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Naomi Schwartz

@naomibschwartz.bsky.social
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geographer/ecologist at UBC. tropical forests, savannas, disturbance, land use change. ebike enthusiast. she/her.

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Bob Muscarella @bobmuscarella.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Our paper on intraspecific variation of hydraulic traits in Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 trees, led by @smithmartin.bsky.social, is out @nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Also check out this very nice 'News & Views' by @profchoat.bsky.social & Erick Calderón-Morales: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Species intraspecific variation drives tropical forest drought resistance - Nature
Substantial intraspecific variation, together with species turnover, drives coordinated shifts in drought resistance such as increased embolism resistance and wider stomatal safety margins in drier fo...
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Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions @ibiosprogram.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This week’s IBioS member Article Highlight! Dr. @naomibschwartz.bsky.social and colleagues recently published an article on “The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets.” Read more about this article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties an...
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Matthew Fagan @treebeliever.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
“In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets, to ensure results appropriate for decision making.”
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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Two weeks left to apply for the Canada Excellence Research Chair in my department at UBC! Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions about the position.
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Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
UBC is recruiting a new Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. This is a great opportunity for a mid-career scientist studying our changing oceans - CERCs are the best funded research chairs in the Canadian research system. research.ubc.ca/media/file/c...
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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Such a pleasure and a privilege to visit Edinburgh and participate in our first Tropical East Asian Savanna Network meeting! Looking forward to lots of exciting collaboration ahead.
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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Brilliant day this week on the Tropical East Asian Savanna Network workshop- out on Salisbury Crags with the Global Grassy Group practicing ground layer data collection and loving the #grasses! @s-eshelman.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @naomibschwartz.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social
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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My stellar dept @ubcgeography.bsky.social is searching for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk. This amazing faculty job for a senior ecosystem scientist comes with loads of research funds and a move to Canada! Read more and apply here: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
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Faculty Position: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk - Department of Geography
Posted on June 18, 2025 Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk – University of British Columbia The Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) ...
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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Excited to be visiting Edinburgh next week for the first Tropical East Asian Savanna Network meeting. If you’re interested in learning more about these fascinating and misunderstood ecosystems, join us via live stream (or in person if you happen to be in Edinburgh)!
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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In person event funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social June 24th at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 9:30-4:30 @thebotanics.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-e... or online via teams: Meeting ID: 374 127 860 994 5 Passcode: Yq3je9Jo
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Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium
Get ready to dive deep into the vibrant savanna ecosystems of Tropical East Asia at our free symposium!
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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
More exciting speakers at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium! Dr Manichanh Satdichanh will be presenting on 'Farmer, fire and forest succession: A story of social-ecological system from Southeast Asia'. Join us on 24th June in person or online, for free! #savanna #conference #ecology 🌐🌏
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Lucas Cernusak @lucascernusak.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I have an opportunity for a new PhD student in tropical tree ecophysiology in my lab. Some more details at the link below. Please pass along! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Responses of tropical forest trees to rising carbon dioxide - conifers versus angiosperms at James Cook University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Responses of tropical forest trees to rising carbon dioxide - conifers versus angiosperms at James Cook University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My stellar dept @ubcgeography.bsky.social is searching for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk. This amazing faculty job for a senior ecosystem scientist comes with loads of research funds and a move to Canada! Read more and apply here: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
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Faculty Position: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk - Department of Geography
Posted on June 18, 2025 Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cultures & Ecosystem at Risk – University of British Columbia The Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) ...
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Finally pulled the trigger and updated my Vancouver tree map with newer data, now it contains not just street trees but also other public trees in e.g. parks. (Thanks Vancouver Open Data!) Handy when wanting to look up a tree while walking around town. mountainmath.ca/vantrees
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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.
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Scaling plant responses to heat: From molecules to the biosphere
Predicting plant responses to rising temperatures, including acute heat waves and hot droughts of varying intensity and duration, is central to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. However,...
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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A map of tree crowns in southwestern Panama, showing satellite imagery of a tropical landscape
A scientist surveying trees in a pastoral landscape with a GPS unit
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Realistic models of the potential for global reforestation suggest that it could absorb roughly 5% of human CO2 emissions. This is still worthwhile but nowhere near a solution on its own. New paper just published 🧪🌏🌐
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Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation - Nature Communications
Reforestation is a key climate change mitigation strategy, but global maps of its potential are widely criticized. This study shows that addressing those critiques substantially refines estimates of t...
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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Richard Eckman @richeckmanatm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I suspect someone may have already done this... I took the current NASA Earth fleet chart of operating and planned Earth observing missions and crossed out those recommended for cancellation in the President's budget request. It's disturbing.
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Bob Shriver @bkshriver.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Tickets (free!) for the first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium are available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-e... 200 word abstracts still welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. See you 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social ! #ecology #savanna 🌐🌏
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Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium
Get ready to dive deep into the vibrant savanna ecosystems of Tropical East Asia at our free symposium!
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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium, funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social, will be 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social. Free! Come along, or apply to present! 200 word abstracts welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🌐🌏
A poster with a black background and six circles, five of which have an animal, bird or plant in. The sixth circle reads 'Tropical East Asian Savanna Synposium' The poster advertises a free public symposium on 24th june at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Lecture Theatre, 20a Inverleith Row. The event is funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh with support from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
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Kate Parr @funkyant.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Postdoc alert! Looking for someone to join our new savanna zoogeochemistry project with @ymalhi.bsky.social and Mark Robertson. Please circulate widely! Contact me if interested. #ecosystemecology #largemammalherbivores #termites my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities vist.ly/3m23kct #LeafEconomicSpectrum #Rainforest #SeedSize
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
An attack on science. In plain sight. It would be great if Columbia University could give the GISS team space for *free*. That would be bold leadership!
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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH. Pass it on!
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Fantastic analogy
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🌿 Our new study in @natplants.nature.com: Most European temperate forest plants are associated with semi-open, herbivore-shaped habitats—not closed-canopy #forests 🐎🌳🔆🌸 Highlights the need for trophic #rewilding in #conservation & need to avoid uniform dense #reforestation🌿 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Temperate forest plants are associated with heterogeneous semi-open canopy conditions shaped by large herbivores - Nature Plants
Temperate forest plants favour heterogeneous semi-open woodlands associated with high herbivore densities, rather than uniform closed-canopy forests. Herbivore loss is therefore a probable driver of e...
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One aspect of Trump’s antisemitism fig leaf I haven’t seen discussed: if you’re a Jewish student who DOES experience antisemitism, but doesn’t want to blow up your college or get your classmates deported, you basically have no choice but to stay quiet and suffer in silence. Trump did that.
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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 09/04/2025
Echoing Trump, Pierre Poilievre's election pitch includes pledge to end "woke influence" in university research. My story for @science.org 🧪 #cdnpoli www.science.org/content/arti...
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In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election
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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 08/04/2025
At #UBC, in Vancouver, 🇨🇦, we are welcoming applications from folks as part of US applicant week - we recognize that many potential grad students may have had their offers revoked, and other complications - we have great research & fab colleagues - so check us out www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
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US Applicant Week
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
👀 Ok, if true this is a shocking way to blast through the forest canopy, remove lianas, & dominate "The idea that lightning strikes give almendros a competitive advantage-The almendro tree is so tolerant of strikes, in fact, that it may well be summoning lightning" www.science.org/content/arti... 🌐🧪
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Shocker: This tropical tree thrives after being struck by lightning
The almendro withstands thunderbolts that blast away parasitic vines
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is one of the most viscerally upsetting, intergenerational trauma-evoking images I have seen. I can’t stop thinking about it, much as I wish I could.
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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I really want our Canadian friends to see this. We are in here screaming to be heard. Huge numbers of people in the USA are organizing and mobilizing against this. Don't give up on us. #ElbowsUp #Canada
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Kaitlyn Gaynor @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again! Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
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Mike Wulder @mikewulder.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Observations from 3 #Sentinel2 satellites! Increased revisit frequency. Terrific news! “This configuration will enhance the availability of Sentinel-2 data, with additional Sentinel-2 observations on the same relative orbit, occurring 2 days apart from Sentinel-2B and 1 day apart from Sentinel-2C.”
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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Join us in congratulating Assistant Professor @naomibschwartz.bsky.social for receiving a 2024 UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship for her work on savanna vegetation Southeast Asia! 🥳 And congrats to all other Faculty Research Award recipients. 👏 Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/dr-naom...
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Dr. Naomi Schwartz awarded 2024 UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship
Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Naomi Schwartz on receiving a 2024 UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I don't care how you feel about campus anti-Israel protests, or about antisemitism on campus. Fighting antisemitism cannot mean disappearing foreign citizens in the US on green cards for Wrongthink. It just cannot. Not in my name. Never. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who led Columbia University protests, lawyer says
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University's student encampment protests, has been arrested by ICE, his lawyer says.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I am *much* less likely to speak out about any actual antisemitism I face on campus (which I have faced), knowing it will be exploited by the worst people in the US to spread racism against foreigners, Palestinians, and Muslims, and shut down higher ed. And I know I am not alone in feeling this way.
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Jacob Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Reps. Jerry Nadler and Adriano Espaillat:   "Revoking federal grants to Columbia University isn’t about combating antisemitism... If the Trump administration were as serious about anti-Semitism as they claim, they would not have filled their ranks with unapologetic antisemites.”
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Gut Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom to everyone who knows that the real way to combat antisemitism and build a more inclusive country for us all is to fight fascism together, not to allow Jewish safety to be weaponized by the state against other marginalized communities.
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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
please share: I am recruiting for a PhD student to join my lab for fall 2025. I am interested in finding someone who is passionate about applying models to study plant ecology. Potential study systems include urban environments, sagebrush steppe, and tropical forest. caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/
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Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
So excited to work with @jess-rickenback.bsky.social and colleagues to synthesize and advance research on Tropical East Asian Savannas!
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
JOB: Nature Director, @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social * Permanent, full-time 4-day week! * Salary $107-110k/yr * Vancouver, Montreal, or Toronto pref. * Apply by 17 March 2025 lnkd.in/gHTCB5Ne #ConservationJobs
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