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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak

@laurenstacho.bsky.social
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(they/them) Assoc Prof of Geography at Eastern Washington University | GIS, fire history, and teaching are my jam! Follow along on Instagram too @DendroGIS 🌲🔥🗺️🖖

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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Follow along to my Wildfire Activity Mapping course this term via the Google folder below! We started class this week and went over basics for course structure and field prep. The course materials will populate as I deliver them to my students each week! Happy mapping! 😎🔥🗺️
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Tom Swetnam @firescar.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Our op-ed in the Santa Fe New Mexican today highlights the potential losses from closure of the nine US Forest Service Regional Offices, namely local leadership knowledge and capacity, experienced people, and priceless documentary records: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...
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The legacy lost when Forest Service offices shut down
After 117 years of operation, the U.S. Forest Service’s Southwest Regional Office in Albuquerque is closing by order of the secretary of agriculture. Since 1908, this office has directed the
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
View of Lake Michigan from the Oak Leaf Trail on the south side of Milwaukee.
Blue water stacked under bright blue skies. Almost no clouds except far off at the horizon in the distance. A few choppy waves can be seen along the water surface.
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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
ICE is arresting contract firefighters on active wildfires. This is especially significant for the fire workforce in the PNW because of the heavy reliance on contract workforce. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
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Steve Voelker @thetreecorener.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New Tenure Track Position in Data Science or Biostatistics with us here at MTU is live. We have great people here in a fantastic location that is probably a lot cooler (temperature-wise) than wherever you live during summer! www.employment.mtu.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Data Science & Biostatistics | Michigan Technological University
Explore career opportunities at Michigan Technological University located in Houghton, MI. Browse and filter job listings to find the perfect fit and learn more about each position.
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Yes! A progression map will be part of lab in Weeks 2 and 3. Do you have access to ArcGIS Pro software? Also, feel free to reach out via email if you want intro mapping materials, I always share course preps! 🙂
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Hmm I get an email that says my email can’t be delivered. Were you able to get the syllabus from the link I posted above? If not, I can send another way! :)
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 18/08/2025
Tree-ring fire records from 649 pine trees in central and eastern Arizona show that fires occurred more often in the territory of the Western Apache, or Ndee, than in other regions between 1600–1870, suggesting a culturally controlled fire regime. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A 1940 Western Apache (Ndee) farm site with two wickiups in a ponderosa pine forest. 
CREDIT: Lee Russell/Library of Congress
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I love teaching applied GIS classes! :)
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I shared a link above, let me know if you have issues accessing it 😎🖖
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I shared a link above, let me know if you have issues accessing it 😎🖖
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I’ve set up a public Google folder for the course that has the syllabus, and will update each week this term if you just want to follow along without enrolling for credit. There is a ReadMe file to check out too drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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IntLevel-WildfireActivityMapping - Google Drive
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Sent! :)
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
While prior background will help, the class assumes minimal GIS experience. I’ll send the syllabus!! :)
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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
New Mexico Magazine recommends THE JEMEZ MOUNTAINS by @firescar.bsky.social!
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What to Read: The Jemez Mountains by Thomas W. Swetnam
Thomas Swetnam's new book explores the Jemez Mountains through memory, science, and story.
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Grist @grist.org · 14/08/2025
Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure. grist.org/housing/two-... #Hawaii #Indigenous #Wildfire #Maui #Foreclosure #Fire
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Two years after a wildfire took everything, Maui homeowners are facing a new threat: Foreclosure
A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry investors eager to own a piece of Hawaiʻi.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Thinking about the framing of this article and wondering how many historical and cultural sites and resources were inundated by this reservoir. How many communities did the lake destroy? www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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New California dam removal could restore a river — and destroy a community
Residents of a remote Northern California lake are bracing for the loss of their vacation community with PG&E’s plan to remove two dams and drain a reservoir.
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant or Associate Professor, Physical Geography (T/TE) (Updated)
Develop and maintain an active research program.Teach undergraduate and graduate courses.Develop advanced courses at the graduate level.Mentor and adv...
