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Phil Higuera (he/him)

@philiphiguera.bsky.social
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Fire ecologist & paleoecologist, University of Montana. Understanding fire, forests, and environmental change in the past, present, and future.

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Phil Higuera (he/him) @philiphiguera.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🔥CharAnalysis v2.0 is now an official R package🔥 The R version is a faithful translation of the MATLAB version the #paleofire and #paleoecology communities have used for years. #RStats CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=Char... GitHub: phiguera.github.io/CharAnalysis/
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CharAnalysis: Peak Detection and Fire History from Sediment-Charcoal Records
A program for reconstructing local fire histories from high-resolution, continuously sampled lake-sediment charcoal records. 'CharAnalysis' decomposes a charcoal record into low- and high-frequency co...
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Phil Higuera (he/him) @philiphiguera.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Fire Facts: www.datawrapper.de/_/0W9Hx/
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Millions of Hectares Burned by Wildfire and Prescribed fire in the West, 1999-2020 | Created with Datawrapper
*Wildfire affects an order-of-magnitude more area than prescribed fire.* Wildfire area burned includes all fires with an emergency response, regardless of ignition source, summed over 1999-2020; data ...
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Phil Higuera (he/him) @philiphiguera.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Fire Facts: www.datawrapper.de/_/JMpUA/?v=2
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Home and structure loss by ignition source in the West (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper
Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus
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Phil Higuera (he/him) @philiphiguera.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Fire Facts: www.datawrapper.de/_/lzdAZ/
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Area burned by ignition source in the West (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper
Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus
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Phil Higuera (he/him) @philiphiguera.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Fire Facts: www.datawrapper.de/_/nAkbS/?v=3
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Human-related ignitions are responsible for the majority of structure loss in the in the West (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper
Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus
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Phil Higuera (he/him) @philiphiguera.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Fire Facts: www.datawrapper.de/_/GamBB/?v=2
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88% of wildfires in the West resulted in no structure loss (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper
Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus
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Phil Higuera (he/him) @philiphiguera.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Fire Facts: www.datawrapper.de/_/pwRtm/?v=3
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Lightning is responsible for the majority of area burned by wildfires in the West (1999-2020) | Created with Datawrapper
Data from Higuera et al. (2023), PNAS Nexus
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Phil Higuera (he/him) @philiphiguera.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Twitter / X account officially deactivated....
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Phil Higuera (he/him) @philiphiguera.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
missoulian.com/opinion/colu...
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Cutting funding for science hurts Montana’s economy and our future | Opinion
Opinion: If proposed cuts remain in place, research will be massively curtailed, will no longer be led by Montanans, and will not contribute the societal, economic benefits to our state.
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