Juanma Rubiales
@jmrubiales.bsky.social
I teach Botany at @upm.es 🌱🌿
Quaternary, megafossils, charcoals, fossil woods, urban forestry 🌳
Traveler, japanophile and bonsai enthusiast ⛩️
Quaternary, megafossils, charcoals, fossil woods, urban forestry 🌳
Traveler, japanophile and bonsai enthusiast ⛩️
Continuamos explorando Pirineos y hoy nos asomamos a la gestión forestal: Selva de Irati, acompañados de Mikel Repáraz, robledales de Quercus petraea por la tarde y paseo por un bosque mixto de ribera para cerrar el día. Naturaleza y mucha inspiración antes de cambiar de base 🌲🌳💧 #Geobotánica2025
May 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Continuamos explorando Pirineos y hoy nos asomamos a la gestión forestal: Selva de Irati, acompañados de Mikel Repáraz, robledales de Quercus petraea por la tarde y paseo por un bosque mixto de ribera para cerrar el día. Naturaleza y mucha inspiración antes de cambiar de base 🌲🌳💧 #Geobotánica2025
Sierra de Leyre y Foz de Arbayún! Refugio glaciar donde los haya....
#geobotánica2025
#geobotánica2025
May 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Sierra de Leyre y Foz de Arbayún! Refugio glaciar donde los haya....
#geobotánica2025
#geobotánica2025
🌳🌱Segundo día por las alturas del karst de Larra, en la zona occidental del macizo pirenaico, con una buena nevada incluída. ❄️❄️❄️Pinares de pino negro, hayedos, hayedo-abetal, bosques maduros. ¡Mil gracias Óscar y Raquel por la compañía y las enseñanzas! #geobotánica2025
May 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🌳🌱Segundo día por las alturas del karst de Larra, en la zona occidental del macizo pirenaico, con una buena nevada incluída. ❄️❄️❄️Pinares de pino negro, hayedos, hayedo-abetal, bosques maduros. ¡Mil gracias Óscar y Raquel por la compañía y las enseñanzas! #geobotánica2025
Primer día de acercamiento a Pirineos: transicionamos desde los encinares de meseta a los quejigares y melojares del Sistema Ibérico, y desde allí, bajada a la depresión del Ebro y las Bardenas Reales, para descubrir ontinares, sisallares y vegetación de yesos y suelos salinos! #geobotanica2025
May 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Primer día de acercamiento a Pirineos: transicionamos desde los encinares de meseta a los quejigares y melojares del Sistema Ibérico, y desde allí, bajada a la depresión del Ebro y las Bardenas Reales, para descubrir ontinares, sisallares y vegetación de yesos y suelos salinos! #geobotanica2025
Here we are exploring the landscapes of the Sierra de Guadarrama with students! Can you spot Madrid on the horizon?
April 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Here we are exploring the landscapes of the Sierra de Guadarrama with students! Can you spot Madrid on the horizon?
Excited to see how things change, university and city evolving with the times. Glad to join the 1st Climate Action Day at #CampusSur, @upm.es with Ayto @madrid. Feasible, profitable, and essential proposals for the future! Thanks @candidatasoniaroig.bsky.social and colleagues! #climatechange
April 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Excited to see how things change, university and city evolving with the times. Glad to join the 1st Climate Action Day at #CampusSur, @upm.es with Ayto @madrid. Feasible, profitable, and essential proposals for the future! Thanks @candidatasoniaroig.bsky.social and colleagues! #climatechange
Thanks to #innovacioneducativa at @upm.es and our colleagues that make part of this project! @salvifolia.bsky.social @cesar-morales.bsky.social @soniamolino.bsky.social @guillermo-santos.bsky.social @arubiosa.bsky.social #Fieldwork #Gamification #iNaturalist #PlantScience #EdTech
April 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Thanks to #innovacioneducativa at @upm.es and our colleagues that make part of this project! @salvifolia.bsky.social @cesar-morales.bsky.social @soniamolino.bsky.social @guillermo-santos.bsky.social @arubiosa.bsky.social #Fieldwork #Gamification #iNaturalist #PlantScience #EdTech
🔍 Why this project?
