Dr. Renato Braghiere
@renatobrgh.bsky.social
Earth System models and remote sensing. Scientist @Caltech & @NASAJPL. Opinions are my own. He/him.
Excited to help convene The Living Land session at EGU 2026 together with colleagues from the MC³ Center.
If you work on how land processes feedback on climate, from vegetation change and fire to permafrost, water and energy fluxes, we’d love to see your abstract! See you in Vienna.
If you work on how land processes feedback on climate, from vegetation change and fire to permafrost, water and energy fluxes, we’d love to see your abstract! See you in Vienna.
🗓️ Abstract submissions for European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2026 are open until 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET!
🧑💻 One of this year's sessions is hosted in partnership with MC3 4 Earth Center. You can read more about the session here: lnkd.in/dbr8Mi_g
🧑💻 One of this year's sessions is hosted in partnership with MC3 4 Earth Center. You can read more about the session here: lnkd.in/dbr8Mi_g
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Excited to help convene The Living Land session at EGU 2026 together with colleagues from the MC³ Center.
If you work on how land processes feedback on climate, from vegetation change and fire to permafrost, water and energy fluxes, we’d love to see your abstract! See you in Vienna.
If you work on how land processes feedback on climate, from vegetation change and fire to permafrost, water and energy fluxes, we’d love to see your abstract! See you in Vienna.
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From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak with Nature about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge, and training opportunities that the country is losing. 🧪
Insiders warn how dismantling federal agencies could put science at risk
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and training opportunities that the country is losing.
go.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak with Nature about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge, and training opportunities that the country is losing. 🧪
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Just published, a land-mark paper by Annemarie Eckes-Shephard et al.! It assesses the performance of a new generation of Demography-enabled Dynamic Global Vegetation (D-DGVMs), that attempt to simulate the changing size and age structure of trees in forests.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Just published, a land-mark paper by Annemarie Eckes-Shephard et al.! It assesses the performance of a new generation of Demography-enabled Dynamic Global Vegetation (D-DGVMs), that attempt to simulate the changing size and age structure of trees in forests.
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Grateful to see our paper featured in an Eos Research Spotlight, “How Plant–Fungi Friendships Are Changing.” Cool title!
Mycorrhizal fungi provide plants with nitrogen, but in exchange they take up to half the carbon plants pull from the atmosphere. In a new study, researchers investigate how the environment influences this give-and-take.
How Plant-Fungi Friendships Are Changing - Eos
A new framework shows how much carbon plants allocate to their endosymbionts and how that amount might change in the face of warming soil and rising carbon dioxide levels.
eos.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Grateful to see our paper featured in an Eos Research Spotlight, “How Plant–Fungi Friendships Are Changing.” Cool title!
🌎 Our recent work on CO₂ vs climate impacts on the global carbon sink, led by Eren Bilir, was selected for an Editor’s Highlight in Eos! A huge thank you to Dr. Sharon Billings and the editorial team at AGU Advances.
eos.org/editor-highl...
eos.org/editor-highl...
Rising CO2 and Climate Change Reorganize Global Terrestrial Carbon Cycling - Eos
Rising CO2 and climate change are redistributing terrestrial carbon fluxes and reservoirs across latitudes and reducing carbon residence times globally.
eos.org
September 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🌎 Our recent work on CO₂ vs climate impacts on the global carbon sink, led by Eren Bilir, was selected for an Editor’s Highlight in Eos! A huge thank you to Dr. Sharon Billings and the editorial team at AGU Advances.
eos.org/editor-highl...
eos.org/editor-highl...
Had the honor of closing the #ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop as the last keynote speaker in Australia!
Great discussions and plenty of food for thought. Excited to see where this community takes these ideas next!
Grateful to the organizers and participants for the engagement!
Great discussions and plenty of food for thought. Excited to see where this community takes these ideas next!
Grateful to the organizers and participants for the engagement!
The last Keynote speaker of the #ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop @renatobrgh.bsky.social form @caltech.edu presented on the challenges of Minding the Carbon Gap: Bridging Observations and Process-Based Understanding for Earth System Modeling Innovation. Lots of food for thought + a great intro to #CliMA
September 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Had the honor of closing the #ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop as the last keynote speaker in Australia!
Great discussions and plenty of food for thought. Excited to see where this community takes these ideas next!
