Ben Dechant
@bendechant.bsky.social
Postdoc @iDiv (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research), interested in terrestrial vegetation patterns and dynamics: plant functional traits, photosynthesis, biodiversity; tools: remote sensing, process modelling, ML
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Great news! 🌱 Last week Christine Wallis and Robert Jackisch received funding for KI-Recover, supported by the German Environment Ministry. The project uses AI to boost sustainable forestry — from climate-resilient tree selection to smarter reforestation. 🌳🤖
#AI #ClimateAction #Forests
#AI #ClimateAction #Forests
October 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Great news! 🌱 Last week Christine Wallis and Robert Jackisch received funding for KI-Recover, supported by the German Environment Ministry. The project uses AI to boost sustainable forestry — from climate-resilient tree selection to smarter reforestation. 🌳🤖
#AI #ClimateAction #Forests
#AI #ClimateAction #Forests
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We keep growing!
Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...
Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...
September 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We keep growing!
Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...
Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...
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🎓 Please join us for a PhD in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure at Aarhus University. It's a great place to live and work, and an inspiring university to do research 😊
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
September 2, 2025 at 7:24 AM
🎓 Please join us for a PhD in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure at Aarhus University. It's a great place to live and work, and an inspiring university to do research 😊
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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Researchers at the Yale School of the Environment used satellite imagery to analyze the start of the growing season at New York City parks. They expected to see spring arrive earlier with climate change — but found that it was arriving later.
Climate change, urban heat island effect delay spring in NYC parks. What it means for public health.
Researchers at the Yale School of the Environment used satellite imagery to analyze the start of the growing season at New York City parks. They expected to see spring arrive earlier with climate change — but found that it was arriving later.
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August 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Researchers at the Yale School of the Environment used satellite imagery to analyze the start of the growing season at New York City parks. They expected to see spring arrive earlier with climate change — but found that it was arriving later.
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We are using drones and sensors to investigate areas affected by forest dieback. We are mapping deadwood and collecting data on regeneration, mortality, species composition and age structures.
August 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We are using drones and sensors to investigate areas affected by forest dieback. We are mapping deadwood and collecting data on regeneration, mortality, species composition and age structures.
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What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments”
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK
www.spectralbiology.org
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK
www.spectralbiology.org
July 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments”
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK
www.spectralbiology.org
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK
www.spectralbiology.org
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NEW: “An initiative to make central Berlin largely car-free [car-lite or car-reduced] has been declared legal by the Berlin Constitutional Court, paving the way for organizers to collect signatures for a referendum.”
This one will be worth keeping an eye on.
www.yahoo.com/news/berlin-...
This one will be worth keeping an eye on.
www.yahoo.com/news/berlin-...
Berlin could go largely car-free as court rules bold initiative legal
An initiative to make central Berlin largely car-free has been declared legal by the Berlin Constitutional Court, paving the way for organizers to collect signatures for a referendum. The Berlin Const...
www.yahoo.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
NEW: “An initiative to make central Berlin largely car-free [car-lite or car-reduced] has been declared legal by the Berlin Constitutional Court, paving the way for organizers to collect signatures for a referendum.”
This one will be worth keeping an eye on.
www.yahoo.com/news/berlin-...
This one will be worth keeping an eye on.
www.yahoo.com/news/berlin-...
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🌱 Our team recently explored how plants across the globe make the most of sunlight. We found that traits like leaf lifespan and chlorophyll content—alongside climate—play key roles in shaping photosynthetic efficiency. 🌍💡
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
🌱 Our team recently explored how plants across the globe make the most of sunlight. We found that traits like leaf lifespan and chlorophyll content—alongside climate—play key roles in shaping photosynthetic efficiency. 🌍💡
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Guten Morgen! 🗳️
Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Wahlsonntag.
Heute nicht vergessen wählen zu gehen...denn nicht wählen stärkt die Falschen.
Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Wahlsonntag.
Heute nicht vergessen wählen zu gehen...denn nicht wählen stärkt die Falschen.
February 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Guten Morgen! 🗳️
Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Wahlsonntag.
Heute nicht vergessen wählen zu gehen...denn nicht wählen stärkt die Falschen.
Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Wahlsonntag.
Heute nicht vergessen wählen zu gehen...denn nicht wählen stärkt die Falschen.
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🎓PostDoc
👨🎓Habilitation position in modern geoinformatics (e.g., spatial ML, hybrid AI) for analyzing and predicting environmental changes.
📝Contract: 2+X years.
📆Apply by March 11.
