Whalen Dillon

Ecologist (landscapes, disturbance, disease, plants). I like forests. he/him

[Whalen Dillon @4restTrees]

Seeking suggestions, tips, tricks for cross-country road trip, just me with a 3.5 y/o western NC to Oregon Coast. Routes, destinations? Aiming for a lot of car camping #thereandbackagain

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

From a Canadian firefighter who knows what’s going on:
#canada #wildfire #smoke
(Worth the read)

“I know you may know, but people need to know and understand that most Canadian wildfire management agencies have fire “zonation” policies similar to Alaska.

This means in large areas of their jurisdictions, especially in the northern part of the country, wildfires are left to run there natural course w little or no direct action or suppression. We’ll protect values at risk, ie. infrastructure, communities, critical habitat or culturally significant features on the landscape, we’ll map them and maybe try to burn them to natural barrier, fight one flank and let the rest roll (limited action) but we are not putting them out.

On many of the fires we don’t even try. A number of these fires are huge boreal gobblers (I am currently assigned to a 250,000 ha fire, well over 600,000 acres and you could fit the org. chart on one side of a beer can).

The only thing that is going to put out this fire out and many across the country is winter, 5 months from now. It’s going to be a long, smoky summer for everyone. You have a wide reach, it would be great if you can help people understand these dynamics in the Canadian wildfire scene when they’re bitching about the smoke.

Cheers 🍻 and thanks.”

Pretty decent picture of what’s going on. Thanks for the insight.

In the industry we call this letting a fire “Do its thing”. It’s especially common in these vast boreal forests. Siberia does the same thing. Identify hazards and values at risk, mitigate, let it go.

Cheers.

[Whalen Dillon @4restTrees]

Trying to do a little good. I like the short daily briefs about a specific thing currently happening in the climate emergency
https://t.co/T5mwOOeaPO

[Whalen Dillon @4restTrees]

@TrevorCaughlin @Valorie__Marie That is gorgeous!!!

[Whalen Dillon @4restTrees]

The news media’s systemic failure to mention the role of fossil fuels in a net zero future leaves out necessary information for readers to understand the stakes https://t.co/unvpUEIMfQ

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

The 2023 edition of my long-running anti-establishment art-science-fusion code-therapy smooth-baritone causal inference & Bayesian data analysis course is complete. 20 lectures, from the basics of causal inference & Bayesian updating to mixed models & Gaussian processes. 1/2

[Whalen Dillon @4restTrees]

The world promised to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Instead, it doubled them. , by @emorwee https://t.co/2pvJ9RrY7D

[Whalen Dillon @4restTrees]

Hazel M. Johnson
#environmentaljustice #intersectionality #racialjustice #WomenLead
https://t.co/4Gw9DhiXWR

[Dr. Merritt Turetsky @queenofpeat]

Peat in bogs = climate solution
Peat in bags = climate nightmare

Beauty ✅ Boo 🚫

[Jesús G. Ruiz, Ph.D. @PhDJesus]

I have never posted about this, mainly for the safety of my spouse & family. But, she has asked me to share in this extremely pivotal moment. We live in TN. My spouse is an OB/GYN and every time she does an abortion to save someones life, she commits a class C felony.

[Dr. William J. Ripple @WilliamJRipple]

CLIMATE EMERGENCY: Just imagine how much methane could be released by the thawing of the northern permafrost, a feedback that could help send us to climate hell. Please help call for humanity to leave fossil fuels in the ground.

[Drew Hiatt @dhiatt_]

Finally got to share finished results of our project looking at how invasive plant communities alter tick-borne disease risk. @4restTrees @lflory

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

I showed my students this movie of how atmospheric CO₂ travels around the globe and you should see it too.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

This is actually in a textbook...

Retweet if you see it.

[Whalen Dillon @4restTrees]

@lflory @lbrensk @JesseBBorden @eepappo @smithsonian @aekendig Perhaps of note, every position I’ve held since has also been remote. Unless there is a prolonged need for facilities usage #remoteworking #postdocjobs as a default make sense

[Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel]

One of my objectives in 2023 is to learn R. Does anyone know of a course or a book for beginner-beginners?

[Whalen Dillon @4restTrees]

@drdeahlieurance They’re getting a lot of 555-555-5555 🙄

[hannah s. f. ♿️ @HannahntheWolf]

A thread on staying warm from a chronically ill Appalachian who grew up without central heat:

It's fucking cold right now. As we all cope with new levels of cold (for our areas), I thought I'd put together some safety tips for folks, esp for any newly disabled out there.

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[Jeff Hyde @jeffhyde]

I've been asked to collaborate on a paper related to potential biases and inaccuracies in evaluating Extension professionals and their programs. Anyone have any thoughts to contribute as I begin to ponder the subject? #coopext #extension

[DivestedAttention @DivestedAttent]

@davenewworld_2 “This is going to be months, maybe even years before we get the full handle on this disaster and know the extent of the damage and get it all cleaned up,"

https://t.co/uyEq3D10wn