I’ve never had a university administrator ask me what they could do to facilitate me doing my job better.

If you’re interested in working with researchers and managers to help improve our relationship with fire, apply for this position!

Reforestation center will improve forest health | My View | santafenewmexican.com santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_vie…

NM Legislature's draft FY25 budget targets just a 9% drop in pedestrian fatalities, leaving NM high in national rankings. BikeABQ is working on getting the budget amended, but we need your help for a safer NM. Contact your legislator: nmlegis.gov/members/find_m…

Faculty position in forest ecophys at NMSU. Come work with us at the NM Reforestation Center careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/assistant…

We are also hiring a technician for a 1.5 year position to support a range of field research activities in the NWT and Yukon 🇨🇦. Please RT! forestecology.ca/uncategorized/…

Please RT and share: Come work and learn with us! Hiring: Landscape Ecology Research Technician: We are hiring a motivated field and lab technician to work in #longleaf pine forests at The Jones Center at Ichauway. Help us learn about hurricane ecology and conservation! bit.ly/landeco-tech-2…

Post-doc opportunity in wildfire geospatial science in my lab at Colorado State University! Work on developing geospatial data products to support fuel treatment planning/monitoring in southwestern US forests. w/ me, Matthew Hurteau, and others. Details and apply: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/140826

My lab group at CSU is recruiting for a new PhD student. For more details see here - sites.google.com/rams.colostate…

New paper out today in Fire Ecology looking at the effects of fire on Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy 🦉🔥🌲 Frequent low-sev fire good ✅ Big severe fire bad 🚫 Direct link: doi.org/10.1186/s42408… RG: tinyurl.com/bd4nm75d

Excited to share our new paper modeling historical cultural ignitions across a large landscape in N. California! Working with folks from the Karuk Tribe, we collaboratively developed a spatially-explicit landscape-scale model to simulate cultural burning. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea…

New paper by ⁦⁦J. Crockett⁩ Climate limits vegetation green-up more than slope, soil erodibility, and immediate precipitation following high-severity wildfire | Fire Ecology fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

As a brief interlude to the spring phenology theme, Sam Schaffer-Morrison and I wrote a commentary piece for #TreePhys (doi.org/10.1093/treeph…) on the importance of studying tree seedling performance if we want to know what future forests will look like.

New paper by ⁦Kevin 'KG' Willson⁩ shows how wind and topography influence dispersal distance Abiotic Factors Modify Ponderosa Pine Regeneration Outcomes After High-Severity Fire | Ecosystems link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Recovered from backpacking and excited to say that Matthew Hurteau and I published the 1st chapter of my dissertation assessing the effects of wind, slope, and aspect on #ponderosapine seed dispersal and establishment patterns after high-severity fire. 1/n rdcu.be/dHXJb

Really excited to share this study. Check out the thread below on the economic return on investment in restoration in US Western frequent-fire forests.

Excited to share our US west-wide analysis of forest reburn severity, now out in EcoApps! doi.org/10.1002/eap.30… Reburn severity was mediated by past low/moderate 🔥 for 10->20 years depending on climate and region.

.Kevin 'KG' Willson ‘s new paper shows that trees growing in a fire maintained forest had consistent post fire growth recovery, even as conditions became more arid. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new paper - Managing fire‐prone forests in a time of decreasing carbon carrying capacity. We propose some ways to manage the increase in dead wood that is building up from widespread tree mortality. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe…

UCLA Geography is hiring! Assistant Professor in the general area of "Environmental Challenges". If you're a physical scientist wanting to research and teach on policy-relevant environmental issues please apply: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09700