Grateful to the organizers and participants for the engagement!
Great discussions and plenty of food for thought. Excited to see where this community takes these ideas next!
Grateful to the organizers and participants for the engagement!
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We are thrilled to announce our three keynote speakers for the 🌏#ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop next week in Melbourne! We have a program full of exciting talks, lunchtime discussions training sessions and opportunities to collaborate.
👩🏫 Program: bit.ly/4lH8UA6
👨💻 Training Day program: bit.ly/4kYZG0O
👩🏫 Program: bit.ly/4lH8UA6
👨💻 Training Day program: bit.ly/4kYZG0O
September 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are thrilled to announce our three keynote speakers for the 🌏#ACCESSCommunity25 Workshop next week in Melbourne! We have a program full of exciting talks, lunchtime discussions training sessions and opportunities to collaborate.
👩🏫 Program: bit.ly/4lH8UA6
👨💻 Training Day program: bit.ly/4kYZG0O
👩🏫 Program: bit.ly/4lH8UA6
👨💻 Training Day program: bit.ly/4kYZG0O
New paper led by T. Eren Bilir in AGU Advances—proud to be a coauthor: Satellite-Constrained Reanalysis of the Global Land Carbon Sink. doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Satellite‐Constrained Reanalysis Reveals CO2 Versus Climate Process Compensation Across the Global Land Carbon Sink
CO2 ${\text{CO}}_{2}$-driven terrestrial C gains are ∼4 times greater than climate-driven losses during 2001–2021 and are mainly in live biomass reservoirs In the global sum, CO2 ${\text{CO}}_{2}...
doi.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
New paper led by T. Eren Bilir in AGU Advances—proud to be a coauthor: Satellite-Constrained Reanalysis of the Global Land Carbon Sink. doi.org/10.1029/2025...
🌍 New paper alert! Our review, led by Matthew Worden, is out in Global Change Biology: “Combining Observations and Models: A Review of the CARDAMOM Framework”
👉 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
👉 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Combining Observations and Models: A Review of the CARDAMOM Framework for Data‐Constrained Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling
The rapid increase in the volume and variety of terrestrial biosphere observations offers a unique opportunity to derive ecological insights, refine process-based models, and improve forecasting for ...
doi.org
August 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🌍 New paper alert! Our review, led by Matthew Worden, is out in Global Change Biology: “Combining Observations and Models: A Review of the CARDAMOM Framework”
👉 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
👉 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
August 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...
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Next Tuesday 7/22 we will hear from @cfranken.bsky.social as he discusses the proposed Carbon-I mission.
To attend this lecture, register here: bit.ly/Carbon-I
Location: Sharp Lecture Hall, Caltech
Time: 4:30PM Refreshments , 5:00PM Lecture
To attend this lecture, register here: bit.ly/Carbon-I
Location: Sharp Lecture Hall, Caltech
Time: 4:30PM Refreshments , 5:00PM Lecture
July 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Next Tuesday 7/22 we will hear from @cfranken.bsky.social as he discusses the proposed Carbon-I mission.
To attend this lecture, register here: bit.ly/Carbon-I
Location: Sharp Lecture Hall, Caltech
Time: 4:30PM Refreshments , 5:00PM Lecture
To attend this lecture, register here: bit.ly/Carbon-I
Location: Sharp Lecture Hall, Caltech
Time: 4:30PM Refreshments , 5:00PM Lecture
New CliMA post about our study out in Nature Comms! We show that replacing fixed plant types with real leaf traits in climate models changes everything — from surface albedo to rainfall. Darker Amazon, brighter Siberia. Climate shifts follow.
#climate #remotesensing
#climate #remotesensing
Rethinking Vegetation Optics in Climate Models
By Renato Braghiere Vegetation plays a critical role in regulating Earth’s climate by absorbing sunlight, exchanging moisture with the atmosphere, and sequestering carbon. Yet, how vegetation is re…
clima.caltech.edu
July 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
New CliMA post about our study out in Nature Comms! We show that replacing fixed plant types with real leaf traits in climate models changes everything — from surface albedo to rainfall. Darker Amazon, brighter Siberia. Climate shifts follow.
#climate #remotesensing
#climate #remotesensing
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I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...).
I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
July 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...).
