Amy Wotherspoon, PhD

Tree doctor, UBC IRSS Postdoc, Silva21 Scientific Coordinator 🌲
I have left X to support BlueSky, the more inclusive platform @dr-spoon.bsky.social

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

Our new comment in @Nature 🔥 Wildfires are spreading fast in Canada - we must strengthen forests for the future 🔗https://t.co/0UPQ2l4bb8

✍️ C. Mulverhill, N.C. Coops, Y. Boulanger, @kiramhoffman @ChristiansonAmy @LoriDanielsUBC M. Flamand-Hubert & @AlexisAchim

@UBCForestry

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

Congratulations to Dr Nelson Thiffault for being named co-editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research! 👏 @cdnsciencepub

[SilviLaser 2025 @Silvilaser25]

Planning for #Silvilaser2025 is back in full swing after the holidays!

Don't forget, the 20th edition of Silvilaser is happening:
🗓️September 29 - October 3, 2025
📍Quebec City, Canada

📣The call for abstracts is open on our website: https://t.co/aHAMCxArCy

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

Special congratulations to lead author @MadiSophiaBrown for her first publication of her MSc!

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

Starting off the new year strong with a #Silva21 publication!

Detection of disturbances using Harmonized #Landsat #Sentinel2 time series

🔗 https://t.co/lYjvd4RfeR (in @ISPRS)
✍️ @MadiSophiaBrown Coops (@IRSS_UBC) Mulverhill, @AlexisAchim
🙏 @NSERC_CRSNG

@UBCForestry

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

A publication on your birthday is the best publication 🥳

📢A trans-Atlantic perspective on successful #plantation establishment in #BorealForests: lessons learned & research opportunities

✍️Thiffault/Nordin/Wotherspoon/Hjelm/Olofsson
🔗https://t.co/i8n6n3JxKc

@UBCForestry

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

Congrats to @Joanne_C_White @mikewulder and Nicholas Coops (@IRSS_UBC) for being @ClarivateAG's highly cited researchers for 2024!

@UBCForestry

[Integrated RS Studio @IRSS_UBC]

Congratulations to our collaborators @Joanne_C_White and @mikewulder for being on @ClarivateAG's list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2024! 👏

[@forestry.ubc.ca on Bluesky @UBCForestry]

Join us at the Urban Forestry HUB Research Fair! 🌳

📅 November 27, 2024
🕜 5:00 - 8:00 PM
📍 FSC Atrium

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

We're almost through November but still want to keep up with our lab's #Movember fundraising!

Funds go towards #menshealth to all the dads, brothers, sons and mates in our lives.

Please donate if you can to help us reach our $1,000 goal!👨 https://t.co/F0D5YNWumd

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

New Silva21 Publication📢

Influence of irregular #shelterwood on intensity & severity after #wildfire in #LodgepolePine stands in BC

🔗https://t.co/7vXxkNkler in @PLOSONE
✍️ Liu/Greene/Axelson/Coops/Barbeito/Roeser
💰 #Silva21

@IRSS_UBC @UBCForestry @AlexisAchim #silviculture

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

Great read! 📰

A comprehensive framework to evaluate the financial impacts of genetic improvement on #WoodProducts from #PlantedForests

🔗 https://t.co/7rbp46qFPI
📓 @cdnsciencepub
✍️ Chagnon et al @AlexisAchim
💰 Spruce Up, @GenomeCanada @cwfc_ccfb #Silva21

[SilviLaser 2025 @Silvilaser25]

We are excited to announce the 📢Call for Abstracts📢 for #Silvilaser2025, an international gathering of researchers, professionals and industry leaders in #LaserScanning and other technologies for assessing and managing #ForestEcosystems!

🗓️ Submissions open November 18th!

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

This week the FRST201 students are out at @ubcfarm conducting site relévés and even digging their own soil pits!

We’re sad it’s their last #FieldLab of the season 😢

@UBCForestry @DrSuzanneSimard
#SiteReleve #SoilPit #BECzones #FieldWork

[Drew Peltier (@peltierdrew.bsky.social) @PeltierDrew]

Please share widely. I am recruiting for two funded phd positions and a 2yr postdoc. Full ads: https://t.co/CajSZA9Zcg
1) PhD position in climate adaptation science (SWCASC)
2) PhD position in memory effects in forest C cycle (NSF funded)
3) Postdoc position (2yr) in 14C/NSC

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

Great read! 📰

Investigating #ClimateAnomalies associated with the sudden mortality of #BalsamFir in eastern Canada

🔗https://t.co/ehVfM5lqQi
✍️ Broom, Taylor & D'Orangeville
🙏 @NSERC_CRSNG

#StillwellSyndrome #AcadianForest #ForestDisturbance

[SilviLaser 2025 @Silvilaser25]

🌐 Join a community of innovators!

With over 20 years of gatherings, #SilviLaser2025 promises collaboration and discovery in laser scanning and forestry!

📆Sep 29 - Oct 3, 2025
📍 Quebec City, Canada
Learn more at https://t.co/aHAMCxArCy! 🤝🌿

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

Les conférenciers/conférencières incluent:
🔸 Catherine Larouche
🔹 Amy Wotherspoon (@dr_spoon)
🔸Guillaume Moreau
🔹Anne Bernard (@AnneBer85603784)
🔸Alexandre Morin-Bernard (@profalexandremb)
🔹Loïc D'Orangeville
🔸Jean-Daniel Sylvain (@jdsylvain)
🔹Alexis Achim (@AlexisAchim)

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

#Silva21 a hâte a présenter ses recherches les plus récentes avec Rendez-vous de la connaissance du Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (@mrnfqc)! 🌲

Voir l’ordre du jour, s’inscrire à la réunion et accéder au lien de la réunion ici👉 https://t.co/QOJbMwH7te

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

This week’s FRST201 #ForestEcology lab took the students to Pacific Spirit Park on an ecological treasure hunt to test their plant ID skills and characterize different types of forest disturbance 🔥 💨 🪳

@UBCForestry #ForestryLab

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

Great read! 📰

The @cwfc_ccfb's Highlights of Work, summarizing the work done across all their different research centres for the 2020-2024 period 🌲🪵🌳

In English: https://t.co/Todl3KNj9b
En français: https://t.co/R0kxHasf7K

@NRCan #CanadianForests

[Amy Wotherspoon, PhD @dr_spoon]

#Silva21 in the news!📰

@NRCanScience reports on TransX, a collaborative project with @universitelaval & @UNB, monitoring how #TreeHealth & survival across species/populations might respond to future warming

Read here👉https://t.co/pkJDkRn1uQ
#AssistedMigration #ClimateChange