🚨 DON'T FLY DRONES OVER ACTIVE FIRES! ESPECIALLY ONES WITH CREWS AND AIRCRAFT ACTIVELY RESPONDING!

"The drone was flying despite a Temporary Flight Restriction... The drone was being flown by a photographer taking video of the flames."

No paywall, orig on LA Times: www.yahoo.com/news/one-jus...

Colleague at NRCan CFS is recruiting a student to work with Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada on a project developing and testing novel stream eDNA biomonitoring methods. Strong government links, co-supervised by Erik Emilson (NRCan) and Brie Edwards (MECP) . See poster.

@iufro.bsky.social sponsors an annual webinar on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science recognizing the contribution women make to forest research. The webinar will be held February 11-12, 2025. See here for more information: a-48350767.hubspotpagebuilder.com/en-us/

One of my favourite parts of my job is getting to learn firsthand from Canadian fire managers about their usage and perspectives of remote sensing data in decision making.

This week is St. John’s with CIFFC and #WildFireSat was yet again an awesome experience! 🛰️🔥🌲🧪🌎🇨🇦

#EOChat #GISChat

This week we hosted a delegation from France at the Great Lakes Forestry Centre in Sault Ste. Marie. The delegation included representatives from l’Office National des Forêts, Valabre, the Bouches-du-Rhône fire department, & the French embassy to Canada.

We discussed all things fire! 🌲🔥🚒✈️🛩️🛰️📡