Laura N. Sotomayor
@lauransotomayor.bsky.social
Currently PhD Geomatic Engineering at University of Tasmania. Remote sensing + Deep learning 🤓🌏🛰️--> https://linktr.ee/lauransotomayor
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Mapping fractional vegetation cover in UAS RGB and multispectral imagery in semi-arid Australian ecosystems using CNN-based semantic segmentation - Landscape Ecology
Context Monitoring fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is crucial for assessing ecosystem health and sustainably managing semi-arid rangelands. Field-based methods are resource-intensive, while moderate...
doi.org
My PhD paper is out🤠We advance methods for mapping fractional vegetation cover using a CNN-based U-net on cm-scale UAS RGB & multispec imagery, capturing patterns in sparse, complex vegetation & enabling detailed, scalable mapping in semi-arid ecosystems.
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doi.org/10.1007/s109...
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doi.org/10.1007/s109...
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⭐️🔭Applications open at Anton Pannekoek Institute in Amsterdam for the 7th ASPIRE program: aspire.science.uva.nl. This 2026 summer school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. [1/2]
ASPIRE
aspire.science.uva.nl
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
⭐️🔭Applications open at Anton Pannekoek Institute in Amsterdam for the 7th ASPIRE program: aspire.science.uva.nl. This 2026 summer school provides astronomy research experience for talented MSc students from countries where opportunities to move into a PhD program are limited. [1/2]
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My story "Gingerbread" was just published by @365tomorrows.bsky.social ✨️ you can read it for free here: 365tomorrows.com/2025/08/15/g...
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
Gingerbread House - 365tomorrows
Author: Rachel Handley “This is a terrible idea” I said. My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain. I was now almost fully formed and, with nothing else to do, I told the wit...
365tomorrows.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
My story "Gingerbread" was just published by @365tomorrows.bsky.social ✨️ you can read it for free here: 365tomorrows.com/2025/08/15/g...
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
'“This is a terrible idea” I said.
My sentience had arrived after the first gingerbread brick was lain.'
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YESSS! After a year of hard work at ForestryAI@NIBIO, #ForestFormer3D is out 🥳!
Our new #SOTA transformer model 🔥 tackles tough 3D forest scenes with semantic + instance segmentation — all in one! 🌳🤖 Works across LiDAR sources (ground/airborne) 🚀
Check it out 👇
#SingleTree #AI #Forestry
Our new #SOTA transformer model 🔥 tackles tough 3D forest scenes with semantic + instance segmentation — all in one! 🌳🤖 Works across LiDAR sources (ground/airborne) 🚀
Check it out 👇
#SingleTree #AI #Forestry
🌲🚀 Big leap in #SmartForest AI!
Meet #ForestFormer3D – our new SOTA model for 3D forest segmentation (semantic + instance)! 🌳
🔗 Preprint arxiv.org/abs/2506.16991
🔗 Project bxiang233.github.io/FF3D/
👏 Led by Binbin Xiang + team @NIBIO
#AI #Forestry #SOTA
Meet #ForestFormer3D – our new SOTA model for 3D forest segmentation (semantic + instance)! 🌳
🔗 Preprint arxiv.org/abs/2506.16991
🔗 Project bxiang233.github.io/FF3D/
👏 Led by Binbin Xiang + team @NIBIO
#AI #Forestry #SOTA
June 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
YESSS! After a year of hard work at ForestryAI@NIBIO, #ForestFormer3D is out 🥳!
