Cibele Amaral
@cibeleamaral.bsky.social
Environmental Biology and Remote Sensing Research & Data Scientist | ESIIL and Earth Lab Analytics Director, CIRES, CU Boulder | ESA Open Science Section Chair (2024-25) | Forest Engineer by training 🌳🌲🌴
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📢 Solution-Based #DataScience for #Environmental #Biology Challenges
Announcing a new Call for Papers with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges:
ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m
📅 31 May 2026
#TippingPoints #Resilience #Adaptation
Announcing a new Call for Papers with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges:
ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m
📅 31 May 2026
#TippingPoints #Resilience #Adaptation
October 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
📢 Solution-Based #DataScience for #Environmental #Biology Challenges
Announcing a new Call for Papers with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges:
ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m
📅 31 May 2026
#TippingPoints #Resilience #Adaptation
Announcing a new Call for Papers with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges:
ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m
📅 31 May 2026
#TippingPoints #Resilience #Adaptation
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We are currently accepting applications for our 3rd cohort of Working Groups! Visit our website to learn more: esiil.org/working-groups
September 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We are currently accepting applications for our 3rd cohort of Working Groups! Visit our website to learn more: esiil.org/working-groups
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Excited to be heading to join the summit @cu-esiil.bsky.social this week!
September 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Excited to be heading to join the summit @cu-esiil.bsky.social this week!
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"Returning the buffalo: History, restoration, & genetic stories of Colorado’s bison"
Join us for Fayelynn Scheideman's Wednesday evening talk at our Mountain Research Station:
🆓 Free event
🗓 Aug 20th
🕖 7:00 pm
📍 Near Nederland & Ward CO
🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/fayely...
Join us for Fayelynn Scheideman's Wednesday evening talk at our Mountain Research Station:
🆓 Free event
🗓 Aug 20th
🕖 7:00 pm
📍 Near Nederland & Ward CO
🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/fayely...
August 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"Returning the buffalo: History, restoration, & genetic stories of Colorado’s bison"
Join us for Fayelynn Scheideman's Wednesday evening talk at our Mountain Research Station:
🆓 Free event
🗓 Aug 20th
🕖 7:00 pm
📍 Near Nederland & Ward CO
🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/fayely...
Join us for Fayelynn Scheideman's Wednesday evening talk at our Mountain Research Station:
🆓 Free event
🗓 Aug 20th
🕖 7:00 pm
📍 Near Nederland & Ward CO
🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/fayely...
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Just dreadful satellite imagery of the rapidly escalating wildfire outbreak across parts of northern Portugal and western Spain.
Look at the size of that smoke plume!
Look at the size of that smoke plume!
August 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Just dreadful satellite imagery of the rapidly escalating wildfire outbreak across parts of northern Portugal and western Spain.
Look at the size of that smoke plume!
Look at the size of that smoke plume!
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Having a lovely time at #ESA2025! Three talks/workshops, all in collaboration with incredible @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social students- including co-facilitation of session run by rockstar former student Julia Sharapi!
August 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Having a lovely time at #ESA2025! Three talks/workshops, all in collaboration with incredible @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social students- including co-facilitation of session run by rockstar former student Julia Sharapi!
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@sortee.bsky.social meetup tonight at #ESA2025! Come join us to informally discuss all things #openscience - meet at the open science table at 6:30 to walk over together, or at “the Back Yard” (131 S Schroeder Street) at 7pm
August 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
@sortee.bsky.social meetup tonight at #ESA2025! Come join us to informally discuss all things #openscience - meet at the open science table at 6:30 to walk over together, or at “the Back Yard” (131 S Schroeder Street) at 7pm
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You are welcome to submit an abstract to our AGU session. Conveners: @atkinsjeff.bsky.social, Qinfeng Guo, Erin Crockett, & myself.
Our invited speakers are:
Catherine Fahey (SERC)
Ruben Valbuena (SUL)
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
Our invited speakers are:
Catherine Fahey (SERC)
Ruben Valbuena (SUL)
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
July 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
You are welcome to submit an abstract to our AGU session. Conveners: @atkinsjeff.bsky.social, Qinfeng Guo, Erin Crockett, & myself.
Our invited speakers are:
Catherine Fahey (SERC)
Ruben Valbuena (SUL)
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
Our invited speakers are:
Catherine Fahey (SERC)
Ruben Valbuena (SUL)
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
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If you thought forest fires were getting worse, you’re right 🌍🔥
UMD's GLAD lab found record-breaking forest loss in 2023–2024, with fires now driving over 40% of global forest disturbance.
Learn more: go.umd.edu/record-wildf...
#climatechange #wildfire
UMD's GLAD lab found record-breaking forest loss in 2023–2024, with fires now driving over 40% of global forest disturbance.
Learn more: go.umd.edu/record-wildf...
#climatechange #wildfire
Forest Loss Caused by Wildfires Has Reached Record Levels in 2023 and 2024
go.umd.edu
July 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you thought forest fires were getting worse, you’re right 🌍🔥
UMD's GLAD lab found record-breaking forest loss in 2023–2024, with fires now driving over 40% of global forest disturbance.
Learn more: go.umd.edu/record-wildf...
#climatechange #wildfire
UMD's GLAD lab found record-breaking forest loss in 2023–2024, with fires now driving over 40% of global forest disturbance.
Learn more: go.umd.edu/record-wildf...
#climatechange #wildfire
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Missed out on getting your #abstract for #ESA25 submitted on time? All is not lost - the submission portal will remain open until 27 July! Just follow the link on this page: esa2025.org.au/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts – ESA2025
esa2025.org.au
July 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Missed out on getting your #abstract for #ESA25 submitted on time? All is not lost - the submission portal will remain open until 27 July! Just follow the link on this page: esa2025.org.au/call-for-abs...
