Krista West, Ph.D.

@rsfirenerd.bsky.social

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🔥🗺️ Pyrogeographer. 🛰️🛩️🔥 #RemoteSensing of #Wildfire. ❤️🚒 Passionate about finding ways to help emergency responders. 📣 #SciComm 👩‍💻 https://www.kristaleewest.com/ 📍 Colorado, USA

- Follow local fire and police department and city or county accounts on social media.
- Sign up for your local emergency alert system.
- Get the Watch Duty app set up notifications.

Photos of palm trees in Agua Caliente Park (Tucson, AZ) taken on October 26, 2024. The trees burned during a lightning-caused fire on September 28, 2022.

Trees in the foreground are backlit by the setting sun. In the background is the park’s water feature.

Foreground: A scraggly tree with a wildfire-caused burn/fire scar. Background: The dunes of Great Sand Dunes National Park.

Foreground: Snow drifts accumulated around a plant. Background: An area with little-to-no snow.