James Lamping
@jameslamping.bsky.social
Scientist in the Parks Postdoctoral Fellow
PNW National Parks
University of Oregon
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Forest ecology | remote sensing | landscape modeling | Sometimes skiing
PNW National Parks
University of Oregon
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Forest ecology | remote sensing | landscape modeling | Sometimes skiing
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James Lamping
@jameslamping.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Our new paper is out in Forest Ecology and Management!
Utilizing data from multiple forest inventory programs, we created 35 spatially complete estimates of forest structure and composition across the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia. 🌍🌐
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kgiv1L%7E...
Utilizing data from multiple forest inventory programs, we created 35 spatially complete estimates of forest structure and composition across the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia. 🌍🌐
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kgiv1L%7E...
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dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
tidyverse.org
February 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
To our senators: what contingency plans exist if a U.S. administration attempts territorial expansion in Greenland and triggers a diplomatic rupture with Europe?
To the public: what actions can we take to signal to our allies that this is not actually what we want? The midterms seem pretty far out.
To the public: what actions can we take to signal to our allies that this is not actually what we want? The midterms seem pretty far out.
January 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
To our senators: what contingency plans exist if a U.S. administration attempts territorial expansion in Greenland and triggers a diplomatic rupture with Europe?
To the public: what actions can we take to signal to our allies that this is not actually what we want? The midterms seem pretty far out.
To the public: what actions can we take to signal to our allies that this is not actually what we want? The midterms seem pretty far out.
NWSA is offering up to $1000 to cover travel costs for students presenting at our meeting this March. Great opportunity to show off the regional research you have been working on.
Student Travel Grants are now open for the 2026 NWSA Annual Meeting (March 23–27, Olympia, WA). NWSA supports undergraduate and graduate students presenting research from across the Northwest, with awards up to $1,000.
Deadline: Feb 15, 2026
northwestscience.org/student_gran...
Deadline: Feb 15, 2026
northwestscience.org/student_gran...
2026 Annual Meeting
2026 Annual Meeting
northwestscience.org
January 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
NWSA is offering up to $1000 to cover travel costs for students presenting at our meeting this March. Great opportunity to show off the regional research you have been working on.
I’m doing a fundraiser again this year for Oregon Adaptive Sports.
Donations help raise funds that support adaptive equipment, instructors, transportation, and scholarships so everyone can access outdoor recreation year-round.
Donate here:
oregonadaptivesports.rallybound.org/ski-for-all/...
Donations help raise funds that support adaptive equipment, instructors, transportation, and scholarships so everyone can access outdoor recreation year-round.
Donate here:
oregonadaptivesports.rallybound.org/ski-for-all/...
James's Fundraising Page at Ski for All
oregonadaptivesports.rallybound.org
January 15, 2026 at 1:56 AM
I’m doing a fundraiser again this year for Oregon Adaptive Sports.
Donations help raise funds that support adaptive equipment, instructors, transportation, and scholarships so everyone can access outdoor recreation year-round.
Donate here:
oregonadaptivesports.rallybound.org/ski-for-all/...
Donations help raise funds that support adaptive equipment, instructors, transportation, and scholarships so everyone can access outdoor recreation year-round.
Donate here:
oregonadaptivesports.rallybound.org/ski-for-all/...
Reposted by James Lamping
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In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍
This has big implications for carbon offset programs!
Next slide, please ...
In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍
This has big implications for carbon offset programs!
Next slide, please ...
Decreasing landscape carbon storage in western US forests with 2 °C of warming - IOPscience
Decreasing landscape carbon storage in western US forests with 2 °C of warming, Hurteau, Matthew D, Jung, Chang Gyo, Francis, Emily J, Dobrowski, Solomon Z, Littlefield, Caitlin E, Parks, Sean A
doi.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍
This has big implications for carbon offset programs!
Next slide, please ...
In our new peer-reviewed paper, we estimate that aboveground forest carbon storage is projected to decrease by 18% (796 Tg C) under +2°C climate warming in the western US. 🧪🌍
This has big implications for carbon offset programs!
Next slide, please ...
