Not every day you get to share a paper published in @science.org . Yesterday “Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century” was published. In short: wildfires, windstorms and insect outbreaks are projected to increase across Europe as the climate warms 🌍🌲

Enhancing ecosystem service provision through the silvicultural management of European black pine stands from afforestation and reforestation in Italy - Journal of Forestry Research Afforestation and reforestation, when aligned with site-specific ecological and socioeconomic conditions, can enhance ecosystem functions and services (ESs). In the Mediterranean, European black pine ...

🌲𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓!

A new study shows that in Italian black pine forests, moderate thinning best balances wood production with key ecosystem services like carbon storage, soil protection & recreational value.

Read more👇
link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

#EGU26 abstract submission is still open!
You can submit your abstract until 15. January 2026 here: www.egu26.eu/session/56353

@for-mod-lab.bsky.social @ecohydrologylab.bsky.social

We welcome work on ecohydrological & biogeochemical processes under changing land use/cover & climate, including:

🔹 Field/lab studies
🔹 Remote sensing & drones
🔹 Modeling & AI
🔹 Digital twins & new EO data

Interdisciplinary studies bridging ecology and hydrology are especially encouraged! 🌳

🌱𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 - 𝗘𝗚𝗨 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲!

🌍 Interested in agroforestry, water, and carbon cycles?

💧 HS10.16 – 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 & 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒚𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒔

📅 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟏𝟓 𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
Submit here 👉 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

New paper! 🌳 iWUE in a beech forest shows no big differences across silvicultural treatments, but rises ~20% by 2050 under climate change. At this site, climate—not management—drives future iWUE. doi.org/10.1007/s116...

Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning Data assimilation (DA) has been shown to be a powerful tool for reducing land surface model (LSM) parametric uncertainty Machine learning can facilitate parameter estimation by enhancing computat...

Out today in JAMES!! Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning doi.org/10.1029/2024... led by Nina Raoult, Natalie Douglas, @janasknits.bsky.social, @tquaife.bsky.social, me, and an awesome team of folks in the community 1/2

New study out of our laboratory! First-ever national scale study using NFI plots and the process based forest model 3D-CMCC-FEM in Italy!
A great work lead by my colleague Elia Vangi.

Plots illustrating the bipolar convection seesaw mechanism

⚒️ Article: The onset of Southern Ocean convection following a slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during Heinrich Events can help explain rapid CO2 increases and Antarctic warming during these events

@pik-potsdam.bsky.social‬

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our latest study!

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...