The CA Fire Science Consortium is refilling its coordinator position, based in the Stephens lab UC Berkeley. Know anyone who loves fire, science communication, and networking with amazing people?! Please share this opportunity far and wide! CAfirescience aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03698

With support from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investments, USGS scientists are working to build resilient ecosystems across the nation. Read about 10 projects that will enhance our Nation’s infrastructure: ow.ly/AaHz50LZ3Kt #Ecosystems #BipartisanInfrastructureLaw 🌸🔥🦌

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Take-out containers piling up? Kiddos home with free time over the holidays? Here's a great activity that helps students learn about contour lines by constructing a 3D topographic map: How to Make a Topo Salad-tray Model: 👉ow.ly/uCbR50M3Ryc #education #teacherhack

Please don’t bring them inside, they have a built-in fir coat.

As 2022 wraps up, we’re looking back on the amazing work USGS scientists did this past year to better understand ecosystems. Here are 10 terrific stories that you won’t want to miss. 🧵 In 2022, USGS scientists:

Remembering Alfred Russel Wallace, influential thinker on natural selection and biogeography: nature.com/articles/s4155… January 8th 2023 marks the bicentenary of Wallace's birth. #Wallace200

Alfred Russel #Wallace FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1823 Here are 2 of his #notebooks in the NHM Library and Archives - doodles, scribbles & musings of quite the most amazing naturalist The Natural History Museum data portal includes many of his specimens imaged for all data.nhm.ac.uk/search

We're reopening the application, looking for more people who want to join our team this summer. Please share with interested folks & retweet! Apply before 12/30/23. Sequoia & Kings Cyn USGS

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Our new work out in PNASNews "Recent and future declines of a historically widespread pollinator linked to climate, land cover, and pesticides" The news is uh...not good, for Western Bumble Bee pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We are #hiring a GS-09/11 Fire Management Specialist (#rxfire and fuels). Duty station is negotiable upon selection! Apply by 2/8 --> bit.ly/3XHsEYl 📸 #rxburn at Oxford Slough, #idaho by Lance Roberts/USFWS #NotYourOrdinaryJob #Firejob U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Careers

Join us for a life-changing two day lichen intensive in Berkeley (w/ a field trip trip to the wild woods of Marin county)!

I’m compiling a list of folks that study fire in arid and semiarid shrublands. I’m thinking mostly of those from the western US but I’m open to others. Who should I include on this list?

One of my fav things about xwords is moments when it feels like all your life choices suddenly feel like the right ones, e.g. you're doing the AVCX Classic Crosswords one evening and it's like, "Ah yes, I knew I decided to work at [Virginia-based org. that detects earthquakes] for a reason."

Today for #AmphibianWeek, the theme is “eat and be eaten”—and the amphibian we’ve got for you today fits that theme, well, maybe a little too perfectly. Allow us to introduce you to the “cannibal morph” of the barred tiger salamander.

Sometimes action for amphibians looks like a #USGS scientist releasing zoo-raised, baby federally-endangered frogs into their new lives in locations in the San Gabriel Mountains where they had previously disappeared. More info here: ow.ly/X8ax50OmXq9 #AmphibianWeek

Burning Man started August 27 on Black Rock Playa in Nevada. Labor Day weekend rains saturated the playa by September 4, but a week later, much of the playa had dried again. Landsat #BurningMan images through the years: ow.ly/pH0S50PN3Vs

Big news: USGS scientists & partners have confirmed, with 2 new lines of evidence, that human footprints found in White Sands Nat'l Park show that people lived in North America 21-23,000 yrs ago—much earlier than previously thought! More here: ow.ly/9peJ50PTBGN Imgs: NPS

In honor of #FatBearWeek, we’ve got some fat bear science for you! 🐻Get cozy in your den and read this thread: 🧵

The California Lichen Society will hold our annual meeting and field trip at & around the Sedgewick Reserve near Santa Barbara Jan 26-28. Lichen hikes, social hour, potluck dinner, evening speaker, & more. Camping available. Open to everyone, join us! eventbrite.com/e/2024-califor…