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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
Are you engaged in #OpenScience? Will you be attending the #ESA2025 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting this year, in Baltimore, MD? If so, please consider applying for the ESA Open Science Section #Award before June 30.
You can apply by filling out this form: forms.gle/9B2XQVsUQcfj...
You can apply by filling out this form: forms.gle/9B2XQVsUQcfj...
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June 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Are you engaged in #OpenScience? Will you be attending the #ESA2025 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting this year, in Baltimore, MD? If so, please consider applying for the ESA Open Science Section #Award before June 30.
You can apply by filling out this form: forms.gle/9B2XQVsUQcfj...
You can apply by filling out this form: forms.gle/9B2XQVsUQcfj...
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If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees
June 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
If you're waiting on a reply, a peer review, or other effort from me--please be patient. I urgently left to document a developing forest die-off event more intense than any I've seen. No obvious biotic agents, dead & dying include multiple Pinus & Juniperus, many Quercus, & shrubs. #WhatKillsTrees
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Loss of Stomatal Regulation Sensitivity to CO2 and Reduced Xylem Hydraulic Conductivity Contribute to Long‐Term Tree Decline and Mortality
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June 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Loss of Stomatal Regulation Sensitivity to CO2 and Reduced Xylem Hydraulic Conductivity Contribute to Long‐Term Tree Decline and Mortality
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And it's out ! 🐟 With @davidobura.bsky.social, Almut Arneth, @pwlead.bsky.social, Pete Smith and Akira Mori.
As always, it's the journey 😎. @ipbes.net #biodiversity #climate
Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
As always, it's the journey 😎. @ipbes.net #biodiversity #climate
Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Achieving the Global Biodiversity Framework Under Climate Change
The Global Biodiversity Framework sets out targets for a range of measures in terms of biodiversity goals. Climate change, however, is both likely and already being shown to make the achievement of s....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
And it's out ! 🐟 With @davidobura.bsky.social, Almut Arneth, @pwlead.bsky.social, Pete Smith and Akira Mori.
As always, it's the journey 😎. @ipbes.net #biodiversity #climate
Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
As always, it's the journey 😎. @ipbes.net #biodiversity #climate
Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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How do we decide on conservation actions in the face of context dependency?
In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’
we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing
can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes
allowing effective & targeted conservation
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’
we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing
can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes
allowing effective & targeted conservation
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...
doi.org
May 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
How do we decide on conservation actions in the face of context dependency?
In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’
we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing
can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes
allowing effective & targeted conservation
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’
we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing
can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes
allowing effective & targeted conservation
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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From @nature.com: New research shows that with every increment of global warming, the number of people facing unprecedented lifetime exposure to crop failures, droughts, floods, wildfires, and cyclones increases sharply. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes - Nature
Climate models, impact models and demographic data are used to estimate the number of people projected to experience unprecedented lifetime exposure to extreme climate events across multiple dimension...
www.nature.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
From @nature.com: New research shows that with every increment of global warming, the number of people facing unprecedented lifetime exposure to crop failures, droughts, floods, wildfires, and cyclones increases sharply. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“Our study suggests that a significant portion of the recent rise in atmospheric methane originates from natural sources driven by climate change," said Xin (Lindsay) Lan, a CIRES research scientist. Read more from @colorado.edu ⬇️
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
A vicious cycle: How methane emissions from warming wetlands could exacerbate climate change
Warming in the Arctic is intensifying methane emissions, contributing to a vicious feedback loop that could accelerate climate change even more, according to a
www.colorado.edu
May 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Our study suggests that a significant portion of the recent rise in atmospheric methane originates from natural sources driven by climate change," said Xin (Lindsay) Lan, a CIRES research scientist. Read more from @colorado.edu ⬇️
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
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Refugia: how to best use them to protect biodiversity under climate change biodiversityoceania.com/2024/09/18/u...
Using refugia to resist biodiversity loss under global change
Refugia constitute the best places to resist the impacts of climate change and to retain biodiversity in rapidly changing landscapes. An international team of leading scientists suggests that manag…
biodiversityoceania.com
October 13, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Refugia: how to best use them to protect biodiversity under climate change biodiversityoceania.com/2024/09/18/u...
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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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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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🌎: Mangrove tree species influence soil DOM characteristics. In New Caledonia's Ouvéa atoll, Rhizophora soils yielded fresher, protein-rich DOM, while mature Bruguiera soils stored more humified, aged carbon—hinting at species-driven carbon cycling pathways. 🧪
Variability of the optical signatures of dissolved organic matter in soils of different mangrove stands (Ouvéa, New Caledonia) - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Mangrove ecosystems are known to play a key role in the global carbon cycle, due to their productivity and their ability for carbon sequestration both in the biomass and in the soil. In the latter, va...
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April 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🌎: Mangrove tree species influence soil DOM characteristics. In New Caledonia's Ouvéa atoll, Rhizophora soils yielded fresher, protein-rich DOM, while mature Bruguiera soils stored more humified, aged carbon—hinting at species-driven carbon cycling pathways. 🧪
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It's important that science continues, now more than ever. Hence I am happy to share our recent paper which shows the slowing of post-mortality forest recovery @natplants.nature.com. With great colleagues including @smmunson.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It's important that science continues, now more than ever. Hence I am happy to share our recent paper which shows the slowing of post-mortality forest recovery @natplants.nature.com. With great colleagues including @smmunson.bsky.social @wmhammond.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...