Sebastian Zavoico Thank you! Sure was ⛷️

Sebastian Zavoico Denali Hwy! Featuring beat tracks!

A couple short clips from a camp we set during a 48 hour ground blizzard on our recent snowmachine traverse from Nome to Kotzebue. Arctic Oven tents are really well made. Pretty cozy in there with our wood burning stove and good company. UA Fairbanks Sebastian Zavoico

Yesterday a friend & I watched this mama squirrel carry 4 of her babies from the bird house to somewhere outside the yard. I’d been wondering why she was always inside the birdhouse — I guess she gave birth there. Any squirrel experts want to explain more? Sebastian Zavoico?

I've been around Twitter/X for a fair bit, but haven't introduced myself. Hello! I am Sebastian (he/him) and I am enamored by the Arctic, though it is far from where I grew up in the DC suburbs. Through my MS and now PhD, both UA Fairbanks, I focus on how arctic ecological... 🧵

...dynamics of game species like moose - a newcomer to many parts of the Arctic - under Dr. Shawn Crimmins, to now the ecological impacts of beaver engineering - a new disturbance regime to high latitudes. I am now in Ken Tape's lab, and am lucky to call scientists...🧵

Very excited to be back in the #Arctic for beaver-related fieldwork! We made it into Kotzebue in a 24-hour weather window, and were even able to get out long enough to gather SD cards from game cams & Wildlife Acoustics acoustic recorders. Looks slightly different than in August!

Awesome first day of tundra beaver fieldwork! Sebastian Zavoico

Brian Brettschneider So fuuunnn. Cool to think of physiologic adaptations early leaves in birch must have to resist frost.

🦫 Thanks for following along on the 2023 beaver expedition. We look forward to providing more updates as the project continues! For more, follow team members on Twitter (@tundratime + Sebastian Zavoico) and check out more about the research at bit.ly/3GQPS85.

🎥: @tundratime

The team includes PI Ken Tape, Co-PI Benjamin Jones (@tundratime), Ph.D. student Sebastian Zavoico (@vszavoico), and Kotzebue resident and renowned Alaskan author Seth Kantner.

#NSFfunded researchers analyzed remote imagery, showing that North American beavers are colonizing the Arctic tundra of Alaska, with over 12,000 beaver ponds mapped in northwestern Alaska.

📷: Sebastian Zavoico

Windchilly field day around the Baldwin Peninsula but super beautiful! We’ve decided that tundra beavers like to make us work through deep snow drifted gulches to get down below the ice in their ponds. Sebastian Zavoico next to a lonely wind blasted spruce tree living on the edge

like Benjamin Jones and others in the Arctic Beaver Observatory Network colleagues and collaborators. I am funded by U.S. National Science Foundation and NASA Earth #NASA_ABoVE , and am excited by a range of tools, from remote sensing to hierarchical Bayesian models to eDNA, to answer ecological questions🦫📈🌱

Alyssa Enriquez 😍

And Sebastian Zavoico had this potential explanation: avianreport.com/bird-leucism/

Well-beings w/you, Sebastian! Happy to chat, tete-a-tete, to 'compare notes', etc.,... Indeed, the Arctic has enamored many, eh? & gripped me in early-1990s, Canada in 1993 & Alaska in '95; I moved to Fairbanks that year,...& 'Interdisciplinary Learning', M.A., UA Fairbanks, 2000

While at Serpentine Hot Springs, the team was visited by a family from Shishmaref. The team showed the family their research on beaver dams and talked to the elder about his observations of beavers in the region over his lifetime.

📷: Benjamin Jones and Sebastian Zavoico

Beaver in hot springs!!!