Amy Wotherspoon, PhD

Our new comment in @Nature 🔥 Wildfires are spreading fast in Canada - we must strengthen forests for the future 🔗go.nature.com/4dTqbCo ✍️ C. Mulverhill, N.C. Coops, Y. Boulanger, @kiramhoffman @ChristiansonAmy @LoriDanielsUBC M. Flamand-Hubert & @AlexisAchim @UBCForestry

Congratulations to Dr Nelson Thiffault for being named co-editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research! 👏 @cdnsciencepub

Planning for #Silvilaser2025 is back in full swing after the holidays! Don't forget, the 20th edition of Silvilaser is happening: 🗓️September 29 - October 3, 2025 📍Quebec City, Canada 📣The call for abstracts is open on our website: silvilaser2025.com

Special congratulations to lead author @MadiSophiaBrown for her first publication of her MSc!

Starting off the new year strong with a #Silva21 publication! Detection of disturbances using Harmonized #Landsat #Sentinel2 time series 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ispr… (in @ISPRS) ✍️ @MadiSophiaBrown Coops (@IRSS_UBC) Mulverhill, @AlexisAchim 🙏 @NSERC_CRSNG @UBCForestry

A publication on your birthday is the best publication 🥳 📢A trans-Atlantic perspective on successful #plantation establishment in #BorealForests: lessons learned & research opportunities ✍️Thiffault/Nordin/Wotherspoon/Hjelm/Olofsson 🔗doi.org/10.1007/s11056… @UBCForestry

Congrats to @Joanne_C_White @mikewulder and Nicholas Coops (@IRSS_UBC) for being @ClarivateAG's highly cited researchers for 2024! @UBCForestry

Join us at the Urban Forestry HUB Research Fair! 🌳 📅 November 27, 2024 🕜 5:00 - 8:00 PM 📍 FSC Atrium

We're almost through November but still want to keep up with our lab's #Movember fundraising! Funds go towards #menshealth to all the dads, brothers, sons and mates in our lives. Please donate if you can to help us reach our $1,000 goal!👨 movember.com/m/14757115?mc=…

New Silva21 Publication📢 Influence of irregular #shelterwood on intensity & severity after #wildfire in #LodgepolePine stands in BC 🔗doi.org/10.1371/journa… in @PLOSONE ✍️ Liu/Greene/Axelson/Coops/Barbeito/Roeser 💰 #Silva21 @IRSS_UBC @UBCForestry @AlexisAchim #silviculture

Great read! 📰 A comprehensive framework to evaluate the financial impacts of genetic improvement on #WoodProducts from #PlantedForests 🔗 doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2… 📓 @cdnsciencepub ✍️ Chagnon et al @AlexisAchim 💰 Spruce Up, @GenomeCanada @cwfc_ccfb #Silva21

We are excited to announce the 📢Call for Abstracts📢 for #Silvilaser2025, an international gathering of researchers, professionals and industry leaders in #LaserScanning and other technologies for assessing and managing #ForestEcosystems! 🗓️ Submissions open November 18th!

This week the FRST201 students are out at @ubcfarm conducting site relévés and even digging their own soil pits! We’re sad it’s their last #FieldLab of the season 😢 @UBCForestry @DrSuzanneSimard #SiteReleve #SoilPit #BECzones #FieldWork

Please share widely. I am recruiting for two funded phd positions and a 2yr postdoc. Full ads: drewpeltier.com/opportunities 1) PhD position in climate adaptation science (SWCASC) 2) PhD position in memory effects in forest C cycle (NSF funded) 3) Postdoc position (2yr) in 14C/NSC

Great read! 📰 Investigating #ClimateAnomalies associated with the sudden mortality of #BalsamFir in eastern Canada 🔗doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2… ✍️ Broom, Taylor & D'Orangeville 🙏 @NSERC_CRSNG #StillwellSyndrome #AcadianForest #ForestDisturbance

🌐 Join a community of innovators! With over 20 years of gatherings, #SilviLaser2025 promises collaboration and discovery in laser scanning and forestry! 📆Sep 29 - Oct 3, 2025 📍 Quebec City, Canada Learn more at silvilaser2025.com! 🤝🌿

Les conférenciers/conférencières incluent: 🔸 Catherine Larouche 🔹 Amy Wotherspoon (@dr_spoon) 🔸Guillaume Moreau 🔹Anne Bernard (@AnneBer85603784) 🔸Alexandre Morin-Bernard (@profalexandremb) 🔹Loïc D'Orangeville 🔸Jean-Daniel Sylvain (@jdsylvain) 🔹Alexis Achim (@AlexisAchim)

#Silva21 a hâte a présenter ses recherches les plus récentes avec Rendez-vous de la connaissance du Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (@mrnfqc)! 🌲 Voir l’ordre du jour, s’inscrire à la réunion et accéder au lien de la réunion ici👉 bit.ly/4dAHiYx

This week’s FRST201 #ForestEcology lab took the students to Pacific Spirit Park on an ecological treasure hunt to test their plant ID skills and characterize different types of forest disturbance 🔥 💨 🪳 @UBCForestry #ForestryLab

Great read! 📰 The @cwfc_ccfb's Highlights of Work, summarizing the work done across all their different research centres for the 2020-2024 period 🌲🪵🌳 In English: bit.ly/406XWMz En français: bit.ly/3zLjjrL @NRCan #CanadianForests

#Silva21 in the news!📰 @NRCanScience reports on TransX, a collaborative project with @universitelaval & @UNB, monitoring how #TreeHealth & survival across species/populations might respond to future warming Read here👉bit.ly/3BlQaUu #AssistedMigration #ClimateChange