Morgan Crowley, PhD
@morganahcrowley.bsky.social
Forest Fire Research Scientist with Canadian Forest Service 🔥🌲🌳 and the WildFireSat mission 🚀🛰 📡 | Advancing how we use satellites to monitor fires and their impacts | Woman in Remote Sensing | Mother in Science 💻👩💻👩🔬🧪 | she/hers | celiac | 📚🎵🎶👟☕️ | 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Lots of active fires in the NWT this evening. Some pyrocu to the right of the gold line. Notice the south winds near the surface but as the column rises the winds shift to westerly
August 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Lots of active fires in the NWT this evening. Some pyrocu to the right of the gold line. Notice the south winds near the surface but as the column rises the winds shift to westerly
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“Recent rain and cooler temperatures are bringing relief to Manitoba's wildfire zones. That's giving hope to evacuees still waiting to go home.” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... - CBC Manitoba
#Manitoba #MBFire #Wildfires
#Manitoba #MBFire #Wildfires
Cool, wet weather a relief for Manitoba wildfire evacuees
Recent rain and cooler temperatures are bringing relief to Manitoba's wildfire zones. That's giving hope to evacuees still waiting to go home.
www.cbc.ca
August 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“Recent rain and cooler temperatures are bringing relief to Manitoba's wildfire zones. That's giving hope to evacuees still waiting to go home.” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... - CBC Manitoba
#Manitoba #MBFire #Wildfires
#Manitoba #MBFire #Wildfires
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🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous
August 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous
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The heat is coming to BC. An upper ridge will bring 7-10 days of hot dry weather (ECMWF 500 mb height anomaly map below). Forecast for Kamloops below with 6+ days 30C or higher. Fortunately, it does not look like much lightning activity until the ridge breakdown - this is a classic fire situation
August 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The heat is coming to BC. An upper ridge will bring 7-10 days of hot dry weather (ECMWF 500 mb height anomaly map below). Forecast for Kamloops below with 6+ days 30C or higher. Fortunately, it does not look like much lightning activity until the ridge breakdown - this is a classic fire situation
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Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.
July 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @mparrington.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @jmccartygeo.bsky.social on climate change, Arctic and high-latitude wildfires: risk, permafrost processes, air quality and fire emissions; remote sensing data products; and monitoring.
First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @mparrington.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @jmccartygeo.bsky.social on climate change, Arctic and high-latitude wildfires: risk, permafrost processes, air quality and fire emissions; remote sensing data products; and monitoring.
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First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social
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Are you subscribed to our Open Jobs in Geospatial newsletter on LinkedIn? Every Friday, we publish a list of career opportunities crowdsourced from our community.
Check out this week's list here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-j...
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June 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Are you subscribed to our Open Jobs in Geospatial newsletter on LinkedIn? Every Friday, we publish a list of career opportunities crowdsourced from our community.
Check out this week's list here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-j...
Check out this week's list here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-j...
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Check out our new white paper that (for the first time) systematically counts the wildland fire workforce:
What Color is your Nomex? by Abigail Varner et al.
Varner provides interesting insights into growing privatization of the workforce in the US.
drive.google.com/file/d/1RcRO...
What Color is your Nomex? by Abigail Varner et al.
Varner provides interesting insights into growing privatization of the workforce in the US.
drive.google.com/file/d/1RcRO...
Woods+2025+Nomex+Whtie+Paper+FINAL+v06+WEB+%281%29.pdf
drive.google.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Check out our new white paper that (for the first time) systematically counts the wildland fire workforce:
What Color is your Nomex? by Abigail Varner et al.
Varner provides interesting insights into growing privatization of the workforce in the US.
drive.google.com/file/d/1RcRO...
What Color is your Nomex? by Abigail Varner et al.
Varner provides interesting insights into growing privatization of the workforce in the US.
drive.google.com/file/d/1RcRO...
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The Wildfire Commons will launch its community platform and FireForge in July 2025, featuring community datasets and more in a single, curated space. Stay connected about the launch by signing up at forms.gle/manchSbssWL7...
