Interested in what is happening in the fire world in Canada and beyond. If so, check out Canada Wildfire's monthly bulletin - The Ember that just came out today. canadawildfire.org/so/c7P_aUv9G...

July 2026

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Check out last week’s episode of Spatial Signals to learn more about my journey in EO and my current work with @natural-resources.canada.ca's CFS! We talked about #WildFireSat, #AI, #outreach, and my approach to collaboration with #operational users. americaview.podbean.com/e/surrounded...

Check out last week’s episode of Spatial Signals to learn more about my journey in EO and my current work with @natural-resources.canada.ca's CFS! We talked about #WildFireSat, #AI, #outreach, and my approach to collaboration with #operational users. americaview.podbean.com/e/surrounded...

Rapid increase in #wildfires across Canada in recent days resulting in vast amounts of smoke with plumes transported to the Arctic & across the North Atlantic in the #CopernicusAtmosphere AOD 30 June 00 UTC forecast atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int

Springtime is wildfire season throughout much of Appalachia and the eastern seaboard of North America. This green-up period can experience flash droughts, whereby leaf litter from the previous fall is dry like kindling before the spring rains arrive. 🔥 www.cbs17.com/news/north-c...

📢 Last call for abstracts! Send yours soon to join this amazing conference. Details here: www.ibfra2026.org (deadline has been extended to February 15)

IBFRA 2026

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Fires on the Rise in the Far North with input from @jmccartygeo.bsky.social and the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social AMAP Arctic Climate Update Report published last year science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... @mikeflannigan.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @gwandaii.bsky.social

Fires on the Rise in the Far North - NASA Science

Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.

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Rounding out 2025 with exciting news… I’m honoured to join the 2026–2030 Landsat Science Team! A full-circle moment for me after starting my career using Landsat for fire monitoring. #EOChat #GISChat Announcement from USGS + NASA here: www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...

New Landsat Science Team Announced

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.

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Rounding out 2025 with exciting news… I’m honoured to join the 2026–2030 Landsat Science Team! A full-circle moment for me after starting my career using Landsat for fire monitoring. #EOChat #GISChat Announcement from USGS + NASA here: www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...

New Landsat Science Team Announced

The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.

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Great episode of the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social This Way Up podcast on The Arctic on Fire www.highnorthnews.com/en/arctic-fire featuring @gwandaii.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social @permafrostpathways.bsky.social @highnorthnews.bsky.social #wildfires #ArcticFire

The Arctic On Fire

The Arctic isn’t just warming, it’s on fire. From the record-shattering 2023 wildfire season in Canada to the zombie fires smoldering beneath the boreal forests, Arctic wildfires are reshaping landsca...

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Lots of active fires in the NWT this evening. Some pyrocu to the right of the gold line. Notice the south winds near the surface but as the column rises the winds shift to westerly

“Recent rain and cooler temperatures are bringing relief to Manitoba's wildfire zones. That's giving hope to evacuees still waiting to go home.” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... - CBC Manitoba #Manitoba #MBFire #Wildfires

Cool, wet weather a relief for Manitoba wildfire evacuees

Recent rain and cooler temperatures are bringing relief to Manitoba's wildfire zones. That's giving hope to evacuees still waiting to go home.

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🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous

The heat is coming to BC. An upper ridge will bring 7-10 days of hot dry weather (ECMWF 500 mb height anomaly map below). Forecast for Kamloops below with 6+ days 30C or higher. Fortunately, it does not look like much lightning activity until the ridge breakdown - this is a classic fire situation

Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @mparrington.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @jmccartygeo.bsky.social on climate change, Arctic and high-latitude wildfires: risk, permafrost processes, air quality and fire emissions; remote sensing data products; and monitoring.

Mark Parrington@mparrington.bsky.social · last yr.

First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social

First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social

Are you subscribed to our Open Jobs in Geospatial newsletter on LinkedIn? Every Friday, we publish a list of career opportunities crowdsourced from our community. Check out this week's list here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-j...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Check out our new white paper that (for the first time) systematically counts the wildland fire workforce: What Color is your Nomex? by Abigail Varner et al. Varner provides interesting insights into growing privatization of the workforce in the US. drive.google.com/file/d/1RcRO...

The Wildfire Commons will launch its community platform and FireForge in July 2025, featuring community datasets and more in a single, curated space. Stay connected about the launch by signing up at forms.gle/manchSbssWL7...

Wildfire Science & Technology Commons Community

Wildfires present a formidable challenge, impacting communities, ecosystems, and economies worldwide. The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons is dedicated to addressing these critical challenges thr...

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Women leaders in insect ecology (conservation, diversity) research are underrepresented. Discipline diversity improving but geographically dominated by usual places (Nth America, UK, Euro), slowly increasing in Australia, NZ, Sth America. Do you know any women researchers in Africa, Asia, Pacific?

Curious to learn more #geospatial skills? Check out this library of free courses from EO college! Topics include radar, remote sensing, and EO for zero hunger. Most are in English & some are in German. eo-college.org

For over four decades, the Canada/ESA Cooperation Agreement has led to mutually beneficial activities in a wide range of space activities. From protecting our planet, exploring our Universe, to enhancing our autonomies and resilience, ESA and Canada have been friends a long time, eh? #ESAxCanada🍁

Are you attending ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025? 🌎🔭🌌🌱 together with Women+ in Geospatial IEEE (GRSS) IDEA, geoinclusion 🌎🛰️ we are organizing a Networking Event 🚀🌌🔭 Mark your calendar for Weds 25th of June 19h! 🚀🎉 Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-... See you there 🤗

Numerous high intensity wildfires from NE BC to NW Ontario today. GOES-West Mid-ir loop below showing parts of SK and MB. White areas are intense fires, and red areas are extremely intense fires with some pyrocbs (geocolor loop coming).

With authors from across this globe, we did a few things in this paper worth calling out: 🔥 outline experiments for different fire regions 🔥 include ways to understand impacts of fire on air quality and how smoke can both warm and cool the atmosphere 🔥 highlight transparent ways to do this.

BBURNED_science@bburnedscience.bsky.social · last yr.

The HTAP3 Fires paper, led by Cynthia Whaley of our scientific steering committee, outlining fire-focused multi-model experiments coordinated by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution is now published in Geoscientific Model Development gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...