Morgan Crowley, PhD
@morganahcrowley.bsky.social
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Forest Fire Research Scientist with Canadian Forest Service 🔥🌲🌳 and the WildFireSat mission 🚀🛰 📡 | Advancing how we use satellites to monitor fires and their impacts | Woman in Remote Sensing | Mother in Science 💻👩‍💻👩‍🔬🧪 | she/hers | celiac | 📚🎵🎶👟☕️ | 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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morganahcrowley.bsky.social
Re-intro time! I am a forest fire research scientist at the Canadian Forest Service / NRCan. I am one of the science leads on the WildFireSat mission launching in 2029. 🛰️🔥🌲

Follow me for updates on fire monitoring & management in Canada, end-user engagement, and other research in #EOChat #GISchat!
Smiling woman in brown shirt and sandals sits in front of large douglas fir tree covered in moss in a Vancouver Island forest. Smiling woman with scarf kneels in center of pretend window with astronaut from space shuttle A group photo of five men and one woman in front of satellite image of great lakes. Everyone is smiling at camera.
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mikeflannigan.bsky.social
Lots of active fires in the NWT this evening. Some pyrocu to the right of the gold line. Notice the south winds near the surface but as the column rises the winds shift to westerly
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scholarmelinda.bsky.social
🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous
morganahcrowley.bsky.social
Congrats Sean! That sounds awesome!
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mikeflannigan.bsky.social
The heat is coming to BC. An upper ridge will bring 7-10 days of hot dry weather (ECMWF 500 mb height anomaly map below). Forecast for Kamloops below with 6+ days 30C or higher. Fortunately, it does not look like much lightning activity until the ridge breakdown - this is a classic fire situation
500mb height anomaly map of north america
https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ecmwf_full&p=500h_anom&rh=2025081912&fh=loop&r=na&dpdt=&mc= Environment Climate Change Canada forecast for Kamloops BC
https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=50.678,-120.348
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mikeflannigan.bsky.social
Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.
Map of Canada showing locations of fires and their status as of july 12, 2025
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kinarnicholas.bsky.social
Hydrology Paper of the Day @mparrington.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @jmccartygeo.bsky.social on climate change, Arctic and high-latitude wildfires: risk, permafrost processes, air quality and fire emissions; remote sensing data products; and monitoring.
mparrington.bsky.social
First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social
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mparrington.bsky.social
First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social
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geospatialwomen.bsky.social
Are you subscribed to our Open Jobs in Geospatial newsletter on LinkedIn? Every Friday, we publish a list of career opportunities crowdsourced from our community.

Check out this week's list here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-j...
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michaelwara.bsky.social
Check out our new white paper that (for the first time) systematically counts the wildland fire workforce:

What Color is your Nomex? by Abigail Varner et al.

Varner provides interesting insights into growing privatization of the workforce in the US.

drive.google.com/file/d/1RcRO...
Woods+2025+Nomex+Whtie+Paper+FINAL+v06+WEB+%281%29.pdf
drive.google.com
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manusaunders.bsky.social
Women leaders in insect ecology (conservation, diversity) research are underrepresented. Discipline diversity improving but geographically dominated by usual places (Nth America, UK, Euro), slowly increasing in Australia, NZ, Sth America. Do you know any women researchers in Africa, Asia, Pacific?
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geospatialwomen.bsky.social
Curious to learn more #geospatial skills? Check out this library of free courses from EO college! Topics include radar, remote sensing, and EO for zero hunger. Most are in English & some are in German.
eo-college.org
A screenshot of the EO College website.
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esa.int
For over four decades, the Canada/ESA Cooperation Agreement has led to mutually beneficial activities in a wide range of space activities. From protecting our planet, exploring our Universe, to enhancing our autonomies and resilience, ESA and Canada have been friends a long time, eh? #ESAxCanada🍁
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geochicas.bsky.social
Are you attending ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025? 🌎🔭🌌🌱
together with Women+ in Geospatial IEEE (GRSS) IDEA, geoinclusion 🌎🛰️ we are organizing a Networking Event 🚀🌌🔭
Mark your calendar for Weds 25th of June 19h! 🚀🎉

Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-...

See you there 🤗
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mikeflannigan.bsky.social
Numerous high intensity wildfires from NE BC to NW Ontario today. GOES-West Mid-ir loop below showing parts of SK and MB. White areas are intense fires, and red areas are extremely intense fires with some pyrocbs (geocolor loop coming).
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jmccartygeo.bsky.social
With authors from across this globe, we did a few things in this paper worth calling out:
🔥 outline experiments for different fire regions
🔥 include ways to understand impacts of fire on air quality and how smoke can both warm and cool the atmosphere
🔥 highlight transparent ways to do this.
bburnedscience.bsky.social
The HTAP3 Fires paper, led by Cynthia Whaley of our scientific steering committee, outlining fire-focused multi-model experiments coordinated by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution is now published in Geoscientific Model Development gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts
Abstract. Open biomass burning has major impacts globally and regionally on atmospheric composition. Fire emissions include particulate matter, tropospheric ozone precursors, and greenhouse gases, as ...
gmd.copernicus.org
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mercury-ecohydro.bsky.social
Boreal wildfires are, yet again, raging near historical smelting toxic metal pollution sources. The peatlands, forests, and lakes near Flin Flon MB have elevated toxic metals (e.g. Hg, As, Pb) that current wildfires can remobilize to our air, land, and water (similar to tinyurl.com/yv7usr6b). 1/2
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape - IOPscienceSearch
Globally-significant arsenic release by wildfires in a mining-impacted boreal landscape, Sutton, O F, McCarter, C P R, Waddington, J M
tinyurl.com
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pepijnveefkind.bsky.social
Smoke aerosols from wildfires in Canda were this afternoon observed over Europe (Ireland, UK, Denmark, Germany and Poland) with the Copernicus S5P Satellite. The aerosol layer over the North Sea was at an altitude of 5-6 km. @knmi.nl @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #tropomi
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mparrington.bsky.social
With the recent rapid increases in #wildfires as we head into summer, a timely reminder of this excellent starter pack on #wildfire experts put together by @fkearns.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RmQuXhp #IIFF
morganahcrowley.bsky.social
Totally, that is good! Hopefully the first website keeps on, but glad we have ones in Canada that span the border ☺️