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Brian J Harvey
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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/

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Brian J Harvey @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social · Aug 22
Thanks to @uwenvironment.bsky.social news team for resurfacing this interview from a couple years ago.

Helpful and still very relevant context RE trends (and drivers of trends) in wildfires, especially given much of the broader dialogue around fires so far this summer across the n. hemisphere.
🔥🌲🌎

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 7d
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....
Graph showing the top 20 countries with the most journal articles published on the topic of climate change and landscape fire.

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Neil Pederson, Brian J. Harvey , and 9 more

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 17d
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...

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney, Brian J. Harvey, Stephen D. Murphy , and 5 more

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 21d
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…
gavinmjones.com

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Brian J Harvey @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social · 23d
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

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Brian J. Harvey

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Nov 1
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
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Sep 24
Sequoia 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!
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Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Rupert Seidl, Brian J. Harvey , and 1 more

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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · Oct 28
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
esajournals.bsky.social ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · Oct 28
🆕 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...
Conceptual figure of postfire reorganization pathways and photo representations of pre- versus postfire differences in stand structure and composition.

Reposted by Monica G. Turner, Brian J. Harvey

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · Oct 28
🆕 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...
Conceptual figure of postfire reorganization pathways and photo representations of pre- versus postfire differences in stand structure and composition.

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Brian J Harvey @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social · Oct 27
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
afe-fireecology.bsky.social Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · Oct 27
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

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Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · Oct 27
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

Reposted by Monica G. Turner, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Brian J. Harvey , and 2 more

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Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · Oct 17
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:
hr.myu.umn.edu

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Oct 17
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....

Reposted by Brian J. Harvey

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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · Oct 16
Excellent work led by @ttkeller.bsky.social and important for stewarding forests w/ high-severity #fire regimes @esajournals.bsky.social @uwmadscience.bsky.social

Reposted by Monica G. Turner, Brian J. Harvey, Christina Dollinger

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Timon Keller @ttkeller.bsky.social · Oct 16
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...
dx.doi.org

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · Oct 16
Some media exposure for our new paper on whitebark pine.
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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...
news.mongabay.com

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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies @caryinstitute.bsky.social · Oct 14
#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...
www.caryinstitute.org

Reposted by Joan Dudney

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Brian J Harvey @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social · Oct 8
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.
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Thanks to Anderegg Lab for hosting me, esp Joe Celebrezze. Was fun to be back at my UG alma mater.
@dudney-joan.bsky.social

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Temporal Ecology Lab @temporalecology.bsky.social · Oct 6
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

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · Oct 2
"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
Points show the percentage of days (FWI and VPD) and months (PDSI) in each year at the disaster locations that exceeded the 97.5th percentile value (which corresponds to mean FWI max during the disasters). calculated over all days from 1980 to 2023. The blue line shows the fit of a generalized additive model.

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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · Oct 2
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 ...
www.science.org

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Scott C. Doney, Brian J. Enquist , and 20 more

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · Sep 25
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

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · Sep 16
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
www.scientificamerican.com

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Brian J Harvey @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social · Sep 16
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
East winds to stoke fire danger in Western WA
East winds are predicted for Western Washington as a low pressure system moves in and temperatures rise and NWS issued a red flag warning for much of the region.
www.seattletimes.com

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Christopher B. Cameron @invertevo.bsky.social · Sep 8
Please share with your big picture colleagues.
Join us @umontreal.ca as an Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology.
rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...
Careers
The applicant will contribute to strengthening research on global change in the Department of Biological Sciences and will participate in the integration of biology training into the faculty program in Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD).
rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca

Reposted by Pieter De Frenne, Neil Pederson, Brian J. Harvey , and 4 more

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Sep 8
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...

Reposted by Simon Roux, Delphine K. Farmer, Kelly R. Zamudio , and 7 more

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8
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...
jobs.colostate.edu

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UW College of the Environment @uwenvironment.bsky.social · Sep 5
It's another hazy and smoky day across Washington. Hear from #wildfire scientist and professor Brian Harvey on answers to some of the most common questions about fires, including trends, how to stay safe, and common causes: https://bit.ly/45TiJpa

@uwnews.uw.edu #wawx #firefighting
Are wildfires really getting worse? A Q&A with Brian Harvey
Whether you live in a rural community that grapples with annual threats of destructive wildfires or in a city that now spends part of every summer inundated with smoke, many across North America have found themselves wondering: what happened to cause su...
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Brian J Harvey @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social · Sep 3
I'm extraordinarily grateful for spending the last chunk of my sabbatical in mountain forests of C Europe examining 🌲 resilience to 🪲💨🔥

Huge thx to @rupertseidl.bsky.social & his lab in Munich & Berchtesgaden NP for hosting, & to Janneke Hille Ris Lambers at ETH Zurich & Vaclav Treml at Charles U.

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Lotus Lofgren @lotuslofgren.bsky.social · Sep 2
Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Julie L. Lockwood, Elena Litchman , and 3 more

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Steve Voelker @thetreecorener.bsky.social · Aug 28
New Tenure Track Position in Data Science or Biostatistics with us here at MTU is live.

We have great people here in a fantastic location that is probably a lot cooler (temperature-wise) than wherever you live during summer!

www.employment.mtu.edu/en-us/job/49...
Assistant Professor, Environmental Data Science & Biostatistics | Michigan Technological University
Explore career opportunities at Michigan Technological University located in Houghton, MI. Browse and filter job listings to find the perfect fit and learn more about each position.
www.employment.mtu.edu

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Brian J. Harvey, Carly D. Ziter

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Aug 27
Just a few days left to apply!
rupertseidl.bsky.social Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Jul 24
Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team!

PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...