Jon Wang 🏳️🌈🇺🇲🛰
@wangathan
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Climate scientist. I look at plants from space. Assistant Professor at University of Utah, leader of @DYCE_Lab
SLC, UT
Joined July 2010
RT @UofUATMOS: Carbon 'off-sets' are not working. U-led research results in roadmap for harnessing Earth’s natural processes to reduce atmo….
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Fixing Nature-based Climate Solutions July 30, 2025 Carbon 'off-sets' are not working. U-led research results in roadmap for harnessing Earth’s natural processes to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide...
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RT @jbprime: More CA state forests are vulnerable to wildfire due to climate change, with recent fires so big and intense that forests can’….
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More state forests are vulnerable to wildfire due to climate change.
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Many thanks to collaborators at @uciess who helped guide this study (@randersonjt @VedBhoot and not-on-Twitter Carl Norlen, Mike Goulden, and Shane Coffield) and @UofUBiology for the support! 7/7.
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Categorical indices of fire severity (e.g. high vs low) are hard to interpret, and might not capture climate trends. Remote sensing advances are revealing this nuance across ecoregions. Hope this can improve wildfires observation, forest management, and ecosystem models! 6/7.
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Using a simple model of regional tree loss using burned area, fire severity, and forest exposure, we show that 47% (nearly half!) of observed cumulative tree loss is due to trends in fire severity and forest exposure. Climate warming will exacerbate this. 5/7
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Increased forest exposure suggests more dense forests are vulnerable to severe wildfire. In the last decade, wildfire moved in climate space, impacting forests adapted to moister, cooler environments that might have resisted disturbance. 4/7
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Average fire severity and forest exposure rose by 30% and 41%, respectively, from 1985-2021. The average tree cover loss per burned area used to be 20%, but recently it has been 34%, on average (+70%!). Increased burned area drives most tree loss, but is not the sole factor! 3/7
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We used remotely sensed fractional veg cover and disturbance data to quantify forest exposure (how densely treed were burned areas) and fire severity (relative tree loss) in the average wildfire. Disturbance data: Veg data: 2/7.
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Hello there! I'm proud to share a new wildfire paper in ERL - California had recent huge fires but tree loss rose much faster, relatively, than burned area. How much is the per-burned-area impact on tree cover losses rising, and why? Paper: 1/7
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RT @UofUBiology: Assistant Prof Jon Wang found fire severity increased by 30% between the 1980s and 2010s and tota….
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U biologist Jon Wang, with UC Irvine colleagues, uses satellite imagery to document the growing destructiveness of Western wildfires since 1980.
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RT @FrogandToadbot: Toad sat on the edge of his bed. ’Blah,’ said Toad. ‘I feel down in the dumps.’.
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RT @ecology_awesome: Just a reminder to all #dryland scientists, managers, and enthusiasts - please comment on the @NASAEarth #ARID white p….
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RT @Nature: Nature research paper: Forest fire size amplifies postfire land surface warming
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Nature - Climate warming has increased forest fire sizes, amplifying postfire summer warming, with broadleaf trees mitigating this effect; climate-smart forestry should increase broadleaf tree...
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RT @ecohydro_wang: Our new publication from today in Earth's Future regarding ARID. Led by @a_feldman24 along with @ecology_awesome and ot….
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Adaptation and Response in Drylands (ARID) is a 1-year scoping study for a multi-year NASA Terrestrial Ecology dryland field campaign An ARID workshop was held in Tucson, Arizona in October 2023 ...
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RT @uofuanesthesia: Congrats to Dr. John F. Pearson, with the help of @UofUBiology Assistant Professor Jonathan Wang, on securing a $50k 1U….
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RT @peedublya: UCLA Geography is hiring! Assistant Professor in the general area of "Environmental Challenges". If you're a physical scient….
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RT @c_terrer: eCO2 can increase NPP and biomass even in old forests, potentially due to a large increase in root exudates (and mediated by….
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Nature Climate Change - While experiments in younger trees support increased production under higher CO2, it is unclear whether more mature trees can respond similarly. Here, the authors show...
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RT @paulo_arev: Exciting news! Our 30m annual GLanCE land cover datasets (2001-2019) for South America are out at the LP-DAAC! They include….
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Lucy runs an excellent, supportive lab! Highly recommend anyone interested in urban ecosystems to consider applying!.
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RT @LCLUCProgram: Assistant prof @Wangathan from @UofUBiology @DYCE_Lab presented a project that aims to map forest mortality using lidar,….
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