper in Nature Communications titled "Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation" 🧪🌏 Lead author = U Montana PhD student Mark Kreider!

One week left to apply for this post-doc opportunity in my lab at Colorado State! Join us and work on cutting-edge wildfire remote sensing science to support fuel management with a great team! Apply by March 25 for full consideration

Creating defensible space and protecting giant manzanita and canyon live oak, Sierra foothills.

Post-doc opportunity in wildfire geospatial science in my lab at Colorado State! Work on developing geospatial data products to support fuel treatment planning/monitoring in southwestern US forests. w/ @mhurteau.bsky.social, me & others. Details and apply by 03/25: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/140...

And here is the associated paper published in Ecological Applications 🌏👇👇👇

These talks and posters look awesome! If you’re going to AGU check them out!

Had an awesome time visiting UCSB EEMB yesterday and meeting so many folks doing great work! Thank you to the LEAF lab for hosting me!

New paper led by Harold Zald shows that thinning and prescribed burning treatments were insufficient to increase shade-intolerant pine regeneration and had substantial shade-tolerant fir and incense-cedar regen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are recruiting a postdoc or research assistant prof to work on a project modeling vegetation and fire. www.hurteaulab.org/blog/ecosyst...

PhD student opportunity in my lab at Colorado State University! Focused on quantitative integration of geospatial and field data to understand disturbance in western US forests. Involves collaboration with a great team including @mhurteau.bsky.social www.francisforestecologylab.com/opportunities

I have a new commentary on carbon offsets in One Earth, with Grayson Badgley and Freya Chay. Even if you already know they are a mess, this short essay brings together five distinct lines of critique to explain exactly how carbon offsets undermine climate progress. Open access, please share!