Amazing turnout in the session! Thank you all for attending! 👏👏👏

Very large 3D baobab tree with a scientist for scale.

#Biodiversity #3D #lidar @esa.int #LPS25

Can we use 3D data to understand the structural component of tree biodiversity?

Please join us in the first Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity session here at Living Planet 2025 🌳 to find out!

Room 0.96/0.97.

lps25.esa.int/programme/pr...

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

For anyone interested in #remotesensing of #biodiversity check out the live stream of the #BIOSPACE25 meeting.

Many interesting talks coming up, so tune in if you can!

biospace25.esa.int/live-stream/

“BIOSPACE25 is the FIRST international conference dedicated entirely to space-based observation of biodiversity”

👏👏👏

Day 1 of the BIOSPACE25 Meeting at @esa.int. 🛰️

I’m so excited to spend this week focused on understanding 🌍 biodiversity and finding solutions to #biodiversity loss.

An amazing group of scientists and organizations represented here who can certainly make a difference!

This one site had virtually ZERO canopy cover. Ash and Oak decline is deeply impacting the forest.

Laser scanner in the forest at sunset

Coming back from a week of laser scanning fieldwork where I originally worked on my PhD and it was surreal.

I've not been back for 10 years and, while some areas of the forest seemed almost frozen in time - others are experiencing massive dieback.

A decade provides a lot of perspective.

🚨 ‼️ NEW PAPER ALERT ‼️ 🚨

So honored to be included in this amazing effort led by Zoe Pierrat et al on proximal remote sensing. 👏👏👏

This work synthesizes loads of great info across the board - with keys discussions on synergies and a path forward for global proximal sensing networks!

There's now so many awesome #geospatial people here it's hard to keep track! 🤩

Here's a thread of some of my favourite starter packs so far - let me know what I've missed!

🛰️ Earth Observation & remote sensing: go.bsky.app/4PMRhNL

🌏 GIS: go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6 @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social

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Registration for CA Tree School in Santa Cruz County is officially OPEN! Reg closes in March and the event is April 5th in Felton! Students get to choose from over 25 classes for a day of forestry education like no other. This event is SO COOL. ucanr.edu/sites/forest...

As you might expect, TanDEM-X height estimates improve across the board with a higher threshold of GEDI shots per calibrated grid cell - but the tradeoff is a reduced number of observations. Finding this balance can depend on the availability of GEDI data.

Download the TanDEM-X GEDI Fusion Canopy Height map and check it out! 🤩

daac.ornl.gov/VEGETATION/g...

Compared to other optical products the TanDEM-X SAR canopy height is unaffected by clouds and was LESS biased and LESS prone to saturation in maximum canopy height estimates.

Mapping large-scale pantropical forest canopy height by integrating GEDI lidar and TanDEM-X InSAR data NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamic Investigation (GEDI) mission provides billions of lidar samples of canopy structure over the Earth's temperate and pan…

🎉 New Paper Day! 🎉

A great collaboration between the GEDI team and DLR led by Wenlu Qi!

Integrating GEDI + TanDEM-X for pantropical mapping of canopy height, paving the way for better biomass maps.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

University of Bristol Life Sciences Building

🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.

Biodiversity session starting now. 151A.

#AGU24

Regular sized scientist standing near a huge baobab tree in 3D

Scientist pointing in 3D

Real baobab and scientist together

Super excited to present our #NASA work on #3D #biodiversity traits in #forest #ecosystems at #AGU24! 🌳

We are working to understand convergent and divergent structural traits (dry forests today).

Biodiversity + 3D visuals + global ecology? Stop by 151A at 11:00

agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

Glorious talk from Anthony Campbell mapping estuary biodiversity in South Africa. 👏👏👏

Excellent #NASA #Bioscape #biodiversity session happening right now! 149B.

Already packed, but room for more!

#AGU24

#NASA exhibit hall #AGU24 is the BEST place to see #scicomm! 🤩

How does wildfire severity (and other factors!) affect pyrogenic organic matter? 🔥🔥🔥🌲🌲🌲

Super cool talk from @atkinsjeff.bsky.social #AGU24

A Valencia street filled with crumpled and piled cars left behind after the record-breaking flooding.

Don’t forget Valencia, Spain.

Don’t forget those who insisted that actions needed to avoid the #ClimateCrisis were “too expensive.”

Don’t forget all the record-breaking, historic or “100 year” events we’ve seen lately.

They’re not the “new normal.

It’s going to keep getting exponentially worse.

yes Yes YES!

Chaotic AGU schedule

I....don't know how to see all of the cool #science stuff!!! 😅 #AGU24

Ancient Araucaria tree in Patagonia

🚨 New paper! 🌲🌲🌲 Monkey puzzle trees reproduce in mast years that occur synchronously across their range. But large-scale sync isn’t the norm - just when its warm. We reconstructed using #TreeRings, using the signal from varying reproductive costs in male and female trees doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70087

Who loves #3D #forests here??? 😍 🖐️

We use this AMAZING #tech to capture 3D #tree #ecology traits.

👋 Introduction time for new faces/followers! 👋

I'm a 🌳 #ecologist exploring #forests in #3D trying to understand why #trees grow the way they do and why it matters. 🌍 I use #lasers and #remotesensing @ #NASA to study trees, #biodiversity, and #resilience 🌲📡

#Ecology #plantScience #nature #scicomm

Love all of the great #trait based ecology mixed with environmental gradients coming out lately! 🤩

Seminar is part of the International Tree Mortality Network. There's a picture of Paloma, her university logo (Universidat de Alcala) and the time, which is 3 Dec 24 at 1600 CET. I'll be watching and if this is your kind of thing then I recommend you make space in the diary for it too, she's brilliant.

Just spotted this seminar tomorrow (3 Dec) by the awesome Paloma Ruiz Benito on "Forest dynamics under global change: temporal perspectives with observational approaches". Register here zoom.us/webinar/regi...