Brian J Harvey
@brian-j-harvey.bsky.social
Associate Professor & Forest Fire Ecologist, University of Washington Research in fire/disturbance/landscape/forest ecology in western US 2015 cohort in Smith Fellows Program https://depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/
This is our climate change reality. BC is at the sharp end of the climate change spear in terms of fire in Canada. Graph below shows annual area burned in BC 1950-2026. Top 6 years have been since 2017 and BC has experienced more area burned during 2017-2026(red) as compared to 1950-2026 (green).
We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!
Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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This podcast with Canada’s top wildfire expert @mikeflannigan.bsky.social on Canadian wildfires is an absolute must listen! “We should be more proactive” “having an early warning system -- we do it for hurricanes. Why don't we do it for fire?” #wildfire
Mike Flannigan@mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 2mo agoCheck out the CBC front burner podcast where I get to talk about fire for over 20 minutes. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
With wildfire+smoke activity this summer, I've been sharing some resources w/ journalists for broader context about forests, fire, & challenges/opportunities in the PNW. 2026 has been an active 🔥 yr & we're only part way through it. climate.uw.edu/2026/07/08/c... environment.uw.edu/news/2025/07...
Climate Matters: What to expect from this year’s wildfire season in the Northwest
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On Feb 24 at 11am PST, join #WFFRC co-PI @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social + Michele Buonanduci to learn about the latest results from their Burn Severity Atlas, a resource designed to support fire science, management, and decision-making in the Western US. Register here: www.westernfireforest.org/events
🌲🔥🪵 New #HarveyLab research on how fire shapes forests in Western Cascades. Check out our paper, led by @jenna-e-morris.bsky.social, where we quantify how much carbon + fuels remain after fire. Cool to see it at the top of UW Today! Thx to @uw-sefs.bsky.social for the Q/A @esajournals.bsky.social
UW College of the Environment@uwenvironment.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew research builds on our understanding of the effects of #wildfires in wet temperate forests like the ones we have here in western WA and OR: https://bit.ly/4qPWd8f @wadnr.bsky.social @uwnews.uw.edu
New paper out in Science Advances today on A guide to assessing the impacts of climate change on landscape fire. There are thousands of papers on fire and climate change, and this paper discusses how fire, its drivers, and its impacts are modeled. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...
I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
Opportunities
***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…
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Attending #FireCon2025 in NOLA? check out our talks from projects in the #HarveyLab on various aspects of fire ecology & management in forests of the Pacific Northwest + Western US, this Wed-Fri! Looking forward to it! @afe-fireecology.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uw-sefs.bsky.social
Final version now available #AmJBot @botsocamerica.bsky.social Sequoia & Sequoiadendron: Two paleoendemic megatrees with different adaptive responses to high-severity fires bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Plants are not adapted to fire, but to fire regimes 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🪴 #ecoevo #wildfire
juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 12mo agoSequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social
Great new paper led by @knowlton.bsky.social with @ttkeller.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social (and me!) Still so much to learn from #Yellowstone about #fire, #forests & #climatechange. #NSFfunded #JFSPfunded
ESA Journals@esajournals.bsky.social · 11mo ago🆕 in Ecosphere's "Vegetation Ecology" track: A hot & dry future may shake up Yellowstone forests—think fewer spruce, more fire-tolerant neighbors 📄Simulated postfire tree regeneration suggests reorganization of Greater Yellowstone forests during the 21st century doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
🆕 in Ecosphere's "Vegetation Ecology" track: A hot & dry future may shake up Yellowstone forests—think fewer spruce, more fire-tolerant neighbors 📄Simulated postfire tree regeneration suggests reorganization of Greater Yellowstone forests during the 21st century doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Great opportunity to connect with a rising star in the field of landscape fire ecology! Dr. Buonanduci is excellent (in my unbiased opinion 😀) and she is leading innovative work in understanding how W US fire regimes are changing. 🌲🔥📈 @uwenvironment.bsky.social @uw-sefs.bsky.social #HarveyLab
Association for Fire Ecology@afe-fireecology.bsky.social · 11mo agoStudents and early career professionals: Join the Student Association for Fire Ecology on Nov 10 for SAFE Connections November with Dr. Michele Buonanduci, a Postdoctoral Researcher working jointly with The Nature Conservancy and the Univ. of Washington 🔥 fireecology.org/safe-connections
