Emily J. Francis
@emilyjfrancis.bsky.social
Forest ecology | remote sensing | disturbance ecology
Assistant Professor | Colorado State University | Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship
Assistant Professor | Colorado State University | Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship
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Looking for a postdoc with a specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions.
The fellow will work at the intersection of forest ecology and environmental policy, investigating the effectiveness of forest carbon offset programs
The fellow will work at the intersection of forest ecology and environmental policy, investigating the effectiveness of forest carbon offset programs
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Looking for a postdoc with a specialization in forest carbon dynamics, climate policy, and nature-based solutions.
The fellow will work at the intersection of forest ecology and environmental policy, investigating the effectiveness of forest carbon offset programs
The fellow will work at the intersection of forest ecology and environmental policy, investigating the effectiveness of forest carbon offset programs
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I'm stoked to be able to talk alongside several talented scientists about aspen and fire management! Join us on November 20th 2:00-3:30pm MST.
Registration is required!
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Registration is required!
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October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm stoked to be able to talk alongside several talented scientists about aspen and fire management! Join us on November 20th 2:00-3:30pm MST.
Registration is required!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Registration is required!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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One of the most important stories of this fire season -- how USFS repeatedly dragged it's feet every step of the way to prevent prescribed burning in the Teakettle Forest, which as a result burned to a crisp in the Garnet fire. An avoidable tragedy. 🌎 fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
Did Forest Service negligence make the Garnet Fire worse?
Years of inaction by the US Forest Service station near Fresno put one of the agency’s last stands of old growth forests in California on the brink of
fresnoland.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
One of the most important stories of this fire season -- how USFS repeatedly dragged it's feet every step of the way to prevent prescribed burning in the Teakettle Forest, which as a result burned to a crisp in the Garnet fire. An avoidable tragedy. 🌎 fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
The first time I did field work in Big Basin was 14 years ago. I haven’t had any projects there since 2019, and then in 2020 the forest burned at high severity in the CZU fire. Today as part of a new project on management, fire, and carbon in redwood forests, I got to see big basin post-fire.
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The first time I did field work in Big Basin was 14 years ago. I haven’t had any projects there since 2019, and then in 2020 the forest burned at high severity in the CZU fire. Today as part of a new project on management, fire, and carbon in redwood forests, I got to see big basin post-fire.
Hi bluesky, have any of my followers published in the journal Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, and willing to comment on the experience (timely, reasonable, constructive?) My group is considering submitting there for the first time and I’m interested in others’ experiences there. Thanks!
July 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hi bluesky, have any of my followers published in the journal Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, and willing to comment on the experience (timely, reasonable, constructive?) My group is considering submitting there for the first time and I’m interested in others’ experiences there. Thanks!
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Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".
Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
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Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".
Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
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Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes
Aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are generally thought to impede fire spread, yet the extent of this effect is not well quantified in relation to other vegetation types. We examined the influence ...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".
Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
🧪🔥
Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".
Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
🧪🔥
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There are 6 Forest Service research stations that also manage research labs, 80 experimental forests, a forest product laboratory, & the International Institute of Tropical Forestry. This is the most extensive natural resource research operation in the world--a hidden crown jewel of our country. 2/
May 31, 2025 at 9:05 PM
There are 6 Forest Service research stations that also manage research labs, 80 experimental forests, a forest product laboratory, & the International Institute of Tropical Forestry. This is the most extensive natural resource research operation in the world--a hidden crown jewel of our country. 2/
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Postdoctoral position offer in sedaDNA in our team to work on insect outbreaks in forests!! 🌲🐛🧬
Please Repost!
Please Repost!
modeling to improve predictions of future forest ecosystem dynamics.
The deadline to apply for funding is June 20th.
If you're interested, please feel free to contact me via DM!
The deadline to apply for funding is June 20th.
If you're interested, please feel free to contact me via DM!
May 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Postdoctoral position offer in sedaDNA in our team to work on insect outbreaks in forests!! 🌲🐛🧬
Please Repost!
Please Repost!
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Please check out our new review in BioScience!
We describe how spatial climate analogs can be used in climate change research, impact assessment, decision-making, and communication.
#MacroEcology
#ClimateChange
#GlobalChange
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We describe how spatial climate analogs can be used in climate change research, impact assessment, decision-making, and communication.
