Indigenous Lands in the Brazlian Amazon remain highly effective at preventing deforestation, but forests just beyond their borders face growing pressure. 🌳 New study calls for legal buffer zones to better protect these critical landscapes. Learn more: go.umd.edu/2cz8 via @borinasredes.bsky.social

New Study Calls for Legal Protection Around Indigenous Lands to Safeguard the Amazon

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Mature forests are still absorbing carbon, but satellites may not be seeing the full picture. 🌎🌲 A study in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Assist Res Prof Lei Ma found a blind spot in satellite observations that can underestimate continued carbon accumulation in forests: go.umd.edu/2cxr

UMD Study: Satellites Overlook Widespread Carbon Accumulation in Mature Forests

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Research co-led by postdoc Amelia Holcomb synthesized data from 146 tropical forests to improve carbon accounting & climate reporting. The findings show degraded forests can recover carbon faster than forests regrowing after complete clearing. 🌎🌿 🔗 geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

New Database Improves Carbon Accounting for Tropical Forests

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The next Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event – JURSE 2027 (https://jurse.org/) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from the 30th of June to the 2nd of July 2027 (https://www.jurse2027.org/). The Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event – JURSE has always been one of the most important international…

Call for Papers for JURSE 2027

The next Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event – JURSE 2027 (https://jurse.org/) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from the 30th of June to the 2nd of July 2027 (https://www.jurse2027.org/). The Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event – JURSE has always been one of the most important international conferences for our work at EORC and DLR – see e.g. here: https://remote-sensing.org/contributions-to-the-joint-urban-remote-sensing-event-jurse-2025-1/ […]

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🏆The OSPA Program has evolved into the new Outstanding Emerging Presenters (OEP) Program! Get feedback on your presentation in advance of AGU26 and deliver a stronger presentation at the Annual Meeting. Applications are now open and limited to 800 participants. APPLY 📲spklr.io/63321EPb17

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Science news by AGU. Keep up to date on the latest climate and science reporting by journalists, as well as exciting discoveries and insightful opinions from researchers and other scientist authors.

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#ICYMI Prof Meredith Gore is part of the newly funded Predictive Biology Hub for Human and Environmental Health! 🌎 The team will develop tools to address global challenges through UMD's Grand Challenges Grants: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

Grand Challenges Grants 2.0 Direct UMD Research to Societal Good

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📢 UMD has announced a new online Master of Professional Studies in Geospatial Artificial Intelligence & Healthcare. Offered jointly by GEOG + UMD Public Health, the MPS will prepare students to use AI & geospatial analytics to improve health outcomes: go.umd.edu/2cgv

New Master’s Program Connects AI, Geography and Healthcare

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🚁🌿 Nearly a decade of drone lidar data is now publicly available through @opentopography.org thanks to GEOG Principal Lecturer Jonathan Resop. The datasets provide a high-resolution record of stream restoration and landscape change ⤵️ go.umd.edu/2c2k

Principal Lecturer Jonathan Resop Makes Decade of Drone Lidar Data Publicly Available

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🌎 From research breakthroughs to student and faculty achievements 🎓🏆, see what’s new in GEOG. Don't miss our latest newsletter 📬! conta.cc/4vEDRcL

Salmon, caribou, wild berries + Denali now grace the walls of Alaska's Fairbanks City Hall🐟🏔️ Through the ARCA project, GEOG researcher Vera Kuklina, native artists, elders & community co-created murals that reflect Indigenous knowledge & resilience go.umd.edu/2c0e

Associate Research Professor Vera Kuklina Contributes to Fairbanks Biocultural Heritage Mural Initiative

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@umdgeography.bsky.social Graduate Student Monojit Saha posts about his research and what drives him to study sea ice! 🧊❄️🛰️

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In a new post for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu Cryospheric Sciences Blog, Ph.D. student Monojit Saha explores a persistent challenge in Arctic remote sensing: the difficulty of measuring sea ice conditions near coastlines. 🧊 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...

Congratulations to our PhD candidates who earned MPower grants! Wen Qi will study stroke care access across the US, while Adebowale Adebayo will develop GeoAI tools for agricultural drought monitoring in East Africa. 🌎🛰️ geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

Two Doctoral Candidates Awarded MPower Grants

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A satellite dish once helped Sergii Skakun look out at the world from his apartment in Kyiv. Decades later, satellites help him look back toward Ukraine, using AI and remote sensing to support farmers, government statistics agencies and recovery efforts during war. 🔗 go.umd.edu/2bwe

In a new post for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu Cryospheric Sciences Blog, Ph.D. student Monojit Saha explores a persistent challenge in Arctic remote sensing: the difficulty of measuring sea ice conditions near coastlines. 🧊 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr...

