Remarkable!! All areas in magenta indicate a record breaking mid-upper level (500mb) ridge by the weekend. This is an immense heat dome maxing out at 4.2 standard deviations (sigma) from the mean. A ridge magnitude on par with June 2021🧵

"Rural Indigenous communities are often on the frontlines of climate change and have been among the hardest-hit in the recent fires. In Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, 45 buildings including the community’s elder centre, have been burned." theguardian.com/world/2023/may…

🌳A global assessment by IUFRO shows that the health benefits of forests and trees far outweigh the negative impacts, such as allergies. The rise in #allergies is due to unnatural and unhealthy lifestyles exacerbated by #ClimateChange. 👉🏽 ow.ly/H6Fj50Okoj5 cc Chris Albert

Sign-up! On Aug 12th, I’m leading a multi-sensory forest immersion experience at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest in Maple Ridge. There will be time to discuss the health benefits (& my research) over tea and snax.🌲💚 wildandimmersive.ubc.ca/special-events…

Expect a busy week for fire activity in Canada. A massive ridge cover much of Canada keeping it warm and dry. Lightning activity means new fire starts. Wildfires very active in BC- NWT- AB- SK (GOES 18 band 7 bright white active fires). Active fires in ON and NS - not shown.

It's easy and fun to become a community scientist and help enhance BC Parks. An incredible iNaturalist project led by John Reynolds @BStarzomski 🦅🦋🦔🌱 Learn more: bcinat.com/get-involved #citsci #biodiversity #bcparks

Yikes! Now, Quebec is on fire. Numerous wildfires seen on GOES East mid-ir band 7 below - bright white area very active wildfires. GOES East Geocolor also attached, and you can see all the smoke plumes associated with the fires.

Area burned is Alberta is now 1,378,739 ha that is the highest annual area burned in the 1959- 2023 record. ciffc.net/situation/ (QC and SK are also over 1 million ha) This record number will increase as AB is on fire again today. GOES 18 - white = active fires.

Currently in Canada some nonsense is circulating that wildfires and climate change are not related. Many research efforts show that we are seeing more fires as we warm due to anthropogenic climate change including one study just published in PNAS.

John Innes Dr John Innes, Dean, University of British Columbia University of British Columbia spoke on how Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve is facing similar ecological issues as in other parts of the world and it is bound to face more due to climate change if corrective measures are not taken.

John Innes, FRBC Chair of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada visited SACON on July 3. He delivered a talk on “Old growth forests in British Columbia: preservation or harvest?”

Welcome to 1t.org, Canada Chapter 🇨🇦! I hope many Canadian companies will join TELUS, Manulife in making commitments to conserve & restore forests. More than 10M ha forests lost to fires this year alone! We need to reduce emissions & restore nature. Now.

1t.org is reaching new heights! 🌳 Today marks the launch of the 1t.org Canada Chapter with groundbreaking pledges of over 1 billion trees from leading companies TELUS Teck Resources Manulife tentree & veritree bit.ly/43wqLzR

Record-breaking wildfires blanket Brazil with smoke grist.org/drought/amazon… Record-breaking wildfires in the Amazon are causing smoke to blanket the region, impacting air quality and isolating Indigenous villages. Over 2,700 wildfires have been reported in the first 11 days of

Glad to see our new #bamboo website up and running at sicabamboo.org.

Bamboo House

Job alert! 📢 @ubcforestry are hiring multiple faculty members (TT-teaching & research, all levels & lecturers/sessional lecturers) to join the new Centre for Indigenous Land Stewardship, starting July 2024. Please share widely! forestry.ubc.ca/career-opportu…

⁦@cindyprescott6⁩ from ⁦@ubcforestry⁩ imagines what is possible if we fully immerse ourselves in the idea of #sustainableforestmanagement. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/1IxOnO…

Enjoying IUFRO with my @ubcforestry lab mates John Innes and Vaishali Vasudeva 🌲

Meeting with my academic grandpa John Innes at #IUFRO2024