Jonathan Coop
@coopecology.bsky.social
I study forests and fire 🔥. Thus, climate too. Professor at Western Colorado University.
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Some nice media exposure on our new paper published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social pertaining to expanding area burned by high severity wildfire. 🌍🔥
Thank you, @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social, for raising awareness about this important paper.
Tagging bsky co-author @coopecology.bsky.social.
Thank you, @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social, for raising awareness about this important paper.
Tagging bsky co-author @coopecology.bsky.social.
Took me forever, but finally got my spot on @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social's latest paper up. Worth a read if you care about fire. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
Study: Fires are getting bigger, but their intensity is growing even faster
Wildfires have grown substantially in size in recent decades, but they’re also burning much more intensely, with high severity areas growing much faster than fires overall. New research projects addit...
www.boisestatepublicradio.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Some nice media exposure on our new paper published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social pertaining to expanding area burned by high severity wildfire. 🌍🔥
Thank you, @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social, for raising awareness about this important paper.
Tagging bsky co-author @coopecology.bsky.social.
Thank you, @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social, for raising awareness about this important paper.
Tagging bsky co-author @coopecology.bsky.social.
Postfire landscapes of the 2025 Deer Creek fire, Colorado-Utah border, USA.
September 29, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Postfire landscapes of the 2025 Deer Creek fire, Colorado-Utah border, USA.
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I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding.
The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
Though this is not a tree-ring fire scar, for #firescarfriday here is an interesting pic of landscape burn severity patterns from the 2025 Rabbit Creek Fire (DA-007) in the Yukon Territory.
August 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Though this is not a tree-ring fire scar, for #firescarfriday here is an interesting pic of landscape burn severity patterns from the 2025 Rabbit Creek Fire (DA-007) in the Yukon Territory.
Our new research highlights the extent that aspen stands may act as a firebreak, slowing or stopping fire. Applications for land management and implications for fire-driven conifer-to-aspen forest conversion. Thanks @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social for the summary below. doi.org/10.1002/eap....
July 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Our new research highlights the extent that aspen stands may act as a firebreak, slowing or stopping fire. Applications for land management and implications for fire-driven conifer-to-aspen forest conversion. Thanks @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social for the summary below. doi.org/10.1002/eap....
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This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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It’s finally in writing. The detailed President’s budget clearly wants to completely eliminate USFS Research
May 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It’s finally in writing. The detailed President’s budget clearly wants to completely eliminate USFS Research
Why do fire scars form more on the leeward or uphill sides of trees? For #firescarfriday here's a little time lapse video showing the increased residence time of flame, and thus increased heating and potential cambial injury, in the eddy of air in the lee of this long leaf pine. Florida, USA, 2025.
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Why do fire scars form more on the leeward or uphill sides of trees? For #firescarfriday here's a little time lapse video showing the increased residence time of flame, and thus increased heating and potential cambial injury, in the eddy of air in the lee of this long leaf pine. Florida, USA, 2025.
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End Product Of The Mo Salah Selfie 🤳😍
April 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
End Product Of The Mo Salah Selfie 🤳😍
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April 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Flaming fire scars at the base of a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in the Red Hills of Florida USA. 04/02/25. Interesting how intensely these can burn once they get going. #firescarfriday
April 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Flaming fire scars at the base of a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in the Red Hills of Florida USA. 04/02/25. Interesting how intensely these can burn once they get going. #firescarfriday
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"Trump’s economic plans are incoherent and incomprehensible at least partially by design. The goal, by this longtime scam artist, is to bamboozle the American people and take their money."
MAGA's Big Lie budget
Trump’s economic agenda is about fooling the American people.
www.publicnotice.co
March 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"Trump’s economic plans are incoherent and incomprehensible at least partially by design. The goal, by this longtime scam artist, is to bamboozle the American people and take their money."
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TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
March 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!
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Wherever you are today, join us as we STAND UP FOR SCIENCE!
For CO folks - events in Denver (1-4), as well as at noon in Boulder, Fort Collins, and Golden. Find your location info here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
If you can’t make an event, don’t fret—stand up loud at noon!
For CO folks - events in Denver (1-4), as well as at noon in Boulder, Fort Collins, and Golden. Find your location info here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
If you can’t make an event, don’t fret—stand up loud at noon!
March 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Wherever you are today, join us as we STAND UP FOR SCIENCE!
For CO folks - events in Denver (1-4), as well as at noon in Boulder, Fort Collins, and Golden. Find your location info here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
If you can’t make an event, don’t fret—stand up loud at noon!
For CO folks - events in Denver (1-4), as well as at noon in Boulder, Fort Collins, and Golden. Find your location info here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...
If you can’t make an event, don’t fret—stand up loud at noon!
Faster burning fires not only burn disproportionately large areas, but they also burn more severely.
