Fascinating paper on the real world challenges of carrying out landscape scale experiments. In this case testing payments for ecosystem services to improve water quality in Bolivia. Lots of important lessons. bit.ly/2JcN1ai

Fmask 4.0 paper is finally online! You can download it for free here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ZCxA7qzSnIWS The software and code are available here: github.com/GERSL/Fmask Huge improvements for Sentinel-2 data and good improvements for Landsat data. Nice work from Shi Qiu

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ICON Science PhD candidate @MarcoGtez passed his Confirmation milestone today with flying colours! Supervised by Sarah Bekessy & Ascelin Gordon, Marco's thesis is focused on the use of Strategic Environmental Assessments here in Australia & in Mexico. We can't wait to see what comes next!

Nepal's forest cover expanded from 26% in 1992 to 45% in 2016, making it an exception to the global trend of deforestation. One key reason why is the exodus of millions of Nepalis every year for jobs abroad, which has reduced reliance on the land. e360.yale.edu/features/in-ne…

Very refreshing to see Pete Lyon sing us a song about the national Habitat Condition Assessment for Australia's ecosystems in his talk at #ESAus19

I am just wondering if there is any R package that supports in confounder identification using change in estimate criteria and backward deletion. With a number of variables, removing variable one at a time process tends to take forever.. Any help #rstats #epidemiology #rladies

This story should be seen (the imagery alone is amazing albeit also very confronting) and read by all abc.net.au/news/2020-02-1… Thread.

Want to help wildlife after the fires? You can do it in your own backyard say ICON Science RMIT’s Holly Kirk (@hollykirk .bluesky.social) Freya Thomas Sarah Bekessy @GeorgiaGarrard and other cool peeps Brendan Wintle Pia Lentini Dr. Kylie Soanes Kirsten M. Parris theconversation.com/want-to-help-s… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Take over the streets, excellent plan by ICONist Thami Croeser

Earth Lab’s Introduction to Earth Data Science textbook is available free online. Start learning #python for earth #datascience today! bit.ly/2xUKpN9

New to Jupyter Notebook app and don't know where to go from here? Check out this article to see different tips and tutorials for Jupyter Notebook for beginners here: dld.bz/jhqtR

Started my day watching this fantastic talk. Wondering if next gen journals should be Gits

#teamcounterfactual -a community of practice for #impact #evaluation in conservation science to support evidence-based policy!