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...

✈️ 🦏 Which airports are quietly fueling the illegal wildlife trade? How can AI help stop them? A study by @usc.edu student Hannah Murray w/ GEOG Prof Meredith Gore + USC Assoc Prof Bistra Dilkina reveals trafficking hotspots using AI, network science ⤵️ tinyurl.com/mr2ncj9d #worldenvironmentday

From: UMD-GLAD:🌳 The 2024 global tree cover loss data by UMD-GLAD are now live! 📊 View & download GeoTIFFs via the Earth Engine App: t.co/4b6cqGc70V 🗂️ Also in the EE Data Catalog: t.co/7O3uRQ3gbO #ForestChange #TreeCoverLoss #EarthEngine

Global Forest Watch's analysis of #TreeCoverLoss data from UMD GLAD reveals the tropics saw an unprecedented level of fires in 2024. We cannot afford to ignore the 2024 wake-up call 👉 gfw.global/tcl24

🎧 Do not miss this interview on Lidar Magazine! From early inspiration to lidar’s future, Professor Ralph Dubayah discusses the science, challenges and legacy of the GEDI mission: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

🌳🔥 Where and why did the world’s forests suffer most in 2024? GEOG researchers at UMD-GLAD tracked a major rise in wildfires across tropical and boreal forests in 2024, with @worldresources.bsky.social Learn more: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

⏰EXTENDED⏰ AGU is seeking passionate & experienced individuals to serve as Editors-in-Chief with terms starting on 1 Jan. 👉APPLY BY 3 June 👉 buff.ly/Jo2Snsh

#NASA ABoVE is wrapping up after 10 incredible years of advancing our understanding of northern ecosystems. I had the privilege of summarizing disturbance-related research highlights at the final Science Team Meeting. Presentation here www.researchgate.net/publication/...

We use remotely sensed vegetation disturbance data from Dr. Matthew Hansen of @umdgeography.bsky.social to track new landscape changes in New England. On our end, the data is accessed and refreshed every week. #gischat #geosky 4/6

Announcement: Remote Sensing of Environment, Special Issue: ➡️Development, Validation, and Application of Medium- and High-Resolution Satellite Products at Regional to Global Scales Builds on Radeloff et al. 2024 (113918) data products review in RSE. Details: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

It's time for #gischat! I think we could all use some good news. What's some good news related to geospatial stuff? Let's set the bar real low and say it can be recent or old news. As long as it's good, we want to hear it! Remember to use the hashtag in your replies!

🗓️ Don’t miss this hybrid seminar on Thursday, May 8 at 3:30 pm! Gokul Iyer, team lead at JGCRI, will dive into how LNG trade and critical materials shape the energy transition—using insights from the Global Change Analysis Model: go.umd.edu/seminar-goku...

🌳🗺️ After 13 years of refining methods for forest loss maps, UMD-GLAD's Sasha Tyukavina and colleagues have published a unified set of methods for validating land cover— published in Remote Sensing of Environment. Read more: t.co/HOW3m7dOPm

🚨We’re hiring a postdoc in Woodland Phenology & Climate Change at Uni Southern Denmark!🚨 Combines fieldwork (Sweden & Denmark), remote sensing (drone/camera) & genetics to study phenological response to climate. Link: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com.mcas.ms/hcmUI/Candid... Pls share!

I'm hiring for a machine learning data scientist & research assistant for summer 2025! Join me on a project on invasive species management with an innovative startup doing on-the-ground removal of environmentally destructive invasive animals. Paid, full-time w/ possibility to extend.

From NASA-UMD's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: GEDI L4A post-storage datasets are available on NASA Earth Data via the Oak Ridge Lab. Now all #GEDI footprint level datasets from Level 1 to 4 are public up until mission week 311 except L4C WSCI: search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granu...

On World Book Day, #AGUPubs recognizes our dedicated authors and editors.✨ Watch the latest video interviews to learn more about their research and new books.📚🎥 🔗 buff.ly/p10OjS7 #WorldBookDay #WorldBookandCopyrightDay #Publishing #STEM

A new #AGUPubs study uses centuries of historical records to create a database of milky sea sightings, revealing when and where milky seas occur around the world. Check out the @cnn.com feature: 🔗 buff.ly/FE4xjeF #bioluminescence #STEM #EarthScience

New paper 📝 After 4 years of work and 870 GB of modelling, remote-sensing, and observational data, I’m delighted to share our work on permafrost modelling ❄️ We focused on snow insulation, one of the key drivers of permafrost dynamics

Updated the GitHub repo with a list of Geospatial Conferences 2025 🌍 Covers events on GIS, remote sensing, and more. Browse the list and improve it here: github.com/Nowosad/conf... #geospatial #GISchat #remotesensing #Geo2025

An awesome PhD being advertised in Svalbard with @eeror.bsky.social - collecting ground reference data to directly validate satellite radar remote sensing missions! 🛰 ❄️ www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...