Dr. Jennifer Baltzer
@forestecogrp
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Leading the Forest Ecology Research Group - Studying forests and global change at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.
Waterloo, ON
Joined September 2012
RT @queenofpeat: The sharp divide between healthy forest underlain by permafrost and collapsed land flooded after permafrost thaw. Once the….
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RT @LaurierResearch: Congratulations to eight Laurier graduate and postdoctoral researchers who won prestigious Weston Family Awards in Nor….
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RT @LaurierResearch: Laurier winners (2/2): Jordan Jason-Byerley, Nick Luymes, Brian Newton, Alicia Pouw
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RT @LaurierResearch: Thanks to $7.8 million in @NSERC_CRSNG + @SSHRC_CRSH funding, Laurier researchers are collaborating with the Governmen….
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RT @TIPS_SPIIE: Learn more about the work of Jennifer Baltzer, #CRC in Forests and Global Change at Wilfrid @Laurier University: https://t.….
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RT @LaurierResearch: Journalists from the New York Times followed Laurier Professor Jennifer Baltzer and her students into a scorched fores….
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RT @queenofpeat: More impacts of permafrost thaw. Please share to spread awareness of how climate change and thawing permafrost lead to gro….
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RT @queenofpeat: Impacts of permafrost thaw on Alaskan lands. Live reporting from the field this week. Check it out and please share to spr….
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RT @queenofpeat: I adore being a science advisor to @AGU_Eos and am deeply touched for this recognition. Very fortunate to be able to devot….
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RT @LaurierResearch: Sheri Longboat (MA ’96, PhD ’13) has always felt a deep personal connection to water. She recently returned to Laurier….
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RT @AlecLuhn: 163 "zombie" fires smoldered all winter in Canada & burst into flames this spring, incl Patry Creek fire near Ft Nelson. Zomb….
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A rise in zombie fires in Canada is having knock-on effects for the wildfire season. Researchers and fire services are racing to find ways to put out perennial fires.
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41 🦬, 1 🫎, 5 🐻, 4 🦌, 3 🦊 and lots of sandhill cranes later we are in Smithers, BC! We connected with FERG PhD student Jocelyn Biro and amazing colleague @AlanaClason for a quick caffeine break.
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Owing in part to this drought the 🔥 season has started early again this year. We are driving through AB because of a major fire threatening Fort Nelson and closing the Liard highway at the NT-BC border. The NT-AB border has also been closed but we got through yesterday
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NWT (and much of western 🇨🇦) is dealing with extreme drought at the moment… water levels in both Great Slave and the Mackenzie River are incredibly low. In a normal year the team would be swept away where they are standing.
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Now back to the road trip! Leaving Yellowknife, NT means driving through the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary. We met a huge herd which is always fun with the new calves.
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@NSERC_CRSNG @MitacsCanada @chrissytjandra We have a lot of amazing partners including @yukongov , @WCS_Canada , @NRCan, and Little Salmon Carmacks FN.
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Here is a summary of the FIRESCAR project that was recently funded by @NSERC_CRSNG Alliance and @MitacsCanada and that we are launching this summer. Graphic created by @chrissytjandra
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Epic #FIRESCAR road trip has begun! What is FIRESCAR??… more soon but it includes caribou 🦌, 🔥, 🌲, and a novel pathogen. Whitehorse here we come! .@LaurierBiology
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RT @GWFutures: "The deck is stacked to have another wildfire season that is going to be challenging." - @forestecogrp.
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