🌳 Deadline extended to September 30, 2024! Please submit your #UAS #UAV #drone #RemoteSensing research papers to the Special Collection in Landscape Ecology (Springer): link.springer.com/collections/fc… Contact Western Geographic Science Center editor Miguel Villarreal with inquiries: [email protected]

TACOS! #ESA2024

Interested in Mojave Desert plant communities & seed banks? Check out our next stop of UVU undergrad excellence at this #ESA2024 poster. 🔥ESA Southwestern Chapt Ecological Society PS 21-056 - Fire & Native Rodent Consumer Effects on Dryland Seed Bank Dynamics, Tue, Aug 6, 5-6 PM PDT; Mason Gordon

Hi #ESA2024, I’ll be at the USGS booth in the exhibit hall today (Wednesday) at 9:30am if you want to talk about USGS research, what it’s like to be a USGS scientist, #ARID, or absolutely anything else!!!

Nature research paper: Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world go.nature.com/3SBEsec

📣Attention #biocrust researchers (at all career stages!) We're having our second international biocrust reading group next week! August 20th at 16:00 GMT. We'll be discussing the below paper. Message me or Michala Phillips if you want to join! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Dryland Ecology and Management Lab is recruiting an MS or PhD student interested in plant functional traits & restoration to join our team in Spring or Summer 2025. Applications are due September 30. Please retweet and visit drylandecology.com for more information!🌱static1.squarespace.com/static/605b7af…

Looking for open access resources and/or suggestions for teaching an undergrad environmental policy class. I have a cool project for us to work on for the whole semester but thinking more lecture materials, readings, etc. Thanks! ESA Policy Section #undergraduate #education

Utility-scale solar energy (USSE) is an important component of the renewable energy transition. But can we implement it without harming biodiversity? doi.org/10.1016/j.rser…

New review paper out on solar impacts. Give it a read!

Has Siri forgotten what made Siri worthwhile? My kids thought it was hilarious when you’d ask Siri “what does the fox says” & the response was silly sounds like in the song. But now… it gives an audio sample of various species. What the actual fox Siri? Come on.

New team Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences paper, "Hyperspectral Imaging Predicts Differences in Carbon and Nitrogen Status Among Representative Biocrust Functional Groups of the Colorado Plateau," led by Dong Yan w/ Sasha Reed, Miguel Villarreal, Mostafa Javadian, others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

The Spasojevic and Ostevik labs at UC-Riverside are jointly recruiting one graduate student to pursue a Ph.D. in the evolutionary ecology of alpine plants. (1/n)

Excited to share our latest paper in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Journal! 📢🔥 "Canopy temperature dynamics are closely aligned with ecosystem water availability across a water- to energy-limited gradient" using thermal cameras📷. w/ WK Smith 🌎, Will Woodgate, Matt Dannenberg, and others. tinyurl.com/35dx5pa8

NEW: Gold is found as big nuggets in quartz veins—and we have never known why. Now we have a shocking answer: electricity, made by earthquakes shaking quartz, is gathering particles of gold and growing them into shiny nuggets. Earth is wild. Me National Geographic nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

Post-doc ecologist position open USGS Arizona to research climate-resilient native plant materials and restoration approaches in drylands of the western US. Background in genetics is a +. Closes 9/13 USGS Arizona #USGS_SBSC usajobs.gov/job/805310700

Next week: Foundations of Ecological Restoration ➡️2 hr workshop by Applied Ecological's Steve Apfelbaum ➡️good for anyone interested in core concepts of #EcologicalRestoration theory, practice & policy ➡️Sep 10, 2:00 PM ET Learn more & register: esa.org/career-develop…

Leveraging the next generation of spaceborne Earth observations for fuel monitoring and wildland fire management. Leite et al. …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…