Reposted by Trevor Cartergavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 07/08/202610 days to apply! Please feel free to reach out with any questions about the position! 025
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026During my PhD with Brian Buma, I was fortunate to get the opportunity to resample plots from his dissertation to see if changes in tree composition caused by multiple, rapid disturbances in a Rocky Mountain forest have persisted through time. Read about it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...doi.orgRedirecting 131
Reposted by Trevor CarterMelissa Lucash @melissalucash.bsky.social · 31/03/2026New paper led by @jameslamping.bsky.social mapping #old-growth forests in SE #Alaska and SW B.C. Take home messages: 192
Reposted by Trevor CarterAssociation for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 24/02/2026New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! "Limited conifer regeneration but widespread regeneration of aspen seedlings following the Cameron Peak fire, northwestern Colorado" by Sarah V. Carter and Sarah J. Hart #SNFECO 🔥Read it here: ow.ly/FIKY50YgGwR 082
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Going into the weekend with a new grant from Jefferson County Parks and Open Space to continue our work on the impacts of fire-retardant on post fire vegetation and soils! Woohoo! 010
Reposted by Trevor CarterMarkus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comComparison of three temperate rainforest climate envelopes for Britain and Ireland: Where could our rainforest be?There are multiple methods for creating climate envelopes for temperate rainforest, and these climate envelopes result in different extents across Ireland and Britain. An awareness of these differenc... 38141
Reposted by Trevor CarterJim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 30/01/2026OK, 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. 45224
Reposted by Trevor CarterNathan Kiel @nathankiel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026New article with @dovciak-lab.bsky.social, Jordon Tourville, and Jay Wason out in Journal of Biogeography: “Conspecific adult dominance interacts with microsite factors to influence forest regeneration patterns across elevation” doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... 1132
Reposted by Trevor CarterEmily J. Francis @emilyjfrancis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026New paper led by Subham Banerjee, classifying coastal redwoods from Sentinel satellite data and mapping them across their entire natural range (true positive rate: 89%, false positive rate: 17%), all in GEE so that maps can be updated with new field training points and imagery over time!tandfonline.comMapping Coastal Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) across their natural range: an updateable and field-validated distribution map using Sentinel satellite data and cloud computingCoast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is a uniquely-tall and long-lived tree species that occupies a narrow fog-belt along the Pacific coast of North America. Despite its ecological and conservation... 042
Reposted by Trevor CarterMike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 20/01/2026A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍 34525
Reposted by Trevor CarterDr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Come work with us in beautiful Santa Barbara! 11311
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Anyone out there have thoughts on how to remove duplicates from NIFC fire polygon data? There are a lot of observations that aren't 100% matches (spelling errors, slight name differences) but are clearly the same fire. I don't think using an erase in terra will work because data span multiple years 011
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 24/12/2025I hope I’m not the only one who has an ever growing folder of screenshots on my phone of recommended Google Scholar articles that I never look at again 010
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025I love e-bikes and all, but how hard is it to use a bell or say "on your left" when you're zooming on the bike trail in the morning? 000
Reposted by Trevor CarterJessi Rick @jessi-rick.bsky.social · 10/11/2025If you're interested in working with me on a master's or PhD with questions related to genomics, biodiversity, and climate change, I'd love to chat about the CAMBIUM fellowship! There's an informational webinar next week and applications are due December 1st. 046
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I'm stoked to be able to talk alongside several talented scientists about aspen and fire management! Join us on November 20th 2:00-3:30pm MST. Registration is required! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 043
Reposted by Trevor CarterBrian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾 2104105
Reposted by Trevor CarterAdam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor, Human-Environment GeographyThe University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt... 21722