I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
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Carbon-I 🌎🛰️ is one of four candidate missions selected by NASA for one-year Phase A concept studies.
Join us on 7/22 for a talk from PI Prof. Christian Frankenberg as he outlines the mission concepts and paths forward.
Register here: bit.ly/Carbon-I
Read more: kiss.caltech.edu/lectures/202...
Join us on 7/22 for a talk from PI Prof. Christian Frankenberg as he outlines the mission concepts and paths forward.
Register here: bit.ly/Carbon-I
Read more: kiss.caltech.edu/lectures/202...
June 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Carbon-I 🌎🛰️ is one of four candidate missions selected by NASA for one-year Phase A concept studies.
Join us on 7/22 for a talk from PI Prof. Christian Frankenberg as he outlines the mission concepts and paths forward.
Register here: bit.ly/Carbon-I
Read more: kiss.caltech.edu/lectures/202...
Join us on 7/22 for a talk from PI Prof. Christian Frankenberg as he outlines the mission concepts and paths forward.
Register here: bit.ly/Carbon-I
Read more: kiss.caltech.edu/lectures/202...
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Now online: "Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates" by Kelsey Foster et al., including @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social w/ Stanford, PNNL, NAU, and NRC colleagues agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates
Additional sink inferred by inversions in just 16% of North America accounts for the discrepancy between top-down and bottom-up estimates Statistically significant differences between top-down an...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Now online: "Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates" by Kelsey Foster et al., including @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social w/ Stanford, PNNL, NAU, and NRC colleagues agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
NASA’s PACE mission just released its first year of data—capturing seasonal shifts in chlorophyll & other traits.
In our new paper, we show how trait data can shift climate model predictions of energy & carbon fluxes.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
PACE shows what’s happening. We ask: what does it mean?
In our new paper, we show how trait data can shift climate model predictions of energy & carbon fluxes.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
PACE shows what’s happening. We ask: what does it mean?
Leaf Year: Seeing Plants in Hyperspectral Color
YouTube video by NASA Goddard
youtu.be
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
NASA’s PACE mission just released its first year of data—capturing seasonal shifts in chlorophyll & other traits.
In our new paper, we show how trait data can shift climate model predictions of energy & carbon fluxes.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
PACE shows what’s happening. We ask: what does it mean?
In our new paper, we show how trait data can shift climate model predictions of energy & carbon fluxes.
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
PACE shows what’s happening. We ask: what does it mean?
🌿 Feeling proud and grateful! Our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper was just featured in Scienmag! 💡
It’s rewarding to see this kind of attention highlighting the importance of linking traits to how we model the Earth system.
👉 scienmag.com/how-leaf-tra...
It’s rewarding to see this kind of attention highlighting the importance of linking traits to how we model the Earth system.
👉 scienmag.com/how-leaf-tra...
How Leaf Traits Shape Vegetation Optical Properties
In the ever-evolving quest to understand Earth's complex climate system, researchers have continually sought to improve the precision of Earth system models (ESMs) by integrating more detailed
scienmag.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
🌿 Feeling proud and grateful! Our recent @natcomms.nature.com paper was just featured in Scienmag! 💡
It’s rewarding to see this kind of attention highlighting the importance of linking traits to how we model the Earth system.
👉 scienmag.com/how-leaf-tra...
It’s rewarding to see this kind of attention highlighting the importance of linking traits to how we model the Earth system.
👉 scienmag.com/how-leaf-tra...
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New study by Wang, Braghiere (@renatobrgh.bsky.social) et al. shows how the use of #plant traits can improve modeling of global #carbon, #water, and #energy fluxes, and consequently lead to improved #climate projections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Impacts of leaf traits on vegetation optical properties in Earth system modeling - Nature Communications
Earth system models often categorize plants to just a few functional types, and plant characteristics are defined per type, neglecting their diversity. The authors show how the use of plant traits can...
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
New study by Wang, Braghiere (@renatobrgh.bsky.social) et al. shows how the use of #plant traits can improve modeling of global #carbon, #water, and #energy fluxes, and consequently lead to improved #climate projections. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌱 New in Nature Communications!
We show that replacing plant functional types with trait-based leaf optics into CESM & CliMA improves surface reflectance, shifts albedo >5 W/m², and alters regional climate projections.
