Pierre Gentine
pierregentine.bsky.social
Pierre Gentine
@pierregentine.bsky.social
Professor @Columbia University, Director of @LEAPstc NSF Science and Technology Center, Working on #climate, #water and #ecology, born at 335ppm, views my own
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Also excited to see our work accompanied by a View & Commentary by Dr. Jürgen Knauer. We sincerely appreciate the thoughtful perspective! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Water-use efficiency driven by water savings - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Analysis of land–atmosphere water and CO2 fluxes suggests that reduced water use by vegetation, rather than increased carbon uptake, is the driving factor behind the well-documented increase in vegeta...
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July 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
while ecosystem photosynthesis increase is less detectable based on current record length. Led by a great student Weiwei Zhan.
Humbled to have so many awesome, kind and creative scientists in my group 🙏.
July 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Soil moisture matters most when and where it does i.e. in transitional conditions (neither too dry nor too wet). Led by a great former postdoc Jiangong Liu, now assistant professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
July 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It is terrible that we will not actively mitigate in the US and will strongly affect our future. However the term adaptation cannot be considered a soothing term. We need both to adapt and mitigate given the long time scales in the system and time to reach net zero.
March 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Congratulations! So well deserved!
January 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM