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Heather Reese

@heatherreese.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof in remote sensing and GIS, Univ of Gothenburg, Sweden. #drones, #UAV, #EarthObservation, #EO, #satellites, #vegetation change, #permafrost, #peatlands, #subarctic, #mountains, #geospatial

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Lots of good talks, info and a nice community at the #EARSeL Imaging Spectroscopy workshop in Helsinki.
Outside the Aalto Univ conference location
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
At the IASC Terrestrial Working Group meeting, talking Arctic Science and preparing for IPY 2032/33. Aarhus is a lovely setting.
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Important update about Congressional efforts to prevent the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from being dismantled. Last week the White House threatened to veto any appropriations bill that protects NCAR. Despite this attempt at intimidation ... (1/ )
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢 Do you want to do a #PhD using #hyperspectral satellite data to observe climate influences on tundra vegetation in Sweden? With me and @robertgbjork.bsky.social at U of Gothenburg. Apply by 19 Jan 2026. bit.ly/44duvJI
Abisko Sweden looking over Torneträsk
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢 Do you want to do a #PhD using #hyperspectral satellite data to observe climate influences on tundra vegetation in Sweden? With me and @robertgbjork.bsky.social at U of Gothenburg. Apply by 19 Jan 2026. bit.ly/44duvJI
Abisko Sweden looking over Torneträsk
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 29/10/2025
📺 #WatchLive: #CopernicusEU Sentinel-1D is just days away from launch on Ariane 6 flight VA265. 🚀 Next Tuesday, 4 November, from 20:35 GMT/21:35 CET on #ESAwebTV2, watch the liftoff live 👉 watch.esa.int More details 👇 @cnes.fr @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social @transport.esa.int @euspa.bsky.social
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Watch live: Sentinel-1D launch on Ariane 6
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is about to get its fourth satellite, with Sentinel-1D now ready for liftoff. Launch will take place with an Ariane 6 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana and live cover...
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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity
Professorship in Biodiversity. The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the
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NPR @npr.org · 04/10/2025
With the 2026 midterms approaching, Republican officials continue a push for more restrictions on overseas voters, including U.S. military members stationed abroad.
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A GOP push to restrict voting by overseas U.S. citizens continues before 2026 midterms
Republican officials are pushing for more voting restrictions on U.S. citizens who were born abroad and have never lived in the country, after unsuccessfully challenging their ballots in 2024.
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I can attest to this since we were doing field work at this time. Sweaty from start to finish above the Arctic Circle... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say
Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Our last day of fieldwork for the #EnMAP project was eventful with lightning, hail, wind and a downpour. Luckily all viewed from Björkliden's restaurant terrace. Unfortunately the clouds moved in just in time for the satellite overpass.
Enacing cloud with Lapporten in background
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Another beautiful day of groundtruthing for our #EnMAP.#SNSA project ... without sweating from start to finish under a hot sun.
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Fieldwork for Emil's hyperspectral PhD work was in Kärkevägge today. Not a bad work environment...
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Emil and I are on our way north for 2 weeks of field work... with a little bit of equipment...
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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Another exciting day in the ReindeerFlux project!🦌 Frida and @colebrachmann.bsky.social measured CO₂ & CH₄, while Alex and Johan flew drones with radar, multispectral & NDVI sensors. Thanks @svtnyheter.bsky.social’s Susan & Henrik for visiting—loved sharing our work in beautiful Grövelsjön! 🌿
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This describes our vacation so far...
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#LPS25 power breakfast
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Yesterday, besides the opening session of #LPS25, I found Sofia Walther et al's talk on estimating Arctic Boreal NEE interesting, with importance of local training and addition of meteo variables, with more results to come.
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 23/06/2025
🔴 LIVE now on #ESAWebTV: opening keynote at #LPS25 in Vienna! 🌍 Stay with us for the latest breakthroughs in Earth observation 👉 esawebtv.esa.int The opening ceremony will include the unveiling of the first images from our forest mission, #Biomass 👇 lps25.esa.int/opening-sess...
