Laura Chasmer 🛰🌲🔥
@lchasmer.bsky.social
Assoc prof at ULethbridge: I combine fieldwork with lasers and airplanes (and general remote sensing) in disturbed boreal peatlands, permafrost, and forests in Western Canada
Congrats to MSc Saeid Parsian on the defense of his thesis: "Quantifying veg. structure and fire fuels in montane pine forests impacted by mountain pine beetle using RPAS multi-spectral, photogrammetric, & lidar" @Jasper National Park. Saeid developed novel methods to improve wildfire fuel metrics
March 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Congrats to MSc Saeid Parsian on the defense of his thesis: "Quantifying veg. structure and fire fuels in montane pine forests impacted by mountain pine beetle using RPAS multi-spectral, photogrammetric, & lidar" @Jasper National Park. Saeid developed novel methods to improve wildfire fuel metrics
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Great story (though I might be biased) about the challenges of protecting communities from wildfires.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Bow Valley can't be fireproof, so officials work on resilience against future wildfire threats | CBC News
Expert says mitigation will only go so far, as wildfires like the one last year in Jasper continue to threaten mountain towns due to climate change.
www.cbc.ca
February 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Great story (though I might be biased) about the challenges of protecting communities from wildfires.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I encourage people from every province who recognize Doug Ford will be Trump’s entry point into Canada to get as loud as they can at Ontario.
February 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I encourage people from every province who recognize Doug Ford will be Trump’s entry point into Canada to get as loud as they can at Ontario.
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USAID, NOAA …
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
USAID, NOAA …
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Editor's Choice - Canadian Journal of Forest Research Feb. 2025. The 2023 wildfires in British Columbia, Canada: impacts, drivers, and transformations to coexist with wildfire led by Professor Lori Daniels @loridanielsubc.bsky.social Give it a read cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
The 2023 wildfires in British Columbia, Canada: impacts, drivers, and transformations to coexist with wildfire
In 2023, all regions of British Columbia (BC) experienced record-breaking fire weather and wildfires, with extreme behavior and social-ecological effects. In total, 2245 wildfires burned 2840 545 hect...
cdnsciencepub.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Editor's Choice - Canadian Journal of Forest Research Feb. 2025. The 2023 wildfires in British Columbia, Canada: impacts, drivers, and transformations to coexist with wildfire led by Professor Lori Daniels @loridanielsubc.bsky.social Give it a read cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Anyone concerned about what’s going on in the US right now—namely, the illegal coup by a band of criminals and oligarchs (including the illegal tariffs imposed on 🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽)—read this excellent piece by Timothy Snyder, whose books include “On Tyranny,” and most recently, “On Freedom.”
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Anyone concerned about what’s going on in the US right now—namely, the illegal coup by a band of criminals and oligarchs (including the illegal tariffs imposed on 🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽)—read this excellent piece by Timothy Snyder, whose books include “On Tyranny,” and most recently, “On Freedom.”
On #WorldWetlandsDay: Unburned "fire refugia" peatlands following the intense #Jasper Fire Complex 2024
February 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
On #WorldWetlandsDay: Unburned "fire refugia" peatlands following the intense #Jasper Fire Complex 2024