🛰️🌎 Prof Matthew Hansen will lead a $1.2 million project to improve monitoring of tropical land cover, via the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Using satellite data, his UMD-GLAD team team will map where commodity expansion is replacing forests and other natural areas. go.umd.edu/hansen-defor...

🗓️ GEOG Seminar: Join us Thursday, Nov. 6, at 3:30 p.m. for "Turning Scientists’ Dreams into Reality: Your Wish Is an Instrument Scientist’s Command" with Philip W. Dabney from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: go.umd.edu/geog-seminar...

#ICYMI "Jane Goodall is someone we should try to emulate in realizing a life of meaning and impact... We're proud that the tools + partnerships we developed w/ @janegoodallcan.bsky.social continue to guide conservation efforts + inspire the next gen of scientists. go.umd.edu/jane-goodall...

🤩 The newest season of the TED Fellows Program Film Series spotlights Assistant Professor Catherine Nakalembe (Ph.D.) 🎥 Watch her story on TED.com and stay tuned for her upcoming TED Talk! www.ted.com/talks/cather...

Help us spread the word! 🌍🛰️ Join our final grad info session for: * MS in GIS * Grad Certificate in GIS * Grad Certificate in Remote Sensing Learn the latest in geospatial tech, theory + applications to advance your career. 👉 Register lnkd.in/erNR2EqQ

I'm excited about the themes for this year's @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting in San Francisco on March 17-21, including an overarching theme of Mapping the Future & 2 presidential themes: 1) the Future of Food & Agriculture; & 2) the Future of Geography Education www.aag.org/events/aag20...

#ICYMI NASA Harvest is creating the RAAPID Center to help countries respond faster to food system shocks. Using satellite data and AI, the center will provide rapid, reliable crop assessments when crises strike. 🌍 Learn more: go.umd.edu/RAAPID-Center

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🗓️ This Thursday: Join us in LeFrak Hall 1158 or on Zoom 💻 for the seminar "The Effects of Climate Change on Vulnerable Children with Dispersed Family Networks"with Keehoon Jung, doctoral student in @umdarec.bsky.social ⤵️ go.umd.edu/geog-seminar...

📅 Join us for a hybrid seminar with Associate Research Professor Michael Humber on using satellite data and spatial analysis to map Maryland's agricultural climate vulnerability, via @crnatumd.bsky.social go.umd.edu/23fy

🌊 How is saltwater intrusion affecting Maryland's farmland? UMD's @crnatumd.bsky.social's dashboard shows over 14,000 acres at risk, providing data for farmers and policymakers. Check it out: go.umd.edu/climate-impa...

📅 Join NASA's ARSET for a free online training on satellite remote sensing to study climate-sensitive infectious diseases, with GEOG Chair Tatiana Loboda tomorrow, Oct. 7, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT. 2nd part with @mcwimberly.bsky.social on Thur. Register now: tinyurl.com/32zxw8yx

🚨 Grad program info sessions in #GeospatialSciences are coming up! Advance your career or gain new skills in GIS, Remote Sensing & GEOINT. 📅 Oct 2 | 12 PM EDT – MS GIS & Certs Register ▶️ lnkd.in/ehbhNKNn 📅 Oct 6 | 5 PM EDT – MS GEOINT & Cert Register ▶️ lnkd.in/eC5X-xY5

❓Why would a scientist who tracks forests speak out about political AI? 🤖 Andres Hernandez-Serna of UMD's Global Land Analysis and Discovery team GLAD warns: the AI that maps forests is now shaping political messages without labels or accountability. Learn more: go.umd.edu/political-ai...