Our new #SOTA transformer model 🔥 tackles tough 3D forest scenes with semantic + instance segmentation — all in one! 🌳🤖 Works across LiDAR sources (ground/airborne) 🚀
Check it out 👇
#SingleTree #AI #Forestry
Our new #SOTA transformer model 🔥 tackles tough 3D forest scenes with semantic + instance segmentation — all in one! 🌳🤖 Works across LiDAR sources (ground/airborne) 🚀
Check it out 👇
#SingleTree #AI #Forestry
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Great find charity shopping today 📚 "Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years, Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times" by Elizabeth Wayland Barber ❤️
September 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Great find charity shopping today 📚 "Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years, Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times" by Elizabeth Wayland Barber ❤️
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Want to explain #polarClimate and why #Geoengineering doesn't belong there to kids? Try this excellent Frontiers for Young Minds piece by @helenmillman.bsky.social et al:
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Polar Geoengineering: A Risky Experiment That Will Not Fix Climate Change
Earth’s climate is warming because we burn fossil fuels for electricity, transport, heating, and food production, and this releases greenhouse gases. The polar regions (the Arctic and Antarctic) are w...
kids.frontiersin.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Want to explain #polarClimate and why #Geoengineering doesn't belong there to kids? Try this excellent Frontiers for Young Minds piece by @helenmillman.bsky.social et al:
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
🏌🏻♀️Proud to share PhD project 'Mapping Ecosystem Resilience with High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data' was selected for the
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program 👩🏻💻
Thanks to #NVIDIA, I’ll have 1K A100 GPU-Hours on Brev 🚀 #NVIDIAGrant #DeepLearningAlgorithms #ComputerVision #Robotics #GenerativeAI @NVIDIAAIDev
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program 👩🏻💻
Thanks to #NVIDIA, I’ll have 1K A100 GPU-Hours on Brev 🚀 #NVIDIAGrant #DeepLearningAlgorithms #ComputerVision #Robotics #GenerativeAI @NVIDIAAIDev
September 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🏌🏻♀️Proud to share PhD project 'Mapping Ecosystem Resilience with High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data' was selected for the
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program 👩🏻💻
Thanks to #NVIDIA, I’ll have 1K A100 GPU-Hours on Brev 🚀 #NVIDIAGrant #DeepLearningAlgorithms #ComputerVision #Robotics #GenerativeAI @NVIDIAAIDev
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program 👩🏻💻
Thanks to #NVIDIA, I’ll have 1K A100 GPU-Hours on Brev 🚀 #NVIDIAGrant #DeepLearningAlgorithms #ComputerVision #Robotics #GenerativeAI @NVIDIAAIDev
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I like big trees and I cannot lie. Great bit of work by @kimcalders.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social and colleagues using innovative climbing and scanning approach. Stunning illustration of tree structural and biodiversity complexity zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Integrating terrestrial and canopy laser scanning for comprehensive analysis of large old trees: Implications for single tree and biodiversity research
Canopy laser scanning (CLS) enhances 3D measurements of large trees by lifting laser scanners into the canopy. Combining CLS with terrestrial laser scanning improves point cloud precision, reduces oc...
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I like big trees and I cannot lie. Great bit of work by @kimcalders.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social and colleagues using innovative climbing and scanning approach. Stunning illustration of tree structural and biodiversity complexity zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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🌊 “The fact that 1.5 million Australians may be impacted by rising seas and coastal hazards by 2050 is shocking, even for this sea level scientist.” — Prof Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-sc...
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-sc...
September 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🌊 “The fact that 1.5 million Australians may be impacted by rising seas and coastal hazards by 2050 is shocking, even for this sea level scientist.” — Prof Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-sc...
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-sc...
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The Atlas of Space: Behold Brilliant Maps of Constellations, Asteroids, Planets & “Everything in the Solar System Bigger Than 10km”
The Atlas of Space: Behold Brilliant Maps of Constellations, Asteroids, Planets & “Everything in the Solar System Bigger Than 10km”
A great deal remains to be learned about our solar system, but a great deal has already been learned about it as well. Yet huge amounts of data such as those produced by outer-space research so far ca...
www.openculture.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Atlas of Space: Behold Brilliant Maps of Constellations, Asteroids, Planets & “Everything in the Solar System Bigger Than 10km”
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New Zealand aims for Predator Free 2050 - eradication of #InvasiveAlienSpecies which harm native species (especially birds like the kiwi). It will be one of the biggest #conservation programs worldwide 🌍
#BiodiversityAction #IAS #PredatorFree2050 #EndangeredSpecies
www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...
