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BC EMERGENCY ALERT: an #Evacuation Order has been issued by the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary for the #GrandForksBC area due to the Goosmus #BCWildfire. This wildfire is a threat to life & safety. Impacted residents must evacuate NOW. More info: emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/25sep24/

I’m excited to announce we’ve joined forces with Association for Fire Ecology Springer Ecology to form a “Fire Social Science Section” of the journal #FireEcology. Celebrating #diversity across #geography and career stages, we aim for a rigorous and fair review process: springeropen.com/collections/fi…

my department Montana State University is hiring a landscape ecologist. it's a great place to work and a particularly nice geographic location for this discipline—please reach out if you have any questions about the position: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43622

I had also created an #EarthEngine App to visualize NOAA's HMS smoke 💨 and fire 🔥 products. You can check out the app from link below; additional details are in my GitHub repo. Link: globalfires.earthengine.app/view/hms-smoke GitHub: github.com/tianjialiu/HMS…

The Wet’suwet’en nation is fighting to protect their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth. YINTAH, a feature-length documentary spanning more than a decade of their fight, is now on Netflix.

excited for this man to lose today so he can take a break from posting about how the illegal seizure of unceded First Nations lands is justified by the invention of the lightbulb

Election day in BC. No excuses, get out and swim to your local polling station today.

Update: the manifesting worked. #PhDone

The District of #NorthVancouver has issued an #Evacuation Order for the area of Cove Creek on Panorama Dr. due to flooding. Flood waters are a threat to life & safety. Impacted residents must evacuate NOW. More info & map: ow.ly/6AWm50TPp2Z #BCFlood #BC North Shore Emergency Management

#northvan #westvan residents. One final update tonight from NSEM. Please share. Short-term emergency supports ARE available to residents who have experienced significant consequences/impacts due to yesterday’s storm and are unable to stay in their home. 1/2

Yesterday's BC Election remains to close to call for several ridings and the overall balance of power, but I decided to do a quick land-vs-people vote animation anyway. (Cross-posting with one day delay from the other site where the air is cleaner and skies are bluer.)

Fall 2024 Canadian Wildland Fire & Smoke Newsletter is here! 🔥📰 This issue covers aerial suppression effectiveness, wildfire evacuations, wildfire perimeters, characterizing fuels and fire potential in Jasper and the impacts of the 2023 wildfire season. canadawildfire.org/newsletter

Come work with me at #westernu! The successful candidate will take over the core lab course that I am currently teaching and add some pedagogical research. The course has an amazing teaching partner and great support from technicians. uwo.ca/facultyrelatio…

NEW PAPER: Are bears helping out one of their favourite foods, huckleberries, by eating them? We paired germination trials and thousands of GPS locations from collared bears to understand "how" this might help a seed germinate and disperse Cole Burton journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

I must say, rumors of #ScienceTwitter's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Almost without fail, when I get a Google Scholar alert about a paper, I already saw it on Twitter a day or two earlier. To all the incredible scientists on here- please stay! You're making an impact.

Broadleaf tree species like aspen have an important role to play for wildfire risk mitigation in the context of climate change. However, forest industry practices that seek to eliminate hardwoods have been widespread in BC since the 1980s. Read more in this recent interview.

I'm pleased to share our recent collaborative publication in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research investigating the impacts and drivers of the 2023 wildfires in British Columbia and identifying six transformative strategies to coexist with wildfire. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

"I think it’s quite clear, based on the impacts of recent fire seasons, that the current status quo isn’t working," said Dr. Jen Baron, a postdoctoral researcher at UBCO and co-author of the wildfire coexistence study. ubyssey.ca/science/ubc-re… The Ubyssey | UBC's independent student newspaper @forestry.ubc.ca on Bluesky