Mike Flannigan

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fire guy, weather guy, researcher, professor and research chair

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The new reality of wildfire in BC. Now that area burned has passed 600,000 ha the area burned in 2017-2024 has burned more area than 1950-2016 (67 years). Of course, the 2024 fire season is far from over.

The Canadian Fire Spread Dataset was published today. nature.com/articles/s41... Valuable data set on daily fire spread and numerous other variables. This dataset can be used in a broad range of research and management applications.

The Canadian Fire Spread Dataset - Scientific Datanature.com Scientific Data - The Canadian Fire Spread Dataset

Fire Behaviour Specialist opportunity with Alberta Wildfire. Closing date for applications is July 4, 2024 jobpostings.alberta.ca/job/Edmonton...

Fire Behaviour Specialistjobpostings.alberta.ca Fire Behaviour Specialist

Another opportunity for a wildfire career with the Canadian Forest Service. Fire Research Analyst position at Northern Forestry Centre - deadline for applications is 5 July 2024. emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

Fire Research Analystemploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca

Looking for a job in wildfire - 3 positions at a great place with great people. Canadian Forest Service - Great Lakes Forestry Centre - Sault Ste Marie emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap... 3 positions • Fire Analyst Programmer • Fire Science Analyst • Wildfire Research Analyst

Multiple Fire Analyst Positionsemploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca

Check out this new paper in Global Change Biology 'A modest increase in fire weather overcomes resistance to fire spread in recently burned boreal forests' Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library

Great post-doc opportunity with the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria BC - see details below.

What's going on with the wildfire situation in Canada? Kyle Brittain and I discuss what's causing these wildfires and what could be to come. WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=s3mF...

Western Canada WILDFIRE Updateyoutube.com Discussing the current, worsening wildfire situation and looking at what is causing it. Joined by Mike Flannigan, wildfire expert and professor at Thompson Rivers University.

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Want to be a research fire ecologist with the USGS? 🔥🌏 The USGS Fort Collins Science Center (FORT) is hiring a permanent Research Ecologist (Fire) at the GS-13 or 14 level, located in Fort Collins, CO. Application window closes May 17.

Research Ecologist (Fire)www.usajobs.gov Salary: GS-13 $114,970 (Step 01) - $149,465 (Step 10) GS-14: $135,860 (Step 01) - $176,620 (Step 10) This vacancy is advertised concurrently with: O...

Want a fire weather career? Great opportunity with the Canadian Forest Service. Job posting closes April 30th. emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

Fire Intelligence Officer job with the Canadian Forest Service open until April 16. This person will work on a range of forest fire related topics, including research and development, operational support, and knowledge exchange activities. emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

Fire Intelligence Officeremploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca

Parks Canada is looking for a Fire Management Officer for Thaidene Nene National Park Reserve in Lutsel K'e (Northwest Territories). The deadline has been extended until March 31st. emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

Proud of my graduate student, Kaiwei Luo, because today his first research chapter of his PhD was published in Nature. Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America. nature.com/articles/s41...

Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America - Naturenature.com By examining the hourly diurnal cycle of 23,557 fires in North America during 2017–2020, 1,095 overnight burning events were identified, mostly associated with extreme fires and driven by long-te...

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“Europe is unprepared to grapple with escalating climate extremes, risk assessment finds” www.pbs.org/newshour/sci... - PBS News Hour

Europe is unprepared to grapple with escalating climate extremes, risk assessment findswww.pbs.org The assessment says the bloc has made substantial progress and has a lot of policies to counteract the long-term effects of climate change, but societies are not prepared for more urgent climate threa...

New important paper on 'Mapping the distance between fire hazard and disaster for communities in Canadian forests' in Global Change Biology (Open Access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Figure below - Mapping distances of fires 1–3 days away from the Red Lake, ON

Canada Under Fire – Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season preprint essopenarchive.org/users/747500...

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“If I learned one thing from writing about wildfires, it is that this hotter, less stable world is not the ‘new normal.’ We are entering clima incognita — the ‘unknown climate.’ Here be dragons, and some of them are fires 20 miles wide.” —John Vaillant www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/o...

