Cross-scale fire effects? >20 millenarian sequoias died here in 2017 in Railroad Fire. Not too unusual local conditions IMHO-dense, not extreme. Story I heard is fire’s self-generated wind turned it into a blast furnace. Fuel-but fuel features outside this watershed. How common?

This whole original thread is good.

Biome Shift Monitoring Phytometers (BISMOPs) - a network of remotely-monitored common garden experiments to explore the response of plant functional types from different biomes to changing climate and CO2 - an SAEON collaboration through EMSAfrica project, with SANParks SA Biodiversity +

"To continue to extend the ecological tent, working group leaders should be deliberate and thoughtful in their conduct" - some thoughts on working groups from me, @PLZarnetske and @record_lab esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe…

Hearing Prof. Katharine Hayhoe talk in person was great. Hugely appealing, thought provoking, and motivating talk! Thanks @UCDavisJMIE and Dr. Sarah Oktay for organizing! High points: insights from maps of climate change attitudes in US from Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

One point Prof. Katharine Hayhoe drew out: Percent of Americans who think climate change will harm others: 59%. Percent who think it will harm them: 44% The maps depicting county level responses drive it home further, because the pattern is pretty consistent nationwide.

How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong nyti.ms/34D2av8 Title: clickbait per usual Content: useful question Problems: 1 scientific institutions, not scientists, have been cautious. Scientists sounding alarm 4 many decades. 2 This is not big cause of failure to act

Jaclyn Aliperti (she/her) Very nice defense of bats! And as Quammen pointed out a while ago in Spillover, new zoonoses tend to emerge via novel disturbance and commerce. Disrupted habitats and large scale bushmeat markets and so on. Not the bats’ fault. Not really anyone’s fault.

Unexpected delight during lockdown: @profadamsobel ’s podcast Deep Convection. Fun conversations with climate scientists, writers (Amitav Ghosh), and even a bonus epidemiology episode. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dee…

As #wildfires become #gigafires in California, Unfold releases its latest episode today, "Hotter, Drier, Windier: California Wildfires Under a Changing Climate." Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts. Featuring andrewlatimer usfs_r5 scientists ITS-Davis

This was a real interesting trip. Lots of bark-beetle killed pines, but also a fair number of sugar and western white pines that have survived drought, bark beetle, and blister rust triple whammy. Also appreciate SEKI park’s fire use program for keeping fuels down in some areas.

Judge Barrett scores big for Team Legal Realism!

New paper that reports on truly epic field study of blister rust and bark beetle spread in the southern Sierra Nevada. Alarming implications for high-elevation white pines "if present trends continue." Another great piece of work by Dr. Joan Dudney and team. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

How best (or not) to resample historical data sets to check for long term trends? New paper by Katie Stuble with BewickLabClemson explores this using community simulations and long term data sets from ucnrs.org.

Someone just asked me how I was doing and in my tired state I replied "coffee" and on reflection I think that was the correct answer.

Neat research on the subtle seasonal color changes of coniferous forest and what they “reflect”

Hi! if you have some ability to donate and interest in a science outreach program connecting Lake County kids with UC, scientists, and the outdoors, please consider donating to the Kids into Discovering Science Outreach Program crowdfund.ucdavis.edu/project/24386?… #crowdfunducdavis