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Ved Bhoot
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PhD Candidate
UC Irvine - Earth System Science
Land Cover + Fire + Remote Sensing + Carbon + Machine Learning

I like spatial data

I am only on bsky, no longer on X/Twitter

Opinions are my own

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Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.
February 27, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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weatherwest.bsky.social
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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jlin404.com
I've seen enough. Deleting my X account and sticking to Bluesky for the foreseeable future.
January 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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jlin404.com
At AGU and interested in how we can improve the reliability of hybrid physics-ML climate models with sampling? Find me at Board 2294 in the Poster Hall tomorrow from 1:30 - 5:30 pm!

Sneak peak of poster below 😉

#AGU24

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December 12, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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Attending #AGU? Interested in remote sensing, wildfire, and forests? Come learn more at my talk tomorrow at 10:55am, Room 151A! I go over results on the impacts that wildfire has had on Conifer and Hardwood forests in California from 1985-2022, hope to see you there!

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Effects of 1985-2022 Wildfires on Conifer and Hardwoods across California
California’s conifer and hardwood forests have been impacted by wildfire and cl...
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December 9, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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ps.uci.edu
A research team led by Prof. James Randerson studied the historic severity of #wildfires and future implications on forest preservation. They found that #climate change has led to drier forest climates, causing severe fire damage on tree crowns and preventing regrowth. ps.uci.edu/news/3215
California wildfires have become more severe, killing more trees, UC Irvine researchers find
More state forests are vulnerable to wildfire due to climate change.
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November 18, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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jonwang.bsky.social
Hello! I'm proud to share a new wildfire paper in Environmental Research Letters - California had recent huge fires but tree loss rose much faster, relatively, than burned area. How much is the per-burned-area impact on tree cover losses rising, and why? Paper: doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad86cf 1/7
Rising forest exposure and fire severity from climate warming amplify tree cover losses from wildfire in California - IOPscienceSearch
Rising forest exposure and fire severity from climate warming amplify tree cover losses from wildfire in California, Jonathan A Wang, Michael L Goulden, Carl A Norlen, Ved Bhoot, Shane Coffield, James...
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November 17, 2024 at 8:31 PM