We are looking for a PhD student to work on terrestrial ecosystem and agricultural science using geostationary satellites, please RT! Zhou Zhang (张舟)

It was a great pleasure being a part of this!

Congrats to @definearth on a great defense yesterday! **also she's on the job market so someone hire her because she's smart/awesome/funny/etc.

Just out: GHG EC fluxes on tropical peat managed and unmanaged forests nature APRIL Deshmukh, C.S., Susanto, A.P., Nardi, N. et al. Net greenhouse gas balance of fibre wood plantation on peat in Indonesia. Nature (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41586… #DesaiLab

Our new research just published in NatureClimate finds that the northern peatland carbon sink is being burned up by wildfire and degradation. Read along for some highlights and find the full paper here: go.nature.com/43Q7U3Z 1/n

Science is hard. Good research makes you feel stupid. You're inadequate for the task at hand. How else would it be? You're pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Get used to it. This process is immensely rewarding.

No reward - no duties.  75% of respondents have reduced the hours spent on academic duties since 2020 (Nature polls). Mostly due to burnout and unwillingness to work for free. This included attending conferences, peer reviewing manuscripts and grant proposals, committees,

The Spotlight Effect (a visual thread)

Every day I am in awe of international students. Doing a PhD in your native language and home country is hard. Doing it in a non-native language, in a different country and different culture is so much harder. You are not stupid. You are legends.

Weather satellites can estimate terrestrial carbon fluxes in real time. While we're working on details please check out our new ALIVE project website and please be in touch if you'd like to collaborate! Danielle Losos UW-Madison SSEC alive-abi.github.io/alive/index.ht…

Come join Lifen Jiang , @grquetin, Yiqi Luo and I at #AGU23! Abstracts due August 2, submit here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/preli…

Boreal fires can smolder underground for months or longer, even through the winter. These fires release greenhouse gases and can reignite causing more surface burning the next fire season. Here we discuss the rise of zombie fires. W/ Dr. Jennifer Baltzer theconversation.com/zombie-fires-a…

We explored the applicability of the Optical TRApezoid Model (#OPTRAM) to monitor the water table over intact, restored, and drained peatlands in #Finland, #Estonia, #Sweden, #Canada, and the #USA. authors.elsevier.com/a/1hUNy7qzS-P-s The work funded by Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland @AaltoGeoinfo 1/4

Our fifth and final #DesaiLab UW Atmos/Ocean Sci PhD defense of 2023 goes to Bailey Murphy who worked closely with #CHEESEHEAD19 and NEON data in #MANDIFORE U.S. National Science Foundation Macrosystems Biology project on scale dependent interactions of forest management and climate change on forest function.

Blog post on new article on cumulative albedo-carbon tradeoffs in tree planting schemes as revealed in Fluxnet analysis: earthenvironmentcommunity.nature.com/posts/reflect-… AmeriFlux

Excited to share that our global wetland methane upscaling paper and dataset is now published in AGU Advances and summarized in AGU's Eos! Many thanks to the FLUXNET-CH4 data contributors and many scientific collaborators on this project. Too many to name here! #upch4

Just out in print: All you need to know to quantify/measure all things wetland carbon in this monster 169-page, 67-author peer-reviewed tome, including eddy flux over wetlands. @definearth USGSWetlands Rodrigo Vargas and many others! AmeriFlux

Thank you to all co-authors for making this possible. #tropicalpeatland #peatland #remotesensing

Come hang out with us at #AGU24! Submit to our session here (abstracts due July 31st) ⬇️ agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

Thank you @definearth !