The 2025 edition of ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Vienna
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I'm walking to #LPS25 this morning, glad for the shade of Sycamore trees in the city of Vienna. We need the trees more than ever.🌳
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
More of this truth telling please (and thank you)
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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Fantastic introductory seminar by our new PhD student Emil Larsson! 🛰️ He’ll be exploring how hyperspectral satellite data can unlock new insights into Arctic biodiversity ❄️🌱. Excited to follow his journey — and to learn a lot along the way! 📚✨
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 29/04/2025
🌳🛰️ Our groundbreaking Biomass satellite lifted off on Vega-C #VV26 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:15 BST/11:15 CEST on 29 April. The satellite is designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle.
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Biomass launched to count forest carbon
ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off ...
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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Today @ 1700 the embargo on our Arctic synthesis published in @nature.com is lifted. Swedish press release: @naturvetenskap.bsky.social. @mlkristola.bsky.social @vetenskapoallm.bsky.social @emilnilsson.bsky.social @ragnhildlarsson.bsky.social @supermiljobloggen.se @etc.se @dagensnyheter.bsky.social
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Nature @nature.com · 26/04/2025
Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump’s administration go.nature.com/4jnEXnt
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Major European institutes join race to save US science data
Nature - As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One month left to apply for this #academicjob at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. #remotesensing, #satellites, #drones, #machinelearning. Come work with us on #Arctic and #alpine vegetation, also #biodiversity and #climate. Requires PhD taken max 7 years ago (excl leave).
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Nexus Research Group @nexuslmu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🛰️ 3 sessions, one poster pitch & more than 30 speakers later, we've learnt a lot about the current mission status, insights into other missions, and a whole variety of different use cases for #EnMAP data! Now it's time for one last poster session before we're off to our icebreaker event! #EnMAP2025
Workshop participants socializing in the garden of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung.Preparing for the next session: Prof. Tobias Hank talking to a workshop participant.Group picture of the workshop participants in the garden of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung.Prof. Wolfram Mauser talking to a workshop participant in the garden of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung.
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
At the #EnMAP 2nd annual users meeting in Munich. Ca 80 people attending in person. Exciting times for #hyperspectral data use, and EnMAP data are looking good.
People having coffee break at the EnMAP User meeting
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Job announcement! Come work with us as Assoc Sr Lecturer in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenure track for someone with broad remote sensing & machine learning knowledge. Work with climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV... Deadline 10 May tinyurl.com/58ft38du
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Associate Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Data Science
Associate Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Data Science At the Department of Earth Sciences, we
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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Scott Goetz @sjgoetz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 Really well done new video clip on the Permafrost Carbon Network led by colleagues here @NAU. Check it out! www.permafrostcarbon-aware.org/wp-content/u...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Brave New World. The US sliding down into an authoritarian oligarchy.
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Given what is going on in US now, has anyone gotten a clue of what will happen with #Landsat? I can imagine they might go back to commercial selling of data - Im old enough to remember those days. Glad we have #Sentinel2 but... thinking of downloading old Landsat data this weekend... 😞 #eochat #eo
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Gerard Rocher-Ros @grocherros.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry
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Landsat 🛰️ @landsat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Happy #EarthRotationDay! As we celebrate this unique day that honors French physicist Léon Foucault, it is also fitting to recognize advancements in #EarthObservation technology. The upcoming #LandsatNext mission will revolutionize our ability to monitor and understand Earth. 🌎
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I am updating my lecture on future remote sensing developments, mainly new sensors to come. Anyone have any future sensor news they think I shouldn't miss? I will share the full info later.
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INSTAAR @instaar.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚨 New research warns of accelerated timelines for a sea-ice-free Arctic 🧊 🔜 💧 Paper by Céline Heuzé (U of Gothenburg) & Alexandra Jahn (INSTAAR & ATOC, CU Boulder). Read Jahn's 🧵 below. And check out the news story at colorado.edu/today/2024/1...
