
Sophie Wilkinson
@supermosssophie
🔥 🌲 🐛 👩🚒 Assistant Prof - REM @SFU | Applied Ecology - Wildfire, Fuels, Peatlands. #PeatECR | she/her
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http://fire-ecosystems.com 27-02-2016 18:21:44
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17th week of Canadian #wildfires & continued growth in fire emissions for Northwest Territories, British Columbia & Alberta with NWT surpassing 2014 to set new record for the last two decades. #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data based on MODIS🛰️active fire obs ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/datas…








Late September increase in Canada #wildfire emissions, by approx 50 Mt C (> some years summer & annual totals), in just a couple of days last weekend in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data, estimated from MODIS🛰️ FRP obs shown by Neil Lareau⬇️ ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/datas… #pyrocene


Congratulations to #SFU's newest honorary degree recipient Phyllis Webstad, who is the founder & ambassador of the Orange Shirt Society and is Northern Secwépemc (Shuswap) from the Stswecem’c Xget’tem First Nation. 🧡


2023 #NobelPeatPrize nominees for top McMaster #PeatPaper are all lab alumni. Research was completed or started while a member of the MAC Ecohydrology Lab. Congratulations to Renée McDonald, Colin McCarter, and Sophie Wilkinson! #NobelPeatPrize winners will be announced Nov 29.


Today Dr. William J. Ripple et al released the 2023 report on the terrifying state of our #climate. It should be read by every policymaker, decisionmaker, and journalist on the planet. Here is a thread of some key takeaways. 1/n


Honored and excited for the results Mike Waddington! Perhaps a good time to announce that 'Wildfire and degradation accelerate northern peatland carbon release" is now available for download researchgate.net/publication/37…




Dr. Lori Daniels (@LoriDanielsUBC) is the inaugural Koerner Chair in Wildfire Coexistence at #UBCForestry.🌲🔥 Join Dr. Daniels as she co-hosts the Wildfire Coexistence in BC: Solutions Symposium June 3-5 at UBC Okanagan. Register: bit.ly/4asM89C 🔗


Great recce of burned and harvested peatlands this week at Tomahawk AB with Sophie Wilkinson and Mike Waddington students as part of NSERC / CRSNG Alliance. And this happened 🥳! Such a memorable, sweet thought for my birthday!

