We just published a paper that shows including lateral flow of soil moisture matters for climate once you get down to km-scale modelling of the land surface. More and more of our work is at these scales so we need to start including processes like this. 🧪
hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...
New paper alert (thread)!
"Whitebark pine [WBP] in the United States projected to experience an 80% reduction in climatically suitable area by the mid-21st century"
In this paper, we modeled WBP climatic suitability under reference period (1961-1990) and mid-21st century climate
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Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
New research finds that spring runoff consists of more "old" water than new snowmelt, whereas "new" snowmelt infiltrates to replace previously stored water. Forests likely depend on groundwater that has been stored for multiple years.
Funded by Natl Science Foundation
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
Even when the political winds shift, science must keep moving forward.
That’s why @AGU and @ametsoc are stepping up with a first-of-its-kind special collection on climate change in the U.S.—across 29+ peer-reviewed journals. 🌍📚
Read all about it: buff.ly/6G05hQD
What is a forest?
Our review discusses different definitions of "forest" and implications for assessing status and trends such as deforestation, degradation, and encroachment.
US NFI definition is broader than the UN FAO or Resources Planning Act Assessments.
doi.org/10.1016/j.tf...
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Super excited to share our new paper out today in Nature Water led by Christina McCabe. @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social
“The ecological benefits of more room for rivers”
Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Free to read version: rdcu.be/eeuBx
#rivers #floods #biodiversity #resilience
Commentary by editors-in-chief of AGU journals: A diverse, equitable, and inclusive scientific community improves the quality of science. Research without political pressure or interference increases public trust in science.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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"If science is to honour one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science."
-- Arthur Caplan
Don't wait out four hard years: speak truth to power NOW
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump admin looking at @forestservice.bsky.social budget cuts:
- $316 million cut from forest and rangeland research, which is most of its annual budget
- $40 million from urban & community forestry, virtually its entire budget
via @eenews.bsky.social
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
This is insane. In a time of climate and biodiversity crises, we need Forest Service Research more than ever.
Sharing as a member of AGU's pubs committee:
AGU is joining a lawsuit in support of federal workers. They need stories/examples of how loss of federal jobs is affecting society. Please share this request with your colleagues & communities. Deadline is this week.💧🧪🌲
forms.monday.com/forms/f553b2...
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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 ...
"As political parties in the US and beyond seek to recodify white supremacist philosophies, STEM leadership must take urgent action to protect and support all members of our diverse scientific community" 👏👏👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
The New Mexico Reforestation Center is hiring a director. We are looking for a dynamic leader that can develop and execute a plan to establish NMRC as a leader in science-based reforestation. Please help advertise the position and reach out if you have questions.
careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...
I’m working hard to find glimmers (micromoments of joy, peace, and happiness) and I wanted to share one of today’s glimmers.
Here is a river otter sunning himself on the banks of the American River.
Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...
When monitoring whitebark pine and limber pine, how accurate are species identifications of these similar species? This paper answers the question, suggests future data quality improvements, and got an Editor's Choice award from Forest Science. Uses Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data. 🌲 🍁🧪
Very interesting/useful analysis of climate effects on major tree species across CONUS, considers both survival and growth. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Tree rings reveal mixtures of aspen and spruce exhibit greater drought resilience in a planted field experiment www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037...
From mapping forest function and disturbances, exploring forest dynamics to mortality from drought, 2024 has seen several analyses we've been working on for years finally come out. Here's a quick summary of them, @julenastigarraga.bsky.social @n-acil.bsky.social @daijunliu.bsky.social
Curious how forest microclimate and soil microbes drive carbon cycling in a changing climate? 🌡️🌳🍄We're offering a 4-year PhD position at @mycopat.bsky.social, SLU-Uppsala. A cool new project in collaboration with @linegreis.bsky.social Apply now or help spread the word!
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Thank you for the kind words! I look forward to watching the whole session when it's available.
Enjoy the meeting! I find AGU so energizing and hope to get even a little bit of excitement remotely.
If anyone wonders what the terms "AI" or "ML" have meant historically in computer science, this image is a great summary. 👇
Missing from this image is more specific terms like "LLM". That's a smaller area inside of the "Deep Learning" bubble. And "GPT" is even smaller inside of "LLM".
**FORESTGEO STAFF SCIENTIST POSITION!** We are hiring a Research Ecologist to focus on Central and South American Forest Dynamics, to be based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Smithsonian staff scientist positions are excellent, as is the ForestGEO team! Come be our colleague!
We have an open postdoc position in the Quantitative Ecosystem Dynamics lab at UC Berkeley: forms.gle/Nx1EHYiCv3yR...
in the areas of ecohydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, and global change ecology.
Please spread the word!
