Delighted to be featured on the back page of nature ! I am very lucky to work where I work. 🌳🌴🌳 nature.com/articles/d4158…

.James Ball maps tree trunks to better understand a crucial ecosystem and its response to climate change. “The Amazon rainforest of French Guiana constantly buzzes and hums, but I keep my focus on the trees.” go.nature.com/3cSoG9d

Thank you to these brave women for speaking out. Women shouldn't have to forge their scientific career in a toxic male-power academic culture. #womeninSTEM #ToxicAcademia buzzfeednews.com/article/nishit…

Using deep convolutional neural networks to forecast spatial patterns of Amazonian deforestation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Check out our new article! We assess the risk of 36 apex predators from current roads🐻🐯🐺, and we predict the level of impact of future road developments in the Brazilian Amazon, Africa and Nepal 🌎🌍🌏 This work is an #IMAE collaboration! nature.com/articles/s4159… Scientific Reports

The machines insist that I tell you that they are helping us to keep track of Amazonian deforestation and definitely NOT plotting global domination!! 🤖 Happy to share our new paper on using deep CNNs to forecast deforestation. Seth Flaxman doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

New publication on deep learning for rainforest deforestation forecasting in the Amazon, started Imperial College London with the support of Cool Earth besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… finally out, w/ K. Petrova James Ball D. Coomes @plantsci @cambridge_uccri in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Today, the University of Cambridge is sharing research into its historical connections to slavery. Read the summary, a response from the Vice-Chancellor, and our plans for creating a Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Fund.

Proud to share this paper on the tricky topic of airborne lidar intercalibration led by Grégoire Vincent. Controlling for different equipment and parameters when assessing vegetation characteristics has been a big challenge but removing biases is possible! authors.elsevier.com/a/1gNb1_o69Imfa

Tired of manually delineating tree crowns? This AI can do that for you! Detectree2 finds tropical forest trees in RGB images. New paper by James Ball Sebastian Hickman Toby Jackson @plantsci AI for Environmental Risks CDT AMAP …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rs…

🐦🦌 Thrilled to be a coauthor on @BrodieEcology's @nature paper! Our research finds that protected areas in Southeast Asia not only preserve bird diversity within, but also boost mammal diversity beyond their boundaries. No "leakage", but a beneficial "spillover" effect. #30x30

It's critical to know the limitations of your methods. Robust ground truth datasets are essential for that! Airborne lidar holds much promise for studying 3D vegetation structure at scale but still some way to go before it sheds light on what's happening below the canopy. 🌳🔎

Want to map trees in diverse tropical forests from the sky? Excited to share our pre-print using AI on repeat UAV imagery to precisely locate crowns and hyperspectral data to identify their species! @plantsci 4C: Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits AMAP @cambridge_uccri doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

A bit close to the bone 😅😅😅