@dr_spoon

Tree doctor, UBC IRSS Postdoc, Silva21 Scientific Coordinator 🌲 I have left X to support BlueSky, the more inclusive platform @dr-spoon.bsky.social

 Vancouver, British Columbia
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Joined June 2022
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Our new comment in @Nature 🔥 Wildfires are spreading fast in Canada - we must strengthen forests for the future 🔗go.nature.com/4dTqbCo ✍️ C. Mulverhill, N.C. Coops, Y. Boulanger, @kiramhoffman @ChristiansonAmy @LoriDanielsUBC M. Flamand-Hubert & @AlexisAchim @UBCForestry

Wildfires are spreading fast in Canada — we must strengthen forests for the future

Nature - As wildfires become more frequent and severe, efforts to improve the resilience of forests must be grounded in data and led by Indigenous Peoples.

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Congratulations to Dr Nelson Thiffault for being named co-editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research! 👏 @cdnsciencepub
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Amy Wotherspoon, PhD retweeted
SilviLaser 2025@Silvilaser256 Jan 2025
Planning for #Silvilaser2025 is back in full swing after the holidays! Don't forget, the 20th edition of Silvilaser is happening: 🗓️September 29 - October 3, 2025 📍Quebec City, Canada 📣The call for abstracts is open on our website: silvilaser2025.com
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Starting off the new year strong with a #Silva21 publication! Detection of disturbances using Harmonized #Landsat #Sentinel2 time series 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.… (in @ISPRS) ✍️ @MadiSophiaBrown Coops (@IRSS_UBC) Mulverhill, @AlexisAchim 🙏 @NSERC_CRSNG @UBCForestry
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Special congratulations to lead author @MadiSophiaBrown for her first publication of her MSc!
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A publication on your birthday is the best publication 🥳 📢A trans-Atlantic perspective on successful #plantation establishment in #BorealForests: lessons learned & research opportunities ✍️Thiffault/Nordin/Wotherspoon/Hjelm/Olofsson 🔗doi.org/10.1007/s11056-024-1… @UBCForestry
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Congrats to @Joanne_C_White @mikewulder and Nicholas Coops (@IRSS_UBC) for being @ClarivateAG's highly cited researchers for 2024! @UBCForestry
Integrated RS Studio@IRSS_UBC20 Nov 2024
Congratulations to our collaborators @Joanne_C_White and @mikewulder for being on @ClarivateAG's list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2024! 👏
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Join us at the Urban Forestry HUB Research Fair! 🌳 📅 November 27, 2024 🕜 5:00 - 8:00 PM 📍 FSC Atrium
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We're almost through November but still want to keep up with our lab's #Movember fundraising! Funds go towards #menshealth to all the dads, brothers, sons and mates in our lives. Please donate if you can to help us reach our $1,000 goal!👨 movember.com/m/14757115?mc=1…

Evan Muise's Mo Space

Evan's Motivation: I'm raising funds and awareness this Movember for all the dads, brothers, sons and mates in our lives. I need your help. Please donate to support men's health.

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New Silva21 Publication📢 Influence of irregular #shelterwood on intensity & severity after #wildfire in #LodgepolePine stands in BC 🔗doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone… in @PLOSONE ✍️ Liu/Greene/Axelson/Coops/Barbeito/Roeser 💰 #Silva21 @IRSS_UBC @UBCForestry @AlexisAchim #silviculture
Fig 5 from Liu et al (2024): Ground fuel loadings by fuel size class (hr) in treated-unburnt stand vs untreated-unburnt stand.

ALT Fig 5 from Liu et al (2024): Ground fuel loadings by fuel size class (hr) in treated-unburnt stand vs untreated-unburnt stand.

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Great read! 📰 A comprehensive framework to evaluate the financial impacts of genetic improvement on #WoodProducts from #PlantedForests 🔗 doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-00… 📓 @cdnsciencepub ✍️ Chagnon et al @AlexisAchim 💰 Spruce Up, @GenomeCanada @cwfc_ccfb #Silva21

A comprehensive framework to evaluate the financial impacts of genetic improvement on wood products...

Increasing the productivity of planted forests may efficiently provide an important part of the world’s growing demand for wood while protecting natural forests. In this study, we developed an...