🔗: bit.ly/giscience
@alexanderbrenning.bsky.social, @ellis.eu, @uni-jena.de #researchteaching
👨🎓Habilitation position in modern geoinformatics (e.g., spatial ML, hybrid AI) for analyzing and predicting environmental changes.
📝Contract: 2+X years.
📆Apply by March 11.
🔗: bit.ly/giscience
@alexanderbrenning.bsky.social, @ellis.eu, @uni-jena.de #researchteaching
February 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🎓PostDoc
👨🎓Habilitation position in modern geoinformatics (e.g., spatial ML, hybrid AI) for analyzing and predicting environmental changes.
📝Contract: 2+X years.
📆Apply by March 11.
🔗: bit.ly/giscience
@alexanderbrenning.bsky.social, @ellis.eu, @uni-jena.de #researchteaching
👨🎓Habilitation position in modern geoinformatics (e.g., spatial ML, hybrid AI) for analyzing and predicting environmental changes.
📝Contract: 2+X years.
📆Apply by March 11.
🔗: bit.ly/giscience
@alexanderbrenning.bsky.social, @ellis.eu, @uni-jena.de #researchteaching
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Twitter/X got really quiet (and weird) so I finally moved over here...are my fellow ecology/plant eco-phys folks out here?? Give me a follow to bring back that lovely #scicomm community 🙏🌱🤓
February 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Twitter/X got really quiet (and weird) so I finally moved over here...are my fellow ecology/plant eco-phys folks out here?? Give me a follow to bring back that lovely #scicomm community 🙏🌱🤓
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Welcome to the official bluesky account of the International Tree Mortality Network. Here we will post invitations to our seminar series and news about the network soon.
January 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Welcome to the official bluesky account of the International Tree Mortality Network. Here we will post invitations to our seminar series and news about the network soon.
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The USGS, in partnership with
NASA, is calling for applications from federal and international partners to serve on the 2025-2030 #Landsat Science Team. Applications are due February 28. Learn more here: ow.ly/rx9G50UKoJ1
#eochat #gischat #remotesensing
NASA, is calling for applications from federal and international partners to serve on the 2025-2030 #Landsat Science Team. Applications are due February 28. Learn more here: ow.ly/rx9G50UKoJ1
#eochat #gischat #remotesensing
January 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The USGS, in partnership with
NASA, is calling for applications from federal and international partners to serve on the 2025-2030 #Landsat Science Team. Applications are due February 28. Learn more here: ow.ly/rx9G50UKoJ1
#eochat #gischat #remotesensing
NASA, is calling for applications from federal and international partners to serve on the 2025-2030 #Landsat Science Team. Applications are due February 28. Learn more here: ow.ly/rx9G50UKoJ1
#eochat #gischat #remotesensing
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Liebe Leute,
wir müssen mal reden! Im aktuellen #Bundestagswahlkampf erfährt die #Klimakrise überhaupt nicht die Aufmerksamkeit, derer es angesichts ihrer reellen Bedrohung unserer Lebensgrundlagen auf diesem Planeten eigentlich bedürfte.
1/6
wir müssen mal reden! Im aktuellen #Bundestagswahlkampf erfährt die #Klimakrise überhaupt nicht die Aufmerksamkeit, derer es angesichts ihrer reellen Bedrohung unserer Lebensgrundlagen auf diesem Planeten eigentlich bedürfte.
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January 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Liebe Leute,
wir müssen mal reden! Im aktuellen #Bundestagswahlkampf erfährt die #Klimakrise überhaupt nicht die Aufmerksamkeit, derer es angesichts ihrer reellen Bedrohung unserer Lebensgrundlagen auf diesem Planeten eigentlich bedürfte.
1/6
wir müssen mal reden! Im aktuellen #Bundestagswahlkampf erfährt die #Klimakrise überhaupt nicht die Aufmerksamkeit, derer es angesichts ihrer reellen Bedrohung unserer Lebensgrundlagen auf diesem Planeten eigentlich bedürfte.
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How much do people around the world trust scientists?
"Most people have a relatively high trust in scientists. People want scientists to take an active role in society and policymaking."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Most people have a relatively high trust in scientists. People want scientists to take an active role in society and policymaking."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
How much do people around the world trust scientists?
"Most people have a relatively high trust in scientists. People want scientists to take an active role in society and policymaking."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Most people have a relatively high trust in scientists. People want scientists to take an active role in society and policymaking."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Applications for the OpenGeoHub EO-Council.nl summer school 2025 "Data Science for Earth Observation: Hands-on Training in Python, R and Julia" are closing on 18th of January 2025. Eager to meet other young scholars in the field? Apply here: opengeohub.org/summer-schoo...
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January 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Applications for the OpenGeoHub EO-Council.nl summer school 2025 "Data Science for Earth Observation: Hands-on Training in Python, R and Julia" are closing on 18th of January 2025. Eager to meet other young scholars in the field? Apply here: opengeohub.org/summer-schoo...
av.tib.eu/publisher/Op...
av.tib.eu/publisher/Op...
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😱 Curious to find out more about how land surface fluxes’ influence low-cloud formation and the Earth energy balance. This is one of our open PhD projects. You can explore more here: https://buff.ly/4gGGcwk
#ClimateResearchNet
#ClimateResearchNet
December 20, 2024 at 5:04 PM
😱 Curious to find out more about how land surface fluxes’ influence low-cloud formation and the Earth energy balance. This is one of our open PhD projects. You can explore more here: https://buff.ly/4gGGcwk
#ClimateResearchNet
#ClimateResearchNet
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We are seeking a Ph.D. student for our recently NASA-funded HI-GRASS project, which uses imaging spectroscopy to uncover the factors influencing grassland aboveground and belowground biodiversity. Deadline January 20th, 2025. Full job description:
hamedgholizadeh.wixsite.com/mysite/grass...
hamedgholizadeh.wixsite.com/mysite/grass...
December 20, 2024 at 6:12 PM
We are seeking a Ph.D. student for our recently NASA-funded HI-GRASS project, which uses imaging spectroscopy to uncover the factors influencing grassland aboveground and belowground biodiversity. Deadline January 20th, 2025. Full job description:
hamedgholizadeh.wixsite.com/mysite/grass...
hamedgholizadeh.wixsite.com/mysite/grass...
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We have an open call for PhD positions! The positions are at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany - but you will have the opportunity to stay with one of our partners during your PhD. Take a look at the offered projects 👉 mc-3.org/research-pro...
#ClimateResearchNet
#ClimateResearchNet
December 18, 2024 at 12:52 PM
We have an open call for PhD positions! The positions are at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany - but you will have the opportunity to stay with one of our partners during your PhD. Take a look at the offered projects 👉 mc-3.org/research-pro...
#ClimateResearchNet
#ClimateResearchNet
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AI-INTERVENE is now accepting applications for 26 PhD projects in AI and Biodiversity findaphd.com/phds/program.... Hosted by UCL and the University of Reading, in partnership with NHM, ZSL, Kew Gardens, and UKCEH. More details at ai-intervene.net
#biodiversity #AI #conservation
#biodiversity #AI #conservation
December 18, 2024 at 2:50 PM
AI-INTERVENE is now accepting applications for 26 PhD projects in AI and Biodiversity findaphd.com/phds/program.... Hosted by UCL and the University of Reading, in partnership with NHM, ZSL, Kew Gardens, and UKCEH. More details at ai-intervene.net
#biodiversity #AI #conservation
#biodiversity #AI #conservation
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If you are at #AGU24 next week, do yourself a favour and come to the film premiere of 'The Spectrum of Life' - a short documentary about NASA’s first biodiversity airborne campaign in South Africa, BioSCape agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me... at 6pm on 9 Dec, River Birch Ballroom, The Westin DC Downtown
December 3, 2024 at 6:43 PM
If you are at #AGU24 next week, do yourself a favour and come to the film premiere of 'The Spectrum of Life' - a short documentary about NASA’s first biodiversity airborne campaign in South Africa, BioSCape agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me... at 6pm on 9 Dec, River Birch Ballroom, The Westin DC Downtown
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🚀 Exciting opportunity for a physicist/mathematician! Join us to pursue a PhD on equation discovery with #AI for the sciences. 🌍🌌⚛️
📅 Apply by Dec 16th: t.ly/tqMdN
Shape the future of scientific exploration! ✨
📅 Apply by Dec 16th: t.ly/tqMdN
Shape the future of scientific exploration! ✨
CPI-24-535
t.ly
December 2, 2024 at 1:12 PM
🚀 Exciting opportunity for a physicist/mathematician! Join us to pursue a PhD on equation discovery with #AI for the sciences. 🌍🌌⚛️
📅 Apply by Dec 16th: t.ly/tqMdN
Shape the future of scientific exploration! ✨
📅 Apply by Dec 16th: t.ly/tqMdN
Shape the future of scientific exploration! ✨