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Allie Shenkin
@shenkin.bsky.social
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Structure & function of forests, 3D process modeling, RS+field, commercialization. Director of NAU’s Ecosystem Science & Innovation Lab. Particularly fond of the tropics. https://ecosci.nau.edu @ecosail.bsky.social @selvaflux.bsky.social
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Dr Maria B Mills @mariabmills.bsky.social · Apr 7
Our new paper is out today @newphyt.bsky.social We investigated the bias involved in woody stem CO2 efflux measurements in tropical forests - including diel and vertical variations, and used TLS to upscale vertical variations and estimate stem surface area nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Investigating the accuracy of tropical woody stem CO2 efflux estimates: scaling methods, and vertical and diel variation
Stem CO2 efflux (EA) significantly contributes to autotrophic and ecosystem respiration in tropical forests, but field methodologies often introduce biases and uncertainty. This study evaluates thes...
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Apr 8
Woody respiration is an important but unconstrained process in the forest carbon cycle. @mariabmills.bsky.social made real progress in Malaysian Borneo using lasers and climbing giants, so that you don't have to! She came away with great insights.

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Investigating the accuracy of tropical woody stem CO2 efflux estimates: scaling methods, and vertical and diel variation
Stem CO2 efflux (EA) significantly contributes to autotrophic and ecosystem respiration in tropical forests, but field methodologies often introduce biases and uncertainty. This study evaluates thes...
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Sean Michaletz @seanmichaletz.bsky.social · Mar 13
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
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Mar 31
How cool - hadn’t seen that!
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Mar 29
Coolest study I’ve seen in a while. What are your leading hypotheses for the adaptations that allow them to survive strikes?
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Dr. Kassandra Ford @kassthefish.bsky.social · Mar 28
Trying to come up with the words to say.

I'm terrified for our students.

We just received an email that an international grad student at UMN has been detained. Minnesota has laws stating police are not required to provide info to ICE. Admin claims no info was given.

How can we protect our people?
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 27
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Mar 26
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Mar 27
One of the more remarkable and surprising studies I’ve read in quite a while!
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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies @caryinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 26
Getting hit by lightning is usually bad news, but a new study led by Cary's Evan Gora reveals a tree species that actually benefits from ⚡️ strikes, and may have evolved to act as a natural lightning rod. @newphyt.bsky.social www.caryinstitute.org/news-insight...
Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees
Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is, according to a new study. Published in New Phytologist, the study finds that some...
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Mar 19
Yep… question is the source of the living corals…
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Mar 19
Where’d the coral come from…
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The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 21
Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
WASHINGTON—Amid efforts to prove himself as an effective chair of the performing arts organization, President Donald Trump was reportedly unable to focus in a national security meeting Friday, distracted by the pressure of booking the Kennedy Center’s upcoming Summer Jazz Series. According to sources, the sound of his Cabinet members’ voices was essentially white noise […]
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Feb 7
I couldn't find a list of NSF programs 'archived' as a result of Trump's executive orders. If anyone knows of one, please post it here.
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Feb 7
ERIs (like Northern Arizona University) are often in more rural areas (such as Flagstaff, AZ), and are more likely to work with rural communities. Trump is, again, shooting himself (and all of us) in the foot with this. My lab has been working to apply to this grant, as many others were too.
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Feb 7
NSF has "archived" the "Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST)" program. Open only to Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs), it aims to foster community resilience and translate science for societal benefit. new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Focus on Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST)
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ApexRMS Ecology @apexrms.bsky.social · Feb 6
🔥 Due to high demand, we're running another BurnP3+ wildfire risk modeling workshop!

1/ After a sold-out session last November, ApexRMS and NRCAN are co-hosting a hands-on BurnP3+ course at @ualberta.bsky.social in Edmonton, April 28-30. 🌲🔥
A screen shot of BurnP3+ highlighting burn probability for a mountain down on the SyncroSim Cloud platform.
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ELLIS unit Jena @ellisunitjena.bsky.social · Feb 3
🚀 Registration Now Open for the @ELLISforEurope Summer School: AI for Earth & Climate Sciences! 🌍🤖
Join us in Jena, Germany from September 1–5, 2025
📅 Apply now through March 31. Notifications by April.
🔗 www.ellis-jena.eu/summer-schoo... 🎯
@uni-jena.de, @MPI-BGC, @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Feb 4
Given that the LA fires just cost more than $250B, I’d say that property value impacts of climate change via those effects are not the top economic story.
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Feb 4
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Feb 4
What does “EO” stand for in the decision tree?
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Feb 1
Ahhh Queensland…
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Jan 28
If you have a story about a program getting cancelled or "paused" and the impact on your community, tell a *local reporter* about it. They will reach audiences no one else will, which will matter to your representatives.
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Allie Shenkin @shenkin.bsky.social · Jan 25
Been a long time since I listened to them. Time to cue it up!
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coyotebroad (Jayne Cravens) @coyotebroad.bsky.social · Jan 23
The wonderful @eff.org has an equally wonderful guide you can use to make it MUCH harder for Meta / Facebook / Instagram to collect and monetize your personal data. It's not super easy - offer to do this for family & neighbors who might not be able to: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · Jan 23
Do you want to be a climate modeler? (despite the perpetual existential panic, I still wouldn't want to do anything else...) This year's CESM tutorial applications are open... www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/tutor...
CESM Tutorial Application | Community Earth System Model
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The Onion @theonion.com · Jan 23
Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated
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Conservatives Claim Hitler’s Nazi Allegiance Greatly Exaggerated
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