Paging Robert Largan - ash now raining down on my house from a fire on the highly degraded and bone-dry moorland above Crowden. An area of the Peak District National Park which received four times its average February rainfall. We need to invest in #ClimateChange resilient upland landscapes.

Low soil nutrients & OM is important for maintaining some natural ecosystems. New pine barrens pub from @scientist_kq re: influence of #prescribedfire frequency, vegetation, & past management on soil fertility #goodfire MSU-PSM Department MSU CANR Northern Research authors.elsevier.com/c/1b3tw1L~GwOE…

Blog post announcing our new paper from the #FutureOfFire consortium!

Published today! Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances & frontiers. Thanks U.S. National Science Foundation for #FutureOfFire consortium support. Journal of Ecology British Ecological Society MSU AgBioResearch MSU CANR dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

I made these for my own education, but also want to share them. They are "bite-sized" summary of peer-rev'd articles (which I provide a QR code that directs you to them). I will be sharing a few a day, will continue this project for as long as possible. #Strike4BlackLives #BLM

brownag.shinyapps.io/kstlookup/ Enter a taxon name such as "Spodosols", "Aeric Endoaquepts", "Glacistels" and see the tree of criteria - the "pathway" leading to that specific taxon. The database includes chapter, page, "clause" number, and more! humus.rocks/node/8

“The less likely a student’s racial and gender groups were represented in their field the more likely they were to introduce novel conceptual linkages. However, these students were also less likely to have their novel concepts adopted by their peers.” buff.ly/2zXbP68

Frustrated with the seeming hypocrisy of some colleges’ statements on Black Lives Matter, two friends and black scholars started tweeting about incidents of racial bias in their careers. chroni.cl/2UxeBGp

Congrats!!

How resilient are forests to the wildfires of today? A new CalFire award for studying Post-#Fire #Forest Resilience & #Carbon Recovery with colleagues Matt Dickinson & Eric Knapp will help us answer that question. @usda_nrs Pacific SW Research MSU AgBioResearch MSU CANR

And, we’re hiring! 2yr #postdoc for Post-#Fire #Forest Resilience & #Carbon Recovery study in California mixed-conifer forests in the Miesel lab at MSU, with USFS Matt Dickinson & Eric Knapp. Search for position 653994 on jobs.msu.edu

#TalkingAboutRace starts with personal reflection. 🤔 Here are some prompts to get you started.

AgBioResearcher Jessica Miesel, MSU-PSM Department assistant professor, is leading a team that received a $454,000 grant from CAL FIRE to explore the ability of forests to be resilient and recover from forest fires. canr.msu.edu/news/msu-resea…

With the growing interest in fire research, this is an excellent organization to support and get involved with: #GivingTuesday

We're hiring! 2021 field techs x3: forest resilience & C recovery after wildfires in California. Posting #687937: careers.msu.edu/cw/en-us/job/5… #forestryjobs #ecologyjobs

Congrats Chase! New paper with Lisa Tiemann on mycorrhizal symbioses in biochar & nutrient-amended soils: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… MSU-PSM Department MSU AgBioResearch

Interested in #fireEcology & #biogeochemistry in the Sierra Nevada? The mieselecologylab.org EEB at MSU MSU-PSM Department is recruiting a PhD student for a USDA-funded project with @erinjhanan & USFS to measure & model biogeochemical responses to fire! 🔥🔥🔥 bit.ly/3BGihcq

"Fire restoration can be both an ecological and cultural act." Check out this short video about cultural fire in the northern Great Lakes region: youtu.be/8uBuxbdr5Qs #GoodFires

We're hiring! Lab manager/lead tech for #fireecology & #biogeochemistry. Details here: tinyurl.com/bdey7nmt Apply on jobs.msu.edu to # 768860.