smmunson.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Our 2024 Annual Report is here! Below, excerpts from the report including a Letter from our Director, @theresacrimmins.bsky.social, and highlights of #phenology accomplishments made possible by our partners and observers! Read the full 2024 Annual Report at usanpn.org/files/npn/re...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

UAV-based models are effective for monitoring vegetation characteristics but may lose accuracy under extreme environmental change. Our new research led by @blackburnrc.bsky.social tests the limits of model transferability using a long-term climate manipulation link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“Rapid ecological data collection from 360-degree imagery using visualisation and immersive sampling in the R pannotator package” provides a pretty cool work flow for inexpensively measuring plant communities and could potentially provide a pretty large database of images to integrate with AI.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇 Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Highlights of really cool new research coming out of ESA journals, would highly recommend checking all of these out-- especially the one about seed sourcing for restoration :) esa.org/blog/2025/03...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to share a new paper with novel insights into the impacts of precip variability in a semiarid #rangeland ecosystem. Unfortunately, with unconstitutional layoffs at #USDA #ARS, we have been forced to transition this longterm experimental facility into dormancy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

@agu.org is offering resources to scientists un-jobbed in the past few weeks. Free membership, abstract fees, and career guidance and connections. It’s a start. go.agu.org/index.php/em...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 Job Boards 🚨 Some resources for those who may need it now 🧵: 🌎🌾🧪🌿🌳🌲🍁🪶🪴🦦🎓 #PlantScience #Ecology #JobAlert - Rangelands Job Board | rangelands.org/job-listings/ - TAMU Natural Resources Job Board | jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu - Western Landowners Alliance Job Board | westernlandowners.org/job-board/

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

“Dismantling the behind-the-scenes scientific research programs that backstop American life could lead to long-lasting, perhaps irreparable damage to everything from the quality of health care to the public’s access to next-generation consumer technologies”

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Grassland and rangeland folks! We are seeking someone for our rangeland ecology Chair position. Full title OR at least 10 years experience outside of academia. LOTS of financial support: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Work with me!!!!!! #range @sustainablerangeland #grassland

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

First before-after comparison to assess the effect of large-scale #solar energy development in Desert SW. Alternative construction methods employed to provision ecosystem function and energy production. See results in @jappliedecology.bsky.social paper led by Claire Karban doi.org/10.1111/1365...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a piece in Forbes by @drshepherd2013.bsky.social about our recent study on the economic impact to the USA of dust storms and wind erosion. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Meet COSST: A data-driven tool streamlining seed procurement for restoration 📊 Tailored to site and species, it maps seed-sourcing priority areas across provenance strategies - from optimizing local sources to climate adaptation 🌏🧪 🔗 https://buff.ly/3WCE4Ov

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Hi folks, this is just a quick rough cut of a Dryland Ecology starter pack. Help me build it by telling me you want to be on it, or suggesting someone else to list. go.bsky.app/BkjLRGY

submitted 52 days ago • 12 comments

mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual #herbaria from openly available specimen images New in #AppsPlantSci by @tvasconcelos.bsky.social & @jboyko.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @r-foundation.bsky.social @gbif.org #botany #biodiversity #iamabotanist

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

Happy to share a new paper, "Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes," led by the amazing Miriam Johnston w/ @mallorybarnes.bsky.social and others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Our department at the University of Nevada is looking for a Chair to help lead us into the future! We are young and very research active applied ecology and environmental science department. Come join us!

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

“Understanding soil seed bank biodiversity and how it relates to edaphic gradients and degrees of land degradation provides insight into the restoration potential of degraded arid ecosystems in a changing climate.”

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

My first book, Phenology, will be published just in time for spring, on Mar 4! @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255105... This basic primer provides a thorough summary of what #phenology is, how it is changing, & why we should care. Read an excerpt: www.usanpn.org/news/article...

