🚨Two fully funded PhD opportunities in Australia! Improving C4 photosynthesis in vegetation models. Supervised by Dani Way (ANU, Canberra) and myself (UTS, Sydney). 1. Lab- and field-based project at ANU – see flyer below 2. Modelling project at UTS – www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Two PhD opportunities at the Australian National University and the University of Technology Sydney, working on thermal responses and thermal acclimation of C4 photosynthesis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Vegetation biogeography is a main source of uncertainty in modelling the land carbon cycle!

✨ PhD opportunity studying drought and heatwave effects on threatened plants ✨🔥 Funded by an ARC DECRA awarded to the amazing Dr Ilaíne Matos and co-supervised by Dr Sami Rifai and me! Limited by the character limit here, so please see the attached flyer for all the details - please share widely!

"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

The Global Carbon Project has just published the most comprehensive Global Hydrogen Budget to date. H2, although not a GHG, has an indirect Global Warming Potential 37 times more potent than CO2. Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/hydrogen-emi... Research paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Eckes-Shephard et al. @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

Just published, a land-mark paper by Annemarie Eckes-Shephard et al.! It assesses the performance of a new generation of Demography-enabled Dynamic Global Vegetation (D-DGVMs), that attempt to simulate the changing size and age structure of trees in forests.

I found an obituary for Steve www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Ste...

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Our global meta-analysis is finally out - we explore the most important influencer on C4 photosynthetic capacity using ~1700 C4 Aci curves! Data are freely available for the community.

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - our paper was born of collective frustration around continual conflation of restoration + reforestation, invariably misrepresenting open ecosystems in global models of ecosystem C storage potential.

What a pleasure to write a News & Views piece on this intriguing article that found surprising insights into WUE trends --> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(1/3) I'm thrilled to announce the publication of our new paper on the impacts of land use and land cover changes on ecosystem sensitivity to drought and temperature fluctuations! 🌍🌳 Check it out here: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024.... 📊 #LandCoverChange #Deforestation #Drought #EcosystemStability

A gap-filled and partitioned eddy covariance flux dataset for 34 sites across Northwest China is now publicly available online. Our data paper, led by Xufeng Wang, just came out in Earth System Science Data. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Newly calibrated grass behaviour in the #FATESmodel :) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Some physiological processes that can be neglected when measuring gas exchange in happy plants become important when dealing with stressed plants. In this paper we outline the things that might cause trouble under suboptimal conditions. Shout out to the new journal @plantecophys.bsky.social !

Beef has a climate problem. Facing it requires we look beyond greenwashing and focus on hard truths. drawdown.org/insights/gre...

Boreal forests are heading for an open state | PNAS

🚨 New paper led by Gab #nosocialmedia Abramowitz: On the predictability of turbulent fluxes from land: PLUMBER2 MIP experimental description and preliminary results bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Congratulations to Dr Jürgen Knauer for winning this year's @ecolsocaus.bsky.social ARDC Award for New Developers of Software! Read our interview with Jürgen about his winning software and research: ardc.edu.au/article/shap... #ESAus2024

What a nice surprise and recognition from Western Sydney University while overseas!

What an honour to receive this year's open source software award! Thanks to @ardc.bsky.social for sponsoring and thanks to @bmedlyn.bsky.social for jumping in to present at #ESAus2024

Honoured to have been named Australia's leading researcher in Atmospheric Sciences by the Australian. Read the interview here: www.theaustralian.com.au/special-repo...

🧪🌏🌾 New paper out! We show more realistic photosynthesis models predict higher CO2 uptake going into the future: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very proud of this excellent work by postdoc Juergen Knauer! Also read his Conversation article about it: