Kyle S Hemes
@khemesphere
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Scaling equitable and effective climate solutions || CDR at Amazon Worldwide Sustainability || Research Affiliate at Stanford Woods Institute
Sacramento, CA
Joined January 2016
Happy to see this this synthesis framework out to increase pace of action managing western forests for climate change resilience.. https://t.co/Q6UzuXnE6W
@StanfordWoods
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🔥🌲 Climate-driven wildfires pose a large and growing threat to people and planet. #Stanford research is studying the impact of frequent & intense wildfire, considering how we can adapt, and exploring solutions. Learn more: https://t.co/Ty93XN7SyY
#WildfireManagement #CAwx
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While it's surreal to see a chapter of my dissertation in NYT, I'm grateful for the opportunity to bring the conversation about impending ecological transitions and their implications to a broad audience. Thanks to coauthors @chrfield @connornolan @khemesphere @trevorcambron
A warming climate has created "zombie forests." A fifth of the conifer forests that blanket California's Sierra Nevada are left stranded in habitats that no longer suit them, according to a new Stanford University study.
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A bottom-up view of fire-driven changes in decomposition may help to elucidate counterintuitive trends in the response of soil carbon to burning and open avenues to the sustainable use of fire for nature-based climate solutions @NatureGeosci
https://t.co/xywCZL0IYN
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Sobering reality check on need for carbon dioxide removal and/or geoengineering, on top of dramatic decarbonization from @DKeithClimate via @NYTOpinion.
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Co-convened an inspiring #AGU session on the 'Immense Pressures and High Expectations' facing forest ecosystem services in the coming decades. Talks: https://t.co/jbqsaqFbmQ and posters: https://t.co/YwN04yenU8 . Thanks to great presenters! @wangathan @HaoTangGEDI @CA_CECS
agu.confex.com
Forests have long been understood to offer multiple benefits to society, such as carbon sequestration, climate regulation, water resources, wildlife habitat, biomass products, and livelihoods....
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Fortunate to be part of this important project and great team... check out @PascalPolonik's talk!
If you want to know how we can use the COVID shutdown to learn about environmental racism, go check out my talk at #AGU20! I'm lucky to get to present this work on behalf of an awesome team from @GPS_UCSD, @Scripps_Ocean and elsewhere. Link:
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As a new owner of both indoor+outdoor PurpleAir sensors, and as a new user of these data for multiple research projects, I wanted to look at sensor ownership by income. This is important for understanding how to use these sensors to track air qual across different demographics
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On the left, California at 11am this morning from satellite. On the right, the same shot at 7pm this evening. Shows you the enormous amount of smoke sent into the atmosphere from numerous fires that broke out today. #CreekFire #ValleyFire #ElDoradoFire
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Editorial: California has the cure for the plastic plague. Let's use it
latimes.com
The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the plastic trash problem. California lawmakers have the solution, and they can't put if off any longer.
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How should #forests of the #anthropocene serve "the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time"? Consider submitting an abstract to GC005: Managing Forest Ecosystems for Multiple Benefits in the Anthropocene at #AGU20 @wangathan
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White, institutional blindness is in fact a choice that can’t be tolerated; we must act to dismantle the specific mechanisms that perpetuate anti-black racism and systemic inequity. Spending the day working toward these goals. #shutdownSTEM #shutdownAcademia
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sub_TIDAL - tunes of ecosystem restoration - from field site of @BerkeleyBiomet
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Temperate forests usually cool the land surface, especially when it is hot. Exciting new work in @GlobalChangeBio by Quan Zhang @mallory_barnes @LizBurakowski @koongyi #NoTwitterChrisOishi @Novick_Lab_IU and more
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1/8 What a disgrace. We are in a crisis and one thing that is sorely missing from the Trump Administration is an understanding of... Science.
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Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and is responsible for about a quarter of the warming we have experienced to-date. Reducing methane emissions is an important part of climate mitigation. Its also important to understand that methane is very different from CO2. A thread: 1/9
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beautiful and poignant article about how to grapple with future generations inheriting our world and climate:
washingtonpost.com
“It makes me look at the present and be incredibly resolved.”
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New report on how CA can be a leader in negative emissions! I was predisposed to be skeptical, because of the history of reports on "technical potentials" that don't look at social feasibility. Here's why I thought the report was great.
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Interesting new work observing multi-faceted impacts (including human mortality) of US energy sector transition over the past 2 decades: https://t.co/S3YpxEQ2DK
https://t.co/ggN8lIhWO2
theguardian.com
Shift to gas saved more than 300m tons of planet-heating carbon dioxide as nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide levels dropped
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