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Ben Dechant

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Postdoc @geo-tub.bsky.social (TU Berlin), interested in terrestrial vegetation patterns and dynamics: plant functional traits, photosynthesis, biodiversity; tools: remote sensing, process modelling, ML

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Charlotte Grossiord @charlottegrossiord.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🌳We are hiring a PhD student in Forest Ecophysiology and Remote Sensing at EPFL and WSL in Lausanne! @vallicrosah.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social Start: April-May 27 Applications: Open until filled careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
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geo-trees.bsky.social @geo-trees.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌴 Postdoctoral Fellowship — GEO-TREES 🛰️ STRI-ForestGEO seeks a Postdoc to develop satellite-based methods estimating tropical forest biomass ( #AGB), local to national scales. 📍 Panama City 🇵🇦 | 🕐 2 yrs Details: forestgeo.si.edu/postdoctoral... #RemoteSensing #GEO_TREES #ForestGEO #Postdoc #Hiring
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Renato Braghiere @renatobrgh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🔥 Call for abstracts: AGU26 GC057 — Fire Representations in Earth System Models and New Frontiers in Observations. We welcome work on fire processes, ESMs, land–atmosphere feedbacks, human dimensions, benchmarking, and observations. Submit: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 04/07/2026
Hotter and hotter and hotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New records set in many European countries
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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🥵 Europe has been affected by a terrible heatwave, with impacts across the continent & record-breaking temperatures in many countries. The @ipcc.bsky.social #AR6 conclusions show that that heat extremes have become more intense & more frequent across the world due to human-induced climate change.
Changes in temperature extremes as function of global warming, from Fig. SPM.6 of IPCC AR6 WGI (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf); based on data from IPCC AR6 WGI Chapter 11 (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter11.pdf)
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
⏳ 1 week left! Apply now for the iDiv Fellowship Programme and spend dedicated time advancing your research at iDiv. 📅 Deadline: 24 June 2026 🔗 www.idiv.de/research/fel...
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Come work with us and do research in Germany’s only national park in the Alps, iconic Berchtesgaden Nationalpark! We are looking to fill a PostDoc position in vegetation ecology (tinyurl.com/PostDocBerch...) and a PhD position in mountain forest dynamics (tinyurl.com/PhDBerchtesg...).
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🚨 Two major iDiv calls are now accepting applications! 🔹 iDiv Synthesis Centre Working Group Call 🔹 iDiv Fellowship Programme Call 🔗 More info, application criteria + deadlines: www.idiv.de
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iDiv - Integrative Biodiversity Research
The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) is a global leader in biodiversity science, dedicated to understanding the variety of life on Earth.
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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 05/05/2026
Join us (@weecology) as a postdoc working on your choice of ecological forecasting or drone + computer vision based monitoring of the iconic Everglades ecosystem. Applications due Friday. 🌎 Happy to answer question about the position. jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/p...
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Join Our Everglades Wading Bird Research as a Postdoc
Join our Everglades Wading Bird project as a postdoc researcher! Explore wading bird breeding, nest success, and drone monitoring opportunities.
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🚨Reminder: Apply to the iDiv Fellowship Programme! Spend dedicated time at iDiv to advance your research and collaborate with our biodiversity community. 📅 Deadline: 24 June 2026 🔗 www.idiv.de/research/fel...
A pdf explaining the general rules of the iDiv Fellowship Programme.
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Geoinformation in Environmental Planning @ TU Berlin @geo-tub.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Next week #EGU26 is starting - the lab is well presented. Join their talks and posters! #EarthObservation #TUBerlin #EGU
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
⚪𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗣𝗜-𝗕𝗚𝗖 - 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺-𝗔𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 & 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝗹𝘂𝘅𝗲𝘀 3-year PhD at the @bgc-jena.mpg.de within the GENAI-X project as part of the ELLIS Unit Jena. ‼️Apply until April 9: www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/career/02...
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PhD Candidate (m/f/d) | Hybrid Modelling for Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon & Water Fluxes
PhD Candidate (m/f/d) Hybrid Modelling for Ecosystem-Atmosphere Carbon & Water Fluxes
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Ben Dechant @bendechant.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New paper led by Changhyun Choi from RyuLab@SNU @youngryel.bsky.social 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢-𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥-𝟐 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... The study analysed data from several #NEON forest sites and makes use of RS-derived tree species maps.
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🌍 Eight synthesis centres, led by sDiv, have completed a joint call on biodiversity & climate change. 💡14 projects + postdocs 💡1.7 million euros 💡214 researchers 💬 @smartenwinter.bsky.social: Researchers will be launching initiatives at a scale we could previously only dream of. shorturl.at/UvMsu
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Global call uniting synthesis centres on biodiversity and climate enters project phase at iDiv
A global network of synthesis centres and 214 researchers are launching 14 new projects to advance biodiversity and climate research.
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Qiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📢 Call for Papers | Special Issue in Remote Sensing of Environment We are excited to announce a forthcoming special issue in Remote Sensing of Environment focused on the rapidly evolving area of Geospatial Foundation Models and their transformative potential for environmental remote sensing.
