Charles Nock

@ABDanielleSmith Parent here of two and this is not the resolution that I, nor any parent I know wanted. Open your ears and listen to the people.

With the passing of Bill 2, the Back to School Act, Alberta students will return to class on October 29, ending disruption for families and putting the focus back where it belongs: on students. Teachers have made it clear that classroom complexity and safety are among the most critical challenges in our education system. We are strengthening classroom supports, hiring 3,000 new teachers and 1,500 education assistants, and acting on the recommendations of the Aggression and Complexity in Schools Action Team. We will continue to work with teachers to find lasting, practical solutions so every educator has the support they need and every student can learn in a safe, supportive environment. Parents, teachers and students all want the same thing – classrooms where every child can find success.

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@jamorgenroth umm, maybe AE needs to do their job here!

Reviewer #2 recommended 21 additional citations be included in a manuscript I'm involved with...20 of them are authored by members of 1 research group. #ethicsinpublishing

@karst_justine Love Watership Down.

Patient and courteous car drivers are key to great bike-touring. Luckily, we’ve had both! Lots of time for bike rambling and mind wandering in the country side. Feeling inspired to re-read Watership Down (one of my fav books!)

Charles Elton wrote his classic book "Animal Ecology" nearly a century ago. Yet much of it, including the conclusion, remains insightful.

@EllenMac_UofA @UQAT @CEF_CFR @ESAApplications @NSERC_CRSNG Fun fact: Nicole Fenton helped organize the first conference I ever presented at

@EllenMac_UofA @UQAT @CEF_CFR @ESAApplications @NSERC_CRSNG East - West collaboration! Credit to Marion for wanting to come to Alberta for as a visiting PhD student from QC and sticking with this to the end. We bring together data from two large forest management experiments. Hopefully just the start of work bridging the boreal

@jamorgenroth @PipietLarasatie @KieronDoickFR What a great week at IUFRO and a huge high point was catching up and talking about QSM!

I said I was here for the trees, but 2 days in, I realise I'm actually here for the people. Have met up with many former students, colleagues, as well as old friends @PipietLarasatie @charlesnock @KieronDoickFR. #iufro2024

Leaf isotopes reveal tree diversity effects on the functional responses to summer drought Jing et al. @JingXin16 @K_VanMeerbeek @BCastagneyrol @eisenhauer1292 @BartMuys @charlesnock @dForNatLan 📖 ow.ly/TT5150SqNpI

@ChristiansonAmy @AlbertaWildfire @AB_EmergAlert I took a peak at the tweets for fires at @AlbertaWildfire and indeed seems like lead time is given there -- thanks for pointing us in that direction

@ChristiansonAmy @AlbertaWildfire @AB_EmergAlert The emergency alert would automatically go to your phone, so I'm thinking about ramp up to that

Is there a way to subscribe to updates to a wildfire in Alberta — V.s. Just checking the website? There is a fire 5 km north of our camp

@EFrost_Wildwood "In contrast to the modeling results shown here, several studies suggest the opposite. For example, the European heat wave of 2003 caused wide-spread reduction in vegetation primary productivity. Consistently, hotter and drier summers associated with lower summer CO2 uptake"

@DylanJCraven Challenge him to a spelling duel. Only way to resolve this.

First time for everything, just got comments from an editor that our article should be checked by a native speaker.

@andrew_leach Let’s not let facts and numbers get in the way of making public policy Andrew

You can clearly see how the whole thing is a shell game meant to transfer money out of Alberta and Saskatchewan. I assume this only refers to households living in ivory towers?

@7Cbreezy7 @ErvcCcom @alidixon_ Tree by-laws don't prevent the removal of trees on private property when justified, but they do encourage people to think about whether through some simple actions they could be kept. And in the end, we all benefit from an urban forest with private and public trees contributing

Healthy, sixty-year-old spruce trees coming down today for infill project -- Edmonton still without a private tree bylaw.

@KerstinPierick @FunEcology Interesting -- looking forward to reading this

It has been a long time coming, but finally here in print. Work bridging my time at University of Freiburg and my new home at U of A. @UofAALES @UniFreiburg Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

I'm excited about trees; lets not plant trees where they aren't helpful. "Conflation of reforestation with restoration is widespread" @ScienceMagazine "Overall, a total of 70.1 million ha, or 52% of the total area committed, is in nonforest ecosystems" tinyurl.com/yc54848p