Global Land Use and Environment Lab

🚨New paper from GLUE in PNAS led by Tyler Lark, Seth Spawn and HOLLY GIBBS "Environmental outcomes of the US Renewable Fuel Standard" was listed as the 15th most talked about climate paper in 2022 for news and social media attention! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Congrats to GLUE data engineer Joe App who was accepted to the #OSGConsortium's 2025 program to learn how to use high-throughput computing (#HTC) systems to run large-scale computing applications here at the lab! osg-htc.org/community/scho…

Excited to announce that GLUE researcher Cainã Max Couto da Silva won an all-expenses paid trip to present his work on natural language to #SQL query execution on live databases using AI agents at the #SciPy conference in Tacoma. Congratulations Cainã! scipy2025.scipy.org

GLUE scientist @llrausch was quoted in the @TheAtlantic's article "Trump's Trade War Could Turbocharge Amazon Deforestation". Read the full article here theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

@llrausch joined Federal Prosecutors, producers, NGOs, investors and other players in the cattle sector at the XII GTFI meeting last week. GTFI members have been working on transparency and traceability in the cattle sector for over 10 years and we're lucky to be a part of it!

GLUE Lab Student Researcher Raines Lucas was profiled this month in The Commons magazine about his work in the lab and his music career. Way to go Raines! Read the article here gibbs-lab.wisc.edu/assets/Raines_…

Congrats to Celeste Gunderson, for successfully defending her M.Sc thesis on Land Titling and Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. She did such a great job and we can't wait to see what she'll do next!

Congrats to Holly for her @theAGU Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award! This award recognizes outstanding contributions in research, educational, or societal impacts in the area of global environmental change- way to go Holly!

@llrausch presented at #COP29Baku on the importance of policies aimed to reduce #deforestation in Brazil’s cattle and soy sectors for the country’s pathway to compliance with its #NDCs. She also met with stakeholders on the topics of agriculture and environmental conservation.

Thanks to @lasillavacia for featuring some of our latest work with @EnvolVertLatino looking at the #cattle sector in #Colombia and its links to #deforestation. lasillavacia.com/silla-nacional…

Congratulations to Holly Gibbs for making Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers 2024! This recognition highlights not only Holly's rank in the top 1% most cited researchers by Web of Science but also the community-wide recognition from an international network of citing authors

Post-doc @LeonieHodel coauthored a commentary about the link between the cattle supply chain and deforestation and the role different actors and policies in the cattle sector play in the push-and-pulls driving pasture expansion towards the Amazon. #bib6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This study was done as part of #AmazoniaConnect, a 5-year initiative between @USAID, @SolidaridadNetw, @EarthInnovate, @NWF & @UWMadison. #AREP   Learn more here ⬇️ solidaridadnetwork.org/amazonia-conne…

Cattle from deforestation hotspots create a direct & widespread indirect deforestation risk in supply chains. As animals are moved across the country, tracking  origin becomes difficult, potentially making them a source of hidden deforestation. Read more envol-vert.org/es/informe/inf…

Together w/ @EnvolVertLatino we released a report on the challenges & opportunities that cattle #SupplyChains in Colombia present for achieving traceability goals & evaluating its links to #deforestation.   Read it here envol-vert.org/es/informe/inf…

Join us for the launching of "Lo que las guías de movilización cuentan" a detailed report offering an overview of Colombia's cattle sector, the trends and behaviors of different actors in the supply chain, and its links to deforestation. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

GLUE scientist @llrausch was at #COP16 in Cali, Colombia presenting about #ZeroDeforestation agreements in Brazil’s cattle sector in a panel regarding the role of traceability in stopping deforestation. You can see her full presentation here (min 16') 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=q19gMi…

Gillian Caldwell, USAID's Climate Lead, met GLUE Postdoc Dr. Clare Sullivan and our partners from #AmazoniaConnect in Meta, Colombia to learn about our work on monitoring and traceability with La Catira, a dairy company in the region.

🧵Teams from @SolidaridadCO, @GLUELab1, @NWF & Proyección Eco-Social & @CaldwellUSAID recently visited @LaCatiraCO to learn how the dairy company uses monitoring & traceability to create a low-carbon, #DeforestationFree supply chain.

We are so pleased to welcome Erich Masson and Valeria Etgeton de Siqueira to our team! Erich will be completing his MS degree at @UWMadison looking at efforts to implement traceability in Mato Grosso and Valeria is joining as an Honorary Fellow researching modern slave labor.