Congrats to former postdoc in our lab, Dr. Neil Williams, for leading a publication on wildfire and climate change in Siberia.
Williams, NG, MS Lucash, MR Ouellette, T Brussel, EJ Gustafson, SA Weiss, BR Sturtevant, DG Schepaschenko and AZ Shvidenko. 2023. Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia. Fire Ecology 19 (1), 1-29. https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00188-1
This weekend TEEL lab members, Colin Mast and Gabriel Abreu-Vigil hiked up to Hayden Glacier, located in between Middle and North Sister, to help fellow UO Geography masters student, Maxim Shapovalov, establish an automated weather station and ablation stake on the glacier. Hayden Glacier is a crucial water source for nearby cities such as Sisters and Bend. Maxim’s project hopes to assist local agriculturalists and city planners by assessing just how much water the glacier contributes over the course of a summer. While the hike was made brutal by the heavy packs and large equipment, the surrounding views of the High Cascades from atop the glacier made all the effort well worth it.
Hana Matsumoto, M.S. student in our lab, won a $1600 scholarship to attend a writing workshop in Vienna, Austria next month. Congrats Hana! Thanks to the UO Grad School for supporting Hana!
One talk
Lucash MS, N Williams and C Mast. 2023. Using landscape modeling to inform forest management planning of the Elliott State Research Forest, the largest research forest in North America. International Association of Landscape Ecology- North America, Riverside, CA.
and three posters!
Lamping J**, M Lucash, T Carter, B Buma and RM Scheller. 2023. The future of carbon in a perhumid landscape: Modeling carbon and species trajectories under contrasting management strategies. International Association of Landscape Ecology- North America, Riverside, CA.
Matsumoto H***, E Gustafson, T Brussel*, N Williams*, B Sturtevant, D Schepaschenko, A Shvidenko, and MS Lucash. 2023. Projecting the impacts of climate change and multiple disturbances on Siberian boreal and arctic ecosystems. International Association for Landscape Ecology- North America. Riverside, CA.
Mast C***, N Williams*, and MS Lucash 2023. Integrated effects of a Triad harvesting regime with wind and fire disturbances on key ecosystem services in the Elliott State Research Forest, Oregon. International Association of Landscape Ecology- North America, Riverside, CA.
Weiss S**, G Abreu-Vigil***, A Marshall, K Hayes, B Buma, D Nicolsky, and MS Lucash. 2023. Modeling fire and vegetation shifts in Alaskan boreal forests under future climate change. International Association of Landscape Ecology- North America, Riverside, CA.
New paper from our lab led by Stuart Steidle!
The paper compares public attitudes about habitat restoration of pine barrens in Wisconsin between a website and 3D virtual tour. We found that websites and 3D media equally enhanced public attitudes about habitat restoration. This is good news! A website that presents a compelling story of restoration is just as effective as a fancy 3D virtual tour for enhancing attitudes towards the clear-cutting and prescribed burning of forests that is necessary for pine barrens restoration. More details in the paper, which is free to download until the end of May. https://lnkd.in/gpa55FzY
New blog on Cyverse, NSF supercomputing resources, features Shelby!
https://cyverse.org/cyverses-compute-power-accelerates-doctoral-researchers-science
Congrats to Gabriel who got accepted to the Innovation Summit led by ESIIL, a NSF-funded data synthesis center in Boulder, CO. https://esiil.org
Melissa received a new $50K grant to compare different estimates of wildfire risk in Oregon.
We’re excited to work with Andy Gray, Team Lead and Research Ecologist, in Corvallis, OR, and others on this project, especially given the importance of studying wildfire risk here in OR.
New book on boreal forests in the face of climate change out today, published by Springer Publishing. Check out the chapter on modeling disturbances co-authored by Rupert, Marie, Juha and Melissa.
As of Jan 15, 2023, Neil has left the TEEL Lab to work with Justin Crotteau as an ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Forest Service office in Missoula, Montana. One step closer to his dream job of a Research Forester in the U.S. Forest Service!