Students and early career professionals: Join the Student Association for Fire Ecology on Nov 10 for SAFE Connections November with Dr. Michele Buonanduci, a Postdoctoral Researcher working jointly with The Nature Conservancy and the Univ. of Washington 🔥 fireecology.org/safe-connections
My department is hiring an assistant professor of forest regeneration. The University of Minnesota department of forest resources is a great place to work, I really really like it here, and hope we end up hiring someone I can collaborate with. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
Careers
The Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota seeks outstanding applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position focused on forest regeneration dynamics. This may include focus areas of early stand dynamics, forest genetics, climate-adaptive seed/tree selection, nursery systems, or environmental stress physiology, which may fall within broader disciplines such as silviculture, restoration ecology, or forest operations. This is a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position with research (50%) and teaching (50%) responsibilities. The successful candidate will have access to office and laboratory space in the department. The position is available beginning August 2026, with review of applications beginning December 8, 2025.ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities include but are not limited to:
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New paper in Ecological Applications! Management that mimics historical mosaics of fire severity could promote postfire tree regeneration under future climate change. Thanks to co-authors @monicagturner.bsky.social @rupertseidl.bsky.social @christinadollinger.bsky.social @knowlton.bsky.social
Can fire exclusion zones enhance postfire tree regeneration? A simulation study in subalpine conifer forests
Climate change and novel fire regimes increasingly challenge stewardship of forests adapted to infrequent, stand-replacing fire. Novel fire regimes may disrupt mechanisms that sustained postfire rege...
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Great new paper out by @ttkeller.bsky.social, using simulations to explore if and how fire exclusion zones can enhance tree regeneration. I particularly enjoyed the interaction between scientists and managers on this one, which added another important dimension to the work! doi.org/10.1002/eap....
Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c
Excellent work led by @ttkeller.bsky.social and important for stewarding forests w/ high-severity #fire regimes @esajournals.bsky.social @uwmadscience.bsky.social
Timon Keller@ttkeller.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew paper in Ecological Applications! Management that mimics historical mosaics of fire severity could promote postfire tree regeneration under future climate change. Thanks to co-authors @monicagturner.bsky.social @rupertseidl.bsky.social @christinadollinger.bsky.social @knowlton.bsky.social
Some media exposure for our new paper on whitebark pine. 🧪🌍 Thanks to @mongabay.com journalist @john-cannon.bsky.social for the great reporting.
Warmer climate could slash threatened whitebark pine territory within decades: Study
Hotter and drier conditions could whittle away 80% of land where whitebark pine grows by the middle of this century, according to a recent study. Scattered across the highest parts of the Rocky Mounta...
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#WFFRC member @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social is combining field + satellite data to create an atlas of wildfire burn severity across the Western US, to inform prescribed burning and future fire management strategies. #WFFRC is led by @caryinstitute.bsky.social www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight...
Building a burn severity atlas to track changing wildfires in real time
This summer, scientists bushwhacked their way to 80 sites in Colorado, New Mexico, and California that burned in 15 fires during 2024, collecting data to create an atlas of burn severity that will cov...
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Great visit to UCSB & an honor to present in the EEMB seminar series. Was fun to talk forests, fire, & resilience w/ many awesome faculty, graduate students & undergrads. 🌲🔥 Thanks to Anderegg Lab for hosting me, esp Joe Celebrezze. Was fun to be back at my UG alma mater. @dudney-joan.bsky.social
"The frequency and severity of such “fire disaster weather” increased substantially during the period 1980 to 2023... climate change has substantially increased the frequency and severity of such “disaster weather”" dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adr5127
Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires
Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...
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We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few people see
He’s Spent 40 Years Studying Dead Trees—Here’s What He’s Found
Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few people see
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Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...
The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...
Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions
We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...
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