🚨 Grad program info sessions in #GeospatialSciences are coming up! Advance your career or gain new skills in GIS, Remote Sensing & GEOINT. 📅 Oct 2 | 12 PM EDT – MS GIS & Certs Register ▶️ lnkd.in/ehbhNKNn 📅 Oct 6 | 5 PM EDT – MS GEOINT & Cert Register ▶️ lnkd.in/eC5X-xY5

Do you work with local communities and want to share the important work that's been done? Then join our upcoming webinar with editorial board members from the Community Science Exchange and community members from projects that have published with us! #AGUPubs

It’s truly baffling to me that so many of these stories focus on “wow big fish” and not “this is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species that is extremely physiologically fragile and often does not survive fishing practices like this” www.mysanantonio.com/news/south-t... 🦑🧪🌎🦈🐠

🚀 Just released: updated Land Cover Map Validation Guidelines led by UMD-GLAD's Alexandra (Sasha) Tyukavina. These best practices help researchers & practitioners worldwide build more accurate, reliable land cover maps. Free & open to use. Check it out: go.umd.edu/land-cover-m...

Tracking Africa’s crops just got easier. #HarvestStat Africa provides detailed subnational stats for 94 crops across 33 countries, freely available for research, forecasting & food security planning. 📊🌱 go.umd.edu/harveststat-...

"Cutting down the Amazon will bring extreme rain, wind and heat. We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme and varied." 🌍 www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

Resources can be incredibly important for students at all levels of education. These can include connecting at meetings, earning awards and grants, taking advantage of professional development opportunities, or joining various groups and organizations. Tailor these to your needs: buff.ly/JVcFGPj

#remotesensing #datascience #ecology Very nice piece - also in its presentation

Diego Cardenosa has loved sharks ever since he was a child. The Colombia native was never afraid of them when he visited his beloved beach. He was fascinated with how sharks moved through water using their multiple fins.

🦈🐘 Wildlife trade is a major driver of biodiversity loss. At this ENST Seminar, Diego Cardeñosa (Florida International University) shares how science can shape policies to regulate it. GEOG students encouraged to attend 👉 go.umd.edu/enst-seminar... 📅 Wed, Sept. 17 | 🕒 3 pm | 📍 0408 ANSC

📹🏍️ Can a GoPro on a helmet transform how we map crops? Faculty specialist Diana Botchway Frimpong highlights work led by Assistant Professor Catherine Nakalembe (Ph.D.) using helmet cams + AI for low-cost, scalable agricultural data: go.umd.edu/helmets-labe...

🌟 Did you catch this? New Ph.D. student Michaelmary Chukwo guest-posted in @geographers.bsky.social newsletter on #AAG2025, sharing his experience chairing the Human Dynamics Symposium on Environmental Exposure, Mobility & Health. www.aag.org/navigating-h...

🌍 Call for Papers! Submit to the Progress in Physical Geography special issue: Coding Earth: Open Source Solutions in Physical Geography 📅 Deadline: 18 Dec 2025 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/home/ppg #OpenSource #OpenScience #GISchat #RSpatial #GeoPython

In a recent interview, Dr. Webster Mohriak shares an overview of the topics covered in his two-book set Salt in the Earth Sciences, including salt deposition and giant salt basin. 📚 🎥 buff.ly/dL1wBEn #SaltDeposition #evaporites #salt #AGUPubs #IMOG2025

🛰️ 🌏 UMD's Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) lab help advance a global dataset that improves disaster response, land-use monitoring and agricultural planning: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

🐍 How does a “wild” reptile from Germany end up in U.S. import records when it isn’t native to Europe? Prof Meredith Gore & colleagues reviewed 20+ years of wildlife trade data, uncovering gaps that put biodiversity at risk. 🔗 go.umd.edu/wildlife-tra... via @currentbiology.bsky.social

Engaging with the media is one of the best ways to raise awareness about your research to the public and #policymakers. Highlight your newsworthy research to @tandfresearch.bsky.social for the opportunity to work with journalists & some of the largest publications worldwide. buff.ly/SPkib5X #GeoSky

🦟 Fighting disease with satellite data 🛰️ Prof Tatiana Loboda has received a $1M grant from @nasaearth.bsky.social to develop satellite-based early warning systems for malaria and dengue in Indonesia. Learn more: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

