This week’s IBioS member Article Highlight!
Dr. @naomibschwartz.bsky.social and colleagues recently published an article on “The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets.”
Read more about this article here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets, to ensure results appropriate for decision making.”
Two weeks left to apply for the Canada Excellence Research Chair in my department at UBC! Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions about the position.
UBC is recruiting a new Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. This is a great opportunity for a mid-career scientist studying our changing oceans - CERCs are the best funded research chairs in the Canadian research system.
research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...
Such a pleasure and a privilege to visit Edinburgh and participate in our first Tropical East Asian Savanna Network meeting! Looking forward to lots of exciting collaboration ahead.
Brilliant day this week on the Tropical East Asian Savanna Network workshop- out on Salisbury Crags with the Global Grassy Group practicing ground layer data collection and loving the #grasses! @s-eshelman.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @naomibschwartz.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social
My stellar dept @ubcgeography.bsky.social is searching for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk. This amazing faculty job for a senior ecosystem scientist comes with loads of research funds and a move to Canada! Read more and apply here: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
Excited to be visiting Edinburgh next week for the first Tropical East Asian Savanna Network meeting. If you’re interested in learning more about these fascinating and misunderstood ecosystems, join us via live stream (or in person if you happen to be in Edinburgh)!
In person event funded by
@royalsoced.bsky.social
June 24th at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 9:30-4:30
@thebotanics.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-e...
or online via teams:
Meeting ID: 374 127 860 994 5
Passcode: Yq3je9Jo
More exciting speakers at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium! Dr Manichanh Satdichanh will be presenting on 'Farmer, fire and forest succession: A story of social-ecological system from Southeast Asia'. Join us on 24th June in person or online, for free! #savanna #conference #ecology 🌐🌏
I have an opportunity for a new PhD student in tropical tree ecophysiology in my lab. Some more details at the link below. Please pass along!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
My stellar dept @ubcgeography.bsky.social is searching for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk. This amazing faculty job for a senior ecosystem scientist comes with loads of research funds and a move to Canada! Read more and apply here: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
Finally pulled the trigger and updated my Vancouver tree map with newer data, now it contains not just street trees but also other public trees in e.g. parks. (Thanks Vancouver Open Data!) Handy when wanting to look up a tree while walking around town. mountainmath.ca/vantrees
New in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.
A map of tree crowns in southwestern Panama, showing satellite imagery of a tropical landscape
A scientist surveying trees in a pastoral landscape with a GPS unit
🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Realistic models of the potential for global reforestation suggest that it could absorb roughly 5% of human CO2 emissions. This is still worthwhile but nowhere near a solution on its own. New paper just published 🧪🌏🌐
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
I suspect someone may have already done this... I took the current NASA Earth fleet chart of operating and planned Earth observing missions and crossed out those recommended for cancellation in the President's budget request. It's disturbing.
Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tickets (free!) for the first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium are available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-e...
200 word abstracts still welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions.
See you 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social !
#ecology #savanna
🌐🌏
A poster with a black background and six circles, five of which have an animal, bird or plant in. The sixth circle reads 'Tropical East Asian Savanna Synposium' The poster advertises a free public symposium on 24th june at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Lecture Theatre, 20a Inverleith Row. The event is funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh with support from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
The first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium, funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social, will be 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social. Free! Come along, or apply to present! 200 word abstracts welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🌐🌏
Postdoc alert! Looking for someone to join our new savanna zoogeochemistry project with @ymalhi.bsky.social and Mark Robertson. Please circulate widely! Contact me if interested. #ecosystemecology #largemammalherbivores #termites
my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...
Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities vist.ly/3m23kct #LeafEconomicSpectrum #Rainforest #SeedSize
An attack on science. In plain sight.
It would be great if Columbia University could give the GISS team space for *free*. That would be bold leadership!
This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH.
Pass it on!
Fantastic analogy
🌿 Our new study in @natplants.nature.com: Most European temperate forest plants are associated with semi-open, herbivore-shaped habitats—not closed-canopy #forests 🐎🌳🔆🌸 Highlights the need for trophic #rewilding in #conservation & need to avoid uniform dense #reforestation🌿
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
One aspect of Trump’s antisemitism fig leaf I haven’t seen discussed: if you’re a Jewish student who DOES experience antisemitism, but doesn’t want to blow up your college or get your classmates deported, you basically have no choice but to stay quiet and suffer in silence.
Trump did that.