Reading Jurassic Park for the first time and realizing it’s basically a novel warning data scientists about how bad assumptions lead to false statistical outcomes.
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Reading Jurassic Park for the first time and realizing it’s basically a novel warning data scientists about how bad assumptions lead to false statistical outcomes.
Reposted by James Lamping
Join us for the 96th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Scientific Association!
Registration is now open for our 2026 Annual Meeting, Resilient Science, held March 23–27, 2026 at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
Registration is now open for our 2026 Annual Meeting, Resilient Science, held March 23–27, 2026 at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
November 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Join us for the 96th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Scientific Association!
Registration is now open for our 2026 Annual Meeting, Resilient Science, held March 23–27, 2026 at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
Registration is now open for our 2026 Annual Meeting, Resilient Science, held March 23–27, 2026 at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
Reposted by James Lamping
Thinking of all my federal colleagues today, holding our government together by a thread while preparing for a potential shutdown from which they may or may not return. You all deserve so much better, and so do we.
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Thinking of all my federal colleagues today, holding our government together by a thread while preparing for a potential shutdown from which they may or may not return. You all deserve so much better, and so do we.
Dang… looks like I’m not going to be buying #FC26 or any future EA games.
Jared Kushner, Saudi Arabia, more backers to buy EA in $55B deal. What this means for gamers.
President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund, are backing the $55 billion deal.
www.usatoday.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Dang… looks like I’m not going to be buying #FC26 or any future EA games.
September 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Our paper takes a close look at managing designated wilderness in an era of unprecedented change. Please check it out.
A great achievement by lead author @clareboe.bsky.social!
🧪🌍🔥
A great achievement by lead author @clareboe.bsky.social!
🧪🌍🔥
My research team recently published “Guardians and gardeners: Managing wilderness for the twenty-first century.” If you’re interested in wilderness philosophies, Indigenous stewardship, and the questions raised by climate change and fire - this one’s for you!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Guardians and gardeners: Managing wilderness for the twenty-first century
PDF | The 1964 Wilderness Act is a landmark piece of legislation, providing robust protections from development, mechanization, and resource extraction... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
September 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our paper takes a close look at managing designated wilderness in an era of unprecedented change. Please check it out.
A great achievement by lead author @clareboe.bsky.social!
🧪🌍🔥
A great achievement by lead author @clareboe.bsky.social!
🧪🌍🔥
Reposted by James Lamping
Today is the last day to comment on proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule!
The 58 million acres of forest protected by the Roadless Rule store vast amounts of carbon, provide vital habitat for fish and wildlife species, and are more resilient to wildfire (despite false claims).
Comment here 👇🏼
The 58 million acres of forest protected by the Roadless Rule store vast amounts of carbon, provide vital habitat for fish and wildlife species, and are more resilient to wildfire (despite false claims).
Comment here 👇🏼
Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is initiating an environmental impact statement (EIS) and rulemaking concerning management of inventoried roadless areas on approximately 44.7 million acres of Natio...
www.federalregister.gov
September 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the last day to comment on proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule!
The 58 million acres of forest protected by the Roadless Rule store vast amounts of carbon, provide vital habitat for fish and wildlife species, and are more resilient to wildfire (despite false claims).
Comment here 👇🏼
The 58 million acres of forest protected by the Roadless Rule store vast amounts of carbon, provide vital habitat for fish and wildlife species, and are more resilient to wildfire (despite false claims).
Comment here 👇🏼
An emotional and very true telling of what was lost with the Garnet Fire.
The Garnet Fire has burned through a place I have worked since 2002. A place I hold dear. We knew this wasn't a matter of if, but when. Unfortunately the leadership on the Sierra National Forest didn't have the same urgency that we did. My eulogy for Teakettle.
www.hurteaulab.org/blog/a-eulog...
www.hurteaulab.org/blog/a-eulog...
A Eulogy for Teakettle
Justice William O. Douglas, in his dissenting opinion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Sierra Club v. Morton, said “Contemporary public concern for protecting nature’s ecological equilibrium...
www.hurteaulab.org
September 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
An emotional and very true telling of what was lost with the Garnet Fire.
