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Join us TOMORROW 🚨 Wednesday 7/15 for our July Seminar Series ft. Etienne Laliberté🌿He will discuss the new drone-and-AI technology he and his team have developed to greatly accelerate the mapping of tropical trees 💻 Register here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and-f…

Join us next week for our July Seminar Series 🚨 ft. Etienne Laliberté! 💻 Zoom in on Wednesday, 7/15 at 9am ET. 🌿Register here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and-f…

This weekend, the 2026 ForestGEO Workshop concluded in Krabi, Thailand. Participants spent the past two weeks working in groups led by expert forest scientists 💻 They also spent a day in the Khao Chong Forest Dynamics Plot 🌿 Stay tuned for more about this year's workshop!

New @Biotropica paper on species spatial distribution in Southeast Asian tropical forest. Can leaf drought tolerance explain species spatial ditribution in regard to soil moisture? doi.org/10.1111/btp.70… Thanks to all the collaborators for the great work! @ForestGEO

Reminder 🚨No June Seminar Series due to the ongoing ForestGEO Workshop! Join us for our next seminar on Wednesday, July 15 🌿Register here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and-f…

📅18/5 @FRIMKepong hosted the STCM meeting with STRI to advance forest ecology monitoring. 🌲 Dr Mohd Zaki Abdullah & Dr Stuart J. Davies reviewed progress on the Pasoh 50-ha plot, tree physiology & carbon mapping to strengthen a research partnership dating back to 1985. 🌍📈

Reminder 🚨 to join us THIS WEEK for our May Seminar Series! Zoom in this Wednesday, 5/20, at 9am ET to hear talks from Alice Gauthey & Jedediah Brodie 🌳 Register here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and-f…

New blog post 🚨 highlighting the @GEO_TREES Data Integration workshop that took place in March💻Check it out here: forestgeo.si.edu/blog/geo-trees…

Join us for ForestGEO's May Seminar Series! This month, our speakers are Alice Gauthey & Jedediah Brodie 🌿Register here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and-f…

New Publication 🚨 in @PNASNews by Boeschoten, et al. "Tree growth after a major hurricane reflects predisturbance vigor rather than canopy damage" uses data from the Luquillo Forest Dynamics plot. Read the article here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Lambir Hills National Park is hiring a Project Officer to manage and supervise census activities and field work 🌳 Applications are due April 30, 2026. Click here for full position details: forestry.sarawak.gov.my/web/subpage/we…

New Publication 🚨 in @Nature by Xu, et al. "The importance of competition and facilitation for global tree diversity" uses data from 12 ForestGEO Forest Dynamics Plots 🌿Read the article here: #citeas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4158…

Join us next week on 4/15 for our April Virtual Seminar 💻 ft. Peter Kennedy, Bob Muscarella, and Glenn Dunshea 🌳 Register here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and-f…

Thank you to participants of our Panama Workshop! The dedication & collaboration of the GT community is unparalleled. Frameworks developed through the workshop are invaluable for fusing GEO-TREES datasets #ALS #TLS #TreeInventory for forest carbon estimation. #forests #carbon

New Publication 🚨 published in "Nature Communications" using data from multiple ForestGEO plots in Amazonia 🌿Read the article "Family imprint reveals basin-wide patterns of Amazon forest embolism resistance" by Tavares et al. here: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

We are excited to announce the awardees of the 2025 J&J Ruinen Fellowship in Tropical Forestry! 🌱Learn all about the funded projects of the five early-career scientists in our latest blog post: forestgeo.si.edu/blog/jj-ruinen…

REMINDER 🚨 Join us tomorrow, 3/18, at 9am ET for our March Seminar Series ft. Rowan Schley 🌱Register here: smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

On 3/15, @GEO_TREES kicked off a Data Integration workshop in Gamboa, Panama💻 Postdoctoral fellows John Godlee, Sam Grubinger & Arunima Singh are leading a small group of ALS, TLS, Tree Inventory, Forest Science & Earth Observation researchers in this global collaboration 🌳

This month, ForestGEO joined Thailand’s Department of National Parks to develop long-term forest plots that monitor ecosystems, support biodiversity research, & promote sustainable conservation 🌿 Read the Department of National Parks press release here: s.si.edu/4sFGZnk

💻This month's virtual seminar is taking place on Wednesday, March 18 🌿Join us to hear a presentation from Rowan Schley. Register here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and-f…