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💧🌏 Greg Cocks Jun 6, 2024

Pine Beetles Adapting To A Changing Climate, Finds Study [British Columbia, Canada]
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https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/animal-stories/pine-beetles-adapting-to-a-changing-climate-finds-study-8616846 <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17207 <-- shared paper
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[a number of years ago I worked with the USFS in Colorado on mountain pine beetle from a NEPA, varied stakeholder & SMEs, multifactor spatiotemporal analysis (sic) perspective (https://fe9h.short.gy/TPbN5e); due to this, as a Coloradan and coming from a family of lumber folk, I retain a strong interest in this hazardous and destructive blight, especially as climate change proceeds]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #BritishColumbia #BC #Canada #barkbeetle #pinebeetle #spatiotemporal #spatialanalysis #mountainpinebeetle #lodgepolepine #forest #forestry #risk #hazard #climatechange #habitat #ecosystem #biology #destructive #tree #trees #economiccost #carbondioxide #reproduction #impacts #CO2 #forestbiology #vulnerability #drought #water #hydrology #boreal

Pine beetles adapting to a changing climate, finds study

"The prediction is the beetle can bounce back and attack more," said the lead researcher from the University of Alberta.

Pique Newsmagazine

rhi_peery Jun 29, 2023

The TRIA #mountainPineBeetle #genomeCanada project is looking for a new project manager - great opportunity for anyone who can move to Ottawa!
#jobsearch #ScienceJobs

https://carleton.njoyn.com/CL2/XWEB/XWEB.ASP?CLID=53443&PAGE=JOBDETAILS&JOBID=J1022-0805&BRID=326328&SBDID=20539

Carleton University Research Careers | Project Manager, TRIA-FoR (Grant-Funded Opportunity) | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Project Manager will serve as a senior manager for the large-scale TRIA-FoR project, a national scale, multidisciplinary network of researchers that is led by the University of Alberta and Carleton University. The Project Manager is a focal point for the Project’s control and is an essential hinge between the scientific and administrative aspects of the Project. Key responsibilities include: • developing, coordinating, and executing operational plans based upon the overall strategic vision of the Project; conduct ongoing assessment of strategic plan • together with a second Project Manager based at the University of Alberta, providing Project operational and financial leadership and management, including day-to-day administrative, financial, operational, coordination and communication operations • taking responsibility for the financial well-being of the Project; directs financial management including the oversight and control of research project funds to ensure optimum use of financial resources • leading preparation of scientific reports, financial reports and financial draw requests • ensuring researcher and Project compliance with funders’ and institutional policies, guidelines and regulations • primary lead on developing and executing the Project’s Communications Plan, including publishing the TRIA-FoR Newsletter, maintaining the TRIA-FoR Twitter and Slack accounts, maintaining/updating project documentation in the Carleton-located Citrix ShareFile account, working with University Communications staff to develop promotional stories • identifying potential sources of additional co-funding; preparing applications to secure this co-funding • organizing, coordinating, setting agendas and acting as moderator and secretary for all virtual and in-person internal Project meetings of various scopes, and virtual and in-person meetings of Project researchers with external stakeholders • handling Human Resources responsibilities, including day to day administrative tasks, appointments, contracts, reappointments, onboarding and offboarding, hourly payroll timesheet submissions; providing guidance and counsel to researchers in their supervisory roles • serving as a key liaison with academic, government, industry and not-for-profit partners and stakeholders • acting as principal point of contact between the Project and funders • acting as primary interface with the second Project Manager at co-lead institution (UAlberta) • interfacing with fee-for-service providers • seeking, building and maintaining relationships with researchers and their research teams; administration at Carleton University and partner universities; partner organizations; funders; and other stakeholder and end users • acting as a moderator between parties in the event that issues arise between Project participants • cultivating exceptional relations with all Project personnel • contributing to preparation of scientific papers, extension notes, and other forms of written and oral communications intended for diffusion to scientific, stakeholder, end user, and lay public audiences

@envplane Mar 28, 2023

OnlineFirst - "Deadwood: People, place, and neoliberal forest policy in British Columbia, Canada" by Sinead Kathleen Earley:

#forestry #neoliberalism #mountainpinebeetle #climatechange #policy #settlercolonialism

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486231165447

BC Info Bot Jan 20, 2023

Global News BC: Parks Canada thinning forests around Banff townside to lower wildfire, mountain pine beetle risk https://globalnews.ca/news/9423143/parks-canada-banff-forest-thinning-wildfire-mountain-pine-beetle/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #BanffMountainPineBeetle #BanffNationalParkforest #AlbertaEnvironment #MountainPineBeetle #BanffNationalPark #AlbertaWildfires #ParksCanadaBanff #Albertawildfire #Banffburning #Environment #ParksCanada #Wildfire #Banff

Parks Canada thinning forests around Banff townside to lower wildfire, mountain pine beetle risk

The forests in Banff National Park are not only old and beyond what is considered their natural burning cycle, but mountain pine beetle is also wreaking havoc on the ecosystem.

Global News

BC Info Bot Jan 18, 2023

The Tyee: Running on Empty: The BC Forestry Crash (in Analysis) https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/01/18/Running-Empty-BC-Forestry-Crash/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #MikeMorrisMLAPrinceGeorge-Mackenzie #ForestEnhancementSocietyofBC #PrinceGeorgetimbersupplyarea #PrinceGeorgePulpandPaper #BCold-growthforests #AnnualAllowableCut #MountainPineBeetle #woodpelletindustry #ConservationNorth #YellowheadHighway #PacificBioenergy #AnthonyBritneff #FortSt.James,BC #DraxGroup #Canfor

Running on Empty: The BC Forestry Crash | The Tyee

The closure of a Prince George pulp mill is yet another warning we’re running out of trees.

The Tyee

BC Info Bot Dec 16, 2022

Global News BC: Mountain pine beetle population decimated in Jasper National Park after consecutive deep freezes https://globalnews.ca/news/9355311/jasper-national-park-mountain-pine-beetle-population/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #JasperNationalParkmountainpinebeetle #Stoppingmountainpinebeetle #albertamountainpinebeetle #Jaspermountainpinebeetle #JasperNationalPark #MountainPineBeetle #RockyMountains #CrowsnestPass #BorealForest #Environment #ParksCanada #Kananaskis #BowValley #PineTrees

Mountain pine beetle population decimated in Jasper National Park after consecutive deep freezes

Parks Canada said it was a memorable cold snap in 2019 that really started to significantly bring down the population of mountain pine beetles in Jasper National Park.

Global News