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📢 Solution-Based #DataScience for #Environmental #Biology Challenges

Announcing a new Call for Papers with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges:

ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m
📅 31 May 2026

#TippingPoints #Resilience #Adaptation

We are currently accepting applications for our 3rd cohort of Working Groups! Visit our website to learn more: esiil.org/working-groups

Excited to be heading to join the summit @cu-esiil.bsky.social this week!

Fayelynn Scheideman stands in front of a bison sticking its head out of a pen

"Returning the buffalo: History, restoration, & genetic stories of Colorado’s bison"

Join us for Fayelynn Scheideman's Wednesday evening talk at our Mountain Research Station:
🆓 Free event
🗓 Aug 20th
🕖 7:00 pm
📍 Near Nederland & Ward CO
🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/fayely...

Just dreadful satellite imagery of the rapidly escalating wildfire outbreak across parts of northern Portugal and western Spain.

Look at the size of that smoke plume!

Having a lovely time at #ESA2025! Three talks/workshops, all in collaboration with incredible @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social students- including co-facilitation of session run by rockstar former student Julia Sharapi!

@sortee.bsky.social meetup tonight at #ESA2025! Come join us to informally discuss all things #openscience - meet at the open science table at 6:30 to walk over together, or at “the Back Yard” (131 S Schroeder Street) at 7pm

Wondering where to submit your abstract for #AGU25
@agu.org annual meeting? Consider our cross-scale "Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes from Molecules to Ecosystems" organized session (#246685)! #EcoPhys

You are welcome to submit an abstract to our AGU session. Conveners: @atkinsjeff.bsky.social‬, Qinfeng Guo, Erin Crockett, & myself.
Our invited speakers are:
Catherine Fahey (SERC)
Ruben Valbuena (SUL)
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Forest Loss Caused by Wildfires Has Reached Record Levels in 2023 and 2024

If you thought forest fires were getting worse, you’re right 🌍🔥

UMD's GLAD lab found record-breaking forest loss in 2023–2024, with fires now driving over 40% of global forest disturbance.

Learn more: go.umd.edu/record-wildf...

#climatechange #wildfire

Missed out on getting your #abstract for #ESA25 submitted on time? All is not lost - the submission portal will remain open until 27 July! Just follow the link on this page: esa2025.org.au/call-for-abs...

Rethinking Vegetation Optics in Climate Models By Renato Braghiere Vegetation plays a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate by absorbing sunlight, exchanging moisture with the atmosphere, and sequestering carbon. Yet, how vegetation is re…

New CliMA post about our study out in Nature Comms! We show that replacing fixed plant types with real leaf traits in climate models changes everything — from surface albedo to rainfall. Darker Amazon, brighter Siberia. Climate shifts follow.

#climate #remotesensing

Are you engaged in #OpenScience? Will you be attending the #ESA2025 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting this year, in Baltimore, MD? If so, please consider applying for the ESA Open Science Section #Award before June 30.

You can apply by filling out this form: forms.gle/9B2XQVsUQcfj...

If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees

Loss of Stomatal Regulation Sensitivity to CO2 and Reduced Xylem Hydraulic Conductivity Contribute to Long‐Term Tree Decline and Mortality

🔗 buff.ly/uIiKrSI

Achieving the Global Biodiversity Framework Under Climate Change The Global Biodiversity Framework sets out targets for a range of measures in terms of biodiversity goals. Climate change, however, is both likely and already being shown to make the achievement of s....

And it's out ! 🐟 With @davidobura.bsky.social, Almut Arneth, @pwlead.bsky.social, Pete Smith and Akira Mori.
As always, it's the journey 😎. @ipbes.net #biodiversity #climate

Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...

How do we decide on conservation actions in the face of context dependency?

In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’

we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing

can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes

allowing effective & targeted conservation
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes - Nature Climate models, impact models and demographic data are used to estimate the number of people projected to experience unprecedented lifetime exposure to extreme climate events across multiple dimension...

From @nature.com: New research shows that with every increment of global warming, the number of people facing unprecedented lifetime exposure to crop failures, droughts, floods, wildfires, and cyclones increases sharply. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A vicious cycle: How methane emissions from warming wetlands could exacerbate climate change Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious feedback loop that could accelerate climate change even more, according to a

“Our study suggests that a significant portion of the recent rise in atmospheric methane originates from natural sources driven by climate change," said Xin (Lindsay) Lan, a CIRES research scientist. Read more from @colorado.edu ⬇️
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

Using refugia to resist biodiversity loss under global change Refugia constitute the best places to resist the impacts of climate change and to retain biodiversity in rapidly changing landscapes. An international team of leading scientists suggests that manag…

Refugia: how to best use them to protect biodiversity under climate change biodiversityoceania.com/2024/09/18/u...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊

Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com

Variability of the optical signatures of dissolved organic matter in soils of different mangrove stands (Ouvéa, New Caledonia) - Environmental Science and Pollution Research Mangrove ecosystems are known to play a key role in the global carbon cycle, due to their productivity and their ability for carbon sequestration both in the biomass and in the soil. In the latter, va...

🌎: Mangrove tree species influence soil DOM characteristics. In New Caledonia's Ouvéa atoll, Rhizophora soils yielded fresher, protein-rich DOM, while mature Bruguiera soils stored more humified, aged carbon—hinting at species-driven carbon cycling pathways. 🧪

It's important that science continues, now more than ever. Hence I am happy to share our recent paper which shows the slowing of post-mortality forest recovery @natplants.nature.com. With great colleagues including @smmunson.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you interested in learning why & how to apply a public license to your work? If so, we invite you to join our upcoming ESA Open Science Section webinar. This event will occur virtually on May 6th, 2025, at 11 am MT / 1 pm ET. To participate, please fill out this form: forms.gle/D4FR7i4FY28c...

Great blog post on mediation analysis by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci . Also our paper on mediation analysis - for quantifying ecological mechanisms - is now out in Biology Letters 🧪🌐🌍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #causalsky

Please consider joining us for the next ESA Open Science Section webinar. It's an open virtual event scheduled for April 15th at 10 am PST. Application form available here: forms.gle/fmytA44k2oW8...

New PhD scholarship available to work with us at Western Sydney University.

Determining the functional diversity of stress tolerance in eucalypts

Link for online application below.

Please contact me by email if you are interested in applying

www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

Earthshot Labs is hiring! If you are a remote sensing scientist with experience using satellite observations for advanced forestry applications, take a look and consider applying. It is a fantastic team on a mission to restore and protect forests worldwide.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/40...