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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Aug 13

Come see my amazing undergrad Christine at 8:30! #esa2025 @esa-sw.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

COS 089-03 - The effects of fire and dryland rodent community interactions on the number and viability of creosote (Larrea tridentata) seed.
Wed, Aug 13
8:30 – 8:45 AM EDT

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ESA Southwestern Chapter @esa-sw.bsky.social · Aug 7

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Aug 10

@esa-sw.bsky.social look how cool our chapter is getting a high-five for being “good students” and getting all of our paperwork in which includes accomplishing expected activities :)
#ESA2025

If you are in Baltimore, come join us at our social event on Wednesday and our OOS - Wed @3:30

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Aug 8

@mduniway.bsky.social @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social @ecology-awesome.bsky.social @kristinayoung.bsky.social @markbrunson.bsky.social

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Aug 8

Happy to share our recent paper using Ecological Site Groups to better understand plant community changes &their relationship with wildfire & drought on the Colorado Plateau. Part of a fantastic project working with land managers & scientists alike.

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Jul 25

I was thoroughly impressed in the high Uintas

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Carrie Havrilla @drylandlab.bsky.social · Jun 20

[Inaugural Blue Sky post!]

New paper out on #biocrust- plant interactions led by recent lab alumnus MS student John Bacovcin.

Morphological seed traits structure relationships between biocrusts and plant emergence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Brooke Osborne (she/her) @brookebosborne.bsky.social · Jul 22

Way excited for Savannah's defense next week!

If you love biogeochemistry and thinking about potential for soil carbon management, mark your calendar for Monday, July 28th @ 11:00 AM MDT (or stop by campus if you're in Moab 😉)

Public Zoom Link: usu.zoom.us/j/8144285688...

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Bill Smith @wkolby.bsky.social · Apr 30

Excellent piece by @kristinayoung.bsky.social on the critical threat facing the USGS's Southwest Biological Science Center. We must rally and fight this senseless attack on science!!

Voices: Research on dust in Utah has never been more important. Trump’s proposed cuts put our economy and public health at risk.

“The loss of this science doesn’t just mean fewer data points,” writes Kristina Young. “It means fewer tools to protect water supplies, fewer insights to guide wildfire mitigation and fewer answers wh...

www.sltrib.com

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our new review is out led by @michalaphillips.bsky.social examining #biocrust recovery amidst climate change 👇

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Navigating the possibilities and pitfalls of biocrust recovery in a changing climate

Biological soil crusts are complex communities composed of lichens, mosses, bacteria, and cyanobacteria that create a living skin on the soil surface across drylands worldwide. Although small in size...

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Kristina Young @kristinayoung.bsky.social · Apr 18

Science is still happening! Hopeful that our new paper can serve as a resource for those seeking or making digital seed-based restoration tools: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Send me a message if you need access @coleoptara.bsky.social @restorecal.bsky.social @magdagarbowski.bsky.social

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Mar 18

Not quite the same but we’ve had some yucky air quality the last day from a dust storm going on from exposed lake bed of the Great Salt Lake too that has some photos floating around.

www.fox13now.com/news/great-s...

Captured by satellite: Great Salt Lake's dust threatens air quality in Utah cities

A weather satellite captured a large plume of dust blowing off the shrinking Great Salt Lake and into nearby communities.

www.fox13now.com

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Mar 18

Incredible weekend in the field with some of my stellar undergrad researchers doing work with PJ woodlands in Grand Staircase Escalante NM. They even came out the starting weekend of Spring Break!

Utah Valley University Environmental science students and their advisor, Dr Tara Bishop join Marc Cole’s-Ritchie for field work excursion in Grand Staircase-Escalante NM

Dr Bishop stretched too far in the “silly pose”

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Mar 18

🎉🎉

Truly a privilege to learn & work w/ these incredible people & datasets available from our public agencies.

“The workflow presented here can serve as a template for describing ecological dynamics…, and support prioritization of land for conservation and climate adaptation activities”

Mike Duniway @mduniway.bsky.social · Feb 23

NEW PAPER! Builds on >10 yrs work on #ColoradoPlateau developing land potential units & landscape-scale ecological dynamics using #ESDs , #STMs, and data available from #NRCS, #BLM, & #NPS from the #LandscapeDataCommons.
👀 doi.org/10.1016/j.ra.... w/ @coleoptara.bsky.social

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Feb 17

Our opinion piece in our local newspaper - Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future 🌐🧪🧮🌾
tucson.com/opinion/colu...

Local opinion: Cutting funding for science in Arizona hurts our economy and our future

The cuts are leading us down a path that will cede the United States' world leadership in science, medicine and health.

tucson.com

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Feb 10

Excited to share this new review in #LandscapeEcology on applications of UAVs. Expertly led by @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social & a wonderful team of coauthors.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This is part of a special issue on UAVs & has other great papers that I invite you to check out!

Applications of unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) in landscape ecology: a review of recent research, challenges and emerging opportunities - Landscape Ecology

Context Unoccupied aerial systems/vehicles (UAS/UAV, a.k.a. drones) have become an increasingly popular tool for ecological research. But much of the recent research is concerned with developing mappi...

link.springer.com

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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · Feb 10

New paper out, led by @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social. There's a disconnect between remote sensing advances and application to ecology (including only 11 UAS papers in Landscape Ecology!). We provide a guide for using drones to answer ecological ?s: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #uas #drones

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Feb 10

We LOVED having you! Students gave a thumbs up to learn more about plants! Thank you for your valuable time :)

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Jan 2

Some of my students have mentioned a listserv for Earth Science jobs they’ve had success with: mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/list...

Es_jobs_net Info Page

mailman.ucar.edu

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Dec 15

For those who still think that planting trees is a solution to mitigate CO2 emissions, please take note! Forest offset programs can also burn!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... | @globalchangebio.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁 wildfire

Robert W. Gray @firebobbc.bsky.social · Dec 15

In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Increasingly Active Wildfire Seasons Threaten the Sustainability of Forest‐Backed Carbon Offset Programs

In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. While California maintains ....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Dec 6

Please add me 💚

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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Dec 4

Want to learn more about the CARE principles?

This town hall at #AGU24 will discuss utilizing Indigenous data sovereignty principles in the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

🔗agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meet…

#AGUPubs

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Luiza Aparecido @luiza-aparecido.bsky.social · Dec 3

For folks attending #AGU24, our lab has its 1st conference poster presentation led by PhD student Rebecca Senft! @RebeccaSenft

Stop by her poster on the morning of Tues Dec10 to learn about the ecohydrology of contrasting riparian tree species (invasive vs native) in SE Utah. #ecophys #invasion

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Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Dec 4

*in a joyful whisper*
I got spirit, yes I do! 📣

Tara Bishop @coleoptara.bsky.social · Dec 3

I’d love to be added! Thanks!

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