Laura Marshall

Attention #FireCon2025 attendees ❗ You should have received your Whova invitation at the email you registered with. Make sure to join us at the dance party with DJ Driptorch! Bring your best fire-themed costume for the costume contest 🔥

I had work in here; you might too.

Happy #FireCon2025 Friday! We are so excited to have over 35 special sessions at the upcoming 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in New Orleans! 🔥 Be sure to check out all the details at afefirecongress.org/special-sessions-2

i want u to know that you're stronger than u think. once I got to walk past an open tray of uranium fuel pellets and I didn't even take a single one. be strong

Chlorine gas leak prompts evacuations, trail closures at Grand Canyon National Park Areas of the Grand Canyon National Park were closed Saturday after a fire at a water treatment facility led to a chlorine gas leak , prompting evacuations on Sa

A wildfire burned a water treatment plant at Grand Canyon, releasing deadly chlorine gas. The NOAA HYSPLIT model “currently indicates no critical threat to nearby communities” but multiple trails and Phantom Ranch were closed. The NOAA lab that runs HYSPLIT is on the chopping block.

Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

Parts of Sabino Canyon, Mt. Lemmon, others could be sold under Senate bill Large sections of Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Mount Lemmon and Madera Canyon, and parts of Mount Graham, would be eligible for selling off as part of proposed Senate legislation that

Large sections of Sabino Canyon Recreation Area, Mount Lemmon and Madera Canyon, and parts of Mount Graham, would be eligible for selling off as part of proposed Senate legislation that

Decreasing frequency of low and moderate fire weather days may be contributing to large wildfire occurrence in the northern Sierra Nevada Previous analyses identified large-scale climatic patterns contributing to greater fuel aridity as drivers of recent dramatic increases in wildfire ac…

"Decreasing frequency of low and moderate fire weather days [due to climate change] may be contributing to large wildfire occurrence in the northern Sierra Nevada." 🌍https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168192325003089

my friends from the Midwest: look this picture of our gorgeous landscape
me, having grown up and always lived in mountainous western Washington: no. I don't like how you can see to the end of it
friends: ...the end of what
me, pointing at the horizon uneasily: it

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.

Trump laid off nearly all of them.

'Just respect the fire': Returning cultural burns to a parched Okanagan landscape brings risk and reward Long before colonialism, syilx people regularly started low-intensity controlled fires. Those bringing it back see how it’s saving homes and lives

“Viewing fire as a medicine, this method of burning forests and grasslands — what are today known as prescribed, controlled, cultural or traditional burns — also limited the threat of devastating wildfires blazing out of control.” indiginews.com/features/cul...

So far the morning severe storm damage here is: one lounge chair blown over and some magnolia blossoms scattered

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064) Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108) Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371) Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007) JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP 601 California Street, Suite 1000 San Francisco, California 94108 Telephone: (415) 500-6800 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com czirpoli@saverilawfirm.com cyoung@saverilawfirm.com kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953) 1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406 Los Angeles, CA 90027 Telephone: (323) 968-2632 Facsimile: (415) 395-9940 Email: mb@buttericklaw.com Counsel for Individual and Representative Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class"

A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION Richard Kadrey, an individual; Sarah Silverman, an individual; Christopher Golden, an individual; Individual and Representative Plaintiffs, v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation; Case No. Complaint Class Action Demand for Jury Trial Defendant."

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION

Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member:

Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800
Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com

Huh one of my papers is in there.

The forecast discussion is using words like hellacious about today’s severe outbreak, so that’s fun. Not sure if I’ve been in a hatched tornado risk zone before today.

“Bioregional‐scale acoustic monitoring can support fire‐prone forest restoration planning” out now in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Just saying.

Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13.
I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.

Extreme Fire Spread Events Burn More Severely and Homogenize Postfire Landscapes in the Southwestern United States Extreme fire spread events rapidly burn large areas and are predicted to increase under a warmer and drier climate. Using satellite data, we analyzed the daily progression of over 600 wildfires in th...

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Our team just published a new paper in Global Change Biology 🧪🔥

The title succinctly describes the main take home message, but here's the deal:

We produced gridded, fine-scale (resolution = 30m) daily fire progression maps for 623 wildfires in the SW US using satellite fire data.

read on ...

Burke Museum conducts cultural burn on Burke Meadow to promote spring growth, emphasize importance of Indigenous practices A group of 50 students, faculty, and staff attended a “cultural burn” at the Burke Museum on Dec. 9, implementing Indigenous practices to support the health of the Burke Meadow,

Cultural burn on the University of Washington campus in Seattle www.dailyuw.com/science/burk...

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

A dead tree with a catface of burnt wood at the base. Much younger and smaller trees filling in around.

A full frame shot of the catface showing a flame like pattern to the shape. Multiple scars indicating frequent fire in the area long ago.

An upclose shot of the scars. Approximately 12 scars are visible and with a clear, regular periodicity to their occurrence. No “curl” is seen which would indicates fire suppression, the tree died before suppression took effect, which is wicked cool to find.

For #FireScarFriday here’s a beaut that’s now a remnant snag. Approx 12 scars, which is incredible for this area, and with clear periodicity in their occurrence, indicating frequent low-intensity fire was the norm for this area. Found in Riverside State Park.

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed.

A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

Coring a big beech tree

🌳🌳🌳 We have a new paper in @pnas.org showing climate warming leads to growth decline in beech because it drives trees to reproduce more frequently. Climate change can cause growth decline even when drought isn’t increasing by shifting where trees allocate resources doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423181122

Olive Ave & Harriet St, Altadena. Credit: Elliott Browne

Power lines.

Altadena in the wake of the #EatonFire

A small oval stoneware plate with rain on the top and fire on the bottom. Just painted the underglaze. Needs overglaze and to be fired again.

Small plate. Work in progress. #fire #water #ceramics

Trailing edge contractions common in interior western US trees under varying disturbances - Nature Climate Change Climate change and disturbances are changing forest tree composition, but it is not clear if disturbances assist trees in tracking their climate ranges. This study shows that the impact of disturbance...

Cool new paper br Katherine Nigro and colleagues. 🧪🌎

Key finding: The climatic differences between adults and seedlings are the result of widespread regeneration failures in the hottest portions of species’ ranges

#Forests #ClimateChange