📖 Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Climate #LandModeling #LeafTraits
We show that replacing plant functional types with trait-based leaf optics into CESM & CliMA improves surface reflectance, shifts albedo >5 W/m², and alters regional climate projections.
📖 Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Climate #LandModeling #LeafTraits
May 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🌱 New in Nature Communications!
We show that replacing plant functional types with trait-based leaf optics into CESM & CliMA improves surface reflectance, shifts albedo >5 W/m², and alters regional climate projections.
📖 Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Climate #LandModeling #LeafTraits
We show that replacing plant functional types with trait-based leaf optics into CESM & CliMA improves surface reflectance, shifts albedo >5 W/m², and alters regional climate projections.
📖 Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#Climate #LandModeling #LeafTraits
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Non-living carbon pools are key in carbon storage! ESA Climate Change Initiative's RECCAP study shows soil, sediments, and wetlands as major sinks, challenging the belief in forests' dominance. These findings offer crucial insights for future climate modelling. 🌿💧 climate.esa.int/en/news-even...
May 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Non-living carbon pools are key in carbon storage! ESA Climate Change Initiative's RECCAP study shows soil, sediments, and wetlands as major sinks, challenging the belief in forests' dominance. These findings offer crucial insights for future climate modelling. 🌿💧 climate.esa.int/en/news-even...
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I used the loooong flight home from #EGU25 to finalize and push a new release of the freely-available Soil Respiration Database github.com/bpbond/srdb/ #openscience
May 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I used the loooong flight home from #EGU25 to finalize and push a new release of the freely-available Soil Respiration Database github.com/bpbond/srdb/ #openscience
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Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊
Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com
Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊
Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com
Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com
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📣📖New paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social🌿
"Soil resource acquisition strategy modulates global plant nutrient and water economics" by @alissarcheaib.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social & @eaperkowski.bsky.social
🔗 Read it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EEO #LEMONTREE
"Soil resource acquisition strategy modulates global plant nutrient and water economics" by @alissarcheaib.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social & @eaperkowski.bsky.social
🔗 Read it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EEO #LEMONTREE
Soil resource acquisition strategy modulates global plant nutrient and water economics
Natural selection favors growth by selecting a combination of plant traits that maximize photosynthetic CO2 assimilation at the lowest combined carbon costs of resource acquisition and use. We quant...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📣📖New paper out in @newphyt.bsky.social🌿
"Soil resource acquisition strategy modulates global plant nutrient and water economics" by @alissarcheaib.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social & @eaperkowski.bsky.social
🔗 Read it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EEO #LEMONTREE
"Soil resource acquisition strategy modulates global plant nutrient and water economics" by @alissarcheaib.bsky.social @nickgregsmith.bsky.social & @eaperkowski.bsky.social
🔗 Read it here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EEO #LEMONTREE
🌿 New paper out in ESA Ecosphere! We present the SHIFT campaign: a first-of-its-kind sub-seasonal VSWIR hyperspectral dataset 🌎 ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... A goldmine for land surface models — tracking stress, traits, and phenology in unprecedented detail. #SHIFTcampaign #NASA
March 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
🌿 New paper out in ESA Ecosphere! We present the SHIFT campaign: a first-of-its-kind sub-seasonal VSWIR hyperspectral dataset 🌎 ➡️ doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... A goldmine for land surface models — tracking stress, traits, and phenology in unprecedented detail. #SHIFTcampaign #NASA
✨ Grateful & honored! ✨ My paper, "The Importance of Hyperspectral Soil Albedo for Improving Earth System Model Projections," was a Top Cited Article in @AguAdvances ! 🙌🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2023AV…
Hyperspectral + @NASA (EMIT, PACE, SBG) = the future of Earth Sciences! 🌍🛰️ 🚀
Hyperspectral + @NASA (EMIT, PACE, SBG) = the future of Earth Sciences! 🌍🛰️ 🚀
March 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
✨ Grateful & honored! ✨ My paper, "The Importance of Hyperspectral Soil Albedo for Improving Earth System Model Projections," was a Top Cited Article in @AguAdvances ! 🙌🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2023AV…
Hyperspectral + @NASA (EMIT, PACE, SBG) = the future of Earth Sciences! 🌍🛰️ 🚀
Hyperspectral + @NASA (EMIT, PACE, SBG) = the future of Earth Sciences! 🌍🛰️ 🚀