Our new paper in Ecology Letters shows that synergy between plant invasion and experimental drought enhanced impacts of fire on a foundation tree species. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Here’s how @dillott Drew Hiatt and I uncovered this dynamic (1/8):

Been thinking a lot about spatial autocorrelation and I could watch this for hours!

Postdoc/Research Associate position Forestry - OSU! 🌲🔥Vegetation monitoring, fine-scale veg. conditions, post-fire environments. N.Rockies & PNW forests. Working w/ Drs. Cameron Naficy (OSU), David Bell (USFS PNW), Meg Krawchuk (OSU). jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/114594 apply by 03/15/22

Field season has begun! Not much regen or fuels in sequoia grove burned in the Castle fire.

Morels, giant sequoias, big rocks, and my job: I love the Sierra!

This country is merciless. It will try and force you to have a baby, but it won’t give money to support vulnerable children through paid family leave, a child tax credit. Have a child or you are a murderer according to them, but if you do and can’t support it, you are alone.

The Simler-Williamson lab at Boise State is recruiting MS & PhD students in collaboration w/@tobymmaxwell Lab! Interested in plant populations, plant-soil-microbial interactions, invasive species, disturbance, and/or pathogens? Full job postings here! simlerwilliamsonlab.com/opportunitiesc…

Interested in estimating likelihoods of survival, regen, growth, or whatever you want in a probabilistic spatially explicit context? Please read this awesome paper led by Cristina Barber! There’s also an easy to follow full vignette using rstan, which preceded this paper.

📢Announcing 📢 StanConnect 2022: "Stan Through Space and Time" Date: October 31st, 8am-12:30pm EDT We've got an incredible lineup -- check out the speakers, abstracts and register now: eventbrite.com/e/stanconnect-… Hosted by Jamie Hogg + us.

YES! I'm biased towards working in SEKI--it's awesome! Feel free to contact me for more info about SEKI forest ecology jobs.

USGS in Sequoia & Kings Canyon NPs Sequoia & Kings Cyn is hiring forest and fuels inventory techs! We're looking for ppl who love backpacking and being in beautiful locations. Apply 12/9-12/27. #jobs Link to flier: drive.google.com/file/d/1Zxp3qk…

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

We've reopened applications to our GG-5 and GG-6 positions and there's only 6 more days to apply! Deadline to apply is Jan 30th @ 4pm. Please pass on the word to interested folks! See fliers here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

This is a really massive story, and I've worked on this for years, and so a thread, but -- TL;DR: The collapse of California's home insurance markets due to climate risk is underway, and it is bad. 🧵 In 2013-14, I worked on a national climate risk assessment for the U.S.

Video from this morning in the town of Three Rivers, several miles outside of Sequoia National Park. Reminder that Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are closed to visitation. Roads nearby are hazardous and in places impassable. Please do not travel to the affected area!

👇Read how we systematically detected unhealthy and dead trees over large area #AI #NAIP #ecosystem #resilience 🌳🌎 This is a major milestone for our #DryTip project Villum Fonden University of Copenhagen Research Environment and Society in the Global South Congratulations to Yan Cheng 🎉 link.springer.com/article/10.103…

How are California's state employee unions reacting to return-to-office orders? And can they protect telework for their members? Today's lead State Worker Bee newsletter item for The Sacramento Bee (email [email protected] to subscribe) sacbee.com/news/local/art…

Work with me! Fire Emissions Inventory 🔥 CARB is hiring! 🎉 Looking for geospatial data whiz, programmer (R/python), fire/forest background. Deadline Feb 7! calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jo… Ask me Qs for $$$, state benefits, duties. #job #gis #datascience #forests #fire