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Sara Goeking

@saragoeking.bsky.social
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Studies interactions among trees, snow, and water via research, skiing, boating, and making things out of wood. She/her/hers

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Olivia Ross @olross.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A special thank you to the wonderful authors on this piece who I continue to learn from and are a joy to work with! @katherinesiegel.bsky.social, Kathy Baylis, @saragoeking.bsky.social & @dudney-joan.bsky.social !! 💫
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Jason P. Evans @jasonpevans.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
We just published a paper that shows including lateral flow of soil moisture matters for climate once you get down to km-scale modelling of the land surface. More and more of our work is at these scales so we need to start including processes like this. 🧪 hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...
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The influence of lateral flow on land surface fluxes in southeast Australia varies with model resolution
Abstract. Land surface models (LSMs) used in climate models typically represent surface hydrology as one-dimensional vertical fluxes, neglecting the lateral movement of water within and between grids....
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
New paper alert (thread)! "Whitebark pine [WBP] in the United States projected to experience an 80% reduction in climatically suitable area by the mid-21st century" In this paper, we modeled WBP climatic suitability under reference period (1961-1990) and mid-21st century climate 1/6
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Whitebark pine in the United States projected to experience an 80% reduction in climatically suitable area by the mid-21st century - IOPscience
Whitebark pine in the United States projected to experience an 80% reduction in climatically suitable area by the mid-21st century, Parks, Sean A, Hefty, Kira L, Rushing, Jaclyn F, Goeking, Sara A, To...
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California
Anthropogenic warming accelerates wildfire season onset in California.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/06/2025
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
New research finds that spring runoff consists of more "old" water than new snowmelt, whereas "new" snowmelt infiltrates to replace previously stored water. Forests likely depend on groundwater that has been stored for multiple years. Funded by Natl Science Foundation www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Groundwater dominates snowmelt runoff and controls streamflow efficiency in the western United States - Communications Earth & Environment
Snowmelt runoff in the western US is composed primarily of older groundwater, with precipitation taking 5.7 years on average to exit as streamflow, indicating that annual streamflow is a function of m...
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
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US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 02/05/2025
Even when the political winds shift, science must keep moving forward. That’s why @AGU and @ametsoc are stepping up with a first-of-its-kind special collection on climate change in the U.S.—across 29+ peer-reviewed journals. 🌍📚 Read all about it: buff.ly/6G05hQD
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
What is a forest? Our review discusses different definitions of "forest" and implications for assessing status and trends such as deforestation, degradation, and encroachment. US NFI definition is broader than the UN FAO or Resources Planning Act Assessments. doi.org/10.1016/j.tf... 🍁
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Redirecting
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Super excited to share our new paper out today in Nature Water led by Christina McCabe. @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social “The ecological benefits of more room for rivers” Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Free to read version: rdcu.be/eeuBx #rivers #floods #biodiversity #resilience
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The ecological benefits of more room for rivers - Nature Water
This Review synthesizes the ecological features and processes that arise when rivers are given room to move. Understanding these interactions will support more sustainable decisions that weigh river e...
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Commentary by editors-in-chief of AGU journals: A diverse, equitable, and inclusive scientific community improves the quality of science. Research without political pressure or interference increases public trust in science. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... 🧪🧑‍🔬
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Commitment to Advance Excellence and Inclusion in the Earth and Space Sciences Scholarly Publications
We affirm our commitment to publishing evidence-based Earth and space sciences that is free from political interference We will continue to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive scientific c...
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"If science is to honour one of its core values — a commitment to the truth wherever it might lead — scientists must stand up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science." -- Arthur Caplan Don't wait out four hard years: speak truth to power NOW www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
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Center for Western Priorities @westernpriorities.org · 07/03/2025
Trump admin looking at @forestservice.bsky.social budget cuts: - $316 million cut from forest and rangeland research, which is most of its annual budget - $40 million from urban & community forestry, virtually its entire budget via @eenews.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Forest Service braces for up to 7,000 layoffs
“We are sheep headed to slaughter,” one employee said as the Trump administration eyes further staff reductions.
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is insane. In a time of climate and biodiversity crises, we need Forest Service Research more than ever.
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Sharing as a member of AGU's pubs committee: AGU is joining a lawsuit in support of federal workers. They need stories/examples of how loss of federal jobs is affecting society. Please share this request with your colleagues & communities. Deadline is this week.💧🧪🌲 forms.monday.com/forms/f553b2...
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AGU joins suit supporting fired federal employees
The case brought by federal employee unions and nonprofit organizations asserts that OPM’s directive to fire probationary employees at the National Science Foundation and other agencies was illegal.
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
1/n Our team just published a new paper in Global Change Biology 🧪🔥 The title succinctly describes the main take home message, but here's the deal: We produced gridded, fine-scale (resolution = 30m) daily fire progression maps for 623 wildfires in the SW US using satellite fire data. read on ...
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Extreme Fire Spread Events Burn More Severely and Homogenize Postfire Landscapes in the Southwestern United States
Extreme fire spread events rapidly burn large areas and are predicted to increase under a warmer and drier climate. Using satellite data, we analyzed the daily progression of over 600 wildfires in th...
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"As political parties in the US and beyond seek to recodify white supremacist philosophies, STEM leadership must take urgent action to protect and support all members of our diverse scientific community" 👏👏👏 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Protect US racial affinity groups
On its first day, the Trump administration released several executive orders terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, calling them “illegal,” “immoral,” and “discriminatory” (1, 2)...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
Statement begins:
The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others).

Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
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Matthew Hurteau @mhurteau.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The New Mexico Reforestation Center is hiring a director. We are looking for a dynamic leader that can develop and execute a plan to establish NMRC as a leader in science-based reforestation. Please help advertise the position and reach out if you have questions. careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...
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Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center - NMSU satellite location, New Mexico, United States
Position Title: Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center Employee Classification: Dir,Research Division,III College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col Department: 301800-MORA RESEARCH CENTE...
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I’m working hard to find glimmers (micromoments of joy, peace, and happiness) and I wanted to share one of today’s glimmers. Here is a river otter sunning himself on the banks of the American River.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
When monitoring whitebark pine and limber pine, how accurate are species identifications of these similar species? This paper answers the question, suggests future data quality improvements, and got an Editor's Choice award from Forest Science. Uses Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data. 🌲 🍁🧪
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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Very interesting/useful analysis of climate effects on major tree species across CONUS, considers both survival and growth. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Winners and Losers From Climate Change: An Analysis of Climate Thresholds for Tree Growth and Survival for Roughly 150 Species Across the Contiguous United States
Here we assess the effects of temperature and precipitation on the growth and survival of about 150 US tree species. This helps inform the resilience of US forests to climate change, and identify vul...
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Tree rings reveal mixtures of aspen and spruce exhibit greater drought resilience in a planted field experiment www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…
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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
From mapping forest function and disturbances, exploring forest dynamics to mortality from drought, 2024 has seen several analyses we've been working on for years finally come out. Here's a quick summary of them, @julenastigarraga.bsky.social @n-acil.bsky.social @daijunliu.bsky.social
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Paul Kardol @paulkardol.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Curious how forest microclimate and soil microbes drive carbon cycling in a changing climate? 🌡️🌳🍄We're offering a 4-year PhD position at @mycopat.bsky.social, SLU-Uppsala. A cool new project in collaboration with @linegreis.bsky.social Apply now or help spread the word! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Jeff Martin @jeff.cuchazinteractive.org · 07/12/2024
If anyone wonders what the terms "AI" or "ML" have meant historically in computer science, this image is a great summary. 👇 Missing from this image is more specific terms like "LLM". That's a smaller area inside of the "Deep Learning" bubble. And "GPT" is even smaller inside of "LLM".
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Kristina Anderson-Teixeira @k-andersonteixeira.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
**FORESTGEO STAFF SCIENTIST POSITION!** We are hiring a Research Ecologist to focus on Central and South American Forest Dynamics, to be based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Smithsonian staff scientist positions are excellent, as is the ForestGEO team! Come be our colleague!
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ForestGEO Staff Scientist - Research Ecologist, South & Central American Tropical Forests
The Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) is a global network of forest research plots and scientists dedicated to the study of forest function and diversity.
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Trevor Keenan @trevorkeenan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We have an open postdoc position in the Quantitative Ecosystem Dynamics lab at UC Berkeley: forms.gle/Nx1EHYiCv3yR... in the areas of ecohydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, and global change ecology. Please spread the word!
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Very glad to see so much science activity here! 🧪💧 www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagaz...
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Science Magazine - Researchers and scientific institutions flock to Bluesky
In July 2023, Adam Kucharski asked his Twitter followers: What platform do you think you will be spending the most time on a year from now?
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Hurricanes cause tremendous damage to forests, whether natural or plantations, but we know very little about what actually happens to trees during high winds (for obvious reasons). In our latest work we have the answer... 🧵👇🧪🌏 1/12
A rubber tree plantation on the island of Hainan in China has been trashed following a cyclone. Trees are bent and several have been snapped.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 07/11/2024
Climate action is like a giant boulder already past its tipping point and rolling downhill toward a greener future. Governments + corporations can slow it—with serious consequences for people and planet alike—but they can't push it back up the hill. Gravity, history, and progress are on our side.
A giant boulder that's just over the peak of the hill and starting to head downhill, with many hands behind it.
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Ever consider that one hydrologic model might not perform well everywhere? This CUAHSI synthesis series investigates how key processes, fluxes, and controls differ regionally. Join us Sept 24 to explore perceptual models for western mountain & coastal regions. 🧪 💧 www.cuahsi.org/cyberseminar...
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Cyberseminars | Synthesis Workshop Series: Perceptual Models of Dominant Hydrologic Processes Across North America | Cuahsi.orgfacebookfacebooktwitterinstagramlinkedinyoutubemagnifyclosechevron-le...
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AGU Hydrology H3S @agu-h3s.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Join us online as this year's CUAHSI and H3S Cyberseminar series launches on September 12th with "Bridging the Gap: Aligning Academic Training with Professional Expectations" at 1pm ET. Register here: www.cuahsi.org/cyberseminar...
A blue graphic that reads:

"CUAHSI AND AGU-H3S CYBERSEMINAR SERIES: 2024 Navigating (beyond) Academic Waters with AGU-H3S: Expectations, Collaborations & Service"

"September 12, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET: Bridging the Gap: Aligning Academic Training with Professional Expectations"

The graphic features headshots of the four seminar panelists: Clay Sorenson (Senior Hydrogeologist, West Yost), Kate Brauman (Deputy Director, Global Water Security Center), William H. Farmer (Acting USGS Drought Coordinator, US Geological Survey) and Adam S. Ward (Department Head, Oregon State University).
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Jeremy Patterson @jpatthydro.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
#Hydrology, this year's @agu-h3s.bsky.social Navigating Academic Waters webinar series, a collaboration with CUAHSI, starts this Thursday. It's not too late to register, make plans with friends, and come hang with us for this exciting panel discussion. #EarlyCareer #AGU_H3S
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Apply to participate in the CUAHSI and SINTER hosted Snow Measurement Field School in January 2025 with support from NASA. Hands-on experience with snow measurements for graduate students, post-docs, professionals and senior scientists, modelers, and remote sensors. bit.ly/4e0iJW2
Close up of measuring snow.
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Hydrology Paper of the Day @mkjainiitr on a gridded dataset relating soil erosion to rainfall: merging satellite-based and reanalysis datasets; Gaussian regression and rainfall erosivity measured at global stations; and classification and feature importance from Random Forests. rdcu.be/dSiz7
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GloRESatE: A dataset for global rainfall erosivity derived from multi-source data
Scientific Data - GloRESatE: A dataset for global rainfall erosivity derived from multi-source data
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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
You don't need another reason to never, ever publish in an MDPI journal. But in case you do, consider this one: pretending it's OK to plagiarise a thesis because it isn't "prior publication"
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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 04/06/2024
“When dams were breached, the coastline near [Elwha] river’s mouth was completely remodeled. Sediment built stretches of sandy beaches & swirling sand bars that peek above water’s surface. These… allowed water to pool, forming… brackish lagoons. Plants & animals quickly colonized the new ecosystem.”
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On the Pacific Coast, Dam Removal Renews the Shoreline
In the decade since two dams on the Elwha River were removed, scientists are seeing the effect on coastal ecosystems.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/04/2024
Here's what everyone needs to know* about climate change: 🌍 It's real 👥 It's human-caused ⚠️ It's serious 💡 With immediate action, it's solvable ⌛ Later is too late * social science shows these msgs increase acceptance of the issue, awareness of the risk and, most importantly, willingness to act.
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Hydrology Paper of the Day @Hydro_Woodburn @rcarrollcb on examining linkages between groundwater and streamflow in a mountainous watershed indicative of headwater processes: data fusion for model application indicating water budget in the context of forests and climate change.
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Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world - Nature Water
This study employs a high-resolution, integrated hydrological model extending 400 m into the subsurface. Application of the model in a representative headwater basin in the Colorado River shows that g...
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
The Frontiers for Young Minds journal is dedicated to making science available to a younger audience by having scientists work directly with young readers to craft top quality, age appropriate, accessible STEM content. Spread the word about this great resource!
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
The next article in the Frontiers for Young Minds IF/THEN Collection is out! This work by Lindsey Rustad and Wendy Leuenberger titled "Ice Storms: Not as Cool as They Seem", explores how ice storms impact forests. 🧪 kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Pink and purple graphic with a quote that says “the research I did for this article matters because it helps us to understand the impacts of climate change on our planet” by Lindsey Rustad.
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
🧪 🌿PhD opportunity
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
🧪Science bsky please share!
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Sara Goeking @saragoeking.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Do you want to be generous (inclusive) with authorship? Great blog post on authorship criteria (hint: substantive contributions) and how to be inclusive. "Authorship is a responsibility, not just a privilege...[set] up research teams so that more folks deserve authorship."
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
Hydrology Paper of the Day @ross_cuthbert @zarahpattison.bsky.social on the high cost of invasive species: a global geographical overview; understanding cost in the context of spatial and biological processes; trends, taxa, and regions; and spatial clustering and prediction.
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Global economic costs of aquatic invasive alien species
Much research effort has been invested in understanding ecological impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) across ecosystems and taxonomic groups, but…
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
You know what's cool? >20 years of #remotesensing data that allows one to produce #wildfire progression, or day-of-burning, maps. Such maps have enabled some cool studies. The pub below describes a process to produce such maps. I distribute code, with no strings attached, to anyone who asks.🧪
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Mapping day-of-burning with coarse-resolution satellite fire-detection data | US Forest Service Research and Development
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David Ramos @imagineterrain.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Here's a new edition of the Lost Streams of Washington, DC map. I've added more stream names, historic springs, and the pipes that carry runoff today.
Map of Washington, DC with lost streams shown.
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