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Amy Wotherspoon, PhD retweeted
SilviLaser 2025@Silvilaser2512 Nov 2024
We are excited to announce the 📢Call for Abstracts📢 for #Silvilaser2025, an international gathering of researchers, professionals and industry leaders in #LaserScanning and other technologies for assessing and managing #ForestEcosystems! 🗓️ Submissions open November 18th!
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This week the FRST201 students are out at @ubcfarm conducting site relévés and even digging their own soil pits! We’re sad it’s their last #FieldLab of the season 😢 @UBCForestry @DrSuzanneSimard #SiteReleve #SoilPit #BECzones #FieldWork
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Please share widely. I am recruiting for two funded phd positions and a 2yr postdoc. Full ads: drewpeltier.com/opportunitie… 1) PhD position in climate adaptation science (SWCASC) 2) PhD position in memory effects in forest C cycle (NSF funded) 3) Postdoc position (2yr) in 14C/NSC

Opportunities - Quantitative physiological ecology lab

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Great read! 📰 Investigating #ClimateAnomalies associated with the sudden mortality of #BalsamFir in eastern Canada 🔗doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.14… ✍️ Broom, Taylor & D'Orangeville 🙏 @NSERC_CRSNG #StillwellSyndrome #AcadianForest #ForestDisturbance
Fig 1 from Broom et al (2024): Location of 2018 reports of sudden fir mortality within the current distribution range of balsam fir (Natural Resources Canada, 2015). Reports included pictures shown here of the rapid reddening of intact foliage associated with sudden balsam fir mortality in Wisconsin (2019), northern areas of New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine (Maine Forest Service, 2018) and New Brunswick (NBERD, 2018). Images of the fir trees are used with permission: © Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (left), Photo taken by Aaron Bergdahl © Maine Forest Service (center), Photo taken by Anthony Taylor © Canadian Forest Service (right)

ALT Fig 1 from Broom et al (2024): Location of 2018 reports of sudden fir mortality within the current distribution range of balsam fir (Natural Resources Canada, 2015). Reports included pictures shown here of the rapid reddening of intact foliage associated with sudden balsam fir mortality in Wisconsin (2019), northern areas of New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine (Maine Forest Service, 2018) and New Brunswick (NBERD, 2018). Images of the fir trees are used with permission: © Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (left), Photo taken by Aaron Bergdahl © Maine Forest Service (center), Photo taken by Anthony Taylor © Canadian Forest Service (right)

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Amy Wotherspoon, PhD retweeted
SilviLaser 2025@Silvilaser258 Oct 2024
🌐 Join a community of innovators! With over 20 years of gatherings, #SilviLaser2025 promises collaboration and discovery in laser scanning and forestry! 📆Sep 29 - Oct 3, 2025 📍 Quebec City, Canada Learn more at silvilaser2025.com! 🤝🌿
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#Silva21 a hâte a présenter ses recherches les plus récentes avec Rendez-vous de la connaissance du Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (@mrnfqc)! 🌲 Voir l’ordre du jour, s’inscrire à la réunion et accéder au lien de la réunion ici👉 bit.ly/4dAHiYx
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Les conférenciers/conférencières incluent: 🔸 Catherine Larouche 🔹 Amy Wotherspoon (@dr_spoon) 🔸Guillaume Moreau 🔹Anne Bernard (@AnneBer85603784) 🔸Alexandre Morin-Bernard (@profalexandremb) 🔹Loïc D'Orangeville 🔸Jean-Daniel Sylvain (@jdsylvain) 🔹Alexis Achim (@AlexisAchim)
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This week’s FRST201 #ForestEcology lab took the students to Pacific Spirit Park on an ecological treasure hunt to test their plant ID skills and characterize different types of forest disturbance 🔥 💨 🪳 @UBCForestry #ForestryLab
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Great read! 📰 The @cwfc_ccfb's Highlights of Work, summarizing the work done across all their different research centres for the 2020-2024 period 🌲🪵🌳 In English: bit.ly/406XWMz En français: bit.ly/3zLjjrL @NRCan #CanadianForests
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#Silva21 in the news!📰 @NRCanScience reports on TransX, a collaborative project with @universitelaval & @UNB, monitoring how #TreeHealth & survival across species/populations might respond to future warming Read here👉bit.ly/3BlQaUu #AssistedMigration #ClimateChange
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