#BiodiversityAction #IAS #PredatorFree2050 #EndangeredSpecies
www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...
New Zealand's bold plan to save endangered animals: kill millions of invasive animals
Many of New Zealand's unique birds are heading toward extinction. So the country is taking on an ambitious conservation project: eradicating the invasive species that prey on them.
www.npr.org
September 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New Zealand aims for Predator Free 2050 - eradication of #InvasiveAlienSpecies which harm native species (especially birds like the kiwi). It will be one of the biggest #conservation programs worldwide 🌍
#BiodiversityAction #IAS #PredatorFree2050 #EndangeredSpecies
www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...
#BiodiversityAction #IAS #PredatorFree2050 #EndangeredSpecies
www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...
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🏆🌲 Here are five more projects which were awarded #ForwardsEU grants to study the characterisation of European forest disturbances
CAEFD, CE-ReDiFor, HALO-FARM, Image4Dist, TREA: discover them in our news release 🔗 bit.ly/4m6ZpKf
@remote-sensing-slu.bsky.social @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social
CAEFD, CE-ReDiFor, HALO-FARM, Image4Dist, TREA: discover them in our news release 🔗 bit.ly/4m6ZpKf
@remote-sensing-slu.bsky.social @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social
Five new FORWARDS-funded projects to characterise European forest disturbances kicked off — Forwards
CAEFD, CE-ReDiFor, HALO-FARM, Image4Dist, TREAD
forwards-project.eu
July 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🏆🌲 Here are five more projects which were awarded #ForwardsEU grants to study the characterisation of European forest disturbances
CAEFD, CE-ReDiFor, HALO-FARM, Image4Dist, TREA: discover them in our news release 🔗 bit.ly/4m6ZpKf
@remote-sensing-slu.bsky.social @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social
CAEFD, CE-ReDiFor, HALO-FARM, Image4Dist, TREA: discover them in our news release 🔗 bit.ly/4m6ZpKf
@remote-sensing-slu.bsky.social @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social
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Here are two of our open calls for grants, still accepting proposals 📢
The deadline for both is 21 September 2025 at 21:00 (UTC+2).
You can submit your application through this European Forest Institute page 🔗 efi.int/grants-train...
#FORWARDScalls
The deadline for both is 21 September 2025 at 21:00 (UTC+2).
You can submit your application through this European Forest Institute page 🔗 efi.int/grants-train...
#FORWARDScalls
August 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Here are two of our open calls for grants, still accepting proposals 📢
The deadline for both is 21 September 2025 at 21:00 (UTC+2).
You can submit your application through this European Forest Institute page 🔗 efi.int/grants-train...
#FORWARDScalls
The deadline for both is 21 September 2025 at 21:00 (UTC+2).
You can submit your application through this European Forest Institute page 🔗 efi.int/grants-train...
#FORWARDScalls
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🌳 Looking for a last/light summer ☀️ read with a forestry twist?
The latest @singletreeeu.bsky.social newsletter is out, full of fresh updates, smart sensing, and stories from the forest!
📰 Don’t miss out: r.mailing.cesefor.com/mk/mr/sh/7nV...
📩 Subscribe now to stay in the loop!
The latest @singletreeeu.bsky.social newsletter is out, full of fresh updates, smart sensing, and stories from the forest!
📰 Don’t miss out: r.mailing.cesefor.com/mk/mr/sh/7nV...
📩 Subscribe now to stay in the loop!
September 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🌳 Looking for a last/light summer ☀️ read with a forestry twist?
The latest @singletreeeu.bsky.social newsletter is out, full of fresh updates, smart sensing, and stories from the forest!
📰 Don’t miss out: r.mailing.cesefor.com/mk/mr/sh/7nV...
📩 Subscribe now to stay in the loop!
The latest @singletreeeu.bsky.social newsletter is out, full of fresh updates, smart sensing, and stories from the forest!
📰 Don’t miss out: r.mailing.cesefor.com/mk/mr/sh/7nV...
📩 Subscribe now to stay in the loop!
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Preliminary results are in: Fixed-wing drones show strong potential for moose surveys.
Monitoring moose populations has been traditionally done by helicopter. Our partners at UBC are exploring if drones are a better alternative.
🔗Learn more: friresearch.ca/publications...
@irssubc.bsky.social
Monitoring moose populations has been traditionally done by helicopter. Our partners at UBC are exploring if drones are a better alternative.
🔗Learn more: friresearch.ca/publications...
@irssubc.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Preliminary results are in: Fixed-wing drones show strong potential for moose surveys.
Monitoring moose populations has been traditionally done by helicopter. Our partners at UBC are exploring if drones are a better alternative.
🔗Learn more: friresearch.ca/publications...
@irssubc.bsky.social
Monitoring moose populations has been traditionally done by helicopter. Our partners at UBC are exploring if drones are a better alternative.
🔗Learn more: friresearch.ca/publications...
@irssubc.bsky.social
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A riddle wrapped in a 20-year-old @nasahubble mystery…
Webb confirmed a controversial finding of Hubble’s - planet-forming disks in the early universe that are longer-lived than they should be, given the conditions in their environment. Read more: https://t.co/NVsUmuHmlf https://t.co/PYms9yaWEX
Webb confirmed a controversial finding of Hubble’s - planet-forming disks in the early universe that are longer-lived than they should be, given the conditions in their environment. Read more: https://t.co/NVsUmuHmlf https://t.co/PYms9yaWEX
December 16, 2024 at 3:27 PM
A riddle wrapped in a 20-year-old @nasahubble mystery…
Webb confirmed a controversial finding of Hubble’s - planet-forming disks in the early universe that are longer-lived than they should be, given the conditions in their environment. Read more: https://t.co/NVsUmuHmlf https://t.co/PYms9yaWEX
Webb confirmed a controversial finding of Hubble’s - planet-forming disks in the early universe that are longer-lived than they should be, given the conditions in their environment. Read more: https://t.co/NVsUmuHmlf https://t.co/PYms9yaWEX
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Blue Mushroom (𝘔𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘤𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢): Mycena is a large genus of small saprotrophic mushrooms that are rarely more than a few centimeters in width. This is a fascinating tiny fungi that has been discovered in the past couple of years by Eric Cho in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
#fungi #nature #wildlife #taiwan
#fungi #nature #wildlife #taiwan
August 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Happy World Photography Day📷!
At EGU, we truly support and encourage visual #art! We invite you to explore #imaggeo - EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository, and share your photos.
🖼️ Start uploading your images today: egu.eu/90F96B
📸 Pamela Trisolino on imaggeo.egu.eu
At EGU, we truly support and encourage visual #art! We invite you to explore #imaggeo - EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository, and share your photos.
🖼️ Start uploading your images today: egu.eu/90F96B
📸 Pamela Trisolino on imaggeo.egu.eu
August 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Happy World Photography Day📷!
At EGU, we truly support and encourage visual #art! We invite you to explore #imaggeo - EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository, and share your photos.
🖼️ Start uploading your images today: egu.eu/90F96B
📸 Pamela Trisolino on imaggeo.egu.eu
At EGU, we truly support and encourage visual #art! We invite you to explore #imaggeo - EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository, and share your photos.
🖼️ Start uploading your images today: egu.eu/90F96B
📸 Pamela Trisolino on imaggeo.egu.eu
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Applications for this exciting position close this Friday 15 August!
I am currently advertising a new 3-year research position in my TerraLuma team: Research Associate in Drone Field Operations (Academic Level A)
The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project.
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...
The position will support the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (@TERN_Aus) Dronescape project.
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/50...
Current Vacancies
careers.utas.edu.au
August 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Applications for this exciting position close this Friday 15 August!
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Few months ago but... New paper out! ⚠️🗞️
Here we used an optical flow algorithm to co-register drone-based hyperspectral imagery and RGB imagery to high accuracy 🚁📈
Big thanks to co-authors @terraluma.bsky.social @eclambda.bsky.social & Darren Turner
www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/9/...
