Daniela Dalmonech

Column | As Gaza starves, Israel’s far right sees a dream coming true Members of Israel’s government embrace the Trump-inspired vision of a Gaza of gleaming towers, ritzy tourism and pristine neighborhoods, but without Palestinians.

I normally post on climate science, which is my expertise.
But this is too important to look away, so I want to share this from the Washington Post. Please read.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team!

PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

R3DFEM: an R package for running the 3D-CMCC-FEM model - Earth Science Informatics Forest ecosystems account for about one-third of the Earth’s land area, and monitoring their structure and dynamics is essential for understanding the land’s carbon cycle and its role in the greenhous...

🆕 Exciting news: the model just got a major upgrade in accessibility!
Say hello to R3DFEM—a new open-source R package that makes this powerful forest simulator much easier to use: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@ale-collalti.bsky.social , @ddalmo.bsky.social

Modeling Forest Growth in a Changing Climate: Addressing the "Chicken-and-Egg" Paradox of Cause and Consequence A recent article published in Current Forestry Reports offers a comprehensive review of both established and emerging theories for modeling growth in forest ecosystems, with particular emphasis on the...

New review in 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 @springernature.com explores how forest growth models tackle the complex carbon source–sink feedback under climate change.
📄Paper Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧠Behind the paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/modeli...

🌳🌏As Europe moves forward on its #climate & sustainability journey, forest-related policies & management practices need to evolve.🤝 This is the shared objective of three Horizon Europe projects 👉 forestpaths.eu/storage/app/...
@forestpaths.eu
#EUforestprojects #climatechange #forestresearch

Water Science Centers and Regions A list of all of the USGS Water Resources Mission Area Science Centers and regions, hubs for critical water science funded by Federal, State, and other partners and stakeholders located throughout the...

Want to see something really insane? Look at this website for USGS's Water Science Centers and Regions and see how many of their directors have "Former Employee" after their names. Everyone's gone! My best friend from grad school was one of them. Who's monitoring floods, droughts, etc?

as long as we are not in Australia, that spider is not jumping, moving very fast (ok, let s say, not moving at all), i would be fine finding in the cellar. :) :) Which species is it?

Guardians of the glades: protecting Europe’s forests against climate change The Făgăraș Mountains in southern Romania are home to one of Europe’s few remaining primary old-growth forests. These forests are still untouched by human activity and boast a rich variety of trees, f...

🌍Big news from the forest front!
The #OptFor-EU project, featuring insights from Alessio Collalti, is in #HorizonMagazine, showcasing how science is helping Europe’s forests adapt to climate change!
📖 Read more:
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
@ale-collalti.bsky.social

Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years

Excited to share that our new paper

“Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years”

has been published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science!

See the open-access paper from doi.org/10.1038/s416...

Short thread 👇

Every time I check my phone or simply refresh my social media feed, someone is sharing about an educational program or critical scientific research effort that is being cut.

It’s infuriating and so upsetting. We need to continue making people and communities aware of what is happening.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

Arctic sea-ice extent anomaly graph for the years 1989-2025, showing that the current year is setting records for lowest sea-ice extent this time of year.

Arctic update for Mar. 1, 2025: Arctic sea-ice extent set a record daily low every day in February and is poised to set an all-time record low maximum this month.

I never expected this to be applicable again.

Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony | PNAS The preference for simple explanations, known as the parsimony principle, has long guided the development of scientific theories, hypotheses, and m...

Important piece on the role of Ockham's razor in the modern world of scientific modeling in @pnas.org. Conclusion: Complex models can be quite useful, and parsimony and complexity can complement each other in helping us to gain new insights!
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

How do forest harvesting regimes really look across Europe? Working with forestry inventories from 11 countries @ssuvanto.bsky.social quantifies how probability and intensity of harvest events actually vary across the continent
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

About our agency NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep the public informed of the changing environment aro...

Just a friendly reminder about the role of NOAA : www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...

A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

This critical loss of data needs to be reported by our science writers @revkin.bsky.social @sammyroth.bsky.social @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social @gporterwx.bsky.social

GHG emissions from the German LULUCF sector have gone from around neutral to a large source!

The change is almost entirely in forest land.

"Due to the years of drought, around two million hectares of trees have been damaged and some have died completely."
www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-t...

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Up to 100,000 people protested against right-wing lies in Berlin, Germany on Saturday night.

Do you want to be a climate modeler? (despite the perpetual existential panic, I still wouldn't want to do anything else...) This year's CESM tutorial applications are open... www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutor...

From division to ‘divergence’: to understand wood growth across timescales, we need to (learn to) manipulate it Wood formation is the Rosetta stone of tree physiology: a traceable, integrated record of physiological and morphological status. It also produces a large and persistent annual sink for terrestrial c...

From division to ‘divergence’: to understand wood growth across timescales, we need to (learn to) manipulate it

Reconstruction of the dynamics of sap-flow timeseries of a beech forest using a machine learning approach Transpiration is a key biogeochemical process, accounting for more than half of the evaporative water fluxes from land to the atmosphere; however, its…

Congrats to Jerzy Piotr Kabala on another milestone in his PhD! 🎉 Our new paper explores how meteorological data, and #Sentinel1 & #Modis #vegetation indices reveal sap flux dynamics in a beech forest in the southern Apennines. 🌲💧

Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PUBLICATIONS | Forest Modelling Lab The Lab. publications

🌿✨ 𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑎𝑏 ✨🌿

📚🔬We’re proud of the remarkable work accomplished in 2024 with 2 books and 17 articles published (9 under review) www.forest-modelling-lab.com/publications
🌲Stay tuned for more in 2025!
#ForestModellingLab #3DCMCCFEM #ClimateChange

¡AI Caramba! Rapid progress in the use of machine learning for weather and climate models is evident almost everywhere, but can we distinguish between real advances and vaporware? First off, let's define some...

Some thoughts on the use of AI/ML in climate modeling...

@realclimate.org

¡AI Caramba! www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...