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Geoinformation in Environmental Planning @ TU Berlin @geo-tub.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The the deadline for abstract submission and registration has been extended to March 2, 2026
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Geoinformation in Environmental Planning @ TU Berlin @geo-tub.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Our three-day KI-Recover workshop at the Bavarian Forest National Park wrapped up with a snowy, insightful visit to the project sites. We’re already very much looking forward to the next meeting. #KIRecover #ForestRecovery#ReforestationMonitoring #KI
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KI-Recover @ki-recover.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Great news! 🌱 Last week Christine Wallis and Robert Jackisch received funding for KI-Recover, supported by the German Environment Ministry. The project uses AI to boost sustainable forestry — from climate-resilient tree selection to smarter reforestation. 🌳🤖 #AI #ClimateAction #Forests
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Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
We keep growing! Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...
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Fabian Schneider @fabdanis.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🎓 Please join us for a PhD in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure at Aarhus University. It's a great place to live and work, and an inspiring university to do research 😊 phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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Healthbeat @healthbeat.org · 26/08/2025
Researchers at the Yale School of the Environment used satellite imagery to analyze the start of the growing season at New York City parks. They expected to see spring arrive earlier with climate change — but found that it was arriving later.
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Climate change, urban heat island effect delay spring in NYC parks. What it means for public health.
Researchers at the Yale School of the Environment used satellite imagery to analyze the start of the growing season at New York City parks. They expected to see spring arrive earlier with climate change — but found that it was arriving later.
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Geoinformation in Environmental Planning @ TU Berlin @geo-tub.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
We are using drones and sensors to investigate areas affected by forest dieback. We are mapping deadwood and collecting data on regeneration, mortality, species composition and age structures.
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Jeannine Cavender-Bares @cavenderg9.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments” esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK www.spectralbiology.org
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
NEW: “An initiative to make central Berlin largely car-free [car-lite or car-reduced] has been declared legal by the Berlin Constitutional Court, paving the way for organizers to collect signatures for a referendum.” This one will be worth keeping an eye on. www.yahoo.com/news/berlin-...
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Berlin could go largely car-free as court rules bold initiative legal
An initiative to make central Berlin largely car-free has been declared legal by the Berlin Constitutional Court, paving the way for organizers to collect signatures for a referendum. The Berlin Const...
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Yulin Yan @yulin-yan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🌱 Our team recently explored how plants across the globe make the most of sunlight. We found that traits like leaf lifespan and chlorophyll content—alongside climate—play key roles in shaping photosynthetic efficiency. 🌍💡 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
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Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Guten Morgen! 🗳️ Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Wahlsonntag. Heute nicht vergessen wählen zu gehen...denn nicht wählen stärkt die Falschen.
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
🎓PostDoc 👨‍🎓Habilitation position in modern geoinformatics (e.g., spatial ML, hybrid AI) for analyzing and predicting environmental changes. 📝Contract: 2+X years. 📆Apply by March 11. 🔗: bit.ly/giscience @alexanderbrenning.bsky.social, @ellis.eu, @uni-jena.de #researchteaching
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Robert Griffin-Nolan @rjgriffin-nolan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Twitter/X got really quiet (and weird) so I finally moved over here...are my fellow ecology/plant eco-phys folks out here?? Give me a follow to bring back that lovely #scicomm community 🙏🌱🤓
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Özden Terli @terliwetter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#Klimakatastrophe www.stern.de/geo/klimakri...
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Der BND warnt vor Sicherheitsrisiken durch die Klimakrise. Genau zur rechten Zeit
Nicht Fridays for Future, sondern BND und Bundeswehr warnen nun vor den Folgen unterlassenen Klimaschutzes. Und führen damit die Realitätsverzerrung der aktuellen politischen Debatte vor.
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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Welcome to the official bluesky account of the International Tree Mortality Network. Here we will post invitations to our seminar series and news about the network soon.
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Landsat 🛰️ @landsat.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The USGS, in partnership with NASA, is calling for applications from federal and international partners to serve on the 2025-2030 #Landsat Science Team. Applications are due February 28. Learn more here: ow.ly/rx9G50UKoJ1 #eochat #gischat #remotesensing
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Scientists for Future 🇩🇪 (S4F) @de.scientists4future.org · 19/01/2025
Liebe Leute, wir müssen mal reden! Im aktuellen #Bundestagswahlkampf erfährt die #Klimakrise überhaupt nicht die Aufmerksamkeit, derer es angesichts ihrer reellen Bedrohung unserer Lebensgrundlagen auf diesem Planeten eigentlich bedürfte. 1/6
SharePic: Stilisierte Verbrennungskraftwerke (rot) und ereneuerbare Energien mit Solarzellen und Windrädern (blau) vor weißem Hintergrund. Unten Text: Klimakrise und Energiewende – Wandel für eine stabile Zukunft und ein Logo der Scientists for Future
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Science News @scinews.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
How much do people around the world trust scientists? "Most people have a relatively high trust in scientists. People want scientists to take an active role in society and policymaking." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tom Hengl @tomhengl.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Applications for the OpenGeoHub EO-Council.nl summer school 2025 "Data Science for Earth Observation: Hands-on Training in Python, R and Julia" are closing on 18th of January 2025. Eager to meet other young scholars in the field? Apply here: opengeohub.org/summer-schoo... av.tib.eu/publisher/Op...
