Please register for our Canopy Access Workshop: bit.ly/49lhyNS. With only 12 slots, our priority is for research students based in Ghana&West Africa.

"The fact we can't simulate these step-change increases and understand why it's happening is terrifying." -- Prof. Hayley Fowler "The impact of warming the ocean could lead to new classes of heatwaves we've never seen before." -- Prof. Valerio Lucarini bbc.com/future/article…

The #BEOday2024 in Hasselt started off with two great presentations!

We made the UCLA magazine cover story Congo Basin Institute UCLA Center for Tropical Research Zapata Lab! #PANGEA #Cameroon #TropicalResearch @UCLAnewsroom newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/summe…

The first month of our field campaign in the Queensland Permanent Rainforest Plots (Queensland Permanent Rainforest Plots - qprp-aus.com) has been a success with 6 plots already completed and 10 more to go in the coming weeks! [1/5]

🎙️Q-ForestLab presentations at #ForestSAT24 in Rotorua on the last day of the conference 👌

🚨 Join the 2nd EYC Space Talks on #GreenCities, taking place next week! Discover how space tech can help create sustainable, eco-friendly cities. FREE registration, limited spots available! Don’t miss out. 📅when: 24/09 🌍where: Ghent 🎟️register: eventbrite.be/e/eyc-space-ta…

Join the EYC Space Talks on 24/09 at De Krook and get inspired by fascinating speakers! One of the key speakers is professor Hans Verbeeck. He’ll reveal how his team, Q-ForestLab, uses advanced tech to study how trees help combat climate change! 👉 eventbrite.be/e/eyc-space-ta…

Our new paper Kim Calders Hans Verbeeck Louise Terryn Q-ForestLab on the bitemporal 3D-explicit radiative transfer modeling of complete forest stand, and the impact of of forest structural dynamics on canopy light regimes. Full paper: bit.ly/3N6WoKM

A new episode is out now! Great thanks to Prof. Kim Calders for making some time to make this episode 🙌🏻 A full episode on YouTube: lnkd.in/ets_eEDH A full episode audio link: lnkd.in/eTYRMdSk

🌿"Meet the Expert" Seminar! 🌿 📅On October 21, Dr. Santiago Botia will present his recent research about the "Amazon Carbon Cycle Response to 2023 Heat & Drought" at Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent . Please register by Oct 16: ugent.be/nl/agenda/meet…

Long-term survival of Congo’s biodiversity threatened by lack of local scientists | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

If you ever want to try to introduce lianas in a vegetation model, check some guidelines in our new paper, based on 10 years experience of liana-modelling work! 👇 Q-ForestLab Towards a liana plant functional type for vegetation models sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Full room for a seminar of Santiago Botia Q-ForestLab about the Amazon Carbon balance using inverse models. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

We have an open Postdoc position (vegetation modeller) Q-ForestLab in the framework AFRO-CARDS project: “African Forest RecOvery and CArbon Dynamics monitoring through Remote Sensing”. Deadline: 1st of December 2024. jobs.ugent.be/job-invite/279… Belspo Belgian Earth Observation Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

Just wrapped up our first Q-Forest Lab retreat! 🌲💡 Great to see the lab's growth kick off with an impressive start, engaging sessions, and great food! 🍽️ Congrats to Todi, our first Q-Forest Lab award winner! 🏆 #QForestLab #LabRetreat

🎉Exciting news! Our Master's student Warre Demuynck(supervised by Thomas Sibret) is on the shortlist for the most prestigious Master Thesis Prize in Flanders!🏆The winner will be decided by public vote and jury evaluation.👉Help Warre win by voting here: scriptieprijs.be/nieuws/stem-vo…

🌟 Huge congratulations to Warre Demuynck on winning the 2024 Vlaamse Scriptieprijs and the Eosprijs! 🏆 A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who supported and voted for him—your encouragement made this achievement possible! 👏