As the Flat Fire finally dies down and my family is getting back into their house, I find myself continuously visiting Watch Duty to monitor the Garnet Fire. I’ve been lucky to spend a few summers collecting data in the old growth mixed conifer forests of the Teakettle Experimental Area.
Sierra NF post tonight: “Crews on the #garnetfire had a productive day on the fire line today. While some activity was observed on the northern edge, the fire did not grow as much as expected and is still in the lower part of the Teakettle Experimental area.” @mhurteau.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
As the Flat Fire finally dies down and my family is getting back into their house, I find myself continuously visiting Watch Duty to monitor the Garnet Fire. I’ve been lucky to spend a few summers collecting data in the old growth mixed conifer forests of the Teakettle Experimental Area.
Reposted by James Lamping
Glad to see the efforts to keep the #GarnetFire out of the Teakettle Forest, one of the last old-growth forest areas in the southern Sierra and the site of a planned, collaborative 3800-acre prescribed burn that will include objectives to steward the area’s black oak orchards. @mhurteau.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Glad to see the efforts to keep the #GarnetFire out of the Teakettle Forest, one of the last old-growth forest areas in the southern Sierra and the site of a planned, collaborative 3800-acre prescribed burn that will include objectives to steward the area’s black oak orchards. @mhurteau.bsky.social
Best @melissalucash.bsky.social lab meetings are ones where we scheme how we are going to tackle #LANDIS-II related tasks as a team. In this case we are calibrating tree growth for a few different projects and landscapes.
August 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Best @melissalucash.bsky.social lab meetings are ones where we scheme how we are going to tackle #LANDIS-II related tasks as a team. In this case we are calibrating tree growth for a few different projects and landscapes.
With all the news of Pebble making a comeback with open software and a new watch, I dug this fun relic out for its first firmware update in 7 years.
August 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
With all the news of Pebble making a comeback with open software and a new watch, I dug this fun relic out for its first firmware update in 7 years.
Reposted by James Lamping
Whitebark pine trees grow in some of the harshest and most spectacular mountain ecosystems of North America. Remarkably, the existence of these impressive trees depends on an ancient relationship with the bird that plants their seeds: Clark's Nutcracker. This video from @cornellbirds.bsky.social...
August 17, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Whitebark pine trees grow in some of the harshest and most spectacular mountain ecosystems of North America. Remarkably, the existence of these impressive trees depends on an ancient relationship with the bird that plants their seeds: Clark's Nutcracker. This video from @cornellbirds.bsky.social...
Reposted by James Lamping
Increasingly understanding "energy dominance" to mean energy authoritarianism. Rooftop and community solar helps democratize energy production, putting money in consumer pockets instead of centralized utilities. Illegally cutting these grants disempowers lower-income communities, in every sense.
Scoop: EPA is preparing to cancel $7 billion in grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/c...
E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Increasingly understanding "energy dominance" to mean energy authoritarianism. Rooftop and community solar helps democratize energy production, putting money in consumer pockets instead of centralized utilities. Illegally cutting these grants disempowers lower-income communities, in every sense.
Reposted by James Lamping
Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
Reposted by James Lamping
We have a new paper that is the result of a working group on nature-based climate solutions using forests. We identify challenges in quantifying net cooling, durability, additionality, and leakage and provide solutions and research needs for each of the challenges.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Towards more effective nature-based climate solutions in global forests - Nature
A strategy to improve the implementation of nature-based climate solutions in global forests for climate mitigation is described, comprising four key components to highlight notable science and policy...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We have a new paper that is the result of a working group on nature-based climate solutions using forests. We identify challenges in quantifying net cooling, durability, additionality, and leakage and provide solutions and research needs for each of the challenges.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Oh good, I was looking for some new fiction! Adding this report to tonight’s light reading list.
Right then...
A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts
/thread/
A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts
/thread/
I can't imagine there will be any problems with this summary of climate science
July 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Oh good, I was looking for some new fiction! Adding this report to tonight’s light reading list.
Lol
New Gallup poll shows Trump approval rating has fallen to 37%. But there are some bright spots. For example, Trump's support among Democrats has DOUBLED from June to July.
July 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Lol