🚨 job alert! We just opened a PhD position in my lab for a crazy interesting and important project with ETH Zurich and the ICRC We will look into new ways to use nightlight 🛰 data for characterising humanitarian crisis situations! Apply: careers.epfl.ch/job/Sion-PhD-p… EPFL_EssentialTech

From orbit, Dubai looks like it has glowing streets of gold. Palm Island (second photo) sparkles like a cosmic jewel. I have only been transient through the airport; I hope someday to pay it a proper visit. Nikon Z9, 200mm f2, 1/320 sec, ISO 25600.

🎉 Exciting news! My paper on the Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool is published in One Earth🌍! Tool helps practitioners track restoration progress and more Huge thanks to co-authors Tom Worthington & Rowana Walton! 📎 lnkd.in/gVyeaNji #MangroveRestoration #MRTT

Like many university faculty, I write a lot of reference letters. Here's instructions I give to students. Students: many of these practices will make your letters better, improve your relationship with your mentors, and convey more professional behavior. drive.google.com/file/d/1Q-oPT9…

Hot off the press. I wrote a short piece of book review (Book&Art) on the "Atlas of SDGSAT-1 Satellite Nighttime Light Image": what insights we can obtain from this NTL data and how they relate to SDGs.🏙️ Nature Cities Dr. Wei Chen nature.com/articles/s4428…

Honoured to see our HFLD research featured by #Indigenous leaders Fermin Chimatani Tayori & Onel Masardule. They make a powerful case for HFLD areas in #CarbonMarkets - it's about equity & climate justice for #ForestConservation. news.mongabay.com/2024/10/carbon…

Happy World Cities Day!

Early last week, we had the 2nd EXCO meeting discussing issues on our Excellent Dissertation award, Chapter publication, annual conference, etc. Stay tuned to our IEEE GRSS Hong Kong Chapter. There are more exciting activities to come! #IEEE #GRSS #RemoteSensing

Join me at the Parking Reform Network webinar How the Environmental Movement Needs Parking Reform today November 18 at 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CST! I'll talk about parking reform, urban heat, and sustainable urban solutions. RSVP and join us at lu.ma/9vrhnbg1

CUHK recently organised the plaque unveiling of the #first China National Space Administration (CNSA) International Satellite Data and Application Cooperation Council Unit in Hong Kong, and kicked off the 2nd Youth Innovation Forum on Digital Earth, marking a new milestone for

Light pollution regulations and where to find them sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #lightpollution

Miroslav Kocifaj, an outstanding light pollution researcher, has joined the editorial team of JQSRT as Editor-in-Chief. Here is the official announcement of the Journal: sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

🎉Happy New Year, everybody! Check out the featured articles for January 2025. 🔗nature.com/commsenv/ sian e ford mehebub sahana André Giles BioAgroUV NOAA Fish Southeast ICML-UNAM Scripps Institution of Oceanography Scripps Marine Bioacoustics Research Collaborative

Reading in journal club: Duan et al. PNASNews Postdoc publications and citations link to academic retention and faculty success pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

Remote Sensing is a powerful tool and can be used as a time machine to track biodiversity loss. GERS Laboratory PhD candidate Falu Hong mapped primary forest at a high spatiotemporal resolution. UConn Researchers Tracking Change in Precious Ecosystems today.uconn.edu/2025/02/uconn-…

1/5 Excited to share our latest research paper in NatureSustainability on how agroforestry reduces deforestation in Southeast Asia! 🌳🌳 nature.com/articles/s4189…

🚨Postdoc opportunities! …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-pos…

🚨 PhD Opportunity 📷 I am looking for ONE fully-funded PhD student (26Fall) and ONE 6-month visiting PhD student (26-27) at CUHK Department of Geography and Resource Management. Application deadline: 31 Mar 2026 (PhD) and 5 Mar 2026 (Visiting PhD). See details below!