The big dry: forests and shrublands are dying in parched Western Australia theconversation.com/the-big-dry-fo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

A great pleasure to host Gunnar Keppel and PhD students Chloé Bentze and Donna Fitzgerald from Uni of South Australia! Excellent tag team talk on their work quantifying stringy bark dieback in the Clare Valley and Mt Lofty Ranges.

abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

#EucalyptoftheYear voting closes tonight! Vote now: eucalyptaustralia.org.au/eucalypt-of-th…

TERN NatureScan operationalising drone protocols for DJI M350 with P1 RGB and MicaSense Dual multispectral cameras, and Zenmuse L2 lidar. Goal is to collect dozens of plots across Australia's ecosystems and make raw and processed data freely available.

Thrilled to share our paper in New Phytologist: 'Spectral ecophysiology: hyperspectral pressure–volume curves to estimate leaf turgor loss', led by Raiza Castillo, w/ Alina Zare, Grace John, Gerard Sapes, Alston Lippert, & Nicole Mallen! #SpectralEcophysiology doi.org/10.1111/nph.19…

Unpopular opinion: Not all research needs to be 'groundbreaking'. Small, incremental advancements are just as valuable.

Proud of my graduate student, Kaiwei Luo, because today his first research chapter of his PhD was published in Nature.
Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening rdcu.be/dAQoE

I'm proud to have been part of this beautiful sprawling monster of a paper - the MOST comprehensive analysis of a single drought's development, drivers, and impacts that any sane drought scientist could want.

🔍 #DataDiscovery | Drone Lidar Data from TERN plots across Australia
A collection of drone #lidar data from TERN plots. The aim of these surveys is to capture vegetation structure, an important indicator of aboveground biomass & #carbon storage.

📊: portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/…

Today starts our TAW-Tree project led by Nicolas Delpierre. The goal is to estimate total (soil) available water (TAW) for trees and forests combining geophysics, ecophysiology, plant hydraulic modeling and remote sensing !

It was a lot of fun to talk to Dr. Kate Johnson about my work with drones, trees and heat stress 🌳🌡️ and about my (personal) experience pursuing a career in academia 🌏💻 Thanks for the opportunity That's What I Call Science 🎙 ! 🎙️

Yonatan Sorek has graduated his Ph.D! His thesis is published as three excellent papers!

Does anyone have a postdoc position for him?

He is well-trained in plant hydraulics and irrigation and has tons of fieldwork experience. He is also an expert coder in R. Highly recommended!

Dig into our new special issue: Root Architecture and Rhizosphere—Microbe Interactions

bit.ly/35JchR9 🧵

The second chapter of my PhD is out in Plant Cell & Environment! Here we explored the drought legacy effects on canopies of Eucalyptus viminalis and found some very interesting results 👀
spoiler: variation is playing a big role!
Ibrahim Bourbia Brodribb Lab

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…

Do you love data, science,
forests & mountains? Then support us as a research scientist! We are a fun team studying tree and forest responses to extreme events applying experiments and models.
Apply here 👉 ecophys.imk-ifu.kit.edu/downloads/2024…

CityRail a COMPLETE failure this evening. We will NEVER hit emissions reductions targets when public transport is so poor

#ESA2023

Scholarships are now available at Western Sydney University.
westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/sc…

I'm looking for two PhD students to join me at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment.

Hooraaaay! So excited to see this out, awesome work Beatrice Harrison Day

learn what's going on below the ground during drought ➡️nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…