We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Extensive mortality of the IUCN Red-listed species Korean fir (Abies korean) on Mt. Halla, Jeju Island, South Korea. The cause is unclear but may relate to lower winter snowpacks and early spring temps. Situation seems similar to yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis) in the Pacific Northwest.

Huge congrats to @rafaelcr.bsky.social for his excellent PhD defense yesterday! Rafa has made large contributions to our understanding of local adaptation to drought in Douglas-fir and the underlying genomic architecture of climate adaptive traits as part of the CoAdapTree project.

Great news - we will be searching for a tree physiologist (tenure track) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry, later this year. Stay tuned! (Please share.)

Yum. Same distraction from the doom in our home.

Attended the Canadian Genomics Summit in Ottawa to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Genome Canada. So grateful to Genome Canada and Genome BC for funding forest genomics over the years including AdapTree and CoAdapTree. It’s been a great journey.
#canadiangenomicssummit #genomecanada #genomebc

Happy that @ubcforestry.bsky.social has left that other place and joined the BlueSky wave.

Early spring here in coastal BC after what has been a mild winter. Hazel trees are already flowering.

I live at the north end of the Salish Sea in the Discovery Islands. When we get big storms, winds from the SE push huge amounts of driftwood onto our shores. It’s appalling to see that most of the logs have cut ends and so are from log booms. It’s a huge waste of wood and a hazard to boats.

Always happy to see a Northern alligator lizard while I’m gardening. There are at least four mature lizards that hang out in the greenhouse - Tripod, Stumpy, and a couple that have managed to keep all their appendages. Apparently they are highly philopatric.

Terrible photo, but saw a flock of 20 or so sandhill cranes (I think) high above Quadra Island today.

Great to have a Garry oak provenance trial on campus for teaching students about local adaptation. (And @tombooker.bsky.social seems to have caught on to the dress code in our department.)

Five star read for anyone concerned about climate change, wildfires, or the petrochemical industry. Audiobook is also very well read. Went to a talk by John Vaillant last night that was outstanding -- both compelling and terrifying.

Witches butter (orange) and cat's tongue (white) jelly fungi in forests on Quadra Island. Some day I will try making jelly candies from both of these.

Happy to have found many folks in evolution and ecology here. I’m looking for other forest scientists to follow who have migrated.