The Arctic’s Blind Spot: Why Satellites Struggle Where Ice Meets the Coast

The first time I stood on sea ice, I could not tell which direction the coast was. A community member named Bryan could. That gap in situational awareness, between what a trained remote sensing scient...

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Growing up in a coastal town in China, Assistant Professor Danghan Xie saw firsthand floods and typhoons disrupt daily life. Today, he uses geospatial science to better understand coastal hazards and help protect communities from rising water 🌊

In collaboration with AGU's Chapman Conference on sea level, a new #AGUPubs special collection welcomes submissions that capture work on advances in sea level projections, their drivers, and how they are used and communicated.🌊 🔗spklr.io/63320E3Pbj #Oceans #Climate

A new UMD-GLAD study shows that nearly 1/3 of global tree cover loss in 2018 led to permanent forest conversion. Using high-resolution satellite imagery, researchers identified where forests are disappearing & where they may recover. 🌎🌳 go.umd.edu/2bqn

UMD Study: While Some Forest Losses Recover, Others Permanently Lost

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Could rising seas make mangroves less effective at storing carbon? 🌊 A new study co-authored by Assis Prof Danghan Xie finds that while some mangrove areas may store more carbon as sea levels rise, entire forests could lose carbon as habitat shrinks and soils erode. 🔗 geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

Rising Seas Could ‘Drown’ Mangroves, Release Carbon

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News & Views on this paper by Laura Duncanson (@umdgeography.bsky.social): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate benefits of tropical forest expansion - Nature Geoscience

Tropical forest expansion into previously unforested areas contributes substantially to carbon sequestration, offering an additional pathway for offsetting CO2 emissions and enhancing the resilience o...

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🌲🛰️ Congrats to GEOG Assoc Research Prof Adrián Pascual on receiving the 2026 BSOS Early Career Impact Award! Read how his remote sensing & LiDAR research advances sustainable forest management + inspires the next generation of environmental scientists ⤵️ geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

Associate Research Professor Adrián Pascual Receives BSOS Early Career Impact Award

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🤩Congratulations to Research Prof Emeritus Eric Vermote on receiving the 2025 William T. Pecora Award! Vermote's work has helped scientists around the world accurately monitor deforestation, drought, coastlines and other environmental changes. Read more: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

Research Professor Emeritus Eric Vermote Named 2025 Pecora Award Recipient

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🗓️ Registration is open for 2026 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Symposium at UMD (June 15–18)! Join researchers, students + industry leaders exploring “AI Everywhere!” in GeoAI. 4 days of workshops, panels, student talks, networking & field trips: go.umd.edu/2bkf

Registration Open for UCGIS 2026 Symposium at UMD

The four-day event will bring together researchers, students and industry leaders to explore the future of GeoAI and the theme “AI Everywhere!” The University Consortium for Geographic Information Sci...

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🤩 Prof Leila De Floriani has been named a Distinguished University Professor, UMD’s highest faculty honor 👏 Her pioneering research has transformed how scientists analyze and visualize geographic data around the world. Read more: go.umd.edu/2bjt

De Floriani Awarded Distinguished University Professor Title

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🤩Did you miss our Department Awards? Meet this year’s student, faculty and staff honorees, plus the debut of 3 new awards: Staff Appreciation, GEOG Ambassador and GEOG Linchpin 🏆 Watch the full event on YouTube ▶️ geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

GEOG Celebrates Students, Faculty and Staff at 2026 Ceremony

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How can AI help detect food crises before they escalate? #NASAHarvest and partners are building a GeoAI tool to spot early signs of food system instability in conflict and climate-impacted regions. Via Taylor Geospatial's GIFS Challenge. go.umd.edu/2bhp

UMD Researchers Join National Effort to Use GeoAI to Predict Food System Instability

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Study: Wildlife Trade Raises Risk of Disease Spread to Humans

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More than 250 guests joined the Department of Geographical Sciences to honor 100+ high school students at the fifth annual Geographical Sciences Awards Banquet. 🌎📍 Here we highlight two students whose interests in coding + mapping have brought them to this event. geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

GEOG Honors 100+ High School Students at Annual Awards Banquet

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A #GlobalEcologyLab team led by Prof George Hurtt will help Rhode Island strengthen its climate strategy with high-resolution satellite data and advanced modeling that track how forests + urban tree canopies store carbon over time. Learn more: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

New Project Helps Rhode Island Track How Trees Combat Climate Change

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How can near real-time satellite data support fire management? 🌎🔥 At a NASA FireSense workshop in Alabama, GEOG's Joanne Hall + Rob Sohlberg joined partners to support tools for firefighter safety, situational awareness & prescribed fire operations. Learn more: geog.umd.edu/featured-con...

UMD Researchers Advance Wildfire Management at NASA FireSense Workshop in Alabama

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