Louis Graup competes in Grad Slam today!
PhD student Louis Graup is taking part in the UCSB Grad Slam Showcase preliminary round today at 1:00 to present his research in a unique and engaging way- a slam poem titled “Riparia”. See his Grad Slam entry last year “Snow Drought”. Register here to attend.
Prescribed burn project announcement from NRS
The UC Natural Reserve System announces a new project – “Building Foothill Community Resilience to Wildfire with Prescribed Burns” – which will contribute information to the state to help anticipate and prepare for potentially catastrophic wildfires, and improve people’s awareness, acceptance, and confidence in using prescribed burning as a tool in wildfire management to protect…
New Publication: Bark Beetle Effects on Fire Regimes
New publication looks at how tree mortality caused by Bark Beetle outbreaks can increase or decrease wildfire hazards by altering surface fuel loading and decreasing leaf moisture. The RHESSys-WMfire model was coupled with a beetle effects model (RHESSys-WMFire-Beetle) to simulate interactions among hydrology, vegetation, beetle effects, and fire. Ren, J., Hanan, E.J., Hicke, J.A., Kolden,…
Commentary & advice on research funding
In the upcoming February 2023 special issue on Women in Hydrology in the Journal of Hydrology, author Holly R. Barnard (Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder) reviewed the competitive funding landscape and gives some advice on navigating the process, learned from her own experiences and from other women in science – including Naomi Tague…
New Publication – Tree response to Snow Drought
This new publication looks at the consequences of changing snowpacks on forest water stress by using the RHESSys model to explore how a tree’s position (upslope or riparian) on a hillslope influences its drought response. Graup, L.J., Tague, C.L., Harpold, A.A., Krogh, S.A. (2022) Subsurface lateral flows buffer riparian water stress against snow drought, Journal…
Don’t miss these AGU 2022 presentations!
Tague Team Lab and Friends of the Lab:Naomi Tague Invited presentation – Snow and Forest in the Western US – Does ecophysiology matter? H16F-05 (1089369), Monday 3:25 – 3:35, E258 (Lakeside, Level 2) Chris Heckman poster – An Alternative Hydrologic Hypothesis as to why Taller Trees Commonly Experience Greater Drought StressH12A-45, Monday 7:00 – 10:30,…
PostDoc Opportunity
Postdoctoral Scholar in Ecological Modeling of Fire Regimes and Vegetation GrowthBren School of Environmental Science, University of California Santa Barbara;Contact Naomi Tague (tague@ucsb.edu) Description:We are seeking a post-doctoral scholar to join our “Building Resilience to Wildfires” Team at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This is a cross-campus project with the goal of improving landscape…
New article – post thinning micrometeorology & soil moisture under extreme drought & record precipitation
This new article compares the below-canopy meteorological and subsurface hydrologic differences between two thinning prescriptions and an unaltered Control during periods of extreme drought and near-record precipitation (with little snow) within a coniferous forest in the rain-snow transition zone of the southern Cascades. Hardage, K., Wheelock, S.J., Gaffney, R., O’Halloran, T., Serpa, B., Grant, G.,…
New Article
In this new article in Nature Geoscience, Naomi Tague discusses how the properties of bedrock can help explain within-region patterns of tree mortality in the 2011–2017 California drought. Tague, C. (2022) The bedrock of forest drought. Nat. Geosci. 15, 684–685. doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01015-z
Top Cited Article
The Web of Science Group 2021 Journal Citation Report recorded the WIREs Water Tague et al. 2019 paper as one of the top cited articles. Tague, CL, Moritz, M, Hanan, E. The changing water cycle: The eco-hydrologic impacts of forest density reduction in Mediterranean (seasonally dry) regions. WIREs Water. 2019; 6:e1350. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1350
Congratulations Dr. Will Burke!
Please join us in congratulating William D. Burke – that is Dr. Burke – on the successful defense of his PhD thesis! Well done!
William Burke PhD Dissertation Defense
Tague Team Lab member, PhD student William Burke, will present his dissertation defense “Modeling the Interconnected Effects of Fuel Treatments on Forests, Water, and Fire” on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at 2:00 pm in Bren Hall 3526 (Pine Room), or watch online using this link and passcode fire.
