Mica Jorgenson
@micaamy.bsky.social
🔥 professional fire nerd🔥| Dr. of #envhist | recovering academic | 53.9171° N | loves maps | fun stuff advocate | personal account
I learned so much this summer from so many people, and now it's time to take a rest. Looking forward to a winter of learning and working hard to make things better in the small ways I can.
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I learned so much this summer from so many people, and now it's time to take a rest. Looking forward to a winter of learning and working hard to make things better in the small ways I can.
Here's the message I'm getting.
October 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Here's the message I'm getting.
Sentinel 2 images from the confluence of the Mackenzie and the Liard. Left: Some serious fire behaviour from sept 9. Right: Autumn colours on the boreal from Sept 10 -- and an orange retardant line from a small lake (centre of the image).
September 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sentinel 2 images from the confluence of the Mackenzie and the Liard. Left: Some serious fire behaviour from sept 9. Right: Autumn colours on the boreal from Sept 10 -- and an orange retardant line from a small lake (centre of the image).
Pine...uh....finds a way
September 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Pine...uh....finds a way
I can't take my eyes off these fires in the west of the Cariboo region. Its the summer that won't end out there, despite COLD overnight temperatures and shortening days. Look at this one chugging through a cutblock -- open flame visible from satellite (sept 7).
September 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I can't take my eyes off these fires in the west of the Cariboo region. Its the summer that won't end out there, despite COLD overnight temperatures and shortening days. Look at this one chugging through a cutblock -- open flame visible from satellite (sept 7).
The thing that always blows my mind with the satellite imagery is that we can't even see the head of the fire, since its usually concealed by smoke. Copernicus' false colour (urban) shows that, as impressive as the previous image may be, the head of the fire is burning even hotter and faster.
September 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The thing that always blows my mind with the satellite imagery is that we can't even see the head of the fire, since its usually concealed by smoke. Copernicus' false colour (urban) shows that, as impressive as the previous image may be, the head of the fire is burning even hotter and faster.
Sentinel 2 captured some truly unhinged fire behaviour yesterday. When you can see an organized flame front from space, its safe to say that our fire behaviour is "aggressive."
September 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sentinel 2 captured some truly unhinged fire behaviour yesterday. When you can see an organized flame front from space, its safe to say that our fire behaviour is "aggressive."
Also from August 30 -- Sentinel captured the plume coming up from SS104 burning near Fort Provenance, NWT, as it punched up into the atmosphere.
September 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Also from August 30 -- Sentinel captured the plume coming up from SS104 burning near Fort Provenance, NWT, as it punched up into the atmosphere.
Watching smoke from space is one thing -- watching fire is another. This is a capture from Aug 30, and is of the fire burning north of Tsacha Lake in BC. Flames are visible from Sentinel's passover -- you can see them burning in the patch of green in the top left.
September 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Watching smoke from space is one thing -- watching fire is another. This is a capture from Aug 30, and is of the fire burning north of Tsacha Lake in BC. Flames are visible from Sentinel's passover -- you can see them burning in the patch of green in the top left.
ditnikkwun / ᑔᐪᘆᐟᐠᗒᐣ / Castilleja miniata
August 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
ditnikkwun / ᑔᐪᘆᐟᐠᗒᐣ / Castilleja miniata
Orange sun and ash falling on Vancouver Island last night was a disorienting experience.
August 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Orange sun and ash falling on Vancouver Island last night was a disorienting experience.
Should be taking the day off work, but then I thought: what if I could see the Wesley Ridge fire from space? Sentinel imagery from yesterday (Jul 31)
August 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Should be taking the day off work, but then I thought: what if I could see the Wesley Ridge fire from space? Sentinel imagery from yesterday (Jul 31)
Was looking at the satellite today and...is this just a line of retardant on the south flank of this fire? For context, that's the Mackenzie River to the east, and Fort Simpson to the North - Dencho region wildfire in NWT.
July 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Was looking at the satellite today and...is this just a line of retardant on the south flank of this fire? For context, that's the Mackenzie River to the east, and Fort Simpson to the North - Dencho region wildfire in NWT.
So far my season has been a study in contrasts. Pic on the right is on treaty 8 as far to the north as you can get in BC. Pic on the left is on Syilx land almost at the 49th parallel. Muskeg and black spruce vs. semi-arid pine and grassland.
July 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
So far my season has been a study in contrasts. Pic on the right is on treaty 8 as far to the north as you can get in BC. Pic on the left is on Syilx land almost at the 49th parallel. Muskeg and black spruce vs. semi-arid pine and grassland.
AND I found raspberries.
July 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
AND I found raspberries.
Got to look at an open pit mine and a forest fire today and it also happened to be my birthday
July 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Got to look at an open pit mine and a forest fire today and it also happened to be my birthday
2 days apart - fire along the Nelson River in northern Manitoba
July 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
2 days apart - fire along the Nelson River in northern Manitoba
Fire up here burns and smoulders deep into the forest floor, crawling through the dry muskeg. I could watch it work all day.
July 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Fire up here burns and smoulders deep into the forest floor, crawling through the dry muskeg. I could watch it work all day.
Attention everyone I found my first cloudberries on a fire line up here in treaty 8. best day ever
July 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Attention everyone I found my first cloudberries on a fire line up here in treaty 8. best day ever
We've had a stream of rain across much of the north, but many of our fires remain just outside its limits. Here's a beautiful example of fires burning just to north of a band of clouds near BC's northern border (sentinel, 17 june)
June 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We've had a stream of rain across much of the north, but many of our fires remain just outside its limits. Here's a beautiful example of fires burning just to north of a band of clouds near BC's northern border (sentinel, 17 june)
Recent rain has made a big difference up here this week -- but it hasn't reached the Fort Nelson area, as evident by the FIRMS hotspot data. Those fires are still active and moving around.
June 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Recent rain has made a big difference up here this week -- but it hasn't reached the Fort Nelson area, as evident by the FIRMS hotspot data. Those fires are still active and moving around.
Smoke breached the rockies last night with the changing winds and came into town for the first time this summer - AQI of 200 in my office this morning.
June 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Smoke breached the rockies last night with the changing winds and came into town for the first time this summer - AQI of 200 in my office this morning.
yah, I know this account is just sentinel 2 spam now, but LOOOK AT THESE IMAGES THAT WERE CAPTURED YESTERDAY (of G90216)
June 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
yah, I know this account is just sentinel 2 spam now, but LOOOK AT THESE IMAGES THAT WERE CAPTURED YESTERDAY (of G90216)
I'm still thinking about how G90216 *moved* over the weekend (and keeps moving).
June 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm still thinking about how G90216 *moved* over the weekend (and keeps moving).