📣NEW PAPER 📣A review of PlanetScope CubeSats for forest monitoring

✍️: Shields, Coops, Achim (@alexisachim.bsky.social), Hamelin, Mulverhill

📖: Science of Remote Sensing

doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...

#planetScope #forestry #highresolution #nearrealtime #multispectral #IRSSlab #UBCForestry

Microsoft Excel is a valuable skill for most professionals, yet existing courses have failed to teach the platform effectively.

#UBCForestry Assistant Professor Andrés Varhola created Excelling in Life, a free resource for all UBC students, staff and faculty.

🔗 forestry.ubc.ca/new-canvas-c...

#IRSSLab roll call! 🙌

Brianne Boufford, José Riofrió, and many more are lighting up #Silvilaser2025 with some awesome talks and stellar science!

Still so much good stuff ahead—come hang with us!

#UBCForestry #RemoteSensing

@silvilaser2025.bsky.social

Congratulations to Yinan (Elaine) Ye on successfully completing her Master of Science! 🎓

Her thesis, "Segmenting and Updating Forest Polygons Over Three Decades Using Time-Series Landsat Imagery," showcases her incredible hard work and dedication.

Don’t be a stranger! 🌲🧳

#UBCForestry #IRSSLab

One to remember! 🎓

Dr. Evan (Bud) Muise finds his place on the wall after the successful defense of his thesis: "Assessing forest ecological integrity and protected area effectiveness in British Columbia with satellite remote sensing"

Congratulations, Bud!

#IRSSlab #UBCForestry #RemoteSensing

Join us in congratulating #UBCForestry Professor and Research Chair in Global Change Ecology of Northern Ecosystems, Dr. Isla Myers-Smith, on being named a Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.🍁

forestry.ubc.ca/news/isla-my...

NEW PAPER 📣 Challenges and opportunities for the operationalization of forest-assisted migration in Canada
doi.org/10.1139/cjfr...

✍️: Wotherspoon (@dr-spoon.bsky.social), D'Orangeville, Thiffault, Pedlar, Raymond, Ravn, Spearing, Isaac-Renton, Godbout, Gravel-Grenier, McPhee

#IRSSlab #UBCForestry

NEW PAPER 📣 Temporally Consistent Forest Stand Segmentation using Landsat Imagery

dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS...

📖: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

✍️: Ye, Coops, Hermosilla @txominhermos.bsky.social, Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social, Gergel

#Segmentation #ChangeDetection #Landsat #ubcforestry

2025 Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day | Join Land and Food Systems and Forestry for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day on Sept 30.

Join #UBCForestry and @landfood.ubc.ca on September 30 at 1956 Main Mall as we unite for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day.

Learn more: bit.ly/osd-2025
#UBC #OrangeShirtDay

Melissa McHale Receives 2025 Wall Fellowships Award | UBC Forestry UBC Forestry congratulates Dr. Melissa McHale on receiving the 2025 Wall Fellowships, UBC’s highest-value internal research awards.

We are proud to announce that #UBCForestry Associate Professor Dr. Melissa McHale is one of two recipients of the 2025 Wall Fellowships, UBC’s highest-value internal research awards.👏

Learn more about Dr. McHale's work and the Wall Fellowships: forestry.ubc.ca/news/2025-wa...

Congratulations again and again and again to Dr. Ramon Melser! (@ramonmelser.bsky.social)

He joins the wall after successfully defending his thesis: “Enhanced assessment of boreal vegetation productivity using integrated satellite-derived datasets and analysis approaches.”

#IRSSLab #UBCForestry

Turning Slash into Solutions: UBC Forestry’s CHP Academy Builds Bioenergy Skills Across Canada | UBC Forestry The Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Academy, based at the Alex Fraser Research Forest, has successfully wrapped up its June 2025 training.

#UBCForestry Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Academy, based at the Alex Fraser Research Forest, has wrapped up its summer 2025 field training! 🪵

🔗 Read more about the technical skills and strategic knowledge participants gained: forestry.ubc.ca/.../turning-...

Work hard, play hard! 🌲✨ The #IRSSLab just wrapped up our annual summer retreat.

This week away gave lab members the chance to share research updates, pick up new skills from colleagues and guests, and, of course, enjoy some much-needed R&R!

#UBCForestry #remotesensing

In this issue, we delve into the social sciences of forestry, highlighting how the academic work, career paths and actions taken by our #UBCForestry community are shaping the future for the sake of humans and the planet.🌎👤

forestry.ubc.ca/news/branchl...

Members from the IRSS attended the #WIRED2025 symposium to present their research on overhead power lines across forested landscapes, as well as engage with industry and project participants.

Wonderful work from James (@jamesmcglade.bsky.social), Eliceo and Celine!

#IRSSlab #ubcforestry

Canadian wildfires are choking American cities. Here's what to know 500+ out-of-control fires in Canada are sending smoke across the border, creating hazardous air quality from Chicago to New York.

"Smoke knows no political boundaries — and neither does fire," says #UBCForestry Professor and Forest Ecologist Dr. Lori Daniels 🔥

The smoke from large wildfires in Canada is drifting southwards to American cities, impacting the air quality in the US.

