Leda Kobziar
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Leda Kobziar
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Professor of wildland fire science, fire ecologist, live and love pyroaerobiology 🔥🌲🦠smoke microbial ecology, prescribed fire is good fire practitioner
Reposted by Leda Kobziar
This exact temporal sequence of events, as observed in southern California in 2024, is something we use as a prototypical example of practical consequences of wet-to-dry "hydroclimate whiplash" events--which we show are increasing due to #ClimateChange. www.nature.com/artic...
Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal...
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A yoga mat for drones to stretch their weary wings
December 19, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Reposted by Leda Kobziar
These results support a growing understanding of wildfire 🔥 as a microbial pump & smoke as an environmental reservoir & mechanism for dispersal.

Kobziar Fire Ecology Lab @uidaho.bsky.social

#pyroaerobiology #wildfire #dispersal #biogeography #bioaerosols

doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Evidence for Wildland Fire Smoke Transport of Microbes From Terrestrial Sources to the Atmosphere and Back
Most bacterial taxa in wildland fire smoke can be traced to local surface vegetation and soil communities The bacterial assemblage in ambient air was mostly derived from unknown sources Local te...
doi.org
December 4, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Reposted by Leda Kobziar
*alt text edit: the correct term is ‘launch pad’ not ‘landing mat’.

To be clear, I don’t drive the drones. I mean, I am not a UAS pilot. 😁
December 5, 2024 at 2:03 PM