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Mica Jorgenson

@micaamy.bsky.social
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🔥 professional fire nerd🔥| Dr. of #envhist | recovering academic | 53.9171° N | loves maps | fun stuff advocate | personal account

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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
#CopernicusAtmosphere day-to-day distribution & intensity of global #wildfires #biomassburning + corresponding smoke aerosol optical depth from 1 January to 30 November 2025. Read our analysis of the fire emissions monitored around the world this year: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/2025-sees-in...
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Incredible 2025 statistics on fire, smoke, and air. internationalfireandsafetyjournal.com/cams-wildfir...
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Wildfire emissions in 2025 reach records for Europe and Canada
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) has reported that global wildfire emissions from January to November 2025 reached around 1,380 megatonnes
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Ah, a tale as old as time. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Residents complain of excessive smoke from Whitehorse fuel break work | CBC News
Yukon wildfire officials says they're installing more air quality monitors in areas south of downtown Whitehorse, as some local residents complain about excessive smoke in the area.
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Geoff Wallace @geoffmakesmaps.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It was great fun to make this animation for NiCHE! They were my first environmental history community back in my U of T days and it was a delight and privilege to return their kindness with a nifty map. #envhist #envhum #gischat #cdnhist #histgeog
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Joe Gilchrist imagines a future with fire in BC that I want to live in. indiginews.com/features/lon...
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Amid climate impacts, leading Secwépemc firekeeper shares 'a better way of looking after the land'
In a time of worsening wildfires, Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning 'needs to be multiplied hundreds of times' — returning to Indigenous stewardship
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Today our editor, @micaamy.bsky.social, unveils a map made by Geoffrey Wallace that visualizes the geography of NiCHE blog posts going back to 2004. "Animating the Archive: The Geography of NiCHE Posts since 2004" niche-canada.org/2025/11/27/a... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog
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Animating the Archive: The Geography of NiCHE Posts since 2004
While NiCHE began as a Canadian environmental history network, its subject matter has always been situated in an international context, fostering conversations and collaborations across borders.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The EU bringing us more tools for watching fire and smoke from space. First images from Copernicus Sentinel-5A, including formaldehyde linked to emissions from wildfires on the northwestern coast of Angola. #wildfire www.copernicus.eu/en/media/ima...
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First images from Copernicus Sentinel-5A | Copernicus
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I may have shared this article before, but I was thinking about it again over the weekend so here it is again. Open access (👏) science showing 16.3% variance in water quality in the Fraser River basin due to fire. #wildfire firehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725010538
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Cumulative effects of fire in the Fraser River basin on freshwater quality and implications for the Salish Sea
The movement of water from land to the ocean serves as a major biogeochemical link between terrestrial and marine systems, through which terrestrial d…
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
TNG and the Williams Lake tribune with some rare and refreshingly sane coverage & commentary on BC's most recent title case. wltribune.com/2025/11/07/c...
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Cariboo nation calls B.C. out on misinformation about Aboriginal title - Williams Lake Tribune
The nation said declaration of title does not target private property
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I learned so much this summer from so many people, and now it's time to take a rest. Looking forward to a winter of learning and working hard to make things better in the small ways I can.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Its always a pleasure to give back to an organization that contributes so much to our field. Support NiCHE! @nichecanada.bsky.social fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
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Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
you know academia is truly a dumpster fire when a policy paper is behind such a pricy paywall that the policy professionals its allegedly aimed at at don't have enough budget to access it. Good job everyone keep up the good work.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This morning when I opened up NASA FIRMS to check for heat signatures, I recieved an error message that stated that information was no longer being regularly updated due to federal funding constraints. Has anyone else sees this? Any additional info? #wildfire
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The Gaurdian is really on a wildfire smoke kick, and I'm here for it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Wildfire smoke will kill nearly 1.4m each year by end of century if emissions not curbed – study
A separate research found that at the current rate of global heating, more than 70,000 people will die in the US by 2050
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Delighted that this work continues to find new audiences, and (although purely coincidental) feels very appropriate coming out on the last day of my last fire season deployment. Thank you for hosting me, and for the work of your wonderful editorial team @envhistnow.bsky.social !
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Sentinel 2 images from the confluence of the Mackenzie and the Liard. Left: Some serious fire behaviour from sept 9. Right: Autumn colours on the boreal from Sept 10 -- and an orange retardant line from a small lake (centre of the image).
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Pine...uh....finds a way
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The impacts of wildfire smoke (and climate change generally) can be amorphous and hard to trace, but here the Guardian has accomplished a story that pins them to the page. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I can't take my eyes off these fires in the west of the Cariboo region. Its the summer that won't end out there, despite COLD overnight temperatures and shortening days. Look at this one chugging through a cutblock -- open flame visible from satellite (sept 7).
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I haven't had much cause to bust out my corsi-rosenthal box yet this summer, but today its making short work of the 160 AQI outside (currently 15 in my office).
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Sentinel 2 captured some truly unhinged fire behaviour yesterday. When you can see an organized flame front from space, its safe to say that our fire behaviour is "aggressive."