🔗 Read: www.aol.com/canadian-wil...

Federal forest report obscures logging’s impact on wildlife and climate, conservation groups say Government should focus on the quality of Canada’s forests, not just the quantity, advocates say

Natural Resources Canada released its annual report called the State of Canada’s Forests.🌳

#UBCForestry Lecturer and MIF Coordinator Peter Wood and Professor Emeritus Gary Bull share their thoughts with @theglobeandmail.com

🔗 Read: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

From tree cover to green roofs, how are cities fighting extreme heat? - National | Globalnews.ca Studies have shown cities can see higher temperatures during heat waves compared with rural areas, but cities are taking steps to try to reduce that impact.

Vancouver recently increased its urban forest strategy to aim for 30% tree coverage by 2050.🌳

#UBCForestry Master of Urban Forestry Leadership Program Director, Sara Barron, explains that "trees take time to grow, but they can still benefit cities in the long term,"🌱

globalnews.ca/news/1129225...

Clear-cutting linked to 18-fold rise in extreme floods, UBC study finds - UBC News New research finds long-term impacts on flood size and frequency decades after trees are removed

Clear-cutting can make severe floods 18 times more frequent!

#UBCForestry Professor Younes Alila and PhD student Henry Pham were a part of a research team analyzing two adjacent watersheds on how clearcutting exacerbates flooding.💧

🔗 Read: news.ubc.ca/2025/07/clea...

The newest addition to the wall!

Huge congratulations to Madi Brown (madisophia.bsky.social‬) on her successful MSc defense. We wish her all the best on her next chapter at ‪ETH Zurich (ethz.ch���).

Viel Erfolg, Madi! ✨

#UBCForestry #IRSSLab

The 'why' of wildfires There are 72 countries in the world whose landmass is smaller than the amount of hectares of forest that have burned across Canada this year — and wildfire season isn't over yet.

The provincial government estimates that almost a third of forests in BC's northeast could burn by the end of the year.🔥

#UBCForestry Professor @loridanielsubc.bsky.social says, "the area has been in a multi-year drought lasting six or seven years now."

🔗 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/o...

NEW PAPER 📣 Estimating 3D individual tree crown growth using multi-temporal LiDAR

doi.org/10.1080/2150...

📖: Remote Sensing Letters

✍️: McGlade (jamesmcglade.bsky.social‬) & Coops

@forestry.ubc.ca

#remotesensing #ubcforestry #irsslab #LiDAR #ALS #randomforest #alphashape

NEW PAPER 📣 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑠-𝑓𝑖𝑟

#OpenAccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...

📖: Science of Remote Sensing

✍️: Waite, Coops, Grubinger, Isaac-Renton, Degner, King and Liu

#remotesensing #ubcforestry #irsslab #LiDAR #multispectral #drought

Job post: CERC in Natural Resources Governance Job Post: UBC Forestry is recruiting a leading researcher in Natural Resources Governance for a Canada Excellence Research Chair nomination.

#UBCForestry is hiring a researcher in Natural Resources Governance who is eligible for nomination for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC).

Learn more about the position and apply here: forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...

Welcome to the #UBCForestry family! We're thrilled to have you!🌲

#UBC #MalcolmKnapp #Research #Forest #MapleRidge #BritishColumbia #UniversityofBritishColumbia #UBCforestry #forestry #canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFyQ...

3/3 Thank you 🙏

Research was supported by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) & partly by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

#remotesensing #ubcforestry #irsslab #singlephotonlidar #borealforest #attentionmechanism #pointbaseddeeplearning #UNet #neuralnetwork

Remember all those Stanley Park coyote attacks? Blame the pandemic, says researcher UBC research reveals a correlation between pandemic restrictions and unprecedented coyote attacks in Stanley Park in 2020-21. Read more.

#UBCForestry Associate Professor Sarah Benson-Amram shares that by monitoring and understanding coyote behaviour, “we want to improve outcomes for people, their pets and for coyotes,”👥

🔗 Read via @vancouversun.bsky.social: vancouversun.com/news/stanley...

Smoke knows no boundaries: What Canada's fires mean for the U.S. in the future More than 200 wildfires are raging across Canada, sending a thick blanket of choking smoke through the U.S. Midwest. Experts says climate change means U.S. residents better get used to it.

The impact of wildfires and smoke in Canada can be felt southward in the United States.🔥

#UBCForestry Professor Dr. @loridanielsubc.bsky.social discusses how the start of fire season can have cross-border effects on ecosystems and communities.

🔗 Read via @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

Malcolm Knapp Research Forest Scavenger Hunt | UBC Forestry Embark on an exploratory, fact-finding mission through UBC’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest and enter for a chance to win exciting prizes.

The adventure begins!🌲

From June 7-30, visit the #UBCForestry Malcolm Knapp Research Forest for a Scavenger Hunt to win great prizes!🔎🗺️

Follow the Explorer map to various locations to answer questions and learn about the forest along the way.🌱

forestry.ubc.ca/events/malco...