Where and when is agricultural land changing in the Mediterranean? We mapped agricultural land over 35 years in Greece using #Landsat and found a much larger gain in ag. land than loss/abandonment. In Remote Sensing MDPI Paper link: mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/1…

Individual Tree Detection using airborne laser scanning is revolutionizing forest management. We cross-compared several ITD methods using a benchmark dataset in northern Idaho, USA. With M. Corrao and Prof Alistair Smith, in Remote Sensing MDPI Paper link: mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/1…

Save communities by thinning forests or hardening structures? wildfiretoday.com/2022/08/09/sav…

Want to know more about fire effects on tree water transport and carbohydrates? Just click here 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1111/nph.18…. 🔥🌲🔥📚 Dan Johnson Prof Alistair Smith Henry Adams Dr. Alex Thompson @pyrogeog Dr. Kara M Yedinak nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

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Job: Assistant/Associate Professor of Fire Ecology ⁦@UIdahoCNR⁩ #Fire

Researchers studied the effects of a 20-minute walk on the cognitive performance of a group of children. This is fascinating…

Our latest issue is online now! Table of contents 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137/2… On the cover: Pinus ponderosa sapling exposed to 🔥 under a controlled environment at the University of Idaho combustion laboratory. Image courtesy of Raquel Partelli Feltrin. @wileyplantsci

Interested in how tree physiology and mortality are affected by surface fires of varying intensity? Check out our new paper w/ Prof Alistair Smith Henry Adams Dan Johnson et al. | Tree Physiology | Oxford Academic 👇 doi.org/10.1093/treeph…

Excited to share a new collaborative effort between @UIdahoCNR students, staff, and co-authors (Prof Alistair Smith et al.) to understand how fire affects tree growth using active fire observations and airborne laser scanning. Free access for limited time: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hOJ01L%7EGw…

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Myself, Elizabeth Warren, & Richard Blumenthal wrote to the President of University of Idaho urging them to reconsider the decision to acquire University of Phoenix, a predatory for-profit college with a history of preying on veterans, low-income students, and students of color.

How resilient are trees to the compound effects of drought and fire? Check out our new paper w/Prof Alistair Smith Henry Adams Wade Tinkham et al. | Forest Science | Oxford Academic 👉doi.org/10.1093/forsci…

Airborne lidar can provide individual tree information at large spatial scales - but how accurate are the resulting inventories? Check out our new paper w/Prof Alistair Smith et al. | Forest Science | Oxford Academic 👉doi.org/10.1093/forsci…

New publication demonstrating the use of drone-SfM data for monitoring forest structures in dry conifer forests. These methods reliably tracked metrics of individuals, clumps, and openings, along with stand level structure metrics. rdcu.be/dHvte

#mostdownloaded 🛖Mapping #ArableLand and Permanent #Agriculture Extent and Change in Southern Greece Using the European Union LUCAS Survey and a 35-Year #Landsat Time Series Analysis by Aaron M. Sparks, Imen Bouhamed, Luigi Boschetti et al. mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/1… #landuse

Interested in quantitative fire risk assessments? Here we use fire modeling to quantify effects of changing landcover and land use on fire risk to communities and economically important crops. Free access for a limited time in Science of the Total Environment. Paper link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kAXi_17GgJG…

New Publication - Methods to assess fire-induced tree mortality: review of fire behaviour proxy and real fire experiments publish.csiro.au/WF/WF24136

🚨New lidar publication🚨 - Comparison of field sampling and airborne laser scanning-derived stand-level inventories in a mixed conifer forest and volume validation using log scaling data In Forests MDPI Link: mdpi.com/1999-4907/16/5…

Some content from my Heterodox Academy 2025 Conference talk on problems within the climate science 'knowledge generation system' that lead to an incomplete picture, and how embracing prediction markets can help reorient the emphasis toward the production of the most useful