Daniela Dalmonech
@ddalmo.bsky.social
PhD Forest Ecology, Researcher @ CNR-ISAFOM
interested in carbon cycle, ecosystem ecology, climate change, modelling.
https://www.forest-modelling-lab.com/
interested in carbon cycle, ecosystem ecology, climate change, modelling.
https://www.forest-modelling-lab.com/
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Out today in JAMES!! Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning doi.org/10.1029/2024... led by Nina Raoult, Natalie Douglas, @janasknits.bsky.social, @tquaife.bsky.social, me, and an awesome team of folks in the community 1/2
Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning
Data assimilation (DA) has been shown to be a powerful tool for reducing land surface model (LSM) parametric uncertainty
Machine learning can facilitate parameter estimation by enhancing computat...
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Out today in JAMES!! Parameter Estimation in Land Surface Models: Challenges and Opportunities With Data Assimilation and Machine Learning doi.org/10.1029/2024... led by Nina Raoult, Natalie Douglas, @janasknits.bsky.social, @tquaife.bsky.social, me, and an awesome team of folks in the community 1/2
New study out of our laboratory! First-ever national scale study using NFI plots and the process based forest model 3D-CMCC-FEM in Italy!
A great work lead by my colleague Elia Vangi.
A great work lead by my colleague Elia Vangi.
🌲 Forests breathe, grow, and mitigate climate change! 🌍
First-ever national-scale study using NFI plots in Italy with 3D-CMCC-FEM shows how forests manage carbon and respond to climate change. Essential insights for policymakers & forest managers.
📖 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
First-ever national-scale study using NFI plots in Italy with 3D-CMCC-FEM shows how forests manage carbon and respond to climate change. Essential insights for policymakers & forest managers.
📖 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Monitoring forest attributes, C-fluxes, and C-stocks using the process-based model 3D-CMCC-FEM
Process-based forest models (PBFMs) are valuable tools for investigating the effects of climate change and alternative forest management strategies. H…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
New study out of our laboratory! First-ever national scale study using NFI plots and the process based forest model 3D-CMCC-FEM in Italy!
A great work lead by my colleague Elia Vangi.
A great work lead by my colleague Elia Vangi.
Reposted by Daniela Dalmonech
⚒️ Article: The onset of Southern Ocean convection following a slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during Heinrich Events can help explain rapid CO2 increases and Antarctic warming during these events
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
⚒️ Article: The onset of Southern Ocean convection following a slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during Heinrich Events can help explain rapid CO2 increases and Antarctic warming during these events
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to share our latest study!
🌍 Study the past to understand future trajectories!
A new Nature Geoscience study (PIK Potsdam, co-auth. Daniela Dalmonech from For.Mod.Lab) shows how a bipolar convection seesaw may recur if the AMOC weakens under climate change. 🌡️🌊
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A new Nature Geoscience study (PIK Potsdam, co-auth. Daniela Dalmonech from For.Mod.Lab) shows how a bipolar convection seesaw may recur if the AMOC weakens under climate change. 🌡️🌊
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Earth system response to Heinrich events explained by a bipolar convection seesaw - Nature Geoscience
The onset of Southern Ocean convection following a slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during Heinrich events can help explain rapid CO2 increases and Antarctic warming during these events, according to Earth system modelling.
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Happy to share our latest study!
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I normally post on climate science, which is my expertise.
But this is too important to look away, so I want to share this from the Washington Post. Please read.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
But this is too important to look away, so I want to share this from the Washington Post. Please read.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Column | As Gaza starves, Israel’s far right sees a dream coming true
Members of Israel’s government embrace the Trump-inspired vision of a Gaza of gleaming towers, ritzy tourism and pristine neighborhoods, but without Palestinians.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I normally post on climate science, which is my expertise.
But this is too important to look away, so I want to share this from the Washington Post. Please read.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
But this is too important to look away, so I want to share this from the Washington Post. Please read.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team!
PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
July 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team!
PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
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🆕 Exciting news: the model just got a major upgrade in accessibility!
