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Tom Merchant

@tkmerchant.bsky.social
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Post-doc at CUBoulder. Plants, community and ecosystem ecology, rangelands, restoration, droughts, and fire

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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies @caryinstitute.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
On Thu, May 15 @ 11am ET, join us for a virtual science seminar with @colorado.edu's @lauradee.bsky.social: Causal Inference for Ecology and Conservation. Free + open to all. #ecology #conservation Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/causal-inf...
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Tom Merchant @tkmerchant.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Thanks, Laura!
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Fun time writing for @theconversation.com ! Please share! Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year theconversation.com/controlled-b...
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Controlled burns reduce wildfire risk, but they require trained staff and funding − this could be a rough year
Uncertainty from Washington along with staff and budget cuts have created turmoil for the US Forest Service’s fire management efforts.
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INSTAAR @instaar.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Hi! 👋 We are scientists studying Earth & environmental systems at CU Boulder. Our name = cold/high places, but these days we work from tropics to poles, incl. the world ocean. Follow us for 🧊 Cold regions ⌛ Past climate 🏔️ Earth surface processes 💨 Atmospheric gases 🌱 Ecological change & lots more!
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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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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thanks to @natureecoevo.bsky.social & the reviewers for the great process and highlighting this work in a News & Views: Effects of extreme events on nature’s benefits to people www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Effects of extreme events on nature’s benefits to people - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A mathematical framework integrates the effect of disturbances on ecosystem services under climate change, and offers a vital tool to incorporate changing disturbance regimes into risk-sensitive decis...
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Tom Merchant @tkmerchant.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Thanks!
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Tom Merchant @tkmerchant.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hi Markus! Would you mind adding me as well?
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Elisa Van Cleemput @elisa-vancleemput.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
causal understanding of landscapes + remote sensing 🛰️? Yes, we can! We discuss important hurdles - and provide solutions! - when using remote sensing to study causality in landscapes (free download until Dec 25) @lauradee.bsky.social, @benpoulter.bsky.social, P. Adler, K. Suding, A. Rebelo 🦸‍♀️🦹💪
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Scaling-up ecological understanding with remote sensing and causal inference
Decades of empirical ecological research have focused on understanding ecological dynamics at local scales. Remote sensing products can help to scale-…
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DroughtNet @droughtnet.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Welcome to the new DroughtNet social media presence on Bluesky! We're moving away from Twitter/X and sharing new developments from the network here. In the meantime, you can read more about our International Drought Experiment in the linked paper. 💚🌱🌍🌎🌏 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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