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Max-Planck Caltech Carnegie Columbia (MC³) Center @mc-3.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
😱 Curious to find out more about how land surface fluxes’ influence low-cloud formation and the Earth energy balance. This is one of our open PhD projects. You can explore more here: buff.ly/4gGGcwk #ClimateResearchNet
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Hamed Gholizadeh @gholizadehrs.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
We are seeking a Ph.D. student for our recently NASA-funded HI-GRASS project, which uses imaging spectroscopy to uncover the factors influencing grassland aboveground and belowground biodiversity. Deadline January 20th, 2025. Full job description: hamedgholizadeh.wixsite.com/mysite/grass...
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Max-Planck Caltech Carnegie Columbia (MC³) Center @mc-3.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We have an open call for PhD positions! The positions are at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany - but you will have the opportunity to stay with one of our partners during your PhD. Take a look at the offered projects 👉 mc-3.org/research-pro... #ClimateResearchNet
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Daniel Maynard @dansmaynard.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
AI-INTERVENE is now accepting applications for 26 PhD projects in AI and Biodiversity findaphd.com/phds/program.... Hosted by UCL and the University of Reading, in partnership with NHM, ZSL, Kew Gardens, and UKCEH. More details at ai-intervene.net #biodiversity #AI #conservation
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Glenn Moncrieff @gmoncrieff.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
If you are at #AGU24 next week, do yourself a favour and come to the film premiere of 'The Spectrum of Life' - a short documentary about NASA’s first biodiversity airborne campaign in South Africa, BioSCape agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me... at 6pm on 9 Dec, River Birch Ballroom, The Westin DC Downtown
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Image and Signal Processing • ISP @isp-uv-es.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🚀 Exciting opportunity for a physicist/mathematician! Join us to pursue a PhD on equation discovery with #AI for the sciences. 🌍🌌⚛️ 📅 Apply by Dec 16th: t.ly/tqMdN Shape the future of scientific exploration! ✨
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🌿 Outstanding #CESAB SynTreeSys online seminar series : Understanding Tropical Forests 📅 Nov 28 - Dec 6 ⏰ 1 PM São Paulo | 5 PM Paris 28/11 H. Steege 29/11 R. Lima 03/12 T. Scalley 04/12 @tobypennington.bsky.social 05/12 C. Fortunel 06/12 J. Chave 👉 meet.google.com/gsq-gqgf-vug 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🌾
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Martin De Kauwe @mdekauwe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🚨 PhD: "Forests on the edge: examining vegetation recovery following climate extremes" at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social with myself, Lina Mercado (Exeter) and Eddy Robertson (UK Met Office). I would REALLY love to find a student for this, please share widely (thanks) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Europe's hot dry summer of 2022(Logo) UK land surface model, JULES
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Kristina Anderson-Teixeira @k-andersonteixeira.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
FANTASTIC PERMANENT RESEARCH POSITION for Ecologist/Statistician (Interdisciplinary) focused on conservation at Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute (Front Royal, VA)! www.usajobs.gov/job/819535900. Come be my colleague! Please repost/ send to qualified candidates.
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Ecologist Statistician (Interdisciplinary)
<p>The Smithsonian Institution is the world&rsquo;s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. The mission of the National Zoo and Conservation&nbsp;Biology...
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Please read & support this initiative 👇
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Ankur Desai @profdesai.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Also closing Nov 30 - asst/assoc professor of atmos/ocean sci at UW-Madison @uwmad-aos.bsky.social - broadly in climate/weather risk, modeling, AI/ML, remote sensing, all the good stuff. Reach out to me (dept chair) or @alopezlang.bsky.social (search comm chair) or qs! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...
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Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary: The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) invites applications at the assistant (tenure track) or associate professor (tenured) level with research broadly related to mod...
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Philipp Gärtner @mixedpixels.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Mark your calendar for #BIOSPACE25, the 1. int. conference exclusively dedicated to the application of 🛰️ satellite #remotesensing (#SRS) across the various dimensions of #biodiversity. 🛜 => biospace25.esa.int 🗓️ =>10.-14.Feb.2025 🌍 => 🇮🇹 #eochat
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Partner organisations BIOSPACE25 is the first international conference exclusively dedicated to the application of Satellite Remote Sensing (SRS) across the various dimensions of biodiversity, and add...
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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
The Oxford University Biodiversity Network has moved over to Bluesky. Follow us here to know about the many biodiversity-related events in Oxford, and also our weekly high profile seminars which are live streamed and recorded and available worldwide @biodivoxford.bsky.social
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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity We hope to get one to our department #biogeography A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪 #biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity Please re-🦋 www.su.se/english/news...
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Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University
Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University
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