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Also from August 30 -- Sentinel captured the plume coming up from SS104 burning near Fort Provenance, NWT, as it punched up into the atmosphere.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Watching smoke from space is one thing -- watching fire is another. This is a capture from Aug 30, and is of the fire burning north of Tsacha Lake in BC. Flames are visible from Sentinel's passover -- you can see them burning in the patch of green in the top left.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A recovering academic moment of realization today: I'm developing a new course for my organization and not only am I getting paid to write the content but I have access to a team of 3 subject matter experts and am working directly with an adult learning professional. Academia, take notes.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
ditnikkwun / ᑔᐪᘆᐟᐠᗒᐣ / Castilleja miniata
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Wildfire smoke is more deadly than other sources of PM 2.5. I originally read about this study in the Guardian today, but here's the original paper. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Quantifying the short-term mortality effects of wildfire smoke in Europe: a multicountry epidemiological study in 654 contiguous regions
Associations with all-cause and cause-specific mortality were larger for fire-related compared with non-fire-related PM2·5. Assuming wildfire PM2·5 has the same effect as total PM2·5 substantially und...
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Orange sun and ash falling on Vancouver Island last night was a disorienting experience.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Should be taking the day off work, but then I thought: what if I could see the Wesley Ridge fire from space? Sentinel imagery from yesterday (Jul 31)
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
You can read about the background behind this article and the research that led to it in @micaamy.bsky.social and John's post on our site, "Writing Health and History During a Global Pandemic" - niche-canada.org/2021/05/10/w... #envhist #histmed #mininghistory
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Writing Health and History During a Global Pandemic
What the McIntyre Powder story can tell us is we should be cautious of miracle cures when they are used to uphold an economic status quo...
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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It was MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE week in my Canadian #envhist seminar today. Below is a short thread about what we read and watched ⛏️⚖️🧵
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Was looking at the satellite today and...is this just a line of retardant on the south flank of this fire? For context, that's the Mackenzie River to the east, and Fort Simpson to the North - Dencho region wildfire in NWT.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
In our latest review, @msbeauli.bsky.social examines @micaamy.bsky.social's The Weight of Gold: Mining and the Environment in Ontario, Canada, 1909-1929 ( @unvpress.bsky.social 2023) niche-canada.org/2025/07/29/r... #envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist #ontario #bookreview
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Review of Jorgenson, The Weight of Gold
Jorgenson’s The Weight of Gold connects Porcupine mining history to global patterns, emphasizing environmental crises, personal memory, and marginalized impacts.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
How do different forestry practices impact fire behaviour? Its complicated. youtu.be/1COXneXdkl4?...
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Factors that influence fire behaviour
YouTube video by BC Wildfire Service
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
What a generous and lovely review of my book to greet me at my desk this morning! Thank you @msbeauli.bsky.social, @nichecanada.bsky.social and @peterastevens.bsky.social 🤗
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
So far my season has been a study in contrasts. Pic on the right is on treaty 8 as far to the north as you can get in BC. Pic on the left is on Syilx land almost at the 49th parallel. Muskeg and black spruce vs. semi-arid pine and grassland.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Got to look at an open pit mine and a forest fire today and it also happened to be my birthday
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Opinion pieces on smoke finding their way into the Globe and Mail today. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: We have to learn to live with wildfire smoke
There is a long-held myth that scoopers, tankers and wildland firefighters exist to put forest fires out
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
2 days apart - fire along the Nelson River in northern Manitoba
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Oh look the thing I said would happen is happening. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
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Canadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans' summer, says letter from Congress members | CBC News
Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, says a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's U.S. ambassador.
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Global Wildfire Collective @wildfirecollective.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The second speaker at our upcoming webinar will be Dr. Sarah Henderson! Sarah is the scientific director of Environmental Health Services at BCCDC and of the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH). Register now! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Fire up here burns and smoulders deep into the forest floor, crawling through the dry muskeg. I could watch it work all day.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Proud of my team and the work the crews done here in Treaty 8 over the last 2 weeks. And especially proud of Beau in ops, who is the star of this latest operational update youtu.be/S-GfbeZ_UCc?...
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Fort Nelson Complex Operational Update July 3
YouTube video by BC Wildfire Service
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Attention everyone I found my first cloudberries on a fire line up here in treaty 8. best day ever
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A summary of how some big minds have been thinking through transnational smoke. #wildfire www.mcgilldaily.com/2025/06/smok...
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Smoke Without Borders - The McGill Daily
The global fallout of Canada's wildfire crisis
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Currently sitting on a peat fire and was just talking to the team today about how a it smells different than the spruce and pine fires we have a little further south. theconversation.com/how-high-lat...
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How high-latitude peat and forest fires could shape the future of Earth’s climate
As global temperatures rise, wildfires are advancing further north. Many of them burn through peat, which contains massive amounts of carbon.
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Sometimes I think about how I went from a corner office on the top floor of an academic institution -> to working out of a packed & smoky atco trailer and yet have never been so happy or intellectually fulfilled at work #phdlife #altac
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We've had a stream of rain across much of the north, but many of our fires remain just outside its limits. Here's a beautiful example of fires burning just to north of a band of clouds near BC's northern border (sentinel, 17 june)
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
that fire season feeling where I suddenly have 3 full time jobs
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Research that hits close to home. "Wildfire in the Fraser River basin explained up to 16.3 % of variance in water quality, & fires burning closer to major waterways had immediate influence on water quality, while farther away wildfires had a delayed influence." doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... #wildfire
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Redirecting
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Mica Jorgenson @micaamy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Recent rain has made a big difference up here this week -- but it hasn't reached the Fort Nelson area, as evident by the FIRMS hotspot data. Those fires are still active and moving around.
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