Dr. Kelly Heilman

ORAU with USDA Forest Service NRS
Previously: postdoc at University of Arizona (@TreeRingLabUofA)
PhD @NotreDame.
@kenyon_alumni
She/her.

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

A bit late to the #FemFieldPhoto party...

While coring oak trees for my dissertation work, I found a huge cherrybark oak and explored some cool savanna ecosystems #WomenInSTEM

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) wrote up a nice piece about this work titled ”Widely used climate theory doesn’t ‘ring’ true, according to new tree data”-- We love a good tree ring pun in the title!
https://t.co/Bx7SDSXw1T

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

I am also excited to share our recent @PNASNews publication "Tree rings reveal the transient risk of extinction hidden inside climate envelope forecasts" that uses Pinyon Pine (Pinus Edulis) #treerings & #Bayesian models (using @CyVerseOrg resources).

https://t.co/MT75fey0WJ

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

This is a project I have been working on since 2020 with lead co-authors Dr. Margaret Evans, and Sharmila Dey, a student at Harvard Unversity. Sharmila began working in the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research on this project as as high school student (!)

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

We welcome submissions using a wide variety of methods (ground based observations, remote sensing, modelling), especially those that integrate multiple data sources or use novel methods to characterize forest demography and forest C.

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

Excited to announce that I am co-convening a session on at #AGU2024

B009: Advances in Understanding and Predicting Forest Demography and Carbon in a Changing World” (ID: 229276).

Please consider submitting to our #AGU24 session!
https://t.co/aZMD0RsD0q

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

The goal of the session is to highlight research that characterizes, forecasts, or quantifies uncertainty around forest demographic processes (i.e. Growth, Mortality, and Recruitment), drivers of change, and forest C cycling.

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

If you have made it to the end of #AGU22 check out the @eco4cast sessions and my talk this afternoon! Session B56B

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

Recorded my #AGU2022 virtual talk & filled up my conference schedule with awesome science!

Check out my talk and the @eco4cast sessions (B56B) on Friday!

I'll be talking about my postdoc work #Ecologicalforecasting of ponderosa pine forest biomass in the Interior West US 🌲📈

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

A lovely article about a beautiful composition and music-science collaboration! Check out Pine Chant, Composed by Lachlan Skipworth https://t.co/slm8W4kiMK

It was fun to play a tiny part in this collab & see how artists can use data tell the story of forests under climate change

[Joan Meiners, Ph.D. 🐝🚴‍♀️ @beecycles]

This story about trees comes with a soundtrack. 🌲🎼
Listen and learn about what is happening to #forests under #climatechange through the data-inspired notes of woodwind instruments, a music/science collaboration from @TreeRingLabUA.
https://t.co/BnNq2P7ubN @azcentral #AZClimate

[Ecological Forecasting Initiative @eco4cast]

For those of you at #AGU22. Come check out what is happening in ecological forecasting. Here is a summary of the ecological forecasting activities this week including Thursday's evening social and Friday's poster and oral session.
https://t.co/9sOmV6ZMoP

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

Recorded my #AGU2022 virtual talk & filled up my conference schedule with awesome science!

Check out my talk and the @eco4cast sessions (B56B) on Friday!

I'll be talking about my postdoc work #Ecologicalforecasting of ponderosa pine forest biomass in the Interior West US 🌲📈

[Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney_joan]

Interested in climate change impacts on forest communities and species interactions? Do you want to learn novel analytical tools and engage with an incredible data science community? I'm recruiting PhD students and postdocs @BrenUCSB!

Join us! https://t.co/ZRnX5fIlBL

[UArizona Tree-Ring Lab @TreeRingLabUA]

Congratulations to Kelly Heilman @kelheil (& co-authors) for winning the 2022 ESA Ecological Forecasting Award for their paper, “Ecological forecasting of tree growth: Regional fusion of tree-ring and forest inventory data to quantify drivers and characterize uncertainty”.

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

You can find access to the paper here: https://t.co/8ur7lEFHQh

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

I am honored that our paper was selected for the Ecological Forecasting Award! This paper is the product of a ton of hard work by the team--from measuring #treerings, compiling the @USFSRockyMtns Forest Inventory data, to the code and model development.

[Ecological Forecasting Initiative @eco4cast]

Congratulations to @kelheil (& co-authors) for winning the 2022 ESA Ecological Forecasting Award for their paper,
“Ecological forecasting of tree growth: Regional fusion of tree-ring and forest inventory data to quantify drivers and characterize uncertainty”

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

I am super thankful to the many coauthors who have put in years of work that supported this paper: Margaret Evans, @mcdietze, Justin DeRose, John Shaw, Andy Finley, Stefan Klesse, and of course the tree-ring champions Alexis Arizpe, Andrew Gray, and Jacob Aragon.

[UArizona Tree-Ring Lab @TreeRingLabUA]

We are excited to partner with the College of Humanities, German Department, the International Office & the Kulturbüro of the University of Münster for the upcoming Eden exhibits @uarizona campus and accompanied by a series of events.

#tucsonhumanitiesfestival2022

[Lucas Silva @silva_lcr]

5 decades ago, climate models predicted the global warming we see today. >10 years ago, consensus was reached on the human drivers of climate change. Today, we need to move from describing the problem to devising realistic solutions, a task that is more easily said than done 1/5

[Courtney Giebink @CourtneyGiebink]

A range of solutions are needed to address the climate crisis. An investment in Enhanced Natural Climate Solutions (NCS+) can lead to carbon drawdown while providing co-benefits to local communities. Check out this NCS+ special issue myself and others contributed to:

[Dr. Kelly Heilman @kelheil]

@FakeAndyBunn 😅 maybe you need more data (a better, more in-depth) workshop to inform your model

[Jessica Guo @JessicaSGuo]

Research Bazaar AZ is happening May 23-26! We offer a week of virtual workshops in R, Python, git, and more, capped off by a data science career panel with @keatonwilson @scheidegger @alycrall @JonTheGeek @KelseyEGonzalez @pazjusticiavida
Register at https://t.co/IQ5yYt6iSC