Wildfire Science & Technology Commons Community
Wildfires present a formidable challenge, impacting communities, ecosystems, and economies worldwide. The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons is dedicated to addressing these critical challenges thr...
forms.gle
June 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Wildfire Commons will launch its community platform and FireForge in July 2025, featuring community datasets and more in a single, curated space. Stay connected about the launch by signing up at forms.gle/manchSbssWL7...
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Women leaders in insect ecology (conservation, diversity) research are underrepresented. Discipline diversity improving but geographically dominated by usual places (Nth America, UK, Euro), slowly increasing in Australia, NZ, Sth America. Do you know any women researchers in Africa, Asia, Pacific?
June 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Women leaders in insect ecology (conservation, diversity) research are underrepresented. Discipline diversity improving but geographically dominated by usual places (Nth America, UK, Euro), slowly increasing in Australia, NZ, Sth America. Do you know any women researchers in Africa, Asia, Pacific?
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Curious to learn more #geospatial skills? Check out this library of free courses from EO college! Topics include radar, remote sensing, and EO for zero hunger. Most are in English & some are in German.
eo-college.org
eo-college.org
June 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Curious to learn more #geospatial skills? Check out this library of free courses from EO college! Topics include radar, remote sensing, and EO for zero hunger. Most are in English & some are in German.
eo-college.org
eo-college.org
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For over four decades, the Canada/ESA Cooperation Agreement has led to mutually beneficial activities in a wide range of space activities. From protecting our planet, exploring our Universe, to enhancing our autonomies and resilience, ESA and Canada have been friends a long time, eh? #ESAxCanada🍁
June 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
For over four decades, the Canada/ESA Cooperation Agreement has led to mutually beneficial activities in a wide range of space activities. From protecting our planet, exploring our Universe, to enhancing our autonomies and resilience, ESA and Canada have been friends a long time, eh? #ESAxCanada🍁
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Are you attending ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025? 🌎🔭🌌🌱
together with Women+ in Geospatial IEEE (GRSS) IDEA, geoinclusion 🌎🛰️ we are organizing a Networking Event 🚀🌌🔭
Mark your calendar for Weds 25th of June 19h! 🚀🎉
Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...
See you there 🤗
together with Women+ in Geospatial IEEE (GRSS) IDEA, geoinclusion 🌎🛰️ we are organizing a Networking Event 🚀🌌🔭
Mark your calendar for Weds 25th of June 19h! 🚀🎉
Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...
See you there 🤗
June 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Are you attending ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025? 🌎🔭🌌🌱
together with Women+ in Geospatial IEEE (GRSS) IDEA, geoinclusion 🌎🛰️ we are organizing a Networking Event 🚀🌌🔭
Mark your calendar for Weds 25th of June 19h! 🚀🎉
Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...
See you there 🤗
together with Women+ in Geospatial IEEE (GRSS) IDEA, geoinclusion 🌎🛰️ we are organizing a Networking Event 🚀🌌🔭
Mark your calendar for Weds 25th of June 19h! 🚀🎉
Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...
See you there 🤗
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Numerous high intensity wildfires from NE BC to NW Ontario today. GOES-West Mid-ir loop below showing parts of SK and MB. White areas are intense fires, and red areas are extremely intense fires with some pyrocbs (geocolor loop coming).
June 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Numerous high intensity wildfires from NE BC to NW Ontario today. GOES-West Mid-ir loop below showing parts of SK and MB. White areas are intense fires, and red areas are extremely intense fires with some pyrocbs (geocolor loop coming).
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With authors from across this globe, we did a few things in this paper worth calling out:
🔥 outline experiments for different fire regions
🔥 include ways to understand impacts of fire on air quality and how smoke can both warm and cool the atmosphere
🔥 highlight transparent ways to do this.
🔥 outline experiments for different fire regions
🔥 include ways to understand impacts of fire on air quality and how smoke can both warm and cool the atmosphere
🔥 highlight transparent ways to do this.
