Mallory Barnes
@mallorybarnes.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Indiana University. I think about nature-based climate solutions, remote sensing, drylands, and plant-climate interactions.
From the map in the article, which shows county-level temperature changes, and it looks like only 1 county in Arkansas has not warmed! And I feel you, August in Indiana is also awful. I want to become a reverse snowbird ASAP.
August 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
From the map in the article, which shows county-level temperature changes, and it looks like only 1 county in Arkansas has not warmed! And I feel you, August in Indiana is also awful. I want to become a reverse snowbird ASAP.
For goodness sake. Bleak.
February 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
For goodness sake. Bleak.
Great Q! Temp change from reforestation is the net result of competing mechanisms: changes in latent/sensible heat flux (cooling), and changes in albedo (warming). Research shows reforestation in northern latitudes can actually warm. More here, may be paywalled: www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes - Nature
Climate models have long suggested that the conversion of forest to grasslands or crops could create a cooling effect, through an increase in surface albedo. But so far, no study encompassing a large ...
www.nature.com
February 19, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Great Q! Temp change from reforestation is the net result of competing mechanisms: changes in latent/sensible heat flux (cooling), and changes in albedo (warming). Research shows reforestation in northern latitudes can actually warm. More here, may be paywalled: www.nature.com/articles/nat...
It's great this paper came out around the same time as ours. The reforestation in the EUS was a combination of active tree-planting and natural forest regeneration, but the key is that the area USED to be forest. Putting trees where they are not supposed to be will do more harm than good.
February 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM
It's great this paper came out around the same time as ours. The reforestation in the EUS was a combination of active tree-planting and natural forest regeneration, but the key is that the area USED to be forest. Putting trees where they are not supposed to be will do more harm than good.