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
📢New publication by PhD student Cas Renette. Over 1 year we flew 5 campaigns of #UAV #Lidar to make #DTMs over #permafrost features (palsas) in N Sweden. We saw 15 cm heave on avg between Sept '22-April '23, as well as subsidence from April '23-Sept '23 #geospatial tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
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Multitemporal UAV lidar detects seasonal heave and subsidence on palsas
Abstract. In the context of the accelerating impacts of climate change on permafrost landscapes, we use an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) carrying a lidar scanner to investigate seasonal terrain change...
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
For my reading list...
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Good initiative here to post tutorials on #R for #Lidar. To the #Lidar community, how are you classifying your point clouds? Open source or commercial? I think sharing tips on what everyone is using would be helpful.
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Frans-Jan Parmentier @thissideofthearctic.org · 13/11/2024
New paper from Alexandra's PhD, where we show that warming from thicker snow depths may accelerate permafrost carbon loss in the coldest parts of the Arctic. Now out in Communications Earth & Environment, with @millerinlund.bsky.social & @samsrabin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43... #ISIMIP
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Warming-induced contrasts in snow depth drive the future trajectory of soil carbon loss across the Arctic-Boreal region - Communications Earth & Environment
In a warming climate, snow depth increases fastest in the coldest Arctic regions, which leads to enhanced respiration and reduced carbon residence times compared to less cold areas, suggest simulation...
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Great presentations at the BECC annual meeting in Gothenburg. The picture is of Henrik Smith explaining the history of becc.lu.se.
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Anne Bjorkman @annebeejay.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
We are looking for a research assistant to join the EDGE lab (edge-ecology.com) here in Gothenburg 🇸🇪 for the next 2 years. A great team and lots of exciting research to be a part of! 🌱🌍🌡️❄️ Please apply or share 🙏 #ecology #job
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EDGE LAB
Ecological Dynamics at Geographic Extremes
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
📢 Do you want to do a #PhD using #hyperspectral satellite data to observe climate influences on tundra vegetation in Sweden? With me and @robertgbjork at U of Gothenburg. Apply by 9 June - more info here: tinyurl.com/4m7s57ua
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PhD position in Natural Sciences, specializing in Physical Geography
At the Department of Earth Sciences, we have ca 80 employees (10 are PhD students)
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
Had a great first FENNPALS workshop in Gothenburg on palsa research in Fennoscandia. Pooling results and finding future directions for regional studies! Initiated as part of our Formas project. This was just the dinner gang...
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Swedish Space Agency granted our PhD project "Hyperspectral data detect climate impact on tundra vegetation", using #EnMAP data over the Swedish mountains. The work is together with co-applicant robertgbjork.bsky.social. Read more www.gu.se/en/news/hype.... Job ad coming in Feb.
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Satellite data over the Swedish mountains provides new information on the health of the vegetation
A new type of satellite will help researchers detect changes in the nutrient content and biochemical properties of plants and soil in the Swedish mountains. – Using data from the new satellites, we ...
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Anne Bjorkman @annebeejay.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
Two PhD positions in Arctic plant 🌱 ecology/environmental science. Fully funded for four years, or 5 years if you want to teach too. Please share and/or apply! Deadline Jan 26. Ecology position: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Environmental science position: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
It's time for the 2nd Swedish Climate Symposium #SCS24, 17-19 May in Norrköping. Abstract deadline is 18 January. swedishclimatesymposium.com/abstract-sub... Supported by BECC, SMHI, & Bolin Center
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
It's cold up north now. Hope our weather station is still standing on the palsa, registering the chilly -30s temps!
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Enjoying a last day of vacation by taking photos in the snow
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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Premier post on Bluesky, where I aim to post on #remotesensing, #satellites, #drones, #uav, #lidar, #hyperspectral, #Sentinel, #Landsat, #Arctic, #alpine, #mountains, #vegetation, #climatechange, #permafrost, #palsas, #peat, #biodiversity, #AI, #machinelearning, and such!
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