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I’m teaching a GIS course Fall 2025 on wildfire activity mapping. This class will be offered through the Prof and Continuing Edu program at Eastern Washington University and you don’t need to be an EWU student to enroll! Email or DM with questions or if you’d like the syllabus!
A flyer describing a course offering. Text reads “GEOS 305 Wildfire Activity Mapping Fall 2025. An introduction to historical and active wildfire mapping. Covers various wildfire, data sources, methods for mapping historical, active fires, and limitations of current GIS workflows in the field.” If you are an EWU student then you enroll based on the course schedule, but non-EWU students complete asynchronously.
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Dr. Riley Pizza @rileypizza.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I'm heading to #esa2025 and I am on the job market! Looking for academic positions at SLACs and PUI's broadly where I could share my love of restoration ecology with undergrads in the classroom and in the lab! Send me your leads, or learn more about me from my website rpizza94.github.io/RileyPizza/
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Was on the Olympic peninsula last week for some fieldwork and took some time for exploring Rialto Beach and areas in the Quinault Rainforest.
Beach view at sunset. Sea stacks visible way out in the water and low cloud base makes the sun wedged between the horizon and clouds with bright orange hues. Sea stacks at sunrise. Trees are growing on top and the waves have cut a curved arc around them. Driftwood seen in the foreground. A tree growing out of a fallen old growth tree. The roots of the younger tree are exposed and visible all along the trunk.Lush vegetation and blue hydrangea flowers.
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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Yep. "Floods follow fires" is now a maxim. A good IC/Liaison Officer/PIO will not only work the fire, but help the community understand & prepare for the future flooding. Also, 3400 communities depend on national forests for drinking water & drinking watershed fires are some our most dreaded fires.
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Download a PDF copy of our slides here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ydro...
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WAGISA2025_Talk.pdf
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Interested in fire history, GIS, and community science? My lab presented at WAGISA in Tacoma last month on our work at Riverside State Park using GIS as both a teacher and a tool for improving wildfire resiliency in communities and restoring natural fire regimes. Check out the slides below! 👇
A cover photo of a PowerPoint slide. There is a view of what’s left post extra high intensity fire in south central Oregon. There are black text boxes on the top and bottom of the slide that introduce the top of fire history and GIS and list the presenters.
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Tom Swetnam @firescar.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This 🧵reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18
low severity surface fire burning through a ponderosa pine forest
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Thank you for sharing this!!
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I am a sucker for historical markers. I will pull over at ever single one. I have a goal to one day be involved in making one about fire or tree rings or GIS. 😅🤞
A Hwy historical marker sign that describes the connections between lodgepole pine forests and fire. This marker is for a loop trail that is show on the map and has a drawing of what the tree and pine cone look like to the left of the marker. The marker is stamped with the USFS badge and Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forest designation.
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Lochsa River in Idaho along the Nez Perce Trail.
A lush green forest and shallow river that meanders through the frame through a mountain valley. Sunshine brightens the slopes in the background and treetops on the right, the foreground is in shade. Bright blue cloudless sky.
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Lots of interesting points in this story, but I want to highlight the commendable work of Kurt Kipfmueller (U of MN) and Evan Larson (UW Platteville) in applying their tree-ring based research in collaborative projects with Tribal Nations across the Great Lakes region. www.mlive.com/environment/...
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More ‘good fire’ in Michigan restores Indigenous land practices
Indigenous people stewarded the land for millennia and using fire was among the ways they did it.
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I took the extra extra long way home from WAGISA this year and hit Deception Pass and then SR 20 across the north cascades. It was amazing!
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Now that’s a u shaped valley!
A glacially carved valley in the North Cascades. Green trees in foreground and slope, rocky cliffs, puffy white clouds and bright blue skies. A picturesque view!
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Truthout @truthout.org · 05/06/2025
More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. When the California gold rush began, the tribe lost 90% of its territory despite having lived along the Klamath for millennia.
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Yurok Tribe Celebrates the Largest Landback Deal in California’s History
The tribe says they will initiate restoration projects on the 17,000 acres taken from them during the gold rush.
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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🚀 Excited to share the draft Table of Contents for my upcoming book, "Introduction to GIS Programming: A Practical #Python Guide to Open Source Geospatial Tools." 📚 github.com/giswqs/intro... 📅 Aiming for a July 2025 release! Stay tuned!
