🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts
Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience?
🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺)
🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪
🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺
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Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
Drought a huge concern this summer. Palmer drought severity index (PDSI) by state for March 2026 had 6 states with their worst drought on record, with 22 others experiencing a top-10 worst drought. Only Michigan had an above-average lack of drought. From: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
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Reposting this filter that turns google ai summary off. Has been life changing for me.
books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.
Gantt chart? More like Cantt chart.
If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*
Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.
GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH
github.com/settings/cop...
Saw this cool mariposa lily (?) complete with matching pollinator. And a lot of globe mallow.
Too many scientists are publishing generalized frameworks. In this study we present a novel framework for understanding generalized frameworks
does anyone want to talk to me about frost rings?
-Why are they not shared within cores from the same tree?
-Are frost rings more likely in tree with recent insect defoliation?
Striking signal for much above-normal temperatures across California, the Great Basin, northern Rockies and Desert Southwest from March 15-20. Temperatures will be more typical of summer than early spring (potentially 25 degrees above normal) in many areas and monthly records could be shattered.
Cover of The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Finished reading this wonderful novel this morning. Felt unintentionally timely.
There are some papers that do 13c, we cite two: Gaylord and Rissanen. And always possible Sue Trumbore has done something...
As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.
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I always forget to tag 🌱🌎🧪
Trees can be killed by beetles during drought without obvious reductions in chemical defenses. Perhaps related: first measurements of D14C in exuded oleoresin (as far as I know) show resin C is up to 10 years old. academic.oup.com/treephys/art...
Google with AI buttons
Google without AI buttons
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Tree ring image showing some notable drought years.
Plodding along through the 1950s
My colleagues Calvin Farris (NPS) and Ellis Margolis (USGS) led a landmark study in paleofire reconstruction. In addition to showing that fire management can restore past fire regimes, the demonstrated methods are a first in dendrochronology. 1/6 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
More grim news about the West's snow drought:
🛰️ Lowest Feb. 1 snow cover in the satellite record (since 2001)
📉 Record-low Feb. 1 statewide snowpack in Oregon, Colorado, and Utah
⚠️ “A Dry, Warm January Leaves the West With the Worst Snowpack in Decades”
www.drought.gov/drought-stat...
Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about solar storms.
A Tansley review published this week shows that trees don’t all record this carbon in the same way. Understanding those differences is key to interpreting Earth’s history of space weather.
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
this is so cool. the linked video is also wild
Back in 2021, I was trying to make "SUP" dendro a thing for us wetland/coastal investigators. We hypothesize this pond was created by a fault scarp ~200 years ago, drowning the cedars, and changing the landscape of Bainbridge Island, WA! doi.org/10.1130/B383... #DendroDating #TreeHistory
PostDoc position in #dendrochronology at U of Giessen (Germany) to work on medieval climate and societal changes in the Caucasus. Dream position: a great international team to work with, super research topic and amazing field sites. www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... #PostdocJobs #AcademicJobs
Great piece in AZ Water Agenda explaining options in draft EIS for managing Colo River water in drier future. Though I suspect future hydrology will be even worse than pictured, this may be drastic enough to finally get the attention of people here in AZ! azwateragenda.beehiiv.com/p/the-cost-o...
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Very spooky! Thx steve!
