Bernie Bastien-Olvera
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Bernie Bastien-Olvera
@bbastien.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary climate change scientist and communicator • National Geographic Explorer ⛰️ • Assistant Professor at UNAM 🇲🇽
Figures looked weird, so sharing again!
September 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Together:
🌍 Socioeconomics push toward recovery.
🔥 Warming oceans stall or reverse progress.

Without climate change, mangroves could recover to global restoration targets. With warming, we lose ~150,000 ha by 2100.
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Temperature matters too.

Warming helps colder sites expand. But beyond a threshold, heat damages dominate.

We identified sea surface temp of the hottest month (SSTh) as the strongest signal.

This Figure shows the marginal effect of both drivers
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Mangroves protect coasts, store carbon & sustain fisheries. Using global data (1996–2020), we mapped mangrove extent & tracked how it responds to climate & socioeconomic drivers. Each point = 1° grid cell with mangroves.
September 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
After months held up in customs, @paulkelleher.net 's book finally made it to me. Now riding along with me on the Mexico City metro.
August 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
New paper!

Polycrisis isn’t a series of mistakes — it’s a tangled web of crises we navigate through increasingly rough terrain.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
July 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
What a view of the Sandia mountains last week in Albuquerque. So happy to join the @aereorg.bsky.social scholars cohort, an amazing group of supportive and brilliant people!
June 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What an amazing week at the Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences!

Sharing ideas, methods and good moments with this talented group of scholars studying socioecological impacts.
May 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Kicking off AGU council meeting with an inspiring quote and new horizons for my taste buds
March 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In an activity of naming ocean-based values that I've been doing for a while in some classes, the top words historically have been 'food' and 'recreation' 🌊

I was happy to see a new word emerging today: 'peace'.

Naming what we value is the first step to including it in environmental policy
February 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
So stoked about artists illustrating our recent paper on climate-driven ecosystem range shift and economic impacts.

This is from Maria Fernanda Goldblatt 🤩
December 22, 2023 at 6:05 AM