Opinion | The Fires Sweeping Across Texas Offer a Terrifying Warningwww.nytimes.com We’re entering the clima incognita.

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** JOB ALERT 🚨 **

Two weeks until the deadline for this super cool tenure-track Assistant Professor job! If you are early career and your research is related to dendrochronology, apply to join us here at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research! tiny.cc/viopwz

We have lightning in February in BC. Will we have lightning-caused fire starts as well? Probably not. www.blitzortung.org/en/live_ligh...

These wildfires never went out — they just moved underground. Canada’s record wildfire season keeps burning through the winter. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

These wildfires never went out — they just moved undergroundwww.washingtonpost.com In Canada, more than 150 wildfires are smoldering through the winter. These zombie fires could mean another active wildfire spring.

The 2024 fire season has begun in Alberta and now BC is joining the bandwagon. An out-of-control fire (Hasler Flats wildfire about 200 km NE Prince George) is currently eight hectares in size, after it was first discovered Friday morning. www.castanet.net/news/BC/4739...

BC Wildfire Service responding to new winter wildfire burning near Chetwynd - BC Newswww.castanet.net A mid-winter wildfire is burning north of Prince George this weekend.

"The stage is set for a very active spring, at least in the western part of the country," However, it is too early to say what the rest of the fire season will bring. sg.news.yahoo.com/zombie-blaze...

'Zombie' blazes and drought: Canada headed for another brutal fire seasonsg.news.yahoo.com Beneath the ground in Western Canada, dozens of so-called "zombie fires" that started last year are still burning. This year there are 10 to 12 times more zombie fires burning in Western Canada than u...

Cabin Radio: With experts and NWT managers, we've examined the biggest of 2023's fires in detail. What made them so bad? Which firefighting decisions were made, and why? Inside the NWT’s 2023 wildfire decision-making cabinradio.ca/172113/news/...

Inside the NWT’s 2023 wildfire decision-makingcabinradio.ca With experts and NWT managers, we’ve examined the biggest of 2023’s fires in detail. What made them so bad? Which firefighting decisions were made, and why?

Overwintering fires coined as 'Zombie Fires' are burning at an alarming rate in Canada www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

'Zombie Fires' burning at an alarming rate in Canadawww.bbc.com Canada's wildfire season is not over, with dozens of winter fires still burning beneath the soil.

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Fires Are the Sum of Our Choiceswww.nytimes.com Climate change, ecology and fire suppression have combined to bring us the return of the “urban firestorm.”

New paper: "Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes. fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes - Fire Ecologyfireecology.springeropen.com Background Cross-landscape fuel moisture content is highly variable but not considered in existing fire danger assessments. Capturing fuel moisture complexity and its associated controls is critical f...

Experts say that so far in the 21st century, BC is falling short of receiving spring and summer precipitation increases needed to compensate for greater fuel flammability generated by warmer temps. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/02/14/a...

Government should prep for fires given low snowpackwww.nationalobserver.com With four spectacularly destructive wildfire seasons in the last seven years, B.C. has become a global wildfire hot spot.

Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) is looking for a Director of Resiliency & Partnerships Director of Resiliency & Partnerships - Remote - Indeed.com Great opportunity.

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Climate change made B.C.‘s warm December temps 2-3X more likely for much of the month, a new analysis says. The temps, dry conditions & 105 ‘zombie fires’ still burning have some experts worried the “dice are loaded” for another bad wildfire season. www.squamishchief.com/highlights/c...

Climate change drove 'unusual' spike in Canada's temperatures, study findswww.squamishchief.com Analysis finds climate change drove hot December temperatures across Canada. Some worry trend could threaten wildlife and spark another record wildfire season.

Things are upside down in North America right now - weather wise. This hour's hot spot in Canada is Pangnirtung at over 66 degrees N on Baffin Island. Take a look at the 500 mb anomaly - polar vortex over the northern US plains and warm air over the Arctic.