Rachel Torres Receives Excellence in Teaching Award
Congratulations to our own Tague Team Lab member – PhD student Rachel Torres – on receiving the Graduate Student Association Excellence in Teaching Award, recognizing her outstanding work for teaching and mentoring students in Earth System Science and Environmental Modeling at the Bren School, and Introduction to Environmental Science for the UCSB Environmental Studies department.
RHESSys-Fire used in CA scoping plan in fight against climate change
RHESSys-Fire was used as part of the California Air Resources Board draft Scoping plan for fighting climate change. RHESSys-Fire contributions were lead by Ryan Bart (UC Merced).
Upcoming Machine learning/RHESSys output presentation
This Master of Environmental Data Science (MEDS) Capstone Project Presentation features a machine learning algorithm designed to interpret RHESSys output and extract meaningful insights into the possible impacts of climate change on forest health, and visualize findings in an interactive manner that is accessible to forest managers, students, and the general public. A Reproducible Machine…
Tague recorded presentation – using RHESSys to explore fire
Naomi discusses how we are using RHESSys to explore fire in this short presentation.
New publication explores when fire regimes shift from flammability- to fuel-limited
In this new publication, RHESSys-WMFire is used to address the overarching question: How does vegetation modulate the effects of climate change on fire regimes in a semiarid watershed? More specifically – what are the relative and opposing roles of key exogenous drivers (climate change/CO2) and key endogenous drivers (fuel load/fuel aridity) in driving fire regimes.…
Lab collaborator Khorchani PhD defense
Congratulations to lab friend and collaborator Makki Khorchani (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC)) on his PhD defense last Friday of his dissertation “Effects of post-land abandonment management strategies on water resources, vegetation dynamics, and soil properties and redistribution in the central Spanish Pyrenees”. He used the RHESSys model to simulate the different vegetation and climate…
Tague interviewed in The Bottom Line
Naomi Tague was interviewed in UCSB’s The Bottom Line about her collaborative research regarding the impacts of climate change on water supply due to decreases in snowmelt, and increases in drought and fire frequency.
TagueTeamLab at AGU
TagueTeamLab members/friends presenting at AGU: Chris Heckman, Naomi Tague – How a priori forest adaptations affect drought resilience to the 2012-2015 California drought. Poster B15E-1475, Monday Dec. 13, 2021, 2:00-4:00 Kazi Tamaddun, Louis Graup, Anne Lightbody – Modelling Watershed Sensitivity to Drought: Application of Authentic Online Learning on the HydroLearn Platform, Presentation ED12A-05, Monday Dec.…
New Pub: Remote sensing used to look at urban drought response
In this new publication, functionally and seasonally distinctive remote sensing variables were used to quantify changes in urban vegetation canopy conditions during droughts. Miller, D.L., Alonzo, M., Meerdink, S.K., Allen, M.A., Tague, C.L., Roberts, D.A., McFadden, J.P. (2021) Seasonal and interannual drought responses of vegetation in a California urbanized area measured using complementary remote sensing…
Naomi interviewed on ‘Who’s your Data?’ podcast
Naomi Tague was recently interviewed by Gilad Barash on his ‘Who’s your Data?’ podcast about her research predicting and forecasting forest fire frequency and severity, data used in models, machine learning, and her work in developing ways to visualize the results to help officials and the public understand the processes and impacts of fire on…
Tague presentation at AI4ESP workshop
Last week Naomi Tague presented “How Big Data and Machine Learning Can Complement Process-based Ecohydrology Models” at the Artificial Intelligence for Earth System Predictability (AI4ESP) workshop. The AI4ESP initiative is a collaboration between DOE management and laboratories to understand the paradigm shift required to enable AI across the MODEX enterprise, in part by determining the…
Highlighted: Managing Water Resources in a Low-to-No-Snow Future
Recent paper “A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States” in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment was highlighted in the Science & Technology section of UCSB’s The Current, along with comments from Tague and other authors.
New Publication: Impacts on water resources in a low-to-no snow future
In this review paper “A low-to-no snow future and its impacts on water resources in the western United States” in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, author analysis of scientific studies on snow loss use a new low- to-no snow definition that suggests that in approximately 35-60 years, low-to-no-snow winters will become persistent in the western…
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