NextGenCarbon

❄️ Stay tuned for the November "SCIENTIST SAYS" interview, coming next week! Have you read our interviews with researcher Sven van Baren and Professor Nina Buchmann, published earlier this autumn? If not, you'll find the interviews via the link below.⬇️ nextgencarbon-project.eu/scientist-sa...

#NextGenCarbon colleagues who contributed to this paper: Saverio Francini (lead author), Ruben Valbuena @rubenvalpue.bsky.social, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Gert-Jan Nabuurs and Gherardo Chirici.

Bridging spatio-temporal gaps in ALS data using Landsat time series and forest disturbance-recovery metrics via multi-task neural networks European forests contribute to climate change mitigation by sequestering carbon, conserving biodiversity, and enhancing water retention. However, clim…

📣Another #NGC publication is out! “Bridging spatio-temporal gaps in ALS data using Landsat time series and forest disturbance-recovery metrics via multi-task neural networks” has been published in Science of Remote Sensing this week. 🎉
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Just published, a land-mark paper by Annemarie Eckes-Shephard et al.! It assesses the performance of a new generation of Demography-enabled Dynamic Global Vegetation (D-DGVMs), that attempt to simulate the changing size and age structure of trees in forests.

#NextGenCarbon colleagues who contributed to this paper: Peter Cox @coxypm.bsky.social, Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social, Aleksi Lehtonen @aleksileh.bsky.social, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Guillaume Marie, Jessica Needham, Mikko Peltoniemi @mikkopel.bsky.social and Stephen Sitch.

Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests Vegetation demographic models (VDMs) are advanced tools for simulating forest responses to climate and land-use changes, and are essential for projecting carbon cycling and large-scale forest manage...

📢 The third publication from NGC is out! "Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests" was published in the @newphyt.bsky.social last week. Several #NGC colleagues are among the paper's authors💡
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💡 "TLS allows to measure 3D attributes like branch lengths and angles, that have been impractical to measure at scale with traditional methods like measurement tapes", says NGC colleague @benjaminbrede.bsky.social. Read our latest news article on the website!
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Researcher Sven van Baren

💡SCIENTIST SAYS: For October's interview, we had a chat with #NGC colleague Sven van Baren, a researcher at @w-u-r.bsky.social. What are greenhouse gas inventories and LULUCF? How are they connected to #NextGenCarbon? Read our latest interview to find out ➡️ nextgencarbon-project.eu/scientist-sa...

📢 The second publication from NextGenCarbon is out! "Expanding forest research with terrestrial LiDAR technology" was published in Nature Communications yesterday, with NGC colleagues @benjaminbrede.bsky.social and Martin Herold from @gfz.bsky.social among the authors.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 The first #NextGenCarbon scientific deliverable is out! The protocols for the Global Carbon Budget (GCB)-Trendy and the Near Real Time (NRT) Land Surface Model (LSM) simulations, were developed by the GHG Budgets, LULUCF Reconciliation & Synthesis team.
nextgencarbon-project.eu/resources/

Securing the forest carbon sink for the European Union’s climate ambition - Nature Actionable research recommendations are outlined to improve the monitoring and modelling of forest resources and their carbon sink, and to better inform forest management decisions and the European Green Deal.

💡We would like to point out this article, which was published on July in @nature.com: #NGC colleagues Mirco Migliavacca (lead author), @anabastos.bsky.social, Philippe Ciais, and Martin Herold contributed to the writing. Read it from the link below: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The development of the #NGC website is progressing well. You can now find all #NextGenCarbon resources, including the latest publications, reports and other project-related materials, on one page of our website. Stay tuned for updates!
nextgencarbon-project.eu/resources/

Check out the latest article from #NGC partner Ben Sanderson et al, very relevant for NextGenCarbon work!

💡SCIENTIST SAYS - PROF. NINA BUCHMANN: In September's interview, meet Professor Nina Buchmann from Grassland Sciences in the Institute of Agricultural Sciences at @ethz.ch. Click the link below to our website to read about what Nina is working on at #NGC!
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💡SCIENTIST SAYS is our new monthly interview series that presents #NGC researchers from diverse fields of expertise and what kind of work they do in our project. The first interview will be published on our website tomorrow – stay tuned! 💡https://nextgencarbon-project.eu/scientist-says/

Check out the latest addition to our website: the news and events section! It will keep you updated on all the latest activities in #NGC. Now, after the summer holiday season, we are looking forward to sharing more news about the project with you this autumn! 🍂
nextgencarbon-project.eu/news-events/

Postdoctoral position, Carbon balance and biodiversity of boreal forests | slu.se SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

📢 Our NGC colleague Prof. Matthias Peichl from the Department of Forest Ecology and Management at SLU is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on carbon balance and biodiversity in boreal forests as part of his research group. Last day to apply is 15 September.
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

SLU - Forest remote sensing @remote-sensing-slu.bsky.social
is looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a strong scientific drive to contribute to the international research front on forest resilience in a changing climate. Apply by 12 September.

Our SLU - Forest Remote Sensing @remote-sensing-slu.bsky.social colleagues are looking for a Research Assistant in AI of Forest Damage Mapping. Apply by 16 September.

Image description: laptop, notepad, pen, and a cup of coffee with text reading:" WEBINAR SERIES. Text reads: "Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary: Greenhouse Gases and Climate Sensitivity for Wednesday on 10 September 2025 at 17:00 . A call to action says "Register now!"

📆Mark your calendars for this #webinar with two invited speakers, James Rae & Jessica Tierney, on Wednesday, 10 September 2025.
They will explore how past natural variations in climate and atmospheric #greenhouse #gases can help estimate Earth’s #climate #sensitivity.
👉 Register here: egu.eu/7UKU6T

Conference: Earth observation for monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon removals 2025 As the role of land in climate mitigation grows in importance, Earth Observation (EO) technologies are becoming indispensable for enabling accurate, timely, and large-scale monitoring of carbon fluxes...

There's still time to register for the conference on Earth observation for monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon removals 2025, organised by our EEAB members Neha Hunka, Lucia Perugini and NGC collaborator Mirco Migliavacca from the JRC. DL: 10 September
www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...

Excited that our 'bit' of @nextgencarbon.bsky.social is to use these awesome datasets to constrain Earth system models 🤩

Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance - Nature Ecology & Evolution A global analysis reveals regional trends of net forest ageing but also that widespread stand-replacing disturbances, such as fire and harvest, are driving declining forest age in many areas, often ac...

💡How is the age of forests shifting globally, and what does this mean for the carbon cycle? You will find the answers in the newly published paper, to which many of our colleagues at #NGC have contributed, with @besnardsim.bsky.social as the lead author. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Groundwater–CO2 emissions relationship in Dutch peatlands derived by machine learning using airborne and ground-based eddy covariance data Abstract. Peatlands worldwide have been transformed from carbon sinks to carbon sources due to years of intensive agriculture requiring low water tables. In the Netherlands, carbon dioxide (CO2) emiss...

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences by Laura M. van der Poel et al. ⬇️

The authors combine two types of carbon dioxide data from Dutch peatlands in a machine learning model: from fixed measurement towers and from a light research aircraft.

Read more:
bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

📣 You can now propose your session for #EGU26 @egu.eu!

Check out all the info about the BG program group here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/provis...

Publication in Nature on the basis for securing forest carbon sink in the EU sets the scene for #NextGenCarbon project work in the next years.

New deadline for #ForwardsEU grants❗

Calls G-03-2025 and G-04-2025 deadline application has been extended to 21 Sept (21:00 UTC)📣

Both aim to link ground & remote sensing data to assess climate impacts on trees and forests.

Apply at 👉 efi.int/grants-train...

@remote-sensing-slu.bsky.social

Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating

Summer reading: Why is less carbon being absorbed by land and trees and how does that impact our climate-neutrality goals? Last year's Guardian article interviewed NGC partner and WP lead Philippe Ciais and other climate scientists: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A nice write-up came out of a chat with the ICOS team. About using laser scanning to monitor forests at ICOS sites in Sweden & Finland 🌲

Grateful for the opportunity & the good field vibes 🧡

📎 www.icos-cp.eu/news-and-eve...

props to @nextgencarbon.bsky.social , kobe & seppe ✌️

Climate week in Exeter comes at 'critical time', expert says The Exeter Climate Forum gets underway as a second heat alert in two weeks is issued.

As the Exeter Climate Forum gets underway at @exeter.ac.uk and amid a heatwave, "the evidence for climate change has never been clearer", says Professor Peter Cox, Director of @gsiexeter.bsky.social.

@metoffice.gov.uk #exeterclimateforum

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