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Dr. Ramesh Glückler

@rglueckler.bsky.social

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Geographer & Geoecologist 🔥 Wildfires & paleofire in boreal forests 🌲 Postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University | Utrecht, Netherlands | Trained voluntary firefighter, videogame enthusiast | More at rameshglueckler.com

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · Mar 20

New preprint out! Using combined paleo-ecological and modeling methods, we uncover regional Holocene #wildfire dynamics in eastern #Siberia. Notably, our findings suggest potential human impacts as early as 5000 years ago - contrasting a common view of historically unmanaged forests 🔥

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Photo of a burned larch forest near Ytyk-Kyuyol in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), eastern Siberia. Charred tree stems stand on black ground.

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · 52m

Post-work round of the #Paleo board game with fellow researchers of our @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #paleoecology group - we survived the wolf pack attacks and made it to the next level 🐺🔥

Photo of the "Paleo" board game box, which has a mammoth drawn on it.

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Thumbs up for unexpected Subnautica reference 😄

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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · 27d

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Inter and intra-continental smoke transport impacts air quality and therefore, human health.

A single bad fire season can have significant impacts in terms of premature death.

A report on the 2023 fire season in Canada
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(h/t @aberron.bsky.social )

Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires - Nature

A modelling study based on satellite observations, machine learning and a chemical transport model quantifies the global and regional exposure to particulate-matter pollution and the human h...

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Marco Turco @marco-turco.bsky.social · 28d

New in Global Change Biology: Hydroclimatic rebound—wet periods fueling vegetation growth, followed by rapid drying—drives extreme fires in California’s non-forested biomes. Findings improve early warning & fire forecasts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Hydroclimatic Rebound Drives Extreme Fire in California's Non‐Forested Ecosystems

Hydroclimatic rebound occurs when unusually wet periods are followed by intense drying, or vice versa, creating sharp moisture swings. We show that this process drives extreme fire activity in Califo...

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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm very pleased on behalf of co-authors to be able to share this, just published, paper summarizing the @bburnedscience.bsky.social Fire Emissions Workshop in Nov 2023. MODIS has been critical to fire emission estimation for the past two decades & the paper reviews 9 widely used emissions datasets.

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Dr. Izabella Baisheva @izabella-baisheva.bsky.social · Sep 7

New preprint alert 📢

We present a dataset of modern hydrochemistry, macrophyte diversity, and discuss the relationships to the surrounding terrestrial environment from 66 climate-sensitive lakes from Yakutia💧

Available for open discussion at: doi.org/10.5194/egus...

#permafrost #alaas #sedDNA

Beautiful eight lake photos from our study area <3

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · Sep 1

Today I am joining @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher! Looking forward to evaluating long-term boreal #wildfires and #vegetation responses to past climatic changes, contributing paleoecological insights to an effort of improving ESMs and their future projections! 🔥🌲

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · Aug 31

The fact that this publication is fully published online right now is wild. Publishers need to be held accountable for failing to prevent AI sci-slop like this being published in their journals. It undermines any legitimacy whatsoever.

Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · Aug 25

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · Aug 29

"We found that the tipping point where the shutdown becomes inevitable is probably in the next 10 to 20 years or so. That is ... why we have to act really fast to cut down emissions,” says @rahmstorf.bsky.social in @theguardian.com's report on a new #AMOC study: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · Aug 23

Brief reminder that you can find a truly #decentralized platform, with no central authority able to just lock you out, over at #Mastodon:
joinmastodon.org

#Mississippi

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Aug 22

Europe's wildfires worst on record - with a month of the burning season to go

- More than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and toxic air pollutants

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues

Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants

www.theguardian.com

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Please see our new paper just published in Global Change Biology: “Intensifying fire season aridity portends ongoing expansion of severe wildfire in western US forests”. 🧪🌍🔥

Intensifying Fire Season Aridity Portends Ongoing Expansion of Severe Wildfire in Western US Forests

Area burned by wildfire has increased in western US forests over recent decades. However, high-severity fire—fire that kills all or most trees—is also an important metric of fire activity given its d...

doi.org

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · Aug 18

Very nice reporting on Portugal's leading role in adapting to more severe #wildfire seasons. Recommendation to watch (airing times in linked article) 🔥🌍🧪

Portugal Fights Severe Wildfires – DW – 08/15/2025

Innovative prevention policies are being implemented in Portugal to combat devastating forest fires.

www.dw.com

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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · Aug 18

Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Aug 16

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.

Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold. On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a roy...

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Jenna Morris @jenna-e-morris.bsky.social · Aug 11

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY:
Come work with us in the Harvey Lab at Univ. of Washington (depts.washington.edu/bjhlab/)!

We're hiring a postdoc in Forest Disturbance and Landscape Ecology. Full details here: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position...

Application review starts Aug 31

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · Jul 29

This site never fails to impress! Great that you could work there and study it in person!

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Thomas Opel @thomasopel.bsky.social · Jul 29

No #fieldwork this year, so time to look back. 2017 was my fieldwork at the #Batagay Megaslump in #Siberia, the largest known retrogressive thaw slump on earth. A prime example of abrupt #permafrost thaw that exposes ancient permafrost. In two photographs, see ellipses with people for scale.

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Marco Turco @marco-turco.bsky.social · Jul 11

Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe
@climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social
rdcu.be/evJkX
#ClimateChange #Wildfires

Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally

Nature Communications - The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings...

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · Jul 17

Very glad to see this hot 🔥 journal! It fills what for me always felt like a gap in the fire research journal landscape. Happy to follow along and consider for future publications! #pyrogeography #wildfires 🌏🧪⚒️

Matt Jones @mattwjones.bsky.social · Jun 26

Journal of #Pyrogeography has launched this week - we warmly welcome your submissions!

We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences.

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

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Stephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · Jul 2

I was in British Columbia last month to learn about wildfires, which got me thinking about how we see the forests around us, and how it is not necessarily good thinking. 1/x

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes".

Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied.
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Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes

Aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are generally thought to impede fire spread, yet the extent of this effect is not well quantified in relation to other vegetation types. We examined the influence ...

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · Jul 9

Amidst all the news today, I missed that congressmen from Wisconsin and Minnesota sent Canada a letter demanding that they prevent wildfire smoke from entering the USA

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · May 30

It's been fantastic at the @pages-ipo.bsky.social Open Science Meeting 2025 in #Shanghai! While it had to be online in 2021 due to the pandemic, we could now meet many great researchers in person.
Find a preprint for the study I presented here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#GeoSky #OSM2025 🧪⚒️🌏🔥

Me and Izabella Baisheva standing in front of a conference banner.

Me standing in front of a big screen showing the first slide of my conference presentation.

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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · May 12

Arrived to #Beijing together with Izabella Baisheva for a research visit at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences - looking forward to the collaboration and the next few months! Thanks to CAS-PIFI and the Helmholtz Association for enabling this visit! 🧪🌏⚒️ #GeoSky

The outside of a research building, with it's name written on it in Chinese.

Panoramic view from a hill towards the northern part of Beijing, green trees in the foreground with buildings in traditional Chinese architecture and more urban city skyline further in the distance.