#MacroEcology
#ClimateChange
#GlobalChange
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Spatial climate analogs in climate change research, impact assessment, and decision-making
Abstract. Climate adaptation requires actionable scientific information about potential climate impacts. Spatial climate analogs answer the question, ‘wher
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May 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Please check out our new review in BioScience!
We describe how spatial climate analogs can be used in climate change research, impact assessment, decision-making, and communication.
#MacroEcology
#ClimateChange
#GlobalChange
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We describe how spatial climate analogs can be used in climate change research, impact assessment, decision-making, and communication.
#MacroEcology
#ClimateChange
#GlobalChange
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Interested in fire ecology & forests? Working in the Cascade Mountains?
the Harvey Lab at UW-SEFS is hiring 6 full-time field assistants + 2 full-time field crew leads on projects exploring forest resilience to wildfire, reburns, & management.
Application review begins May 2. Links below...
Interested in fire ecology & forests? Working in the Cascade Mountains?
the Harvey Lab at UW-SEFS is hiring 6 full-time field assistants + 2 full-time field crew leads on projects exploring forest resilience to wildfire, reburns, & management.
Application review begins May 2. Links below...
April 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Interested in fire ecology & forests? Working in the Cascade Mountains?
the Harvey Lab at UW-SEFS is hiring 6 full-time field assistants + 2 full-time field crew leads on projects exploring forest resilience to wildfire, reburns, & management.
Application review begins May 2. Links below...
Interested in fire ecology & forests? Working in the Cascade Mountains?
the Harvey Lab at UW-SEFS is hiring 6 full-time field assistants + 2 full-time field crew leads on projects exploring forest resilience to wildfire, reburns, & management.
Application review begins May 2. Links below...
So grateful for the amazing members of the Francis lab, @colinmast.bsky.social @lilianvallet.bsky.social, Ashley Zwick and Subham Banerjee (not pictured here)! So much creativity, quantitative thinking, and geospatial fire science data wizardry. Working with these folks is the best.
May 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
So grateful for the amazing members of the Francis lab, @colinmast.bsky.social @lilianvallet.bsky.social, Ashley Zwick and Subham Banerjee (not pictured here)! So much creativity, quantitative thinking, and geospatial fire science data wizardry. Working with these folks is the best.
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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...
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February 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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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 ...
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Multiple faculty positions available in our department at Trinity College Dublin, including plant conservation, biogeography and biodiversity genomics. #sciencejobs 🧪🌎🌾
For more information, please go to tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ and search the 'School of Natural Sciences'.
You will see that we also have several Assistant Professor positions open at the moment.
Please pass this on to any early career academics / postdocs, especially those who are new to this platform!
You will see that we also have several Assistant Professor positions open at the moment.
Please pass this on to any early career academics / postdocs, especially those who are new to this platform!
February 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Multiple faculty positions available in our department at Trinity College Dublin, including plant conservation, biogeography and biodiversity genomics. #sciencejobs 🧪🌎🌾
1/4 We have a new paper in Forest Ecology and Management! We modeled bark beetle caused tree mortality as a function of host basal area for eight bark beetle species across the western US. With Jeff Hicke, Chang Gyo Jung, and @mhurteau.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Modeling the probability of bark beetle-caused tree mortality as a function of watershed-scale host species presence and basal area
In recent decades, bark beetle outbreaks have caused mass tree mortality in western US forests, which has led to altered wildfire characteristics, hyd…
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February 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
1/4 We have a new paper in Forest Ecology and Management! We modeled bark beetle caused tree mortality as a function of host basal area for eight bark beetle species across the western US. With Jeff Hicke, Chang Gyo Jung, and @mhurteau.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We are getting caught up on research briefs. This one, from Kevin Willson's first PhD chapter, summarizes the influences of abiotic factors on ponderosa pine dispersal distance.
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February 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We are getting caught up on research briefs. This one, from Kevin Willson's first PhD chapter, summarizes the influences of abiotic factors on ponderosa pine dispersal distance.
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I'll end here with our conceptual model showing that a) fires were historically more prevalent yet served as a stabilizing feedback to ecosystems and humans by reducing fuel loads and risk of higher severity wildfires and b) contemporary fires are now destabilizing to forests and people.
