Laura Kroesen

BC Wildlife Biologist 🪶🐐🦌 and Mountaineer 🏔

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

#AnimBehav2021 Mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) are elusive high alpine ungulates that live in steep and mountainous environments where it is difficult to directly observe and record behaviour. 1/6 @DavidHik

[Adam ™ Ford @adamTford]

I was a co-applicant on a research proposal whose leadership team included senior and ECR Indigenous women, global experts in the field. It also centered communities, IK, and place in delivery of outcomes. And then this happened:

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

Snow algae cover vast portions of glaciers in the summer. An interesting phenomenon that has not been well studied. Find out more in Casey's paper using remote sensing to investigate algae extent on glaciers in BC!

[Jason T Fisher @JasonTFisherLab]

NEW paper!
What happens to the #mammal community after a #wolf cull?

The 1st of a new series from #ACMELab:

Predator control alters wolf interactions with prey and competitor species over the diel cycle https://t.co/hFjTcPD6yo

[San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo]

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Scientists at SDZWA discovered two California condor chicks have hatched from unfertilized eggs. This sort of asexual reproduction, known as parthenogenesis, is a first for the species and provides new hope for their recovery. Read more: https://t.co/m5MZhqt21l

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

New paper! Dr. Amanda Bates orginized 348 authors and their Covid-19 lock-down wildlife observations from around the globe. How did the lockdown effect wildlife from around the world? Spoiler: I found Mountain goat's changed their behaviour during lockdown!

[Amanda E Bates @AmandaEBates]

Our paper with 348 co-authors quantifying responses in wildlife is finally out in Biological Conservation! I am so proud of all these authors, working as a team, to present a global view of nature and conservation during the initial lockdown.
https://t.co/aFZXARAfdg

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

Whoa! This looks like a fantastic new tool for all those animal movement ecologist out there!

[Movement of Life @SmithsonianMoL]

It's finally here!! A clean method for extracting covariates for animal movement analysis with Google Earth Engine and R...bam!

New manuscript + tutorial from @SmithsonianMoL scientist @RamiroCrego2 et al.

Paper:https://t.co/U0PdZ7pctV

Tutorial: https://t.co/8xwVNtUZSY

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

@CaseyEngstrom Whoa, i thought it was a river...but its a glacier!! So neat...do you think those waves are annual growth?

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

Mountain goat kills grizzly bear with defensive horn jabs in Yoho National Park... I knew these goats were feirce and mighty! https://t.co/UegN1WiFfr

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

@JZThinAir @ClaytonTLamb Park Canada crossing structures are signed clearly to ask keep people to keep away as well.

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

Help @CaseyEngstrom validate snow algae blooms while you hike! Its an amazing project using remote sensing and citizen science to validate his model so we can calculate the amount of snow algae worldwide!

[C. August Elliott @CAugustElliott]

Given the context (an unprecedented heatwave in the midst of a spiralling feedback loop in global temperature), this should be the biggest story in the world right now.

[SFU Biological Sciences @SFUBioSci]

The 1st place winning poem from our poetry contest was written by David Hik and is titled "+100 ppm"

@davidhik

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

Hey twitterverse: is there a way to keep US insurance/plates on a car for a grad student studying/living in Canada. Is it legal? Will I be covered? Who has done this?

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

Great advice on how to phrase statements in emails. I catch myself writing both ways. Nice to see a back to back comparison on how they translate.

[Trevor Branch (moved to Bluesky) @TrevorABranch]

Email like a boss... interesting to think about how wording changes the dynamics so much

[Kaeli Swift, Ph.D. @corvidresearch]

Ode to André

My name is tern
I don't make nest
No twigs for me
I've chucked the rest
Instead I lay right on a branch
My egg so cute
I must take care
I must protecc
my marbled heir
If I'm luck
my egg will hatch
become a bark fuzz
a darling match ❤️

[Marie-Pier Poulin @mp_poulin]

This picture of an arctic fox from our recent paper (with amazing co-author @clermont_jeanne) in @Ecol_Evol made the cover of this month's issue! https://t.co/OsaVzJcHcQ

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

Skinny vs. Fat seals. So cool how they found different behaviours using tags and depth monitors. Checkout these cool visuals!

[Roxanne Beltran @roxannesbeltran]

New paper out today in @ScienceAdvances! 🥳https://t.co/My2yLwtjQd

We measured state-dependent risk-taking in elephant seals throughout their 7-month migrations.

Skinny seals take more risks.

This breath-taking animation by co-author @jmkendallbar tells the whole story.

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

@ClaytonTLamb just showed me this amazing tool to visualize landscape change over time. Mind blown! Cant wait to try it out tomorrow!

[Justin Braaten @jstnbraaten]

🚨New App🚨

#rstats Shiny app for annotating years and adding a context map to #Landsat time series #EarthEngine GIF. No coding required, just a browser and a few mouse clicks - anyone can make animations of landscape change. Give it a try!

👉 https://t.co/TjbmNckzkl

[Laura Kroesen @KroesenLaura]

@ClaytonTLamb @BearTrust @jstnbraaten This looks so amazing! I am looking at habitat disturbance over time, so this is going to be an amazing tool to help stakeholders visualize disturbance. You inspired me with your post and I have been playing around in google earth engine all day too. Both fantastic resources!