James Lamping
@jameslamping
Scientist in the Parks Postdoctoral Fellow PNW National Parks University of Oregon Forest ecology | remote sensing | landscape modeling | Sometimes skiing
I very much enjoy this creative invitation from the UO Postdocs Association for a Postdoc happy hour.
That comparison is between a date in Jan 2019 vs Aug 2026, so there might be a bit of a seasonality bias there. Here is the one from August of 2019. Still an impressive shift!
Kind of crazy to see how California has almost doubled its energy production since 2019 while mostly shifting it towards solar and battery storage and away from imports. Visualization from: engaging-data.com/california-e... Data from: www.caiso.com
Kicking off #esa2026 with a great discussion on how we as scientists can and should have a voice in policy. We have agency and we should use it responsibly, but definitely use it.
This gifted H.J. Andrews mug showing a diagram of old-growth Douglas-fir forests constantly wins the award for my favorite place to put my coffee.
As a volunteer equipment tech for Oregon Adaptive Sports, I help build, tune, and maintain adaptive gear like sit-skis so athletes can get out on the mountain. It’s a small behind-the-scenes role that helps make these experiences possible.
Best @melissalucash.bsky.social lab meetings are ones where we scheme how we are going to tackle #LANDIS-II related tasks as a team. In this case we are calibrating tree growth for a few different projects and landscapes.
With all the news of Pebble making a comeback with open software and a new watch, I dug this fun relic out for its first firmware update in 7 years.
I seriously love my public library! They didn’t have a book I wanted to read, so I filled out a suggestion form on their phone app. Two weeks later I got a notice that the book was purchased and ready for pick up at my local branch.
Got to get out into Yosemite and sniff a Jeffrey pine this weekend (sniffed a lot of them honestly). Also met a new friend!
Writing about mature and old growth forests while sitting in line at GameStop for a Switch 2 preorder, like the good millennial I am.
I was impressed today at the turnout here in Redmond, OR. Way more impressed when I got home and saw the turnouts in cities all over the country! Great job today showing up today for science, social security, the economy, treating all people with dignity, etc. We need more of this “good trouble”!
Got out to check out some old growth stands at the H.J. Andrews and the McKenzie Land Trust Stage 8 restoration site on our final day of #NWSA2025. Really neat to tie in all the great PNW forest talks from the meeting with some time out actually in the field.
Annual @nwscience.bsky.social board meeting in session! Looking forward to the next few days of our 2025 annual meeting in Eugene, OR. Schedule of talks and events here: northwestscience.org/web/default/...
Our new paper is out in Forest Ecology and Management! Utilizing data from multiple forest inventory programs, we created 35 spatially complete estimates of forest structure and composition across the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia. 🌍🌐 authors.elsevier.com/a/1kgiv1L%7E...
Great landscape level analysis of how different regions of the western US are experiencing varying amount of fire deficits compared to historic norms. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This UM alumn is introducing me to the annual Foresters Ball this year. Pretty impressive undertaking by the students here in the Forestry Department!
Is this really how much space Windows really needs to just operate or is there something wrong here... 200GB seems insane for OS operation.
Day four of #AGU2024 and lots of great talks today! If you have the stamina to make it to 5:05pm I am presenting on our forest structure mapping of Alaska and BC in Solon H.
Working in or interested in fire/forest ecology and attending #AGU2024? Come to the wffrc mixer!
Turns out that this years capital Christmas tree is from the Tongass! Specifically Zarembo Island. That means, in some way, @trevorstreetalk.bsky.social and I modeled this trees existence before it ended up here in DC.
Experienced one of the cyclones I’ve been modeling while up here in Port Angeles. Pretty mellow down here on the coast, but the Olympics seemed to get a fair amount of snow! Looks like a lot of snow for the cascades came in too!!!