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SENSE wrapped up #LPS25 in style 🚀 From glacier shifts to global food systems, conflict zones to climate careers—20+ SENSE PhDs delivered talks, posters, and panels that showed how Earth Observation is transforming our world. The future of EO science is already here, and SENSE is leading it. 🌍📡

📢 #LPS25 ALERT Don’t miss SENSE alumna Emily Dowd co-chairing: C.01.22 – Future EO Systems of Systems: Science Drivers 🗓️ Fri 27 June | ⏰ 13:45–14:30 📍 Nexus Agora

Shaping the EO infrastructure of tomorrow—be there. 🌍🛰️

#LPS25 Arctic Insight - Grégoire Canchon presents: “Evolution of Terrestrial Arctic Heatwaves: A 3D Clustering Approach” 🗓️ Fri 27 June | ⏰ 13:00–14:30 📍 A.09.03 – Understanding the Arctic as a System | X5 L-M

📢 #LPS25 Spotlight Philipp Barthelme (SENSE) presents: “Long-term impacts of Vietnam War bombing on land use/land cover in Southeast Asia” 🗓️ Fri 27 June | ⏰ 15:30–15:45 📍 F.05.03 – Tracking Conflict Impacts | Room 1.61/1.62

Don’t miss this compelling look at legacy impacts through the EO lens. 🛰️🌱

Join our EO ECR networking group ➡️ www.linkedin.com/groups/13071...

Great to see so many ECRs at our panel & networking event with @esa.int 🌐🛰️🪜 #LPS2025

SENSE at #LPS25🚀🛰️🌍🌎🌏

📢 #LPS25 Poster Picks – Thurs 26 June
🌾 Samuel Bancroft - Semi-supervised crop classification with biophysical variable learning 🗓️ 17:45–19:00 | D.04.05 – From the Research Lab to a Global Map 📍 U-V
🌍 Heather Selley - Diversifying the EO talent pipeline: Engaging the next generation 📍 C

🎯 ECRs at #LPS25 — This One’s for You! 🗓️ Thu 27 June | 11:30–13:00 📍 Room 0.14 – Careers & Networking 🍰 Free cake + fast-track career insights + real connections

Excellent talk Emma! #LPS2025

📢 #LPS25 Alert Mae Evans (SENSE) presents: “Changes in ice velocity on the Greenland Ice Sheet via Sentinel-1 offset tracking” 🗓️ Thurs 26 June | ⏰ 08:30–10:00 📍 A.09.05 – Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics | Hall E1

Start your Thursday with precision polar science❄️📡

Great to see Denise Hicks excellent poster on Monday #LPS25 🌱

#LPS25 |Wed 25 June|17:45–19:00 📍 X5 🧊 Ross Slater – Tracking Antarctic ice speed with Sentinel-1 (B) 🧊 Heather Selley – Ice flow changes in Antarctica 🌡️ Anastasia Kozhevnikova – Deep learning + LST to detect rainforest heat stress (V) 🌍 Eilish O’Grady – DL for phase unwrapping in deformation (B-C)

🔔 Reminder for #LPS25 Early Career Researchers!

Don’t miss the Early Career Scientist Careers & Networking Event 🗓️ Thu 27 June | ⏰ 11:30–13:00 | 📍 Room 0.14 Free CAKE included! 🍰 ✨

🌍✨ CEOS plays such a key role in harmonising satellite missions, and it’s brilliant seeing SENSE researchers link their work to that wider vision of coordinated, actionable Earth Observation #LPS25

From buried lakes to icy secrets, Antarctica’s underworld is opening up. Don’t miss it at #LPS25 ❄️📡

🌊 Anneke Sperling (SENSE) tracks Atlantic currents “Reconstructing ocean volume transport via altimetry” 🗓️ Wed 25 June | ⏰ 15:30–16:15 | 📍 A.08.08 – Hall G2
From dynamic currents to satellite precision—get your climate flow fix at #LPS25 🌍💡

Fantastic to see SENSE PhDs gaining insights from @paulbate.bsky.social on the vital role of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites 🚀🛰️ @ukspaceagency.bsky.social. Connecting cutting-edge research with global coordination in space-based Earth monitoring is what turns data into impact!

