Morgan Crowley, PhD

IBFRA 2026

📢 Last call for abstracts! Send yours soon to join this amazing conference. Details here: www.ibfra2026.org (deadline has been extended to February 15)

Fires on the Rise in the Far North - NASA Science Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.

Fires on the Rise in the Far North with input from @jmccartygeo.bsky.social and the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social AMAP Arctic Climate Update Report published last year science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... @mikeflannigan.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @gwandaii.bsky.social

New Landsat Science Team Announced The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.

Rounding out 2025 with exciting news… I’m honoured to join the 2026–2030 Landsat Science Team! A full-circle moment for me after starting my career using Landsat for fire monitoring. #EOChat #GISChat

Announcement from USGS + NASA here: www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...

New Landsat Science Team Announced The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with NASA, has named the new Landsat Science Team that will support the world’s longest-running Earth observation mission for a planned 2026-2030 term.

Rounding out 2025 with exciting news… I’m honoured to join the 2026–2030 Landsat Science Team! A full-circle moment for me after starting my career using Landsat for fire monitoring. #EOChat #GISChat

Announcement from USGS + NASA here: www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...

The Arctic On Fire The Arctic isn’t just warming, it’s on fire. From the record-shattering 2023 wildfire season in Canada to the zombie fires smoldering beneath the boreal forests, Arctic wildfires are reshaping landsca...

Great episode of the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social This Way Up podcast on The Arctic on Fire www.highnorthnews.com/en/arctic-fire featuring @gwandaii.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social @permafrostpathways.bsky.social @highnorthnews.bsky.social #wildfires #ArcticFire

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

Cool, wet weather a relief for Manitoba wildfire evacuees Recent rain and cooler temperatures are bringing relief to Manitoba's wildfire zones. That's giving hope to evacuees still waiting to go home.

“Recent rain and cooler temperatures are bringing relief to Manitoba's wildfire zones. That's giving hope to evacuees still waiting to go home.” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... - CBC Manitoba

#Manitoba #MBFire #Wildfires

🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous

Congrats Sean! That sounds awesome!

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

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

Map of Canada showing locations of fires and their status as of july 12, 2025

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.

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.

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

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...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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...

Wildfire Science & Technology Commons Community Wildfires present a formidable challenge, impacting communities, ecosystems, and economies worldwide. The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons is dedicated to addressing these critical challenges thr...

The Wildfire Commons will launch its community platform and FireForge in July 2025, featuring community datasets and more in a single, curated space. Stay connected about the launch by signing up at forms.gle/manchSbssWL7...

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?

A screenshot of the EO College website.

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

Canadian flag, also known as the Maple Leaf Flag, is a red flag with a white square in the centre featuring a red, 11-pointed stylised maple leaf.

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🍁

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 🤗

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).

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.

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

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

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

Totally, that is good! Hopefully the first website keeps on, but glad we have ones in Canada that span the border ☺️