Say hello to R3DFEM—a new open-source R package that makes this powerful forest simulator much easier to use: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@ale-collalti.bsky.social , @ddalmo.bsky.social
Say hello to R3DFEM—a new open-source R package that makes this powerful forest simulator much easier to use: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@ale-collalti.bsky.social , @ddalmo.bsky.social
R3DFEM: an R package for running the 3D-CMCC-FEM model - Earth Science Informatics
Forest ecosystems account for about one-third of the Earth’s land area, and monitoring their structure and dynamics is essential for understanding the land’s carbon cycle and its role in the greenhous...
link.springer.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🆕 Exciting news: the model just got a major upgrade in accessibility!
Say hello to R3DFEM—a new open-source R package that makes this powerful forest simulator much easier to use: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@ale-collalti.bsky.social , @ddalmo.bsky.social
Say hello to R3DFEM—a new open-source R package that makes this powerful forest simulator much easier to use: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@ale-collalti.bsky.social , @ddalmo.bsky.social
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New review in 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 @springernature.com explores how forest growth models tackle the complex carbon source–sink feedback under climate change.
📄Paper Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧠Behind the paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/modeli...
📄Paper Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧠Behind the paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/modeli...
Modeling Forest Growth in a Changing Climate: Addressing the "Chicken-and-Egg" Paradox of Cause and Consequence
A recent article published in Current Forestry Reports offers a comprehensive review of both established and emerging theories for modeling growth in forest ecosystems, with particular emphasis on the...
communities.springernature.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New review in 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 @springernature.com explores how forest growth models tackle the complex carbon source–sink feedback under climate change.
📄Paper Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧠Behind the paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/modeli...
📄Paper Open-access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧠Behind the paper: communities.springernature.com/posts/modeli...
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🌳🌏As Europe moves forward on its #climate & sustainability journey, forest-related policies & management practices need to evolve.🤝 This is the shared objective of three Horizon Europe projects 👉 forestpaths.eu/storage/app/...
@forestpaths.eu
#EUforestprojects #climatechange #forestresearch
@forestpaths.eu
#EUforestprojects #climatechange #forestresearch
May 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🌳🌏As Europe moves forward on its #climate & sustainability journey, forest-related policies & management practices need to evolve.🤝 This is the shared objective of three Horizon Europe projects 👉 forestpaths.eu/storage/app/...
@forestpaths.eu
#EUforestprojects #climatechange #forestresearch
@forestpaths.eu
#EUforestprojects #climatechange #forestresearch
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Want to see something really insane? Look at this website for USGS's Water Science Centers and Regions and see how many of their directors have "Former Employee" after their names. Everyone's gone! My best friend from grad school was one of them. Who's monitoring floods, droughts, etc?
Water Science Centers and Regions
A list of all of the USGS Water Resources Mission Area Science Centers and regions, hubs for critical water science funded by Federal, State, and other partners and stakeholders located throughout the...
www.usgs.gov
May 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Want to see something really insane? Look at this website for USGS's Water Science Centers and Regions and see how many of their directors have "Former Employee" after their names. Everyone's gone! My best friend from grad school was one of them. Who's monitoring floods, droughts, etc?
Reposted by Daniela Dalmonech
🌍Big news from the forest front!
The #OptFor-EU project, featuring insights from Alessio Collalti, is in #HorizonMagazine, showcasing how science is helping Europe’s forests adapt to climate change!
📖 Read more:
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
@ale-collalti.bsky.social
The #OptFor-EU project, featuring insights from Alessio Collalti, is in #HorizonMagazine, showcasing how science is helping Europe’s forests adapt to climate change!
📖 Read more:
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
@ale-collalti.bsky.social
Guardians of the glades: protecting Europe’s forests against climate change
The Făgăraș Mountains in southern Romania are home to one of Europe’s few remaining primary old-growth forests. These forests are still untouched by human activity and boast a rich variety of trees, f...
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🌍Big news from the forest front!
The #OptFor-EU project, featuring insights from Alessio Collalti, is in #HorizonMagazine, showcasing how science is helping Europe’s forests adapt to climate change!
