Passionate about conservation, geospatial science & working with communities 🌍 🛰️| Founder of @OurVoicesGlobal 🌿 | Opinions are my own 🌱
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🌿I’m pleased to share findings from our recent study, "Smart Forests: Leveraging #AI-Remote Sensing to Combat Forest Degradation & Carbon Loss in Ethiopian Coffee Landscapes," highlighting how advanced #technology transforms #forest protection and supports #sustainable #farming.
Opening reflections on ESA’s #LPS25 - check out my LinkedIn post on data accessibility! #decisionmaking #dataaccessibility #decolonizedata
🌍 Heading to ESA’s Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna? Let’s connect! I’ll be presenting on “Transforming Forest Monitoring for Climate Finance & Carbon Conservation in Coffee Landscapes” #LPS25
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The final paper of the Global Carbon Budget 2024 is now published.
The @gcarbonproject is committed to transparency and traceability on how we develop and update the annual budget, which requires peer-review and making the data available.
essd.copernicus.org/articles…
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Lianas are beautiful too! Transverse sections reveal the patterning of xylem tubes, reflecting how so much stem space is devoted to transporting water skyward.
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We quantify, map and analyse wood density across tropical South America.
Our analysis led by @mjpsullivan refines the east-west Amazon gradient in wood density, improves it by revealing much finer variation, & extends to Andean, Dry & Atlantic forests.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Connections that bind us:
The forested lands of indigenous Amazon people export their water to southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay - helping to power the continent and feed the world.
📔We’re on the cover of Science! 🌳Our new study shows #tropicalforests in the #Americas aren’t adapting fast enough to keep up with #climatechange 🍃🌎
Check out our paper: science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
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Just 17% of world’s peatlands are protected, new study warns | @AyeshaTandon @GAViglione w/ comment from Chris Evans, Julie Loisel @AdamHastie6 @Earth2Mika
Read here: buff.ly/4hF8dFt
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NEW – Just 17% of world’s peatlands are protected, new study warns | @AyeshaTandon @GAViglione w/ comment from Chris Evans, Julie Loisel @AdamHastie6 @Earth2Mika
Read here: buff.ly/4hyBCRM
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🌍 The #Arctic is crucial for our global #climate as a significant carbon sink. A new study in @NatRevEarthEnv highlights the urgent need to understand how climate change is disrupting this balance. @MGoeckede @LuanaBasso16 @nunataryuk @poolvonk
bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/news-arct…
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Do you know how wild it is to publicly announce that you don’t want diversity, equality, and inclusion?
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Interested in tropical peatlands? On 17-18 February, we have the first ever scientific conference on African peatlands, at the Royal Society in London. Free to attend+streamed online (w/ French subtitles). Register here: royalsociety.org/science-eve…
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In this paper, I followed #decolonial and feminist geographic perspectives to look at the everyday (re)productive work of #MayaWomen in their home-gardens in the Peninsula of #Yucatán, Mexico.
#IndigenousKnowledge #FeministGeographies #agrifood
teapaw.org/anaj05/status/18727285…
Open access: Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán by Ana Julia Cabrera Pacheco
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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📢 #PublicationAlert #PostdocVoice
Happy to share that my paper "Traditions and territories of Maya women in the Peninsula of Yucatán" has just been published by @GPCjournal!
@GeosciencesEd
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Our 2024 Annual Crop Inventory for the Ag extent of #Quebec has been released.
open.canada.ca/data/en/datas…
Attached is an overview of it & a look at 2 areas all with alt text descriptions.
#CropMap24 #CdnAg #Landcover #Agriculture #Mapping #OpenData #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing
ALT Image showing Agriculture Canada's 2024 Annual Crop Inventory for the agricultural regions of Quebec. In addition to mapping what was grown in each field by satellite imagery, we also include the surrounding landcovers (forest, water, urban, etc...) so that people can see how things change over time.
ALT Zoom-in of the agricultural area surrounding Lac Saint-Jean, QC. Reds indicate fields of berries, mainly blueberry with some cranberries in a slightly lighter shade. Purple represents wetlands, with dark purple indicating where peat extraction is occurring. Cyan are showing fields of buckwheat. The various shades of yellow/gold fields are showing crops like corn, soy, small grain cereals (oats, barley), forages and pasture lands.
ALT In southern Quebec long narrow fields of corn (pale yellow) and soybean (dark gold) dominate the area. However three of the central Monteregian Hills (left to right: Mont Saint-Hillaire, Mont Rougemont, Mont Yamaska) covered in deciduous forests pop up from the landscape. At the base of two of these hills you will find numerous apple orchards (coral pink).
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Curious about how remote sensing is applied to monitor forest restoration? Take a look at our latest paper:
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14…
🛰️ 🌳 Happy to be part of the team pioneering a remote-sensing framework combining #LiDAR and RGB(I)/MS sensors to revolutionize #forest monitoring. Recently applied in Paraguay and Germany, this approach unlocks insights for sustainability & biodiversity #conservation.
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Carbon accumulation rate peaks at 1,000-m elevation in tropical planted and regrowth forests sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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🔥 New Research Alert! 🔥 Fire is a vital tool for subsistence agriculture in the tropics, but if not properly controlled, it can lead to escaped fires. My latest study explores how Quechua farmers in the Peruvian Andes manage agricultural burns (1/6). doi.org/10.1007/s10745-024-0…
