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Very neat new short course offered by @caltech.edu on computer vision for ecology! cv4ecology.caltech.edu/index.html

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Mechanisms of coexistence are often unintuitive; Werner et al. explore species interactions across different environmental scenarios to bridge theoretical and empirical approaches to coexistence. 🧪🌍💚 Check out this great press summary of our recent AmNat paper! www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Excited for @kalebgoff.bsky.social's 1st dissertation chapter to be out w co-authors M Oldfather, J Nachlinger, B Smithers, @mikoontz.bsky.social, J & C Bishop & M Burke. Limited Directional Change in Mountaintop Plant Communities over 19 years in Western North America doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

IMTs are quietly talking about what the current political environment means for this year's wildland fire suppression efforts, but it deserves a larger and more public consideration. 1/

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

Solidarity to my fellow decimates. ✊

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

“decimate” Despite my demographic, I think about the Roman Empire zero (0) times per day. But I do like words. Paul Brians taught me that “decimate” refers to eliminating 10% of people in an “unruly” unit as punishment. ~220k probies/~2.4m total… The Federal Service is being decimated.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Whew, been a busy weekend, happy to get this quick episode out to explain how these federal cuts will impact fire response this summer. Give it a listen at the link.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

submitted 88 days ago • 1260 comments

This is super cool. Such a success story.

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Now out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social l.bsky.social led by Kaitlyn Barthell 🧪🌎🐝🏵️ Competition for floral resources among bumble bees intensifies at higher elevations. As climate change pushes new bumble bee species upslope, pressures of climate and competition mount. doi.org/10.1111/oik....

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

when we imagine lives claimed by wildfire, we picture the flames. but the smoke is the real killer, claiming tens of thousands. and the victims can be far from the flames, dying long after the fire went out. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 101 days ago • 5 comments

A nice summary of this recent research about that other ecological disturbance in the west and its rising impact on wildlife phys.org/news/2024-12...

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

New publication alert! Check out our paper on the “Governance of Indigenous data in open Earth systems science” co- led by myself and Dr. Katie Jones. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

Looks like NIFC’s website is down?

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Resources for Native peoples in the Los Angeles wildfires ictnews.org/news/resourc...

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Let the social and legal backlash be brutal— there has to be no incentive to fly drones over active incidents. So dangerous, and it makes it so much harder to make a case for legitimate and needed drone operations in service to fire science and disaster management. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

A disaster is a function of three things: the hazard itself, people's vulnerability to the hazard, and their exposure. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social explains eloquently how the LA fires are a perfect storm of all three. Read more:

submitted 104 days ago • 10 comments

Reminder - it's easy to judge a situation from afar. You have to bring the safety home. How much do you know about your fire department? Do you know its average response time? Its capacity for responding to a natural disaster? Does your local gov have a plan for that kind of response? Is it public?

submitted 103 days ago • 8 comments

Okay, a couple of points to counter what this scientist says here. When Keeley says fires “were never very frequent” in SoCal, he’s talking about natural (lightning) ignitions and he’s ignoring the more/frequent, smaller-scale burns lit by Indigenous people.🧵 (1/4)

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

Great explainer of the increasingly thirsty atmosphere. The atmospheric sponge 🧽 in fact increases exponentially with rising temperatures.

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

International resource exchanges are vital for fire management of extreme fires and fire seasons. Canada has benefitted greatly from international partners each fire season, and I am glad to see CIFFC and individual provinces doing what they can for the California fires! 🔗 www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7426834

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

I love seeing the love for the Watch Duty app. They totally cracked the nut for how to get critical fire info to people in real time. Several other apps came before it and failed to take off, but I think the human in the loop set WD apart. The journalism/tech fusion seems key. www.watchduty.org

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Wildfires are inevitable in the West. Widespread devastation need not be. It’s time to re-read this piece from @michaelwara.bsky.social on how to do this, by making communities more resistant to burning, and by having more effective approach to land management.

submitted 105 days ago • 10 comments

As we watch the #wildfire tragedy in SoCal, I'm thinking about root causes, and solutions. I'm sure I'll be writing lots more reflections going forward, but for now, posting this @volts.wtf episode here on insurance. Is this the event that breaks the FAIR plan's back? www.volts.wtf/p/climate-ch...

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

Incredibly relevant and timely research on climate whiplash, the consequences of which are unfolding in real time in the #losangeleswildfires 🔥🌎🧪

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

We've been studying wildfire recovery for the last 4 years. It's a horrible mess. Many survivors think the worst is over when the fire ends, but then comes paperwork, weird federal rules, scams, etc. Some never rebuild or lose everything. Follow guidance from those who have been there, done that.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment