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Notes on science, data, maps, and the landscapes we live in
Noah Weidig
GIS Analyst • Data Scientist
I leverage remote sensing, GIS, and data science to translate complex data into clear insight about how our world changes. I believe understanding patterns through time gives people the power to see beyond the moment and shape a more intentional world.
Regional differences in infilling and land-use conversion characterize woody cover increases across the Eastern United States
Trees and shrubs are expanding into historically open ecosystems across the globe, threatening ecological function and ecosystem services. Across much of the eastern U.S., …
Michaella A. Ivey
Burning Boundaries: Large Wildfire Patterns and Drivers in the Eastern United States Wildland-Urban Interface
Large wildfires are increasing in the eastern United States, raising concern about the risk to human life and property within the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where development …
Changing Large Wildfire Dynamics in the Wildland–Urban Interface of the Eastern United States: Research Brief
As development continues to expand into fire-prone landscapes, the eastern United States is experiencing notable shifts in wildfire patterns. Weidig and colleagues analyzed four …
Christian Fernandez
Changing large wildfire regime dynamics in the eastern United States
Dr. Donovan will provide a summary of her lab’s ongoing research investigations into changes in large (>200 ha) wildfire activity across multiple scales in the eastern U.S. and the …
Victoria M. Donovan
Changing large wildfire regime dynamics in the eastern United States
Dr. Donovan will provide a summary of her lab’s ongoing research investigations into changes in large (>200 ha) wildfire activity across multiple scales in the eastern U.S. and the …
Victoria M. Donovan
Woody Cover Fuels Large Wildfire Risk in the Eastern U.S.
This study characterizes changes in woody vegetation cover across the eastern United States from 1990 to 2020 and evaluates its association with the occurrence of large wildfires …
Michaella A. Ivey
Fire at the fringe: Drivers of large wildfires in and near the wildland-urban interface of the eastern United States
Large wildfires are increasing in the eastern U.S., which contains the greatest amount of wildland-urban interface (WUI) compared to the rest of the country. Wildfires in and near …
Woody cover increases linked to forest infilling and land conversion in the eastern United States
Woody cover increases in historically open ecosystems are occurring across the globe, leading to ecosystem degradation and increased wildfire risk. Tree and shrub cover is …
Michaella A. Ivey
Unravelling changing wildfire regime dynamics in the eastern United States
Victoria M. Donovan
Unravelling changing wildfire regime dynamics in the eastern United States
Wildfire risk is changing across the globe. We provide a summary of ongoing investigations into changes in large (>200 ha) wildfire activity across multiple scales in the eastern …
Victoria M. Donovan
Southeastern Myotis (Myotis austroriparius) Use of Stormwater Sewer Systems
As urbanization continues, animals are increasingly compelled to navigate human-altered environments. Here we investigate wildlife use of stormwater sewer systems (SSS), a …
Alan A. II Ivory
Key drivers of large wildfires in and near the eastern United States wildland-urban interface
Large wildfires are increasing in the eastern U.S., which contains the greatest amount of WUI compared to the rest of the country. Wildfires in and near the WUI pose the greatest …
Fire at the fringe: Drivers of large wildfires in and near the wildland-urban interface of the eastern United States
Large wildfires are increasing in the eastern U.S., which contains the greatest amount of WUI compared to the rest of the country. Wildfires in and near the WUI pose the greatest …
Referee report. For: Integrated Fire Management and Closer to Nature Forest Management at the Landscape Scale as a Holistic Approach to Foster Forest Resilience to Wildfires [version 3; peer review: 4 approved with reservations, 2 not approved]
This Open Letter by Kalapodis and Sakkas presents a framework for enhancing the resilience of forests against the increasing wildfire issue in Europe by integrating Integrated Fire …
Victoria M. Donovan
Patterns and drivers of large wildfires within and surrounding the wildland-urban interface of the eastern United States
The recent increase in large wildfires in the eastern United States makes it crucial to examine the subsequent risk to human life and property. In the East, thewildland-urban …
Woody cover fuels large wildfire risk in the eastern US
Large wildfires are increasing in the eastern United States; however, what factors are heightening large wildfire risk remains unclear. Increases in fuel loads from woody …
Michaella A. Ivey
Changing large wildfire dynamics in the wildland–urban interface of the eastern United States
The recent increase in large wildfires in the eastern United States makes it crucial to examine the subsequent risk to human life and property. In the eastern US, the …
Changing Large Wildfire Patterns in the Eastern United States Wildland-Urban Interface
The recent increase in large wildfires in the eastern United States makes it crucial to examine the subsequent risk to human life and property. In the eastern US, the …
R Markdown: A Reproducible Workflow
This talk covers the fundamentals of using R Markdown to create reproducible workflows that seamlessly integrate code, results, and narrative. It will demonstrate how R Markdown …
Large Wildfire Patterns in the Wildland-Urban Interface of the Eastern U.S.
Wildfires are increasing in the eastern United States. The wildland-urban interface (WUI), which occurs at the intersection between human development and wildland vegetative fuels, …
Increasing Large Wildfires in the Eastern United States
This webinar provides an overview of changing large wildfire regimes in the eastern U.S., highlighting increasing wildfire number, size, and total area burned within regions of the …
Victoria M. Donovan
Changing Large Wildfire Risk in the Southeastern U.S.
Global change is altering ecosystem structure and function including natural disturbance processes like fire that can threaten human communities. We assess changes in large …
Victoria M. Donovan
Rumble in the Cogongrass Jungle: Shrub Resiliency from Round 1
Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica) is a pervasive invasive plant species across the Gulf of Mexico region and listed as the seventh worst weed in the world. Negative impacts to Gulf …
Noah Carl
The Goldilocks principle: Finding the balance between water volume and nutrients for ovipositing Culex mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
Females of container-breeding mosquito species use visual and chemical cues to determine suitable habitats to oviposit their eggs. Female Culex mosquitoes oviposit single egg rafts …
The Goldilocks principle: Finding the balance between water volume and nutrients for ovipositing Culex mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
Females of container-breeding mosquito species use visual and chemical cues to determine suitable habitats to oviposit their eggs. Female Culex mosquitoes oviposit single egg rafts …