Did you know there are huge liquid water lakes (as large as Vienna in area!) underneath the Antarctic Ice sheet? Sally will be presenting results from the first and second PhD chapters, in which they've discovered 85 of these lakes, and attempted to understand their behaviour 💧🧊

🧊 Sally Wilson (SENSE) dives beneath the ice “Antarctic Subglacial Lakes: New Discoveries with CryoSat-2 & Echo Sounding” 🗓️ Wed 25 June | ⏰ 16:15–17:45 📍 A.09.02 – Dynamic Antarctica Room 1.85/1.86

From the coastal edges to the deep interior—Antarctica has stories to tell beneath the surface. ❄️📡

Great talk on SAT school by Leam! 🚀🛰️📡 #LPS25 satschool-outreach.github.io

📢 #LPS25 Alert Emma Sands (SENSE) – Satellite + Earth System Model: Rethinking land cover change forcing 🗓️ Wed 25 June | ⏰ 14:00–15:30 📍 A.05.04 – Observation-Modelling Interface (Part 1) Hall L1/L2

Cutting-edge insight at the data–model crossroads 🌍🛰️ Let’s pack the room.

Tue 24 June | X5 Poster Area 🚀 #LPS25 | 🟫 Denise Hicks – Soil carbon mapping (P) 🟪 Reason Mlambo – ML for poverty prediction (V) 🟩 Lorena Benitez – Wildlife data & savanna fragmentation (L-M-N) 🟦 Seán Ó Héir – EO + graph ML for social good (V) 🟥 Holly Moore – Cyclones & timber housing risk (Q-R)

🤝 SENSE CDT x ESA Early Career Networking @ #LPS25

🌟 Connect, network, and get inspired at the intersection of science and career journeys!

🗓️ Thu 27 June | ⏰ 11:30–13:00 CEST 📍 B.03.10 – Early Career Scientist Careers & Networking Room 0.14

📢 #LPS25 | Don’t miss Rebecca Wilks (SENSE) “Wildlife population estimators meets satellite imagery” 🗓️ Tue 24 Jun | 🕓 16:15–17:45| A.02.02 Terrestrial & Freshwater Biodiversity – Part 3 📍0.96/0.97

📢 #LPS25 Spotlight! 📢 🗓️ Tue 24 June is a busy day for Leam! 11:30 | Leam Howe – Mapping marginal snow with Sentinel-2 A.09.01 – Mountain Cryosphere 📍 Room 1.85/1.86 &
14:00 | SatSchool – Earth from Space, in the Classroom F.01.03 – EO Education 📍 Hall M1/M2

Great to see @space4climate.bsky.social at #LPS25

📢 #LPS25 Spotlight! 📢 Catch SENSE Director Kathy Whaler as she presents: “Fast Waves in the Earth’s Core Over the Last 25 Years Deduced from Satellite and Ground Secular Variation Data” 🗓️ Monday 23 June | 🕑 14:00–15:30 📍 Hall E2 | Uncover the deep dynamics of our planet—don’t miss this session!

📢 #LPS25 Highlight! 📢 Swing by the Poster Area (X5) to explore SENSE’s Megan Udy’s captivating work: “Remote Sensing Analysis of Forest Disturbance and Recovery at Volcanoes Worldwide” 🗓️ Monday 23 June | 🕠 17:45–19:00 📍 From eruptions to regrowth—don’t miss this global view from space!

📢 #LPS25 📢 Join SENSE’s Thomas Laraia as he delves into “Investigating the Feasibility of Detecting Sub-Canopy Snow in Forested Environments with Satellite LiDAR.” 🗓️ Monday 23 June | 🕑 14:00–15:30 📍 Hall E1 | Snow science meets satellite tech—don’t miss it!