Traditional field trips are invaluable, but we see the need for new strategies and tools to optimize botanical learning outdoors. Our solution: integrating a digital citizen science platform powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI Vision & Machine Learning).
Traditional field trips are invaluable, but we see the need for new strategies and tools to optimize botanical learning outdoors. Our solution: integrating a digital citizen science platform powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI Vision & Machine Learning).
April 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🔍 Why this project?
Traditional field trips are invaluable, but we see the need for new strategies and tools to optimize botanical learning outdoors. Our solution: integrating a digital citizen science platform powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI Vision & Machine Learning).
Traditional field trips are invaluable, but we see the need for new strategies and tools to optimize botanical learning outdoors. Our solution: integrating a digital citizen science platform powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI Vision & Machine Learning).
🌳Fieldwork season begins! Today we kick off the practical sessions for our "Geobotany" course—and with them, the activities of our new educational innovation project of the @upm.es: "Exploring Plant Biodiversity through Gamification in Fieldwork"
April 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🌳Fieldwork season begins! Today we kick off the practical sessions for our "Geobotany" course—and with them, the activities of our new educational innovation project of the @upm.es: "Exploring Plant Biodiversity through Gamification in Fieldwork"
10 years after its inauguration, the trees are still growing. The park is maturing, meaning its environmental benefits will continue to increase over the coming decades.
If you’re in Madrid, this green giant deserves a visit. What degraded spaces in your city could become the next Valdebebas? 🤔🌳🌱
If you’re in Madrid, this green giant deserves a visit. What degraded spaces in your city could become the next Valdebebas? 🤔🌳🌱
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
10 years after its inauguration, the trees are still growing. The park is maturing, meaning its environmental benefits will continue to increase over the coming decades.
If you’re in Madrid, this green giant deserves a visit. What degraded spaces in your city could become the next Valdebebas? 🤔🌳🌱
If you’re in Madrid, this green giant deserves a visit. What degraded spaces in your city could become the next Valdebebas? 🤔🌳🌱
It also includes:
* 27 km bike lane 🚴♂️
* Extensive pedestrian paths 🚶♀️
* Play areas for kids 🛝
* A riverbank environment 🌊
* An arboretum 🌳
* Natural wetlands 🦆
* Agricultural zones 🌾
* A labyrinth 🌀
* 27 km bike lane 🚴♂️
* Extensive pedestrian paths 🚶♀️
* Play areas for kids 🛝
* A riverbank environment 🌊
* An arboretum 🌳
* Natural wetlands 🦆
* Agricultural zones 🌾
* A labyrinth 🌀
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It also includes:
* 27 km bike lane 🚴♂️
* Extensive pedestrian paths 🚶♀️
* Play areas for kids 🛝
* A riverbank environment 🌊
* An arboretum 🌳
* Natural wetlands 🦆
* Agricultural zones 🌾
* A labyrinth 🌀
* 27 km bike lane 🚴♂️
* Extensive pedestrian paths 🚶♀️
* Play areas for kids 🛝
* A riverbank environment 🌊
* An arboretum 🌳
* Natural wetlands 🦆
* Agricultural zones 🌾
* A labyrinth 🌀
In terms of scale and concept, Valdebebas-Felipe VI is Europe’s largest newly created urban forest park. It’s a shining example of how cities can transform degraded spaces into essential green infrastructure.
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
In terms of scale and concept, Valdebebas-Felipe VI is Europe’s largest newly created urban forest park. It’s a shining example of how cities can transform degraded spaces into essential green infrastructure.
Experts explained how they carefully selected high-quality native species from local and national nurseries, balancing tree size with their ability to thrive under the challenging initial conditions of the park.
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Experts explained how they carefully selected high-quality native species from local and national nurseries, balancing tree size with their ability to thrive under the challenging initial conditions of the park.
This project is eco-sustainable to its core. It includes three reservoirs holding 88,000 cubic meters of reclaimed water that feed the irrigation system and aquatic features.
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This project is eco-sustainable to its core. It includes three reservoirs holding 88,000 cubic meters of reclaimed water that feed the irrigation system and aquatic features.
The park boasts now an impressive biodiversity:
+310,000 trees 🌳
+317,000 shrubs 🌿
10 types of forests
Recreation of 5 different vegetation landscapes from central Spain
+310,000 trees 🌳
+317,000 shrubs 🌿
10 types of forests
Recreation of 5 different vegetation landscapes from central Spain
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The park boasts now an impressive biodiversity:
+310,000 trees 🌳
+317,000 shrubs 🌿
10 types of forests
Recreation of 5 different vegetation landscapes from central Spain
+310,000 trees 🌳
+317,000 shrubs 🌿
10 types of forests
Recreation of 5 different vegetation landscapes from central Spain
But do you know what was here before? Las Cárcavas, Madrid’s largest illegal landfill in the 1990s. A radical transformation turned waste into a green lung for the city.
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
But do you know what was here before? Las Cárcavas, Madrid’s largest illegal landfill in the 1990s. A radical transformation turned waste into a green lung for the city.
Yesterday, we had the chance to visit it with experts from #Ayuntamiento_de_Madrid as part of a field trip for the Master’s in Forestry Engineering at @upm.es, during the course “Urban Forestry” It was an incredible experience to learn about managing urban green spaces. 🌱
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yesterday, we had the chance to visit it with experts from #Ayuntamiento_de_Madrid as part of a field trip for the Master’s in Forestry Engineering at @upm.es, during the course “Urban Forestry” It was an incredible experience to learn about managing urban green spaces. 🌱
The most fascinating part? Its design when seen from above. The entire park is shaped like a giant tree, with a central trunk acting as the axis and branches extending across the area
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The most fascinating part? Its design when seen from above. The entire park is shaped like a giant tree, with a central trunk acting as the axis and branches extending across the area
This colossal green space is 4 times larger than El Retiro. Opened in March 2015, it’s the second-largest public park in Madrid, only surpassed by Casa de Campo (with a radical different history)
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This colossal green space is 4 times larger than El Retiro. Opened in March 2015, it’s the second-largest public park in Madrid, only surpassed by Casa de Campo (with a radical different history)
Want to know about the largest newly created urban forest park in Europe? Let me introduce you to Valdebebas-Felipe VI Forest Park, a green titan covering 470 hectares in Madrid in @valdebebas.bsky.social #urbanforestry
April 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Want to know about the largest newly created urban forest park in Europe? Let me introduce you to Valdebebas-Felipe VI Forest Park, a green titan covering 470 hectares in Madrid in @valdebebas.bsky.social #urbanforestry
Snowstorm incoming? ❄️🌨️ Maybe! But I couldn’t be more excited to give this talk in Gredos 🌲🔥. It’s about fossil woods and ancient kilns that talk about the history of the forest in the highlands—Gredos is my grandparents’ homeland and my research home for over 20 years! #Gredos
March 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Snowstorm incoming? ❄️🌨️ Maybe! But I couldn’t be more excited to give this talk in Gredos 🌲🔥. It’s about fossil woods and ancient kilns that talk about the history of the forest in the highlands—Gredos is my grandparents’ homeland and my research home for over 20 years! #Gredos
One of our gardeners in #arboretodemontes deserves a huge shoutout for this thoughtful initiative! 🐝🌱 He has placed these signs to protect wild bee nesting areas (genus Lasioglossum) in our garden. These bees are harmless and vital for pollination (🙏gracias Nacho 😊💚🌍💚) #Bees #montes @upm.es
March 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
One of our gardeners in #arboretodemontes deserves a huge shoutout for this thoughtful initiative! 🐝🌱 He has placed these signs to protect wild bee nesting areas (genus Lasioglossum) in our garden. These bees are harmless and vital for pollination (🙏gracias Nacho 😊💚🌍💚) #Bees #montes @upm.es
Jaja, aquí va la que tengo ahora, el arbolito un Prunus subhirtella (japonés), es un regalo de hace un par de años de mi profe Mario 😊
March 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Jaja, aquí va la que tengo ahora, el arbolito un Prunus subhirtella (japonés), es un regalo de hace un par de años de mi profe Mario 😊
Some details from the 2025 bonsai exhibition in Genk!
February 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Some details from the 2025 bonsai exhibition in Genk!