John Innes

@IgnaceLab @UMNews @CFANS I wish you all the best at UM and expect to hear great things about you as your career progresses.

Enjoying @IUFRO with my @ubcforestry lab mates @DrJohnInnes and @squared_v2 🌲

⁦@cindyprescott6⁩ from ⁦@ubcforestry⁩ imagines what is possible if we fully immerse ourselves in the idea of #sustainableforestmanagement. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/1IxOnO…

Job alert! 📢 @ubcforestry are hiring multiple faculty members (TT-teaching & research, all levels & lecturers/sessional lecturers) to join the new Centre for Indigenous Land Stewardship, starting July 2024. Please share widely! forestry.ubc.ca/career-opportu…

Bamboo House

Glad to see our new #bamboo website up and running at sicabamboo.org.

Record-breaking wildfires blanket Brazil with smoke grist.org/drought/amazon… Record-breaking wildfires in the Amazon are causing smoke to blanket the region, impacting air quality and isolating Indigenous villages. Over 2,700 wildfires have been reported in the first 11 days of October, the highest number for any October since 1998. The severe drought in the region has also led to low water levels in rivers, affecting Indigenous communities and commercial shipping. Indigenous tribes are calling for the Brazilian government to declare a climate emergency. Deforestation, climate change, and El Niño are contributing factors to the crisis.

@1t_org is reaching new heights! 🌳 Today marks the launch of the @1t_org Canada Chapter with groundbreaking pledges of over 1 billion trees from leading companies @TELUS @TeckResources @Manulife @tentree & @veritree_ bit.ly/43wqLzR

Welcome to 1t.org, Canada Chapter 🇨🇦! I hope many Canadian companies will join @TELUS, @Manulife in making commitments to conserve & restore forests. More than 10M ha forests lost to fires this year alone! We need to reduce emissions & restore nature. Now.

@DrJohnInnes, FRBC Chair of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia @UBC, Vancouver, Canada visited SACON on July 3. He delivered a talk on “Old growth forests in British Columbia: preservation or harvest?”

@DrJohnInnes Dr John Innes, Dean, University of British Columbia @UBC spoke on how Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve is facing similar ecological issues as in other parts of the world and it is bound to face more due to climate change if corrective measures are not taken.

Currently in Canada some nonsense is circulating that wildfires and climate change are not related. Many research efforts show that we are seeing more fires as we warm due to anthropogenic climate change including one study just published in PNAS.

Area burned is Alberta is now 1,378,739 ha that is the highest annual area burned in the 1959- 2023 record. ciffc.net/situation/ (QC and SK are also over 1 million ha) This record number will increase as AB is on fire again today. GOES 18 - white = active fires.

Yikes! Now, Quebec is on fire. Numerous wildfires seen on GOES East mid-ir band 7 below - bright white area very active wildfires. GOES East Geocolor also attached, and you can see all the smoke plumes associated with the fires.

It's easy and fun to become a community scientist and help enhance BC Parks. An incredible @inaturalist project led by @Reynolds_JohnD @BStarzomski 🦅🦋🦔🌱 Learn more: bcinat.com/get-involved #citsci #biodiversity #bcparks

Expect a busy week for fire activity in Canada. A massive ridge cover much of Canada keeping it warm and dry. Lightning activity means new fire starts. Wildfires very active in BC- NWT- AB- SK (GOES 18 band 7 bright white active fires). Active fires in ON and NS - not shown.

Sign-up! On Aug 12th, I’m leading a multi-sensory forest immersion experience at Malcolm Knapp Research Forest in Maple Ridge. There will be time to discuss the health benefits (& my research) over tea and snax.🌲💚 wildandimmersive.ubc.ca/special-events…

Remarkable!! All areas in magenta indicate a record breaking mid-upper level (500mb) ridge by the weekend. This is an immense heat dome maxing out at 4.2 standard deviations (sigma) from the mean. A ridge magnitude on par with June 2021🧵

🌳A global assessment by @IUFRO shows that the health benefits of forests and trees far outweigh the negative impacts, such as allergies. The rise in #allergies is due to unnatural and unhealthy lifestyles exacerbated by #ClimateChange. 👉🏽 ow.ly/H6Fj50Okoj5 cc @Piegonetta