🌍 Save the Date: Aug. 19 🌳 We’re pleased to welcome Drs. Thorsten Wiegand & Andreas Huth from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research @ufz.de for a joint seminar event. 🌱 Forest spatial dynamics & species coexistence 🌲 Tropical forests & carbon cycle modeling More details: go.umd.edu/20qa

If you thought forest fires were getting worse, you’re right 🌍🔥 UMD's GLAD lab found record-breaking forest loss in 2023–2024, with fires now driving over 40% of global forest disturbance. Learn more: go.umd.edu/record-wildf... #climatechange #wildfire

How do different types of forest regrowth impact carbon recovery? Xueyuan (Eric) Gao (Ph.D. ’24), now postdoc at Princeton, tackled this in a Nature Communications paper that earned ESA’s 2025 Early Career Ecologists Outstanding Paper Award 🎉 geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

#Arctic sea ice is tracking 2012’s record lows-will the trend continue? In the #Antarctic, warm temps slow new-ice growth to near record-lows for June. Meanwhile, US restrictions on #satellite sea-ice data threaten vital climate time series. Find these news here: www.meereisportal.de/en/news-over...

✨ Professor Kathleen Stewart is kicking off her term as @ucgis.bsky.social president, leading the charge for next year’s national symposium at the University of Maryland! Read more: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

📗Read in #ERE how remote sensing can be utilised to map forest fuel across Germany, providing valuable data for regions at risk of wildfire 🛰️🔥🌳 Full article: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #environment #wildfire #ecology #openaccess #remotesensing #GEDI #LiDAR #forests #Germany #fuels #canopy

I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...). I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.

📒 Applications are now open for AGU travel grants, travel fellowships and research grants! ➡️ Learn more about available grants and submit your application by 13 August: buff.ly/G2FWBxv

NEW – Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7

Large #wildfires burning in Syria, seen yesterday by the Copernicus / @esaearth.esa.int Sentinel-2 mission. As well as the fires themselves, you can see a huge region that's already been burned - all that Brown-coloured bit in the middle.

🚀 GeoAI Tutorial 24: Water Detection Using GeoAI with Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery 🌍🛰️ 🔗 Tutorial video: youtu.be/zL6cv3njVew 📓 Notebook example: opengeoai.org/examples/wat... 💻 GitHub repo: github.com/opengeos/geoai 📚 Documentation: opengeoai.org 🎥 Full playlist: tinyurl.com/GeoAI-Tutori...

What does crossing 1.5°C really mean for our planet, our economies, and our lives? And why is it still possible to change course? Watch this quick explainer — then dive deeper into the data and pathways forward. Read the full breakdown: go.wri.org/criticalwarm... #WRIExplains

In the early hours of July 4, floods swept through Hill Country, a region of Central Texas also known as “Flash Flood Alley.” The Guadalupe River rose 20 feet in three hours, according to data. trib.al/ks0p328

📬 Our newsletter is out: Brave the heat with GEOG research highlights, news, cool maps and more 🔥 mailchi.mp/30f252c59336...

How can student research shape a university’s climate future? 🌱 Undergrad Natalie Rosenthal just earned a $52K grant to lead the Campus Forest Carbon Project 2, advancing forest carbon modeling, land-use planning & student engagement. Read more: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

New Climate AI Nordics newsletter out now: research highlights, events, job openings & member spotlight. Read & share! climateainordics.com/newsletter/2...

🗺️ Rya Inman (MS ’25) created an Esri StoryMap that brings pangolin trafficking into focus through GIS, remote sensing + local data. As the U.S. moves to list pangolins under the Endangered Species Act, tools like this are key to driving 🌎 conservation: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

🌍🛰️Know someone curious about geospatial skills? Help spread the word! UMD’s virtual info session on GIS & Remote Sensing grad programs is this Monday, June 16 at noon ET. 📅 Register: go.umd.edu/gis-info-ses...