I'll end here with our conceptual model showing that a) fires were historically more prevalent yet served as a stabilizing feedback to ecosystems and humans by reducing fuel loads and risk of higher severity wildfires and b) contemporary fires are now destabilizing to forests and people.
February 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I'll end here with our conceptual model showing that a) fires were historically more prevalent yet served as a stabilizing feedback to ecosystems and humans by reducing fuel loads and risk of higher severity wildfires and b) contemporary fires are now destabilizing to forests and people.
I'll end here with our conceptual model showing that a) fires were historically more prevalent yet served as a stabilizing feedback to ecosystems and humans by reducing fuel loads and risk of higher severity wildfires and b) contemporary fires are now destabilizing to forests and people.
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Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications
Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...
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February 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
Please see our new paper in Nature Communications!
We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥
Our key findings are as follows ...
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In a prescribed fire burn scar today on Mt. Tamalpais SP. So alive. So beautiful. Feels very special there right now. Landscape fire is a profound creative force. Deer Park FR for those that are interested.
February 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
In a prescribed fire burn scar today on Mt. Tamalpais SP. So alive. So beautiful. Feels very special there right now. Landscape fire is a profound creative force. Deer Park FR for those that are interested.
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We are recruiting a postdoctoral ORISE fellow to join an interdisciplinary team focused on issues of ecosystem type conversion, directional biodiversity change, and what to do about it. Please spread the word! 🌎🌐🧪
Details here:
www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...
Details here:
www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...
February 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
We are recruiting a postdoctoral ORISE fellow to join an interdisciplinary team focused on issues of ecosystem type conversion, directional biodiversity change, and what to do about it. Please spread the word! 🌎🌐🧪
Details here:
www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...
Details here:
www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...
Ponderosa pine woodlands make me feel like the future is worth fighting for
February 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Ponderosa pine woodlands make me feel like the future is worth fighting for
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Great new article describing how federal environmental laws are inhibiting rather than enabling agencies and practitioners from using prescribed and cultural fire to restore forest health and combat the #wildfire crisis.🧪🌏🔥
Realignment of federal environmental policies to recognize fire’s role - Fire Ecology
Background Enactment of the Clean Air Act (CAA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), three of the primary federal environmental laws, all coincided with the hei...
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August 26, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Great new article describing how federal environmental laws are inhibiting rather than enabling agencies and practitioners from using prescribed and cultural fire to restore forest health and combat the #wildfire crisis.🧪🌏🔥
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One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.
Dr. Robert D. Bullard (@drrobertbullard.bsky.social)
Scholar, author of 18 books, co-chair of @NBEJN1, @EJHBCU Climate Change Consortium, Director of @BullardCenter and father of environmental justice. #HBCU
drrobertbullard.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.
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🌍 Exciting opportunity from the Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI)!
📢 Fully Funded MSc & PhD Scholarships starting Sep 2025
🔍 Join the 1st cohort of CBSI grad student researchers
✅ Open to natls of Cameroon, DRC, Gabon, and Rep of Congo
📅 Due 28 Feb 2025
🔗 congobasinscience.net/scholarships/
📢 Fully Funded MSc & PhD Scholarships starting Sep 2025
🔍 Join the 1st cohort of CBSI grad student researchers
✅ Open to natls of Cameroon, DRC, Gabon, and Rep of Congo
📅 Due 28 Feb 2025
🔗 congobasinscience.net/scholarships/
Scholarships | Congo Basin Science Initiative
Discover CBSI Scholarships: funding opportunities for science students focused on the Congo Basin. Explore now...
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January 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🌍 Exciting opportunity from the Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI)!
📢 Fully Funded MSc & PhD Scholarships starting Sep 2025
🔍 Join the 1st cohort of CBSI grad student researchers
✅ Open to natls of Cameroon, DRC, Gabon, and Rep of Congo
📅 Due 28 Feb 2025
🔗 congobasinscience.net/scholarships/
📢 Fully Funded MSc & PhD Scholarships starting Sep 2025
🔍 Join the 1st cohort of CBSI grad student researchers
✅ Open to natls of Cameroon, DRC, Gabon, and Rep of Congo
📅 Due 28 Feb 2025
🔗 congobasinscience.net/scholarships/
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