Laura Marshall
@lmarshall.bsky.social
Forest ecologist, artist. Mostly posting pics of cats and cool trees.
‘We gotta go’: Brothers tell of harrowing wilderness escape as wildfires closed in www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
‘We gotta go’: Brothers tell of harrowing wilderness escape as wildfires closed in
Tom and John Connelly put in on Saturday for what was supposed to be a 10-day fishing trip through Quetico Provincial Park, across the Canadian border from the Boundary Waters. Then came the fires and...
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Genuinely extreme--and quite frankly explosive--fire behavior ongoing within #CottonwoodFire in SW Utah late this evening, with a persistent, deep, and apparently rotating *nocturnal* pyrocumulonimbus. This region had record low snowpack a following record warm winter. Yikes.
Attention #FireCon2025 attendees ❗ You should have received your Whova invitation at the email you registered with. Make sure to join us at the dance party with DJ Driptorch! Bring your best fire-themed costume for the costume contest 🔥
Happy #FireCon2025 Friday! We are so excited to have over 35 special sessions at the upcoming 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in New Orleans! 🔥 Be sure to check out all the details at afefirecongress.org/special-sessions-2
i want u to know that you're stronger than u think. once I got to walk past an open tray of uranium fuel pellets and I didn't even take a single one. be strong
A wildfire burned a water treatment plant at Grand Canyon, releasing deadly chlorine gas. The NOAA HYSPLIT model “currently indicates no critical threat to nearby communities” but multiple trails and Phantom Ranch were closed. The NOAA lab that runs HYSPLIT is on the chopping block.
Chlorine gas leak prompts evacuations, trail closures at Grand Canyon National Park
Areas of the Grand Canyon National Park were closed Saturday after a fire at a water treatment facility led to a chlorine gas leak , prompting evacuations on Sa
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The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi
Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding
Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed
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Large sections of Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Mount Lemmon and Madera Canyon, and parts of Mount Graham, would be eligible for selling off as part of proposed Senate legislation that
Parts of Sabino Canyon, Mt. Lemmon, others could be sold under Senate bill
Large sections of Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Mount Lemmon and Madera Canyon, and parts of Mount Graham, would be eligible for selling off as part of proposed Senate legislation that
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"Decreasing frequency of low and moderate fire weather days [due to climate change] may be contributing to large wildfire occurrence in the northern Sierra Nevada." 🌍https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168192325003089
Decreasing frequency of low and moderate fire weather days may be contributing to large wildfire occurrence in the northern Sierra Nevada
Previous analyses identified large-scale climatic patterns contributing to greater fuel aridity as drivers of recent dramatic increases in wildfire ac…
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my friends from the Midwest: look this picture of our gorgeous landscape me, having grown up and always lived in mountainous western Washington: no. I don't like how you can see to the end of it friends: ...the end of what me, pointing at the horizon uneasily: it
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
David Malakoff@davidmalakoff.bsky.social · last yr.Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.
Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
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“Viewing fire as a medicine, this method of burning forests and grasslands — what are today known as prescribed, controlled, cultural or traditional burns — also limited the threat of devastating wildfires blazing out of control.” indiginews.com/features/cul...
'Just respect the fire': Returning cultural burns to a parched Okanagan landscape brings risk and reward
Long before colonialism, syilx people regularly started low-intensity controlled fires. Those bringing it back see how it’s saving homes and lives
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So far the morning severe storm damage here is: one lounge chair blown over and some magnolia blossoms scattered
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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The forecast discussion is using words like hellacious about today’s severe outbreak, so that’s fun. Not sure if I’ve been in a hatched tornado risk zone before today.
“Bioregional‐scale acoustic monitoring can support fire‐prone forest restoration planning” out now in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13. I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.
NOAA Climate.gov@climate.noaa.gov · last yr.Predicting El Niño and La Niña is tough, but new research analyzing 20+ years of forecasts finds dynamical models outperform statistical ones, especially for El Niño. La Niña onset? That's been much harder. Read more in our new ENSO blog post! www.climate.gov/news-feature...
1/n Our team just published a new paper in Global Change Biology 🧪🔥 The title succinctly describes the main take home message, but here's the deal: We produced gridded, fine-scale (resolution = 30m) daily fire progression maps for 623 wildfires in the SW US using satellite fire data. read on ...
Extreme Fire Spread Events Burn More Severely and Homogenize Postfire Landscapes in the Southwestern United States
Extreme fire spread events rapidly burn large areas and are predicted to increase under a warmer and drier climate. Using satellite data, we analyzed the daily progression of over 600 wildfires in th...
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Cultural burn on the University of Washington campus in Seattle www.dailyuw.com/science/burk...
Burke Museum conducts cultural burn on Burke Meadow to promote spring growth, emphasize importance of Indigenous practices
A group of 50 students, faculty, and staff attended a “cultural burn” at the Burke Museum on Dec. 9, implementing Indigenous practices to support the health of the Burke Meadow,
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
For #FireScarFriday here’s a beaut that’s now a remnant snag. Approx 12 scars, which is incredible for this area, and with clear periodicity in their occurrence, indicating frequent low-intensity fire was the norm for this area. Found in Riverside State Park.
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
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The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed. A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
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