📖 Read more:
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
@ale-collalti.bsky.social
The #OptFor-EU project, featuring insights from Alessio Collalti, is in #HorizonMagazine, showcasing how science is helping Europe’s forests adapt to climate change!
📖 Read more:
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...
@ale-collalti.bsky.social
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Excited to share that our new paper
“Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years”
has been published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science!
See the open-access paper from doi.org/10.1038/s416...
Short thread 👇
“Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years”
has been published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science!
See the open-access paper from doi.org/10.1038/s416...
Short thread 👇
Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years
doi.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Excited to share that our new paper
“Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years”
has been published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science!
See the open-access paper from doi.org/10.1038/s416...
Short thread 👇
“Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years”
has been published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science!
See the open-access paper from doi.org/10.1038/s416...
Short thread 👇
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Every time I check my phone or simply refresh my social media feed, someone is sharing about an educational program or critical scientific research effort that is being cut.
It’s infuriating and so upsetting. We need to continue making people and communities aware of what is happening.
It’s infuriating and so upsetting. We need to continue making people and communities aware of what is happening.
April 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Every time I check my phone or simply refresh my social media feed, someone is sharing about an educational program or critical scientific research effort that is being cut.
It’s infuriating and so upsetting. We need to continue making people and communities aware of what is happening.
It’s infuriating and so upsetting. We need to continue making people and communities aware of what is happening.
Reposted by Daniela Dalmonech
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
March 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
Please share!
#PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool
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Arctic update for Mar. 1, 2025: Arctic sea-ice extent set a record daily low every day in February and is poised to set an all-time record low maximum this month.
March 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Arctic update for Mar. 1, 2025: Arctic sea-ice extent set a record daily low every day in February and is poised to set an all-time record low maximum this month.
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I never expected this to be applicable again.
Advertise your account with just one image.
March 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I never expected this to be applicable again.
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Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change
Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...
doi.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Important piece on the role of Ockham's razor in the modern world of scientific modeling in @pnas.org. Conclusion: Complex models can be quite useful, and parsimony and complexity can complement each other in helping us to gain new insights!
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony | PNAS
The preference for simple explanations, known as the parsimony principle, has long
guided the development of scientific theories, hypotheses, and m...
doi.org
February 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Important piece on the role of Ockham's razor in the modern world of scientific modeling in @pnas.org. Conclusion: Complex models can be quite useful, and parsimony and complexity can complement each other in helping us to gain new insights!
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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How do forest harvesting regimes really look across Europe? Working with forestry inventories from 11 countries @ssuvanto.bsky.social quantifies how probability and intensity of harvest events actually vary across the continent
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
February 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
How do forest harvesting regimes really look across Europe? Working with forestry inventories from 11 countries @ssuvanto.bsky.social quantifies how probability and intensity of harvest events actually vary across the continent
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Just a friendly reminder about the role of NOAA : www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
About our agency
NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep the public informed of the changing environment aro...
www.noaa.gov
February 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Just a friendly reminder about the role of NOAA : www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
Reposted by Daniela Dalmonech
This critical loss of data needs to be reported by our science writers @revkin.bsky.social @sammyroth.bsky.social @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social @gporterwx.bsky.social
The NOAA CO2 data website has vanished.
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
February 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This critical loss of data needs to be reported by our science writers @revkin.bsky.social @sammyroth.bsky.social @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social @gporterwx.bsky.social
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GHG emissions from the German LULUCF sector have gone from around neutral to a large source!
The change is almost entirely in forest land.
"Due to the years of drought, around two million hectares of trees have been damaged and some have died completely."
www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-t...
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The change is almost entirely in forest land.
"Due to the years of drought, around two million hectares of trees have been damaged and some have died completely."
www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-t...
1/
February 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
GHG emissions from the German LULUCF sector have gone from around neutral to a large source!
The change is almost entirely in forest land.
"Due to the years of drought, around two million hectares of trees have been damaged and some have died completely."
www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-t...
1/
The change is almost entirely in forest land.
"Due to the years of drought, around two million hectares of trees have been damaged and some have died completely."
www.thuenen.de/en/thuenen-t...
1/