Bioclimatologist interested in the causes and consequences of drought. Associate professor UCLA.

Joined June 2015
Openings for PhD students and postdoc/project scientists to work on climate science and climate impacts in my group @ucmerced climatologylab.org/openings.…
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Sea-surface temperature (SST) trends over the last ~40 years show an unusual pattern, with cooling in the SE Pacific & Southern Ocean, despite ongoing global warming. In a recently published paper, we investigate if climate model large ensembles (LEs) can simulate this pattern.
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With the labor day weekend here + oppressive heat coinciding with the apex of summer drying, fire danger is high across much of the West climatetoolbox.org/tool/clim… In addition to weather/fuels facilitators of fire, the human dimension of ignitions during the holiday 1/6
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New paper assessing the effects of past & current climate variability on global forest productivity, flagging regions at risk. Insights can help guide #conservation, #forest adaptation, & improved carbon accounting. #WinslowHansen @naomibschwartz DOI: iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
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We have a MS Research Assistantship available to study white oak regeneration with a strong emphasis on aging & quantitative wood anatomy. We’ll begin reviewing apps immediately for a January 2023 start. @MOsilviculture More info here: treerings.missouri.edu/wp-co…
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🌱my first PhD paper is out!🔥 we looked at the typical climate patterns that influence burned forest area in California in summer, and as a case study, we investigated the drivers of the extreme forest fire season in summer 2018 🧵#CAwx #CAfire journals.ametsoc.org/view/jo…
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The #AGU22 abstract deadline approaches for @theAGU Fall Meeting in Chicago! Consider submitting to my advisor's session, NH006 "Climate-Informed Risk Assessment for Extreme Events", convened by Chia-Ying Lee, @peedublya, Patrick Harr, & Joshua Hacker agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/prel…
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Excited to share this new record of deep ocean temperatures over the last ~60 Million years! Using the clumping of carbon and oxygen isotopes in ancient shells we show that peak Cenozoic deep sea temperatures were warmer (~20 C!) and more dynamic than previously thought 🧵
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New paper in WRR @theAGU on streamflow response to forest disturbance. We used a large-sample hydrology approach to relate streamflow to forest change for 2000-2019. Streamflow often increased after forest disturbance, but decreased in some watersheds. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.… 1/
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1) Climate models have projected an intensification of winter storms in the southern hemisphere only toward the end of this century. 2) We find storm intensification over recent decades has already reached levels projected to occur in the year 2080. 2/
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We’re recruiting a full-time, DATA SCIENTIST to work with us in the paleoclimate dynamics lab @nau_ses! Come work with us on paleoclimate informatics, data-intensive science, cyberinfrastructure and more! hr.peoplesoft.nau.edu/psp/ph…
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.@caro_in_space et al. (2022) examine the relationship between annual forest area burned and aridity in the western USA with an #MTBS-government agency wildfire dataset, MODIS burned areas, and climate data from #NOAA Climgrid. #LoLManuscriptMonday bit.ly/Juang_2022
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🚨#WhatKillsTrees Alert!🚨 How hot is too hot, and how dry is too dry, for Earth's forests? We asked decades of dying trees, and our analysis revealed a "hotter-drought fingerprint" for global forest mortality, out today in @NatureComms. Paper: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Upshot: with warming we’re losing the night brakes on fire. (So much I want to say about this paper…stoked that it’s finally out there. More soon…) Led an amazing team doing big data fire science. @EarthLabCU @UCLA @ucmerced @BoiseState
Really proud of this work & happy to see it out. We document global #NightFire and its link to changing nighttime atmospheric conditions across hours and decades. Led by @DrBalch, with @climate_guy, @mxwlj, @adm0n, J. McGlinchy, M. Cattau, & @peedublya nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Fires progress is often slowed by high nighttime humidity. Yesterday in @nature @DrBalch and colleagues show that this humidity barrier has been steadily eroding in recent years, improving conditions for fire spread. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Today's @latimes front page: This Western megadrought is the driest 22-year period in a millennium Study finds it's being driven by climate change 🗞️This photo by @luissinco shows the remnants of a town that reemerged as water receded at Lake Mead. latimes.com/environment/stor…
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Come work with us on climate impacts 💧👩‍🌾🔥 three funded PhD positions climatologylab.org/join-our-…
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