Here we used an optical flow algorithm to co-register drone-based hyperspectral imagery and RGB imagery to high accuracy 🚁📈
Big thanks to co-authors @terraluma.bsky.social @eclambda.bsky.social & Darren Turner
www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/9/...
www.mdpi.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Few months ago but... New paper out! ⚠️🗞️
Here we used an optical flow algorithm to co-register drone-based hyperspectral imagery and RGB imagery to high accuracy 🚁📈
Big thanks to co-authors @terraluma.bsky.social @eclambda.bsky.social & Darren Turner
www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/9/...
Here we used an optical flow algorithm to co-register drone-based hyperspectral imagery and RGB imagery to high accuracy 🚁📈
Big thanks to co-authors @terraluma.bsky.social @eclambda.bsky.social & Darren Turner
www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/9/...
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Congratulations on this major PhD milestone! Great work.
My PhD paper is out🤠We advance methods for mapping fractional vegetation cover using a CNN-based U-net on cm-scale UAS RGB & multispec imagery, capturing patterns in sparse, complex vegetation & enabling detailed, scalable mapping in semi-arid ecosystems.
[1/8]
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
[1/8]
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
Mapping fractional vegetation cover in UAS RGB and multispectral imagery in semi-arid Australian ecosystems using CNN-based semantic segmentation - Landscape Ecology
Context Monitoring fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is crucial for assessing ecosystem health and sustainably managing semi-arid rangelands. Field-based methods are resource-intensive, while moderate...
doi.org
August 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Congratulations on this major PhD milestone! Great work.
My PhD paper is out🤠We advance methods for mapping fractional vegetation cover using a CNN-based U-net on cm-scale UAS RGB & multispec imagery, capturing patterns in sparse, complex vegetation & enabling detailed, scalable mapping in semi-arid ecosystems.
[1/8]
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
[1/8]
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
Mapping fractional vegetation cover in UAS RGB and multispectral imagery in semi-arid Australian ecosystems using CNN-based semantic segmentation - Landscape Ecology
Context Monitoring fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is crucial for assessing ecosystem health and sustainably managing semi-arid rangelands. Field-based methods are resource-intensive, while moderate...
doi.org
August 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
My PhD paper is out🤠We advance methods for mapping fractional vegetation cover using a CNN-based U-net on cm-scale UAS RGB & multispec imagery, capturing patterns in sparse, complex vegetation & enabling detailed, scalable mapping in semi-arid ecosystems.
[1/8]
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
[1/8]
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
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Discover how astronomers read spectra to learn about how fast (or slowly) things are moving far off in space. #Spectroscopy 🔭 🧪 ☄️
Reading the Rainbow: Speed - Spectroscopy
YouTube video by Space Telescope Science Institute
youtu.be
August 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Discover how astronomers read spectra to learn about how fast (or slowly) things are moving far off in space. #Spectroscopy 🔭 🧪 ☄️
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Did you know that nearly 800 billion fish and invertebrates depend on mangroves every year?
On this International Day for Mangrove Conservation, it's time for action to protect these amazing ecosystems.
As Asmae Ourkiya says in this GeoLog post:egu.eu/8R6TN6
📷Anirban Mukhopadhyay on imaggeo.egu.eu
On this International Day for Mangrove Conservation, it's time for action to protect these amazing ecosystems.
As Asmae Ourkiya says in this GeoLog post:egu.eu/8R6TN6
📷Anirban Mukhopadhyay on imaggeo.egu.eu
July 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Did you know that nearly 800 billion fish and invertebrates depend on mangroves every year?
On this International Day for Mangrove Conservation, it's time for action to protect these amazing ecosystems.
As Asmae Ourkiya says in this GeoLog post:egu.eu/8R6TN6
📷Anirban Mukhopadhyay on imaggeo.egu.eu
On this International Day for Mangrove Conservation, it's time for action to protect these amazing ecosystems.
As Asmae Ourkiya says in this GeoLog post:egu.eu/8R6TN6
📷Anirban Mukhopadhyay on imaggeo.egu.eu