Reposted by Trevor CarterKatherine Siegel @katherinesiegel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025You still have 5 days to apply for this awesome postdoc opportunity in the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab at the University of Colorado-Boulder! This could be your backyard! 01821
Reposted by Trevor CarterAssociation for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 22/08/2025REMINDER ‼️Early registration rates for #FireCon2025 end on Saturday, August 30! And, poster abstracts are due on Monday, August 25. To join us in New Orleans in December, see more details on afefirecongress.org 🔥 022
Reposted by Trevor CarterJohn M. Mola @johnmola.bsky.social · 18/08/2025There's a huge disconnect between people's love for bees and their knowledge about them. We explore this, and proposed pollinator conservation policies, in our most recent publication. Open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comMore than Just Honeybees: Exploring Native Insect Pollinator Knowledge and Support in ColoradoDeveloping publicly supported policies that benefit native insect pollinators requires understanding public knowledge and beliefs, evaluating support for pollinator conservation policies, and testi... 152
Reposted by Trevor CarterMike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains? My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙 Apply by Nov 1! Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.com2025 - Hypoxia PhD job adThe Moore lab at the University of Colorado Denver is searching for 1 Ph.D. student to study the elevational limits of dragonflies in Colorado (http://moore-evo-eco.weebly.com). This position is fully... 33435
Reposted by Trevor CarterFaith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Big Colorado River news: “Arizona will again go without 18% of its total Colorado River allocation, while Mexico loses 5%. The reduction for Nevada will stay at 7%. California won’t face any cuts because it has senior water rights and is last to lose in times of shortage.” apnews.com/article/colo...apnews.comArizona, Nevada and Mexico get less Colorado River water for a third yearFederal officials say Arizona, Nevada and Mexico must again live with less Colorado River water as drought lingers in the West. 4189
Reposted by Trevor CarterJenna Morris @jenna-e-morris.bsky.social · 11/08/2025POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)! We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position... Application review starts Aug 31 01913
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Excited to be heading to #ESA2025 soon! Let me know if you're going and would like to connect! 061
Reposted by Trevor CarterBen Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Important new paper out in FEM out about the limitations of carbon offsets as nature-based solutions 🌎🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comForests, carbon, and climate change: Why our obsession with monetizing forest carbon may be counter productiveStoring carbon in forest ecosystems is commonly promoted as a nature-based solution to climate change in which increases in forest carbon storage are … 1156
Reposted by Trevor CarterEcological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 29/04/2025🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04... 28128
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Not seeing much here but the USFWS proposed a new rule that could limit the scope of the Endangered Species Act. We have until May 19th to provide public comments. Go to www.regulations.gov Search FWS-HQ-ES-2025-0034 (docket number for this rulemaking) Leave a comment and let your voice be heardregulations.govRegulations.gov 111
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Our new paper is out in Plant and Soil! 1/2 We provide further evidence that aboveground traits are coordinated with belowground traits. Basically, if a plant has more acquisitive fine-root traits, it also has more acquisitive leaf traits (and vise-versa). link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comFine-root traits coordinate with aboveground strategies yet poorly predict species’ response to spruce mortality - Plant and SoilAims Fine-root traits are important for understanding the strategies plant species use to coexist in communities and persist in resource-limited environments. The extent to which aboveground and below... 131
Reposted by Trevor CarterGraham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf. 12901188
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Three manuscripts back from review in the span of a month! Papers on forest carbon in the Pacific Temperate Coastal Rainforest, plant root traits and disturbance, and disturbance interactions in the understory are on the horizon. 030
Reposted by Trevor CarterJames Lamping @jameslamping.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Our new paper is out in Forest Ecology and Management! Utilizing data from multiple forest inventory programs, we created 35 spatially complete estimates of forest structure and composition across the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia. 🌍🌐 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kgiv1L%7E... 25413
