Melissa and Shelby will be giving three virtual talks at ESA this year.
You’ve got me going in circles: Feedbacks in the boreal forests of Alaska- Lucash et al.
How kids, pigs, and virtual reality helped me on my journey to engagement- Lucash et al.
How increasing fire frequency will change the forests of interior Alaska- Weiss et al.
Week of August 3, 2020
Dr. Tom Brussel has officially starting working in the lab on our NSF-funded project in Siberia as of July 1, 2020..
Welcome Tom!
So proud of my Honor’s student and all the excellent work we did together. Jannike was a joy to mentor.
Congrats to Jannike Allen who defended her undergraduate Honor’s thesis today. She spent the last 9 months learning R and analyzing a large forest inventory dataset. Great work Jannike!
We recently added a new member to our lab. Meet Rue, Pandemic Puppy. She’s a sweet 4th month old hound mix from a shelter in Portland. She likes cuddling and snacks but hates the rain.
Melissa gave a seminar about ReburnsAK at Washington State University Vancouver campus on 2.24.2020..
Melissa gave the Tea Talk seminar in the Geography Department at the University of Oregon on 2.20.2020. What a great department!
Shelby Weiss was selected as a NEON Early Career Scholar for ESA 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Look for her at ESA!
Here we show that, while there is a strong negative feedback for very short reburning intervals throughout wildland forests of the Western US, that feedback weakens after 10-20 years. Also, the relationship between reburning intervals and drought diverges depending on location, with coastal systems reburning quicker (e.g., shorter interval between fires) in wetter conditions and interior forests in drier. This supports the idea that vegetation productivity – primarily fine fuels that accumulate rapidly (<10 years) – is of primary importance in determining reburn intervals.
Buma B, SA Weiss, K Hayes and MS Lucash. 2020. Wildland fire reburning trends across the US West suggest only short-term negative feedback and differing climatic effects.
Accepted to Environmental Research Letters doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c70
