I am hiring a new postdoc to work on an ecosystem modeling project with colleagues in hydrology, computer science, and the social sciences, including @mojisadegh.bsky.social If you want to do impactful work to understand the forest-water relationship, apply: www.hurteaulab.org/blog/ecosyst...

Ecosystem modeling postdoc

The Earth Systems Ecology Lab ( www.hurteaulab.org ) at the University of New Mexico is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with a strong background in ecosystem modeling or spatial data analysis to....

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Our new study in Science Advances: Extreme fire risk days are increasingly synchronizing globally. This trend strains firefighting cooperation and worsens regional air quality. With @climate-guy.bsky.social @mattwjones.bsky.social @mojisadegh.bsky.social and Alison Cullen doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution.

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What makes the Fire Program Analysis Fire-Occurrence Database (Short 2022) even better? An additional 270 attributes associated with each of the >2M wildfires it documents. Learn more about the augmented data, led by Yavar Pourmohamad and @mojisadegh.bsky.social, here: mailchi.mp/blm/friday-f...

Thanks to the Joint Fire Science Program for highlighting this work led by our colleagues Yavar Pourmohamad and @mojisadegh.bsky.social on predicting where and when human-caused wildfire ignitions are most likely across the western United States. mailchi.mp/blm/friday-f...

Out today in @science.org, we show wildfire disasters have surged in the last decade, as climate change intensifies fire weather and exacerbates other vulnerabilities. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... With @pyrogeog.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

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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Whenever a story appears about increasing risk of wildfires, some helpful chap always likes to comment “that global burned area is declining so stop being alarmist.” A new paper explains the paradox. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #climatechange #wildfire #fireweather

Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area

Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...

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Globally, the population directly exposed to wildland fires increased 40%, 2002-2021, despite 26% decline in burned area. Africa is, by far, the global hot spot for this exposure, w/ 85% of global exposures occurring in Africa in that period. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

🔥 Our new research in @science.org shows that people are increasingly exposed to fires globally, driven by overlapping shifts in where #fires occur and where people live. But changes in exposure vary hugely by region and are shaped by different population dynamics.👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area

Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...

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Happy to be on the team that looked at exposure to smoke from low intensity wildfires and impacts on global health www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area

Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...

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Thrilled to share our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Natural Hazards: 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐔𝐈 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞-𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚. www.nature.com/articles/s44... @mojisadegh.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

Compounding effects of climate change and WUI expansion quadruple the likelihood of extreme-impact wildfires in California - npj Natural Hazards

npj Natural Hazards - Compounding effects of climate change and WUI expansion quadruple the likelihood of extreme-impact wildfires in California

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Led by Yavar Pourmohammad and published in @agu.org Earth's Future, we developed #MachineLearning models to infer the cause of wildfires that were recorded with an unknown/missing cause from their physical, biological and administrative covariates: doi.org/10.1029/2024... @climate-guy.bsky.social

Here is my first post: Congratulations to two brilliant PhD students at Boise State University for receiving awards from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Joint Fire Science Program: Looking forward to the great science and products that Yavar and Amirhossein will develop.