Reposted by Trevor Cartergavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly. 331884
Reposted by Trevor CarterEmily J. Francis @emilyjfrancis.bsky.social · 11/02/20251/4 We have a new paper in Forest Ecology and Management! We modeled bark beetle caused tree mortality as a function of host basal area for eight bark beetle species across the western US. With Jeff Hicke, Chang Gyo Jung, and @mhurteau.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comModeling the probability of bark beetle-caused tree mortality as a function of watershed-scale host species presence and basal areaIn recent decades, bark beetle outbreaks have caused mass tree mortality in western US forests, which has led to altered wildfire characteristics, hyd… 14618
Reposted by Trevor CarterAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025FYSA: Call *your* congressperson's. Not someone else's. If you are not their constituent they do not care and you're only tying up the line for the people they do represent. 417863
Reposted by Trevor CarterCara Ocobock @caraocobock.bsky.social · 27/01/2025All NSF panels have been cancelled until further notice. 13200102
Reposted by Trevor CarterChristina Areizaga Barbieri, Ph.D. @cabarbieri.bsky.social · 27/01/2025I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔 682274719
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Happy first day of the spring semester to those that observe! 010
Reposted by Trevor CarterLars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Re-reading Grubb's 1977 classic The maintenance of species‐richness in plant communities: the importance of the regeneration niche A paper overflowing with ideas, most of which remain highly relevant to this day; really one of my favorites biomar.fciencias.unam.mx/Sobretiros/S...biomar.fciencias.unam.mx 2439
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Two proposals officially submitted this morning! Excited and hopeful to see what comes of them in February. 000
Reposted by Trevor CarterJournal of Vegetation & Applied Vegetation Science @jvs-avs.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Congratulations to Andrew Siefert, Daniel Laughlin and Francesco Sabatini for securing the 2024 Editors' Award for the Journal of Vegetation Science! vegsciblog.org/2024/12/29/j... doi.or/10.1111/jvs....vegsciblog.orgJVS and AVS Editors' Awards for 2024 - vegsciblog.orgThe 2024 Editors’ Award for the Journal of Vegetation Science goes to Andrew Siefert, Daniel Laughlin and Francesco Sabatini. Siefert, 064
Reposted by Trevor CarterDr Christina N. Zdenek @cnzdenek.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Functional diversity vs simply biodiversity. Quantifying the value of sites may fall short if we simply count species, reckons @joshleecology.bsky.social , the winner of the Fundamental Ecology Award. Using traits such as structure is probably very important to consider. #ESAus2024 0205
Reposted by Trevor CarterJames Lamping @jameslamping.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Turns out that this years capital Christmas tree is from the Tongass! Specifically Zarembo Island. That means, in some way, @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social and I modeled this trees existence before it ended up here in DC. 041
Reposted by Trevor CarterKatherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Not surprising sadly, but still oof: Functional R code is rare in species distribution and abundance papers esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comFunctional R code is rare in species distribution and abundance papersAnalytic reproducibility is important for scientific credibility in ecology, but the extent to which scientific literature meets this criterion is not well understood. We surveyed 497 papers publishe.... 1185
Reposted by Trevor CarterJames Lamping @jameslamping.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Doing some interesting natural resource related research in the PNW? Come share a the @nwscience.bsky.social Annual Meeting in March! This years meeting is in Eugene, OR and we are offering travel grants to cover attendance and travel. 023
Reposted by Trevor CarterBenoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I just discovered the site macrostrat.org/map . It's great!!macrostrat.orgMacrostrat 22210
Reposted by Trevor CarterPierre Friedlingstein @pfriedling.bsky.social · 13/11/2024The global carbon budget 2024 is out 12350188
Trevor Carter @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social · 28/10/2024I'm happy to share the second chapter of my dissertation out now in Ecology and Evolution! Forest management may prioritize C storage, but at what cost? Understory plant community diversity is inversely related to C storage in the Tongass NF. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comUnderstory plant biodiversity is inversely related to carbon storage in a high carbon ecosystemUnderstory plant species richness and plant community diversity are inversely related to aboveground live tree biomass carbon. On average, there is a decline of 2 plant species per increase in 50 Mg .... 0195