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Welcome to #UBCForestry on BlueSky!🌲

Here, we’ll share updates on our latest projects, breakthroughs, news and events.🔬

Stay tuned for exciting content on cutting-edge research and how we’re working to create a greener, more sustainable future.🌎✨
January 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
NEW PAPER 📢 Detection of disturbances using Harmonized #Landsat #Sentinel2 time series

#OpenAccess🔓: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
✍️ Brown, Coops, Mulverhill, Achim
💰 NSERC, #Silva21

#UBCForestry #remotesensing #forestdisturbances
January 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Everyone, meet the newest member of the Indigenous Ecology Lab, Niles. We hope he has the same skills for scent work as his parents! Niles will be sniffing out invasive species and rare plants when he grows up! #ecology #dogs #poodles #invasivespecies #ubcforestry #indigenousstem
January 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Congratulations to #UBCForestry professor @loridanielsubc.bsky.social and alumnus @marinamelanidis.bsky.social on receiving the prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal! 🎉

Read more about their work: forestry.ubc.ca/news/lori-da...
February 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
NEW PAPER📢 Seasonal vegetation dynamics for phenotype using multispectral #drone imagery: differentiation, #ClimateAdaptation & hybridization of #InteriorSpruce

🔓#OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
✍️Grubinger, Coops, O'Neill, Degner, Wang, Waite, Riofrio, Koch
🙏 NSERC

#UBCforestry #remotesensing
November 25, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Welcome to #UBCForestry on BlueSky!🌲

Here, we’ll share updates on our latest projects, breakthroughs, news and events.🔬

Stay tuned for exciting content on cutting-edge research and how we’re working to create a greener, more sustainable future.🌎✨
January 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
NEW PAPER 📣 Temporally Consistent Forest Stand Segmentation using Landsat Imagery

dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS...

📖: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

✍️: Ye, Coops, Hermosilla @txominhermos.bsky.social, Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social, Gergel

#Segmentation #ChangeDetection #Landsat #ubcforestry
September 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
NEW PAPER 📣 Estimating 3D individual tree crown growth using multi-temporal LiDAR

doi.org/10.1080/2150...

📖: Remote Sensing Letters

✍️: McGlade (jamesmcglade.bsky.social‬) & Coops

@forestry.ubc.
ca #remotesensingn#ubcforestryr#irsslaba#LiDARA#ALSL#randomforests#alphashapepe
July 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
#IRSSLab roll call! 🙌

Brianne Boufford, José Riofrió, and many more are lighting up #Silvilaser2025 with some awesome talks and stellar science!

Still so much good stuff ahead—come hang with us!

#UBCForestry #RemoteSensing

@silvilaser2025.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Announcing the Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship at #UBCForestry.🌱

With a partnership and $8.5 million investment from the Mastercard Foundation EleV program, Indigenous students in Canada will receive tuition, relocation costs and work support.

Details: forestry.ubc.ca/news/bachelo...
April 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The newest addition to the wall!

Huge congratulations to Madi Brown (madisophia.bsky.social‬) on her successful MSc defense. We wish her all the best on her next chapter at ‪ETH Zurich (ethz.ch���).

Viel Erfolg, Mad#UBCForestryF#IRSSLab#IRSSLab
July 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Congratulations again and again and again to Dr. Ramon Melser! (@ramonmelser.bsky.social)

He joins the wall after successfully defending his thesis: “Enhanced assessment of boreal vegetation productivity using integrated satellite-derived datasets and analysis approaches.”

#IRSSLab #UBCForestry
August 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
📣NEW PAPER 📣A review of PlanetScope CubeSats for forest monitoring

✍️: Shields, Coops, Achim (@alexisachim.bsky.social), Hamelin, Mulverhill

📖: Science of Remote Sensing

doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...

#planetScope #forestry #highresolution #nearrealtime #multispectral #IRSSlab #UBCForestry
October 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Happy #WorldWildlifeDay from #UBCForestry and The Wildlife Coexistence Lab!🐐🫎🦉

The lab, led by Dr. @coleburton.bsky.social, focuses on human-wildlife coexistence across multiple species and scales, with a particular emphasis on large-bodied terrestrial mammals.

Learn more: wildlife.forestry.ubc.ca
March 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The Centre for Wildfire Coexistence at #UBCForestry invites applications for a funded interdisciplinary PhD opportunity: Collaborative approaches to prescribed and cultural fire in British Columbia, Canada.🇨🇦🌲

See below or visit our website for more details: forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...
March 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Join #UBCForestry and @landfood.ubc.ca on September 30 at 1956 Main Mall as we unite for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day.

Learn more: bit.ly/osd-2025
#UBC #OrangeShirtDay
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Join Land and Food Systems and Forestry for an Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day on Sept 30.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congratulations to @UBCForestry Indigenous Ecology Lab member, Virginia Oeggerli, for successfully defending her Masters Thesis that examined the impacts of wildfire on vegetation trajectories and St’at’imc values to inform post wildfire restoration. #ecology #wildfire #invasivespecies 🌎🌲🔥
November 13, 2024 at 4:59 PM
“Take up space, don’t be afraid to ask questions, and know that you bring value to every position.”👷‍♀️

Thank you to our incredible UBC alumni for taking the time to share their experiences in the field with our current #UBCForestry students at the second annual Women in Forestry panel!👏
March 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
NEW PAPER 📣 Challenges and opportunities for the operationalization of forest-assisted migration in Canada
doi.org/10.1139/cjfr...

✍️: Wotherspoon (@dr-spoon.bsky.social), D'Orangeville, Thiffault, Pedlar, Raymond, Ravn, Spearing, Isaac-Renton, Godbout, Gravel-Grenier, McPhee

#IRSSlab #UBCForestry
September 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
One to remember! 🎓

Dr. Evan (Bud) Muise finds his place on the wall after the successful defense of his thesis: "Assessing forest ecological integrity and protected area effectiveness in British Columbia with satellite remote sensing"

Congratulations, Bud!

#IRSSlab #UBCForestry #RemoteSensing
September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Join us in congratulating #UBCForestry Professor and Research Chair in Global Change Ecology of Northern Ecosystems, Dr. Isla Myers-Smith, on being named a Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.🍁

forestry.ubc.ca/news/isla-my...
September 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Meet new #UBCForestry prof. Dr. Zelalem Taye.🌱

In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth, Dr. Taye shares how his childhood in Ethiopia shaped his passion for biodiversity, the groundbreaking research he's leading, and his vision for mentoring future scholars.

📖 Read: forestry.ubc.ca/news/in-the-...
February 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Congratulations to Yinan (Elaine) Ye on successfully completing her Master of Science! 🎓

Her thesis, "Segmenting and Updating Forest Polygons Over Three Decades Using Time-Series Landsat Imagery," showcases her incredible hard work and dedication.

Don’t be a stranger! 🌲🧳

#UBCForestry #IRSSLab
September 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
NEW PAPER 📣 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑠-𝑓𝑖𝑟

#OpenAccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...

📖: Science of Remote Sensing

✍️: Waite, Coops, Grubinger, Isaac-Renton, Degner, King and Liu

#remotesensing #ubcforestry #irsslab #LiDAR #multispectral #drought
July 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#UBCForestry students Halle Smith, Rosalia Jaffray, and Shaojie Huang recently visited the BC Legislative Assembly to discuss the future of BC’s forests with the Minister of Forests, Ravi Parmar.

Thank you to our students and the minister for continuing these important conversations!🌲👏
June 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM