Dr. Jen Baron
@jen_baron_
Postdoc & Incoming Asst Professor of Fire Ecology @ubcokanagan | PhD @ubcforestry | Associate Editor @fireecology | Killam & NSERC Scholar
Officially Dr. Baron! 🎓 Yesterday I passed the final defence of my PhD at @UBCForestry. Many thanks to all those who supported this journey over the past 5 years 🩷. Looking forward to the next chapter as Assistant Professor of Fire Ecology at @ubcokanagan! #PhDone #PhDLife
NEW PAPER: Are bears helping out one of their favourite foods, huckleberries, by eating them? We paired germination trials and thousands of GPS locations from collared bears to understand "how" this might help a seed germinate and disperse @cole_burton journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
I had also created an #EarthEngine App to visualize NOAA's HMS smoke 💨 and fire 🔥 products. You can check out the app from link below; additional details are in my GitHub repo. Link: globalfires.earthengine.app/view/hms-smoke GitHub: github.com/tianjialiu/HMS…
In our new @IJWildlandFire paper, we evaluated the use of NOAA's Hazard Mapping System (HMS) smoke product in #AirQuality and #PublicHealth analyses of fire 🔥-related smoke 💨. 🧵
Great first week establishing fuels and vegetation plots for our new collaborative research with @ubcokanagan and @cityofkelowna at Knox Mountain. Looking forward to learning more about prescribed fire x invasive & native plant x habitat dynamics in my (soon to be) backyard.
Took a quick break from field season to attend my PhD graduation @UBCForestry. Many thanks to all those who supported me on this journey!
"I think it’s quite clear, based on the impacts of recent fire seasons, that the current status quo isn’t working," said Dr. Jen Baron, a postdoctoral researcher at UBCO and co-author of the wildfire coexistence study. ubyssey.ca/science/ubc-re… @Ubyssey @UBCForestry
I'm pleased to share our recent collaborative publication in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research investigating the impacts and drivers of the 2023 wildfires in British Columbia and identifying six transformative strategies to coexist with wildfire. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
New wildfire research led by #UBCForestry and UBCO, in collaboration with TRU, SFU and expert fire practitioners, highlights six strategies to boost resilience, from diversifying responses to transforming governance. Read: bit.ly/4hhOc7t 🔗
Broadleaf tree species like aspen have an important role to play for wildfire risk mitigation in the context of climate change. However, forest industry practices that seek to eliminate hardwoods have been widespread in BC since the 1980s. Read more in this recent interview.
Glyphosate is sprayed on forests across B.C. to kill off less desirable trees. The BC NDP government promised to phase out its use in forestry, but decades of spraying has taken a toll, via @ainscruickshank thenarwhal.ca/bc-glyphosate-…
I must say, rumors of #ScienceTwitter's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Almost without fail, when I get a Google Scholar alert about a paper, I already saw it on Twitter a day or two earlier. To all the incredible scientists on here- please stay! You're making an impact.
Come work with me at #westernu! The successful candidate will take over the core lab course that I am currently teaching and add some pedagogical research. The course has an amazing teaching partner and great support from technicians. uwo.ca/facultyrelatio…
Fall 2024 Canadian Wildland Fire & Smoke Newsletter is here! 🔥📰 This issue covers aerial suppression effectiveness, wildfire evacuations, wildfire perimeters, characterizing fuels and fire potential in Jasper and the impacts of the 2023 wildfire season. canadawildfire.org/newsletter
Yesterday's BC Election remains to close to call for several ridings and the overall balance of power, but I decided to do a quick land-vs-people vote animation anyway. (Cross-posting with one day delay from the other site where the air is cleaner and skies are bluer.)
#northvan #westvan residents. One final update tonight from NSEM. Please share. Short-term emergency supports ARE available to residents who have experienced significant consequences/impacts due to yesterday’s storm and are unable to stay in their home. 1/2
The District of #NorthVancouver has issued an #Evacuation Order for the area of Cove Creek on Panorama Dr. due to flooding. Flood waters are a threat to life & safety. Impacted residents must evacuate NOW. More info & map: ow.ly/6AWm50TPp2Z #BCFlood #BC @NorthShoreEMO
Election day in BC. No excuses, get out and swim to your local polling station today.
In case anyone hasn’t noticed - it’s raining pretty hard in #Vancouver right now.
excited for this man to lose today so he can take a break from posting about how the illegal seizure of unceded First Nations lands is justified by the invention of the lightbulb
The Haida Title Act is being debated in the Legislature this week. If passed, it will relinquish British Columbia’s ownership and jurisdiction to over 10,000 square kilometres of land and resources on Haida Gwaii. Haida laws and customs will govern the territory. It will call…
Update: the manifesting worked. #PhDone
A wise and slightly disgruntled scientist (@matbourbonnais) once told me that a PhD is not finished, it is abandoned. I concur and am excited to be nearing abandonment (defence). Unfortunately not near enough for how impatient I am, but manifesting this for 2024.
The Wet’suwet’en nation is fighting to protect their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth. YINTAH, a feature-length documentary spanning more than a decade of their fight, is now on Netflix.
my department @montanastate is hiring a landscape ecologist. it's a great place to work and a particularly nice geographic location for this discipline—please reach out if you have any questions about the position: jobs.montana.edu/postings/43622