The HTAP3 Fires paper, led by Cynthia Whaley of our scientific steering committee, outlining fire-focused multi-model experiments coordinated by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution is now published in Geoscientific Model Development gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts
Abstract. Open biomass burning has major impacts globally and regionally on atmospheric composition. Fire emissions include particulate matter, tropospheric ozone precursors, and greenhouse gases, as ...
gmd.copernicus.org
June 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
With authors from across this globe, we did a few things in this paper worth calling out:
🔥 outline experiments for different fire regions
🔥 include ways to understand impacts of fire on air quality and how smoke can both warm and cool the atmosphere
🔥 highlight transparent ways to do this.
🔥 outline experiments for different fire regions
🔥 include ways to understand impacts of fire on air quality and how smoke can both warm and cool the atmosphere
🔥 highlight transparent ways to do this.
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Boreal wildfires are, yet again, raging near historical smelting toxic metal pollution sources. The peatlands, forests, and lakes near Flin Flon MB have elevated toxic metals (e.g. Hg, As, Pb) that current wildfires can remobilize to our air, land, and water (similar to tinyurl.com/yv7usr6b). 1/2
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape - IOPscienceSearch
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape, Sutton, O F, McCarter, C P R, Waddington, J M
tinyurl.com
June 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Boreal wildfires are, yet again, raging near historical smelting toxic metal pollution sources. The peatlands, forests, and lakes near Flin Flon MB have elevated toxic metals (e.g. Hg, As, Pb) that current wildfires can remobilize to our air, land, and water (similar to tinyurl.com/yv7usr6b). 1/2
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Smoke aerosols from wildfires in Canda were this afternoon observed over Europe (Ireland, UK, Denmark, Germany and Poland) with the Copernicus S5P Satellite. The aerosol layer over the North Sea was at an altitude of 5-6 km. @knmi.nl @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #tropomi
May 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Smoke aerosols from wildfires in Canda were this afternoon observed over Europe (Ireland, UK, Denmark, Germany and Poland) with the Copernicus S5P Satellite. The aerosol layer over the North Sea was at an altitude of 5-6 km. @knmi.nl @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #tropomi
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With the recent rapid increases in #wildfires as we head into summer, a timely reminder of this excellent starter pack on #wildfire experts put together by @fkearns.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RmQuXhp #IIFF
June 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
With the recent rapid increases in #wildfires as we head into summer, a timely reminder of this excellent starter pack on #wildfire experts put together by @fkearns.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RmQuXhp #IIFF
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It’s likely going to be an active wildfire season in boreal + Arctic North America *and* Eurasia. Normally one or the other.
Both Canada & Siberia have early extreme fires & fire activity. Climate change will make this worse.
Be prepared with evacuation plans, air purifiers, masks, & go bags.
Both Canada & Siberia have early extreme fires & fire activity. Climate change will make this worse.
Be prepared with evacuation plans, air purifiers, masks, & go bags.
Area burned over 1 million hectares in Canada and increasing. Second only to the 2023 in terms of area burned for this time of year. @ciffc.bsky.social
ciffc.ca
cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?typ...
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May 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It’s likely going to be an active wildfire season in boreal + Arctic North America *and* Eurasia. Normally one or the other.
Both Canada & Siberia have early extreme fires & fire activity. Climate change will make this worse.
Be prepared with evacuation plans, air purifiers, masks, & go bags.
Both Canada & Siberia have early extreme fires & fire activity. Climate change will make this worse.
Be prepared with evacuation plans, air purifiers, masks, & go bags.
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Area burned over 1 million hectares in Canada and increasing. Second only to the 2023 in terms of area burned for this time of year. @ciffc.bsky.social
ciffc.ca
cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?typ...
ciffc.ca
cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?typ...
May 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Area burned over 1 million hectares in Canada and increasing. Second only to the 2023 in terms of area burned for this time of year. @ciffc.bsky.social
ciffc.ca
cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?typ...
ciffc.ca
cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fm3?typ...