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Amy Wotherspoon, PhD
@dr-spoon.bsky.social
Tree Doctor • @IRSSubc PostDoc • #Silva21 Scientific Coordinator • MC Silviculture Lead • Sessional Lecturer • CrossFit Coach
An exciting first day at #2025CIF in Thunder Bay!

Always excited to share some #Silva21 research, talk to foresters, catch up with grad students and spontaneously do an interview with CBC! 🙈

Excited for more fun tomorrow!
#RootedInCIF #CanadianForestry
October 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
From Silvilaser in Quebec, straight through to CIF AGM in Thunder Bay, Ontario! 🌳

Looking forward to these great topics and speaking tomorrow morning! Come say hi if you’ll be there too!

#2025CIF #CanadianForestry #ClimateChange #Silviculture
October 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Excited to be organizing and attending #Silvilaser2025 in Québec City this week! 🙌

A big coordinated effort by @metafor-ulaval.bsky.social and @irssubc.bsky.social!

Be sure to come say hi! 👋
September 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
After almost 5 years, #Silva21 publications are ramping up! Check out our @litmaps.com to track our peer-reviewed articles!

Colour coded by our research themes:
🔵=Observe 🟡=Anticipate 🔴=Adapt

app.litmaps.com/shared/3348e...

Other publications like research bulletins & posters are on our website!
August 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
New #Silva21 publication!

🪵A study of 1990-2023 North America #WoodProduct prices shows macro factors & disruptions affect products differently, guiding harvest & #silviculture decisions beyond general price indices 💸

✍️ Helin Dura, M Fortin, A Achim
🔗 doi.org/10.1139/cjfr...

#ForestEconomy
August 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Having a great time at the #IRSSlab retreat 2025 @ Cowichan Lake!🫶

Thanks to all who demo’d the Outdoors Tips & Tricks!🔨
@la-stack.bsky.social with the #Trimble, @jamesmcglade.bsky.social with the the #GeoSlam & Liam with PostEx👏

@irssubc.bsky.social @forestry.ubc.ca @metafor-ulaval.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Thank you to all who came out to #Silva21’s 4th AGM in Sherbrooke, QC 🌲

Big thanks to the HQPs, #SFI and #Domtar for making this event possible!

See you all next year for our final event!
@alexisachim.bsky.social @irssubc.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Day ✌️ of the Ontario Professional Foresters Association annual meeting!

Happy to be here and catch up with my home forests! 🌳

#OPFA #OPFA2025 #OntarioForesters #OntarioForests
April 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
⭐Highlights⭐

📽️ 1st-person view drones capture high-res video with 3D photogrammetric reconstruction

🌲 Ray marching quantifies canopy transparency from point clouds; a precise alternative to visual estimates

🌳Drone estimates of height, DBH & canopy spread align with ground & lidar measurements
March 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New #Silva21 paper! (and first by MSc student @lukasolson.bsky.social!)

The assessment of individual tree canopies using #drone based intra-canopy #photogrammetry
✍️ Olson, Coops, Moreau, Hamelin & Achim
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Read the highlights in 🧵
@forestry.ubc.ca #remotesensing #3D
March 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
La série de conférences en ligne «Tire-toi une bûche, v’là de la science!» est de retour avec les présentations des projets menés à la Forêt Montmorency!

Collaborateur de #Silva21, A. Morin-Bernard présent le 24 avril avec «La nouvelle ère des inventaires forestiers à la Forêt Montmorency»

EN in 🧵
February 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A new #Silva21 Snapshot! 📸

Checkout 2071-2100 #ClimateProjections for the province of Quebec under a regional rivalry (SSP3-7.0)🌡️

🔗 www.silva21.com/extensionnotes

⚜️ Aussi disponible en français: Le climat à la fin du siècle au Québec selon un scénario de rivalité régionale
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
New #Silva21 paper! 📃

Mapping mortality rates in #BorealMixedwood forest using #AirborneLaserScanning and permanent plot data
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✍️ @josegriofrio.bsky.social @irssubc.bsky.social Ashiq, MW @alexisachim.bsky.social
🙏 Silva21

🔗https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpaf002
February 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM