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A wildfire swept through Wyoming’s Medicine Bow Forest in 2020, yet one green oasis remained: a beaver-engineered wetland. 🔥 Scientist @emilyfairfax.bsky.social is proving what nature has long known: beavers are the solution. 📺 Full story: youtu.be/F-HWKkIyfl0?... #BeaverPower #ClimateResilience

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The 3rd and final #beaver site surveyed in the River Otter catchment this week. Upstream of the village of East Budleigh, our monitoring has shown this wetland to significantly reduce downstream peak flows. @exeter.ac.uk

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A happy bit of news! Feat. a quote from me describing beavers as big chicken nuggets for predators while explaining why beavers build dams. 😎🦫🍗

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Me, two of my PhD students, and one of my postdocs were featured on @pbs.org NewsHour this evening for our work on #beavers and #wildfire in Colorado and Wyoming! Check it out! youtu.be/F-HWKkIyfl0?...

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A lot of folks think when #beavers cut trees down or clip off branches then the tree just dies. But actually, many of the trees beavers like to cut have evolved to re-sprout from the stump and grow back even stronger. Trying to channel my inner beaver-chewed-tree, today.

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I asked the class to write a note to future ecology students. I received this masterpiece from the fifth row.

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BEAVERS! BEAVERS! BEAVERS! Come hear three awesome talks in a row about beavers at #AGU24! Where: 144A-C When: 10:20am on Thursday Why: beavs are great and we have cool science on them

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“Compared with areas with no wetlands, wetland areas can reduce surface runoff by 15 to 30% and enhance soil retention by 30 to 50%, thereby decreasing flood peak levels by 10 to 25% and lowering the risk of mountain floods and debris flows.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Beautiful.

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One of my favorite things about being a prof is taking students on overnight trips to university field / research stations. This drone photo was taken by my Environmental Data Analysis class at the Cloquet Forestry Center earlier this fall. It's home to quite a few beavers and beaver dams!

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Perks of being a remote sensing scientist: you can collect your satellite data and fly your drones from just about anywhere - including reclined in a giant beaver floaty drifting around a beautiful beaver pond. 😎

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An interesting phenomenon observed at the beaver ponds up in Northern Minnesota - all the grasses in the wetlands have already gone brown/dormant for winter, but the grasses growing on the actual beaver dams are still green! Why? Not sure - maybe a combo of heat retention and nutrients?

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Everything is pretty rough right now, but hey - the mini beaver dam analogs I built for a flume study have sprouted little baby willows just like we see on real beaver dams! So that’s cool, especially since the model BDAs are in a dark basement. Such inspiring little willows, pushing thru darkness…

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Though it’s fairly uncommon, some #beaver dams are incredibly tall! This dam measures 11-12ft from dam crest to stream bottom. Are the beavers that built this dam also huge? Nope! Well, no huger than normal. Just very clever with floating & pushing logs around while building.

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Super excited to share that my PhD student Keitreice Kirksey and I were featured in Episode 2: Fire of the new PBS docuseries Dynamic Planet! Check it out to learn more about beavers and wildfire, our segment starts at 28:30: www.pbs.org/video/fire-q...

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Beavers once again acting as ecosystem engineers for wildfire risk, mitigating burn severity in the most intense Colorado megafires. From @emilyfairfax.bsky.social, no surprise. Author thread here: twitter.com/EmilyFairfax...

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Are you in the Midwest? Want to learn about beaver wetlands as climate resilient natural infrastructure? 🔥🌱🦫 Come to the PPRSUM conference in Stillwater, MN Feb 25-28! I’m the opening speaker & running a post-conference beaver workshop at SAFL! prrsum.umn.edu/symposium/um...

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This is fantastic - using machine learning to find beavers. @emilyfairfax.bsky.social is the scientific advisor. apple.news/AmuxyTwXwTZy...

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"Rather than chase beavers off, it is time to invite them back" @emilyfairfax.bsky.social and Chris Jordan explain how beavers can restore wetland habitat and fight fire risk, following up on their recent paper (wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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(Beaver) Dam! That’s a big dam!

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A cool thing about the University of Minnesota is most buildings are connected via skyways or tunnels (helps in very cold weather). An even cooler thing is that there is a beaver statue in the basement of the library, just off one of the tunnels to my office building. Get to see this beauty daily.

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My department is searching for a Postdoctoral Fellow that will convert to a tenure-track Assistant Professor job after 1-2 years! Do you use eDNA? Or remote sensing? Or modeling? Or field work? Do you study environmental science? Or paleoclimate? Or BEAVERS? Our search is broad! Apply!

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What is your research brand? Unsure? Join AGU H3S Oct 12th at 1pm EDT for the 2nd Navigating Academic Waters webinar with CUAHSI @emilyfairfax.bsky.social, Dr. Eminé Fidan, and, Dr. Robert Ladwig discuss The What, Why, and How of Building Your Research Brand. Registration link in comments #Hydrology

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Very cool video on beavers and climate resilience! 🦫 vimeo.com/867219607

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Hard to beat a day out paddling on the river. Well, I suppose it would have been better if we’d seen beavs, but at least we got to look at a couple beaver lodges and plenty of chewed sticks!

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Welcome back, lil beav. It was very cool getting to give some quotes to the LA Time about the return of beavers to the Bay Area. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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What do beavers have to do with wildfire? Watch the link below and learn out all about Smokey the Beaver. youtu.be/IAM94B73bzE?...

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