Tara Bishop, PhD
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work hard, play hard. doing what I love, where I love: Assist Prof @UVUearthscience ❤️ plants, wildfire, drought, and furry critters in drylands ❤️ she/her
Joined March 2013
Happy to share a new lab paper, Grass-Cast Southwest: A seasonal rangeland productivity forecast for the southwestern United States | Cambridge Prisms: Drylands https://t.co/Ib3T7nXUOe
@USDA_ARS @UASNRE
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Love being a part of this chapter! Looking forward to ESA 2026 in SLC!
Meet the 2026 team for the ESA Southwest Chapter! 🌵☀️ We're super excited to serve our community and support your science in any way we can! Got questions or ideas? Send them our way! Stay tuned for introduction posts of each of our amazing new leaders!
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New Science paper by Ohlert et al with a rainfall-exclusion experiment at 74 sites over the globe shows extreme droughts caused high productivity declines and low recovery, especially in drier locations with low plant diversity.
science.org
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with...
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Hi all! If you are a PhD or soon to be PhD looking for a postdoc in plant thermotolerance, I would love to discuss project ideas for the University of Utah Wilkes Center Postdoc Fellowship, app due late Jan 2026! Msg me if there is interest. Tnx! https://t.co/wYQghTLM3Y
wilkescenter.utah.edu
Apply to become a postdoctoral scholar! This postdoctoral scholar program will help create the next generation of leaders in climate science and policy. It endeavors...
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📢📢We are looking for a postdoc to join a @NASA Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) project!! Please see the attached job ad and help us share widely!! @UASNRE @USGS @NASAEarth @_pdpositions
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Here's a key line from @jeffnesbit's companion post on Substack on Trump gutting NASA: The cost of reacting to widespread disease outbreaks, contaminated water systems, and climate-related disasters will dwarf the investment needed to maintain these preventative surveillance
The Trump administration’s efforts to gut NASA’s earth sciences program is dangerous and misguided.
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USGS scientists just published a study that found that fire & drought cause an increase in invasive plants & decline in shrublands across the Colorado Plateau. Results highlight how maps & models can help manage #wildfire, fuels, and #droughts #Landsat
https://t.co/Vapto0dIGa
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Our paper demonstrates that Apache people used fire to manage landscapes in the American Southwest for centuries, leaving a distinct signature in tree-ring fire history records #goodfire #wildfire Led by @croos_SMU @PNASNews
Tree-ring fire records from 649 pine trees in central and eastern Arizona show that fires occurred more often in the territory of the Western Apache, or Ndee, than in other regions between 1600–1870, suggesting a culturally controlled fire regime. In PNAS: https://t.co/5GW8Swq02p
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Absolutely me too
After living in the US southwest for 7 years, this is now me in Baltimore :
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Happy to share our recent paper using Ecological Site Groups to better understand plant community changes & related to wildfire & drought on the Colorado Plateau. Part of a fantastic project working with land managers & scientists alike. https://t.co/OLi6ct9IbN
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Mapping ecological states in the upper Colorado River basin: implications for fire management, Severson, John P, Bishop, Tara B B, Knight, Anna C, Nauman, Travis W, McNellis, Brandon E, Villarreal,...
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If you are a member of the Ecological Restoration Section of @ESA_org (its $5 to join!) and are early career, nominate yourself or a friend for our early career publication award! Cash prizes!
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The @NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory #OCO missions are proposed for termination in NASA’s FY2026 President’s Budget Request. Please share the below message that these missions are essential for supporting national interests. https://t.co/iir2pTPZl4
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Happy to share our new @NatureComms paper, "Seasonal stabilization effects slowed the greening of the Northern Hemisphere over the last two decades" led by @UASNRE PhD Candidate Wen Zhang w/ @trevorkeenan and others
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Nature Communications - Rising CO₂ and warming enhance vegetation greening, but drought, heat stress, and resource limits constrain this trend. Here, the authors show that within a year,...
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Still open for registration!
Free biocrust workshop for arid grassland restoration! July 24 from 10-11am PST. Register here: https://t.co/IUFJhprAcz
@SoilAssociation @USDA_NRCS @InfoInsr
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This week, JFSP is sharing the “Cooperative Extension Service (CES) Wildland Fire Peer-Learning Success Story.” Hosting exchanges can be a powerful way to strengthen fire outreach. Learn how the California Fire Science Consortium implemented theirs! https://t.co/GT4kNlOVhg
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The importance of science in #firesafety and #firemanagement were collated by the @forestservice in their most recent #ScienceYouCanUse issue, which links to a number of fire tools and information: https://t.co/Wvv4717tth
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Cooperative Extension is the best job in academia - research and outreach together to make the world a better place! Check out some of the current job listings across the country:
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