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Melissa Lucash

@melissalucash.bsky.social
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Research Assistant Prof at U of Oregon. Tree-loving Wildfire and Landscape Modeler with a side of Biogeochemistry. PI of #TEEL_Lab with 8 humans + 10 pets

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Help me make this year the YEAR OF THE BOG. My passion for boglands featured in the @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Boglands Are Museums That Help Protect Us From Climate Change
Bogs store carbon, and preserve histories too.
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sometimes failing is wonderful! #FosterFail #FelineGoodRescue
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fostering #kittens for a rescue org is one of the best things in life. May little Peppercorn have a wonderful life in his new home. #AdoptDontShop #felinegood #fosteringSavesLives #fosteringKittens #kittenRescue
Peppercorn!CuriousSo adventuresome!
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James Lamping @jameslamping.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
EAB is on the move here in Oregon.
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Tree-killing emerald ash borer confirmed in 4 new Oregon cities
The invasive insect, which has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees in North America, was detected in Beaverton, Salem, Silverton and Rock Creek, with an unconfirmed case in Hillsboro.
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's been 22 years since we went to our first #ESA conference together, and today she's the President. #ESA2026 @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
Rese Cloyd and Melissa Lucash in from of the ESA sign
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Have a reviewer who admits to uploading your paper to AI, which is against the journal guidelines? Report them!
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Were Taking You Down Team
ALT: Were Taking You Down Team
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James Lamping @jameslamping.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
One of the many great benefits of working at UO is the dedication of the communications team in sharing research conducted at the university. This weeks feature in OregonNews was our AK and BC old growth mapping efforts.
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New maps chart old-growth forests across Alaska and British Columbia
The data shows where forests are most vulnerable to policy changes that could remove protections
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James Lamping @jameslamping.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New paper in Fire Ecology: what actually makes a wildfire "extreme"? Current definitions rely on rigid thresholds that don't hold up across ecosystems. We argue for judging fire behavior, ecological outcomes, and social impacts against historical baselines. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Roadmap for the future of extreme wildfire events - Fire Ecology
Background Extreme wildfire events (EWEs) represent a growing threat globally, posing substantial risks to ecosystems, human communities, and infrastructure. Despite increased recognition of their eco...
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James Lamping @jameslamping.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Bad EAB news from ODF: emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle whose larvae kill ash trees, has turned up in three new Willamette Valley spots this month: a parking lot just east of I-5 in Tualatin, one outside Newberg, and a private residence in Silverton.
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Developed a love of #moose while hiking in #DenaliNP last week!
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The beauty of Alaskan wildflowers
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Love visiting #Fairbanks for @bnzlter.bsky.social community meeting. So many things to do here!
Walk along the Chena RiverLook for birds in Creamers fieldVisit the muskox at LARSExplore the Museum of the North
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
National Parks Foundation released their list of Science Trailblazers, which includes a postdoc in my lab- check out this video about James and his research! youtu.be/KMEe-PDrwgM?...
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Science Trailblazer: James Lamping
YouTube video by National Park Foundation
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our report/paper on forest carbon offsets are featured on the PBS NewsHour @pbsnews.org. Thanks to Rebecca Sanders-DeMott @cleanaircatf.bsky.social for leading the effort! youtu.be/A8qkohvRDSA?...
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PBS News Hour full episode, May 22, 2026
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Love sitting on my deck with my morning coffee.
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
So wonderful to have Michelle Mack visit @uoregon.bsky.social to talk about boreal forests! @bnzlter.bsky.social
Short home!Then lunch at Hideaway
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Kaili Brande @kbrande1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'm thrilled to share that my first first-author paper has been published in the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology journal. This project couldn't have been completed without the support of my collaborators, field assistants, and staff at UC Santa Barbara's Sedgwick Reserve🔥🌳 rdcu.be/ffQSU
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Bark traits and fire vulnerability in three California foothill oak species
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New paper published by #TEEL_Lab postdoc @kbrande1.bsky.social Brande, K, Davis, FW & Kendall, BE. 2026. Bark traits and fire vulnerability in three California foothill oak species. Fire Ecol 22, 43. doi.org/10.1186/s424...
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New paper published by Clearwater, PhD student in our lab #TEEL_Lab Hutchinson, J.T., Clearwater, T, Kent, J, Kapoor, V, Dessouky, S. 2026. Spontaneous vegetation diversity in managed stormwater swales and detention basins in Central Texas. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Excited to host Michelle Mack @bnzlter.bsky.social at @uoregon.bsky.social this week. Lots of talk about #wildfire, #forests, and #boreal ecosystems!
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#GoDucks 🦆🦆 #uoregon
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I'm so proud of how hard my students and PDs work but still carve out to time to hike, run, ski, knit, bike, surf...
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Mentoring is the best part of my job #TEEL_Lab 2 PDs, 1 PhD, 1 MS and 3 undergrads
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Enjoying springtime on our deck
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New paper led by @jameslamping.bsky.social mapping #old-growth forests in SE #Alaska and SW B.C. Take home messages:
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James Lamping @jameslamping.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Interested in landscape modeling and are looking to use LANDIS-II? The LANDIS community is hosting a virtual workshop in May!
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
LANDIS-II Virtual Training Workshop in May! May 13, 15, 20, and 22 from 8a - 12p Pacific. This is a fast-paced, hands-on virtual workshop designed to give new users the background they need to start running LANDIS-II. Participation is capped at 20. Cost: $500 USD (Credit Card or Check only)
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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
OK, as we go into February, I'm officially worried about our snowpack numbers across the Western US. Less snow means dryer soils and fuels heading into the summer and I don't like fire years where the high country comes online early.
Map of Western US showing snow-water equivalent by basin. Most basins are well below the historical median with the Northwest, Great Basin, NorCal, and the Southwest all below 50% of historical averages.
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Adam Mahood 🌻 @adm0n.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Just saw this new paper by Tang et al. out of NCAR :/... Excited to check it out! Emissions from burned structures in wildfires as significant yet unaccounted sources of US air pollution doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Emissions from burned structures in wildfires as significant yet unaccounted sources of US air pollution - Nature Communications
Burned structures in wildfires release air pollutants not included in emissions inventories. Structure burning in wildland-urban interface fires emit hazardous compounds at levels exceeding anthropoge...
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Yet another journal rejects modeling papers. "is assigning low priority to studies of this nature (e.g., bench-scale experiments, modeling-focused studies...)" In these chaotic scientific times, they're rejecting all studies using an acceptable scientific tool? So... annoyed.
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Excited to give a talk on #LANDIS_ii wildfire modeling with @robertscheller.bsky.social tomorrow!
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Time I got to do a review=10 days. Time it took a journal to make a decision about my paper= 6 months. Please give reviewers at least 2 weeks. We are volunteering our time!
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a woman wearing glasses and a suit is making a please sign .
ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a suit is making a please sign .
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Because every research lab website should give a shoutout to the real MVPs—our pets—for supporting us during these challenging times. www.melissalucash.com/who-we-are
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
History of steel production is not nearly as tidy as depicted on the placards. #Bethlehem
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This term speaks to me- “credentialism,” by which women hoped that if they accrued enough credentials, their gender became irrelevant. (It did not.)
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
One of the best parts of science is working with smart, wonderful collaborators. Burn table experiments with Lisa Ellsworth today @oregonstate.edu
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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Canada's Satellite-Based Forest Inventory uses image segmentation to create stand-level maps for forest science & monitoring, including tree species & biomass. #SBFI Paper: doi.org/10.1093/fore... Download data opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nf... Data on #GEE: gee-community-catalog.org/projects/ca_...
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Sometimes they are too big to hug. #oldgrowth #Oregon
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Saw a huge explosion of CA tortoiseshell butterflies today in the Cascades. So beautiful to witness!
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Hiked at Silver Falls today- my fav state park in Oregon
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Always grateful for all the public beaches in Oregon
View near Newport ORView near Newport, ORHarbor seal
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
What's the most disgusting thing you've found in the lab you inherited? 🌍 Summer #TEEL_Lab cleaning today revealed this tasty chocolate bunny that pre-dated me (at least 5yo).
Gross chocolate bunny
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Our fun field day taught me: 1) upland ash exist (i.e. its not just a stream tree), 2) poison oak likes to hang out with ash, 3) baking soda helps to relieve itching of poison oak.
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
New GNN maps of SE Alaska made by the incredible @jameslamping.bsky.social with help from Dave Bell, Dan Irvine and Matt Gregory. news.uoregon.edu/uo-researche...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Upcoming @uoregon.bsky.social seminar. 🌍🌲
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Clean Air Task Force @cleanaircatf.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New @carbonpulse.bsky.social article: “Forest carbon protocols are currently yielding low-quality credits, and need to be strengthened according to a report published on Thursday led by top forest scientists.” 🌲 Check out CATF’s new scorecard and report: www.forestcarbonprotocols.org
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
What's the skinny from our new paper on forest carbon credits? They are of LOW quality! Our report outlines strategies to improve them @cleanaircatf.bsky.social 🌲🌍
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Melissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Writeup about our new pub: “There’s been a lot of appetite for carbon credits so corporations can meet their sustainability goals, but some of the credits that have been sold have been found to be dubious at best". #TEEL_Lab www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Do Forest Carbon Credits Work and Actually Help the Environment?
BU environmental ecologist and alum scientist team up for study of forest carbon credits and recommend ways to boost schemes’ potential to offset emissions
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Clean Air Task Force @cleanaircatf.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚨BREAKING🚨 Weak forest carbon credit protocols undermine trust in carbon markets. In a new study, leading scientists recommend ways to strengthen standards to ensure lasting climate impacts. forestcarbonprotocols.org
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Forest Carbon Protocols – An evaluation of 20 forest carbon credit protocols
An evaluation and scorecard of 20 forest carbon credit protocols that demonstrate most protocols are not strong enough.
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