Tegan did an amazing job exploring live fuel moisture dynamics in common Intermountain West US shrubs and extending the mechanistic LFMC model to provide inputs for QuicFIRE, a CFD-based fire behavior model. This work can be applied to any shrub worldwide.

Get certified in 2025❗ To support ecology-based fire management and advance fire science, AFE developed a Wildland Fire Professional Certification program and an Academic Certification program 🔥Learn more at ow.ly/lr8M50WlGnr (Professional) and ow.ly/UJgw50WlGnw (Academic)

The area burned in the Canadian 2025 fire season has hit 5 million ha. Third active fire season in a row that combined has burned 7% of the Canadian forest. Currently we have 346 fires out of control (192 monitored out of control (OC) and 154 OC that are being actioned) so expect the number to rise.

Does your research involve fire and shrub fuels? 🔥🌿
Please submit to our special session:
"Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges"
at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans!

Abstracts due soon-15th July! afefirecongress.org/special-sess...

Prescribed fires reduced subsequent 2020 wildfire burn severity by -16% in the western US. Rx fire treatments led to a net reduction of -14% in smoke emissions, as sum from treatment-plus-subsequent-wildfire.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

So great to finally get this idea out into the world. Wouldn't have happened without my awesome collaborators......

Hey Fire Folks, check out these new @fao.org positions to support the Global Fire Hub 🔥 🌳

👉🏼 Forestry Officer (Integrated Fire Management) in Santiago, Chile jobs.fao.org/careersectio...

👉🏼 Forestry Officer (Integrated Fire Management) in Bangkok, Thailand jobs.fao.org/careersectio...

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The Association for Fire Ecology is now on Bluesky!🦋 Follow us to stay up-to-date with Fire Ecology Journal articles, fire ecology news and job posts, and Fire Ecology Chats podcast episodes. Learn more about us here: fireecology.org

📑 New study co-authored by Stefan Doerr reveals 60% increase in global CO2 emissions from wildfires this century.

Boreal forest fires are rapidly increasing, not only in frequency but also in severity! The reason behind? Anthropogenic #ClimateChange. More 👇

My forthcoming book on natural and cultural history in my home landscape is now available for pre-order on the University of New Mexico Press website. To be published April 2025. Description, table of contents, and blurbs are also here.
www.unmpress.com/978082636775...

If you know someone that is looking for a grad student opportunity in 2025 in fire ecology / dendroecology / spatial analyses -- please pass on this announcement. Julia Burton, Jed Meunier, Eric Rebitzke and myself are looking for a student to join our team and be based here at Michigan Tech.

Wildfire threats return this week, dry and blustery conditions likely in #NorthCarolina: www.wxii12.com/article/wxii... - WXII

#NCFire #NCWx

Ready to learn how to use LiDAR for research in #forestry and natural resources using #R? This week I am releasing a 7-part series to help you get started! Share with anyone you know who wants to get started. Part 1 covers acquiring, & viewing LiDAR data! bit.ly/lidR-module1

Plant Science is so cool! And getting your PhD work published is always the “cherry on top” of the academic sundae.

Congrats!!

Believe it or not, one of the consequences of Hurricane Helene could be... wildfire?

@colleenhagerty.com explains below:

PhD opportunity!! ➡️Heathland Flammability Responses to Environmental Change 🌿🔥
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
Work with a great team of researchers at University of Birmingham, University of Exeter, Forestry England & Met Office!

Anyone exploring connections between ecophysiology and wildfire? We have a new Special Collection on Pyro-ecophysiology in Fire Ecology looking for your papers. Deadline is 31 Jan 25 for initial submits but this is a running collection, so submit anytime.
www.springeropen.com/collections/...