Naomi Schwartz
@naomibschwartz.bsky.social
geographer/ecologist at UBC. tropical forests, savannas, disturbance, land use change. ebike enthusiast. she/her.
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Seeing the Savanna Through the Trees: Vegetation Structure, Composition and Function Along a Forest‐Savanna Boundary in Cambodia
In the seasonally dry landscapes of continental Southeast Asia, deciduous dipterocarp vegetation (DDF), which resembles savanna, and semi-evergreen forests (SEF) form patchy landscape mosaics, with a...
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Out today in @biotropica.bsky.social: We show that deciduous dipterocarp and semi-evergreen forests in Cambodia have distinct species, but similar soils across their abrupt boundaries. But we see differences in fire history and fire adapted functional traits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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.
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...
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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July 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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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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.
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July 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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.
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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.
It was great to hear Chau Pham, @naomibschwartz.bsky.social , Manichanh Satdichanh, and Johan Setiawan presenting at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium on engaging topics which spanned fire ecology, and placing people into the savanna context. #savanna 🌏🌐
June 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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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
June 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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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...
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) ...
geog.ubc.ca
June 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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...
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)!
Thrilled to have Dr Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social, University of British Columbia, at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium! Naomi will present 'Seeing the savanna through the trees: fire ecology at forest-savanna boundaries in Southeast Asia'. Join us in person/online June 24th 🌐🌏
June 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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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
@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
Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium
Get ready to dive deep into the vibrant savanna ecosystems of Tropical East Asia at our free symposium!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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
@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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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 🌐🌏
June 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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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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...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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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June 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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...
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) ...
geog.ubc.ca
June 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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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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
June 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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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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.
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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June 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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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🚨 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/...
June 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🚨 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/...
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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 🧪🌏🌐
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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June 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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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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.
June 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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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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/...
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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May 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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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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
🌐🌏
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
🌐🌏
Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium
Get ready to dive deep into the vibrant savanna ecosystems of Tropical East Asia at our free symposium!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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
🌐🌏
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
🌐🌏
Reposted by Naomi Schwartz
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 🌐🌏
May 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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 🌐🌏
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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
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April 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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...
my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr...
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Drier, more seasonal climates strengthen coordination of hydraulic, leaf economic and reproductive strategies in subtropical forest tree communities vist.ly/3m23kct #LeafEconomicSpectrum #Rainforest #SeedSize
April 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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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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!
It would be great if Columbia University could give the GISS team space for *free*. That would be bold leadership!
NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks
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"NASA’s lease of Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall in New York City, home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will end effective May 31, 2025."
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"NASA’s lease of Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall in New York City, home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will end effective May 31, 2025."
NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks
This was just sent to all NASA Goddard and GISS employees by Makenzie Lystrup
nasawatch.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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!
It would be great if Columbia University could give the GISS team space for *free*. That would be bold leadership!
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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!
Pass it on!
April 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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!
Pass it on!
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Fantastic analogy
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Fantastic analogy