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

Last chance to apply for a fire ecology/remote sensing post-doc to inform inter-agency management in the SWUS. Come work and live in a terrific mountain town. Closes 1/16

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Applied grassland ecologists! Consider applying for this job at K-State! Faculty position and director of 2 prairie research sites. (photo is one of my fave summer storms at one of the sites where I worked for many years) careers.k-state.edu/jobs/profess...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

What a nice start to 2025! The second chapter of my PhD is now out in Ecology Letters! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Be my new work supervisor! Arizona State University is hiring a new Director of the ASU Biocollections with a concurrent appointment as a tenured associate or full professor. I'd really love for this person to be an entomologist so ento friends, please share! apply.interfolio.com/159166

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

Want the latest news on southwest US vegetation management? Check it out: mailchi.mp/f222e613b832...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Are you a member of @SERestoration southwest chapter? You should apply for a workshop grant! We provide funding to promote the communication of challenges and approaches to SW restoration managers! Q's? ask me! chapter.ser.org/southwest/re...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Check out our new Special Issue, which features 16 papers on the Grazing Effects on Vegetation: vegsciblog.org/2024/09/26/g...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of interesting findings here: 'Large global-scale vegetation sensitivity to daily rainfall variability' www.nature.com/articles/s41... 'daily rainfall variability and its trends are affecting global vegetation photosynthesis, with potential implications for the carbon cycle and food security'

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Do you have #SeedTrait #germination data? SeedArc wants you to submit them! Lydia Guja put out the call at #ESAus2024, but SeedArc is looking for data from anywhere in the world (especially underrepresented areas from the existing database). More info: www.unioviedo.es/seedarc/inde... 🧪🌾🌏

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

We are hiring a postdoc in my lab @colorado.edu to work on this NSF CAREER proposal (tinyurl.com/cak8dkza) to quantify how and when global change (drought, warming) alters the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. Job here: colorado.avature.net/searchhub/Jo... 1/2

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Fire ecology research assistant (MS-level) position open at Northern Arizona University. The selected candidate will help develop remote sensing methods to map fuels and determine treatment effectiveness. Apply by 1/13/25. Search for position 608197 here: hr.peoplesoft.nau.edu/psp/ph92prta...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Check out this recently published paper by PhD candidate Marilynn Vazquez-Cruz on the evolutionary origin and climate niche space of succulent plants: doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #Botany #PlantScience

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Grassland restorations must better foster forbs to facilitate high biodiversity Check out @ashishnerlekar.bsky.social's recent call for "forb-centric" grassland restoration Message if you lack access and would like to a copy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

submitted 112 days ago • 3 comments

Guys, we gotta talk about soil health. It's quite the buzzword & pretty awesome. But also... ppl are spending lots of 💵💵💵 on these products. So it's worth digging into their quality. Today I wrote about scientists doing just that--> www.kcur.org/news/2024-12... #climatechange #agriculture #gardening

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

How well do climate modes explain precipitation variability? 'This outcome provides a clear rationale to limit expectations of predictability from modes of variability in all but a few select regions and seasons.' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Fire ecology/remote sensing post-doc opening at Northern Arizona University to work on a number of projects evaluating fuel treatment effectiveness in Southwest US with USGS, BLM, USFWS, USFS, BIA, and DoD Search for position number 608172 in this link: hr.peoplesoft.nau.edu/psp/ph92prta...

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

"Intensified fire regimes reduced overall plant abundance, diversity & fitness. Adverse effects were stronger due to increased fire severity than frequency" A global meta-analysis by Grau-Andrés @creaf.cat @fireurisk.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌍🔥🌿🌾🌐 wildfire biodiversity

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

Joshua Tree National Park is looking for a new Vegetation Ecologist, a great chance to take on an important hands-on role in conservation of Mojave Desert plant communities 🌿

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments

Cool postdoctoral opportunities with the Climate Assessment of the Southwest (CLIMAS) on wildfire information and recovery arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... and arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks @drtravis.bsky.social for creating this wonderful restoration ecology feed: bsky.app/profile/drtr... Such Bluesky custom feeds should become popular very quickly with conference organizers wanting to bundle and broadcast conference-related content from Bluesky users during their conferences.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Great position in Colorado for a field botanist open to noon, mountain time, 29 Nov 2024. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/153.... Field botanists have physically and mentally challenging jobs but are among the most content at their work that I know, and I know many of them as I am one of them.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

We just published a new paper that synthesize climate change and disturbance effects on southwestern forests. This was written by grad students and guest speakers in my forest ecology class, including @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social @chrismarsh.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 131 days ago • 1 comment