🍇Hyperspectral leaf reflectance predicts #grape berry Brix, pH, and acid across varieties and stages. Useful for harvest timing. (Troy S. Magney, Fallon Ely, Alexandra Z. Basquette, Jessica Lyons, Devin P. McHugh, Elisabeth J. Forrestel) ▶️ acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PlantScience

Feels surreal but this is my last week at UC Davis. Time is truly an enigma. …after five great years, I will be moving to the University of Montana, as an Associate Professor and W.A. Franke Endowed Chair in the Department of Forest Management🌲🏔️and I could not be more excited. @umontana.bsky.social

🍓From Computers and Electronics in Agriculture: Strawberry yield forecasting improves using YOLO phenology detection with weighted LSTM time-series models. (Andres Montes de Oca, Troy Magney, Stavros G. Vougioukas, Steven A. Fennimore, Mason Earles) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🖥️ From Ecological Modelling: Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) - informed models improve crop gross primary production (GPP) estimates. New DayCent framework uses mechanistic light response and outperforms RUE. (Troy S. Magney, Francis Ulep) ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New research from @w-u-r.bsky.social shows that the world’s coldest forests will lose their tree covers because of continued warming. Story by @ktjandra.bsky.social eos.org/articles/bor...

Happy to share a new paper, "Effects of Hot Versus Dry Vapor Pressure Deficit on Ecosystem Carbon and Water Fluxes," led by the amazing Miriam Johnston w/ @mallorybarnes.bsky.social and others agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

New Tansley review paper from Zoe Pierrat & friends in @newphyt.bsky.social linking proximal remote sensing with ecosystem fluxes! Synergies and best practices for hyperspectral reflectance, SIF, thermal, microwave and lidar 🌈🌲🗼🛰️🧪 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Flux Course, Spanish language edition, June 22-July 5 2025 in Mexico! Apply by Jan 31 for instructor or Mar 28 as student at fluxnet.org/tafe/

Future #climate projections of tree cover suggest the boreal forest is headed for an open state (⬇️🌲in south & ⬆️🌲in north) But, how will boreal tree cover dynamics influence—and be influenced by—climate feedbacks? We discuss this in a new commentary @pnas.org. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#JPL has so far been safe as well thanks to round the clock work of our first responders. But over 150 JPLers have lost homes that we know of so far. We are raising funds to support them through Caltech! Please consider supporting: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema... Thank you!

Hello Blue Sky! Good to be here. How well can leaf reflectance spectra predict hydraulic traits in Amazon trees? Find out in our new RSE article led by Dr. Maquelle Garcia! authors.elsevier.com/c/1kGKn7qzT3...

Why does hyperspectral reflectance work for tracking plant physiological dynamics? I recently wrote a commentary for @newphyt.bsky.social about that, targeted for a broad audience of plant scientists 🍃🌈🧪 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Scientists are expected to do peer reviewing but no one tells you HOW. After talking with several folks about this today at #AGU24 , it seems a good time to link to this presentation I made several years ago -- feel free to use/share! docs.google.com/presentation...

I sadly won't be at #AGU24 this year, but some of our lab members and science will be! 🍃🌈🌎🧪

🌿📷🌡️ Calling all #NearSurfaceRemoteSensing enthusiasts at #AGU24! Join us for the session "B21B – Advancing Environmental Monitoring through Near-Surface Imaging Technologies" 📅 Tuesday ⏰ 8:30–10:00 AM 📍 Room 151B

Looking for the latest global #fluxnet carbon NEE, water, GPP, transpiration upscaling 2001-2021 (daily 0.25 degree, monthly 0.05 deg) - Fluxcom-X paper now out in Biogeosciences: @jakenelson.bsky.social and crew, X-BASE: bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/... Data at: meta.icos-cp.eu/collections/...

Our review of the direct response of stomata to temperature just came out in an issue (OK, it was 3 months ago but I just noticed). We cover what (little) is known, & possible mechanisms and implications. Several more papers in the works. Watch this space! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Book chapter pre-print on scaling forest ecophysiology using optical techniques. 🍃->🌲🌳->🌎 It was impossible to cover as much as I wanted to, but wanted to share in case anyone has useful feedback, I'd love to hear from you and change accordingly! essopenarchive.org/users/534071...

New paper in Ecology! 🌲❄️ "Seasonal timing of fluorescence and photosynthetic yields at needle and canopy scales in evergreen needleleaf forests" by Zoe Pierrat et al. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... PS I'm going to start using bsky more :)

Recent install of TSWIFT (Tower-Spectrometer on Wheels Investigating Frequent Timeseries) at Tonzi Ranch - excited to link optical and energy fluxes at this iconic oak savannah woodland site! @ucdavisplants.bsky.social

🌳 🌡️ For my first post here, I'm thrilled to share our latest research! We show how extensive reforestation in the SE US contributed to regional cooling in the 20th century. We also highlight the potential benefits of temperate zone reforestation for local & regional climate adaptation. 🌎 💚

Really excited to share with my small following here this paper that summarizes the last 5 years of our work trying to understand how to track photosynthesis in evergreen forests across scales 🌲🌈 Led by Zoe Pierrat, and published in BioScience! tinyurl.com/bioscizp

Looking forward to #AGU23! Come find these great scientists and humans from the Plant Optics Lab Scientific Program link to our stuff: tinyurl.com/PlantOpticsL...

here's to hoping this platform takes off, I finally made it