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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 6d

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!

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The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity

Professorship in Biodiversity. The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the

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NPR @npr.org · 4d

With the 2026 midterms approaching, Republican officials continue a push for more restrictions on overseas voters, including U.S. military members stationed abroad.

A GOP push to restrict voting by overseas U.S. citizens continues before 2026 midterms

Republican officials are pushing for more voting restrictions on U.S. citizens who were born abroad and have never lived in the country, after unsuccessfully challenging their ballots in 2024.

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Aug 14

I can attest to this since we were doing field work at this time. Sweaty from start to finish above the Arctic Circle... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say

Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Aug 2

Our last day of fieldwork for the #EnMAP project was eventful with lightning, hail, wind and a downpour. Luckily all viewed from Björkliden's restaurant terrace. Unfortunately the clouds moved in just in time for the satellite overpass.

Enacing cloud with Lapporten in background

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jul 29

It has been tough in the hot sun, but really, fieldwork is the best part of remote sensing! 😊

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jul 29

Another beautiful day of groundtruthing for our #EnMAP.#SNSA project ... without sweating from start to finish under a hot sun.

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jul 27

Fieldwork for Emil's hyperspectral PhD work was in Kärkevägge today. Not a bad work environment...

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jul 21

Oh my God it is so hot on this train! 28C in Murjek, and about 35C on board...

Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jul 20

Emil and I are on our way north for 2 weeks of field work... with a little bit of equipment...

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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · Jun 17

Another exciting day in the ReindeerFlux project!🦌 Frida and @colebrachmann.bsky.social measured CO₂ & CH₄, while Alex and Johan flew drones with radar, multispectral & NDVI sensors. Thanks @svtnyheter.bsky.social’s Susan & Henrik for visiting—loved sharing our work in beautiful Grövelsjön! 🌿

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jul 1

This describes our vacation so far...

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jun 25

#LPS25 power breakfast

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jun 24

Yesterday, besides the opening session of #LPS25, I found Sofia Walther et al's talk on estimating Arctic Boreal NEE interesting, with importance of local training and addition of meteo variables, with more results to come.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · Jun 23

🔴 LIVE now on #ESAWebTV: opening keynote at #LPS25 in Vienna!

🌍 Stay with us for the latest breakthroughs in Earth observation 👉 esawebtv.esa.int

The opening ceremony will include the unveiling of the first images from our forest mission, #Biomass 👇

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The 2025 edition of ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Vienna

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'm walking to #LPS25 this morning, glad for the shade of Sycamore trees in the city of Vienna. We need the trees more than ever.🌳

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jun 12

Any idea what alternate strategies they are considering or might consider? 🤔

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Jun 3

More of this truth telling please (and thank you)

John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · Jun 3

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · May 27

Fantastic introductory seminar by our new PhD student Emil Larsson! 🛰️ He’ll be exploring how hyperspectral satellite data can unlock new insights into Arctic biodiversity ❄️🌱. Excited to follow his journey — and to learn a lot along the way! 📚✨

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · May 20

Have fun!

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European Space Agency @esa.int · Apr 29

🌳🛰️ Our groundbreaking Biomass satellite lifted off on Vega-C #VV26 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:15 BST/11:15 CEST on 29 April. The satellite is designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle.

Biomass launched to count forest carbon

ESA’s groundbreaking Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off ...

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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · Apr 30

Today @ 1700 the embargo on our Arctic synthesis published in @nature.com is lifted. Swedish press release: @naturvetenskap.bsky.social. @mlkristola.bsky.social @vetenskapoallm.bsky.social @emilnilsson.bsky.social @ragnhildlarsson.bsky.social @supermiljobloggen.se @etc.se @dagensnyheter.bsky.social

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Nature @nature.com · Apr 26

Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump’s administration

https://go.nature.com/4jnEXnt

Major European institutes join race to save US science data

Nature - As the administration of US President Donald Trump slashes budgets, crucial climate and other data sets could disappear.

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Apr 10

One month left to apply for this #academicjob at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. #remotesensing, #satellites, #drones, #machinelearning. Come work with us on #Arctic and #alpine vegetation, also #biodiversity and #climate. Requires PhD taken max 7 years ago (excl leave).

Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Mar 15

Job announcement! Come work with us as Assoc Sr Lecturer in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenure track for someone with broad remote sensing & machine learning knowledge. Work with climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV... Deadline 10 May tinyurl.com/58ft38du

Associate Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Data Science

Associate Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Data Science At the Department of Earth Sciences, we

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Nexus Research Group @nexuslmu.bsky.social · Apr 2

🛰️ 3 sessions, one poster pitch & more than 30 speakers later, we've learnt a lot about the current mission status, insights into other missions, and a whole variety of different use cases for #EnMAP data! Now it's time for one last poster session before we're off to our icebreaker event! #EnMAP2025

Workshop participants socializing in the garden of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung.

Preparing for the next session: Prof. Tobias Hank talking to a workshop participant.

Group picture of the workshop participants in the garden of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung.

Prof. Wolfram Mauser talking to a workshop participant in the garden of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung.

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Heather Reese @heatherreese.bsky.social · Apr 3

At the #EnMAP 2nd annual users meeting in Munich. Ca 80 people attending in person. Exciting times for #hyperspectral data use, and EnMAP data are looking good.

People having coffee break at the EnMAP User meeting

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