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Here I am standing next to it while giving the mini lecture. It was a tall one! 🤩🔥🌲
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
From the central cascades in WA, here’s my #FireScarFriday, a beautiful example of fire suppression. I’m holding the outermost curl in my hand, and pointing to earlier scars that are just a few years apart! It also appears to be a CMT with old cut marks along the face. A beauty!
A catface showing both fire evidence and CMT
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Prior to Friday night storms, at least 29 people—including two children—were killed during flooding in February and April. Combined, at least 47 have died in the commonwealth so far this year because of punishing storm systems that have wreaked havoc across Kentucky.” From @heraldleader.bsky.social
kentucky.com
A tragic year for weather: Kentuckians reeling from three deadly storms in 2025
Three major storm systems that resulted in flooding and tornadoes have killed at least 47 Kentuckians since January.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Toxic wildfire pollution infiltrates homes of 1bn people a year, study finds #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Toxic wildfire pollution infiltrates homes of 1bn people a year, study finds
Dangerous indoor pollution could be tackled with air purifiers but costs are too high for many, researchers say
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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
🚀 Excited to share a sneak peek of the latest #Leafmap feature: a new sidebar widget and layer manager for #MapLibre! 🌍 Now you can easily control layer visibility, opacity, style, and more with the interactive GUI. github.com/opengeos/lea... #geospatial #mapping #python
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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
AFE beat me to the post! Excited to share this paper. We lived through these massive wildfires in 2014 and 2015 and can now share some lessons from them, including areas that have started to reburn.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Interested in coming to Canada for a postdoc? The new Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program now has details (there's additional $$ to recruit Black postdocs to Canada). So if you're interested in geohazards, remote sensing, GIS, etc send me a note 🧪⚒️❄️🏔️🛰️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...
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NSERC - Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program
NSERC - Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
My April Disasterology newsletter is out including a discussion about End Times Fascism, BRIC, FEMA Corps, the Review Council, voluntary buyouts, DOGE, the per capita indicator, and some questions for Cameron Hamilton at the end. disasterology.substack.com/p/diasterolo...
disasterology.substack.com
Diasterology: April 2025
This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined).
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I also really like how you can see on the right side of where the catface was that the tree was beginning to overgrow and bury the earlier scars. In fact a few scars are only visible because the tree was cut.
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
For #FireScarFriday is a sample from WA state. A unique remnant with approx 12 scars! I added in red lines so you can see where the scars are. This piece was sawed off the top of a stump that was cut long ago. I love how the scars and pith were preserved but not much else haha! 🌲🔥❤️
A tree cookie sawed off the top of a stump and laying on the ground. There is duff laying around the sample and disturbed soil where I had to dig out a bit of the stump. Red curved lines mark where the fire scars are located and the outermost curls are pairs from either side of an old catface.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Sunset last night between two lone surviving pines from a past high intensity fire. This area of Riverside SP has so much fire history. ❤️🔥🌲
A person wearing green sunglasses standing along a trail at sunset. There are two pines in the distance.
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Dr. Lauren Stachowiak @laurenstacho.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My lab was accepted to our first GIS conference this year! Myself and a recent graduate will be presenting at WAGISA on our high-res fire history dataset, a community-focused and student-led project in Washington’s largest state park. 🌲🔥🗺️
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Ronald Visser @ronaldvisser.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I have written a small R-script to download all tree-ring data from the ITRDB (measurements and chronologies). Anyone can create a local copy, just in case the data might not be available anymore from @noaa.gov github.com/RonaldVisser... #dendrochronology #treering #opendata #share
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GitHub - RonaldVisser/Download_ITRDB
Contribute to RonaldVisser/Download_ITRDB development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Jon Henn @hennhouse.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
📣We're recruiting! 📣 Katie Suding and I are looking for a postdoc interested in modelling grassland fire and fuels to contribute to an ongoing project on evaluating how grassland management and variation in fuels can impact wildfire risk around Boulder, CO. See the link below for more information.
Grassland scene near Boulder, CO
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance. Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
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