Extreme fire spread events (just the top 3%) accounted for a third of the total area burned, but half of the total area burned at high severity--setting the stage for long-term forest loss. 🧪🌎🔥
Extreme fire spread events (just the top 3%) accounted for a third of the total area burned, but half of the total area burned at high severity--setting the stage for long-term forest loss. 🧪🌎🔥
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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 ...
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...
dx.doi.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Faster burning fires not only burn disproportionately large areas, but they also burn more severely.
Extreme fire spread events (just the top 3%) accounted for a third of the total area burned, but half of the total area burned at high severity--setting the stage for long-term forest loss. 🧪🌎🔥
Extreme fire spread events (just the top 3%) accounted for a third of the total area burned, but half of the total area burned at high severity--setting the stage for long-term forest loss. 🧪🌎🔥
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To sum it up, the president ordered water released for fires in LA with water that doesn’t reach LA, at volumes that could cause communities to flood, and in the wrong season for irrigating crops, which will then mean less water for irrigating crops in the summer when it’s actually needed.
"This is the wrong time of year to be releasing water from reservoirs...This is going to hurt farmers," Vink said. “This takes water out of their summer irrigation portfolio.”
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.
www.latimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
To sum it up, the president ordered water released for fires in LA with water that doesn’t reach LA, at volumes that could cause communities to flood, and in the wrong season for irrigating crops, which will then mean less water for irrigating crops in the summer when it’s actually needed.
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Turns out the 2010 America COMPETES Act contains language I recognize because I've cribbed it from NSF's Grant Proposal Guide for every proposal I've sent to NSF
www.congress.gov/111/plaws/pu...
It's encoded in 42 USC 1826p-14
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...
R: the 2010 Act, L: the GPG
www.congress.gov/111/plaws/pu...
It's encoded in 42 USC 1826p-14
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...
R: the 2010 Act, L: the GPG
January 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Turns out the 2010 America COMPETES Act contains language I recognize because I've cribbed it from NSF's Grant Proposal Guide for every proposal I've sent to NSF
www.congress.gov/111/plaws/pu...
It's encoded in 42 USC 1826p-14
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...
R: the 2010 Act, L: the GPG
www.congress.gov/111/plaws/pu...
It's encoded in 42 USC 1826p-14
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...
R: the 2010 Act, L: the GPG
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Who has good examples of their university leaders providing strong messaging and support for students, staff, and faculty at this time? I'd love this thread to become a space where we can provide models of how to not be a coward.
January 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Who has good examples of their university leaders providing strong messaging and support for students, staff, and faculty at this time? I'd love this thread to become a space where we can provide models of how to not be a coward.
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In my ongoing effort to better understand our terrible relationship with fire, and what a better one might look like, the Karuk have figured prominently. Here's my report from N. California on the inspiring things happening on their ancestral territory.
www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire
The Karuk of Northern California are one of many Native peoples with a long tradition of burning their ancestral lands. These practices are key inspiration for an annual prescribed fire training that’...
www.boisestatepublicradio.org
January 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
In my ongoing effort to better understand our terrible relationship with fire, and what a better one might look like, the Karuk have figured prominently. Here's my report from N. California on the inspiring things happening on their ancestral territory.
www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
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„The real question isn’t whether wildfires are caused by climate change, poor forestry or reckless development; it’s how climate change interacts with other factors. No disaster mitigation technique will succeed if we keep burning fossil fuels at our current rate.“
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Opinion: Are wildfires caused by climate change or something else? The question is flawed
Politicians have an agenda when they bring up forestry management or a Jewish space laser. They're trying to change the subject from fossil-fuel-driven climate change.
www.latimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
„The real question isn’t whether wildfires are caused by climate change, poor forestry or reckless development; it’s how climate change interacts with other factors. No disaster mitigation technique will succeed if we keep burning fossil fuels at our current rate.“
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Postdoc opportunity w/Solomon Dobrowski and me!
U Montana, in partnership with the NC Climate Adaptation Science Center, is hiring a talented scientist with an interest in climate connectivity and species range shifts among protected areas. $70k/year.
#SpeciesOnTheMove
#RangeShifts
U Montana, in partnership with the NC Climate Adaptation Science Center, is hiring a talented scientist with an interest in climate connectivity and species range shifts among protected areas. $70k/year.
#SpeciesOnTheMove
#RangeShifts
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January 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Postdoc opportunity w/Solomon Dobrowski and me!
U Montana, in partnership with the NC Climate Adaptation Science Center, is hiring a talented scientist with an interest in climate connectivity and species range shifts among protected areas. $70k/year.
#SpeciesOnTheMove
#RangeShifts
U Montana, in partnership with the NC Climate Adaptation Science Center, is hiring a talented scientist with an interest in climate connectivity and species range shifts among protected areas. $70k/year.
#SpeciesOnTheMove
#RangeShifts