saw this interesting postcard by Christina Shintani, Woodwell Climate Research Center at #AGU2023. Last time I checked the Arctic Circle was still running at 66° 34' N (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Ci…), but thanks for the update! Does it come with midnight sun as well?

Our group at @tartuobs University of Tartu (including Oleksandr, Andres Kuusk on pic) was happy to host the first visitor Weiwei Liu after our #AGU23 showcase (agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meeti…) to discuss how our scanning system could possibly improve studying radiative transfer in conifers, #SIF.

Where's Waldo? kind of moment for #GEDI mission contributors during Jim Kellner talk, session convened by John Armston at #AGU23. It is nice when people do this even if they do not really have to. @tartuobs University of Tartu happy to have contributed. GEDI

Please RT. Come join me - I offer a fully funded #PhD position on a nice, exciting topic – retrieval of leaf angle info with multi-angle #remotesensing. 🇪🇪 University of Tartu @tartuobs. International candidates welcome! Apply by 20 March 2024, full details here: tinyurl.com/y448a4pa

Hyytiälä (Hyytiälä Forest Station) is the first stop on the winter leg of #NEEDLESCAN,eLTER supported project tour through select ICOS RI stations to obtain high-resolution needle shoot scans. The redesigned forest station is so cool even street lamps bend to match its angles!

Getting from Hyytiälä Forest Station to ICOS Sweden Svartberget, you get to use the world’s northernmost all year round passenger route Wasaline. If I were not into vegetation, I would be most certainly doing sea ice! Or could there be a link? Field campaign supported by eLTER.

The scaffolding by ACTRIS Sweden at ICOS Sweden Svartberget helps to bring tree crowns closer and makes collecting shoot samples much easier. Anyone who has tried to operate those > 10 m long extendable tree pruners knows what I am talking about! Campaign support by eLTER

The last stop this time round, ICOS Norunda. If it weren't for the mast, I couldn't tell it is the same place after the forest was clearcut. But there are young spruces, pines to be sampled too! Anders and Irene were very kind to me. Campaign supported by eLTER.

Upcoming talk at #EGU24 (co-authors Oleksandr, Andres Kuusk): Topic: Estimation of coniferous shoot structures by high precision blue light 3D photogrammetry scanning (meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-45…) Date: Apr 17 (Wed) 2024, 12:07-12:17 (CEST) Location: Room 2.95

PhD position announcement: please share! Interested in joining the amazing FutureScapes team University of Tartu for lab challenges and fieldwork? Fully financed 4y position open on carbon accumulation in soil and dead wood under changing climate, with fungi in focus. w/Ivika Ostonen

Jan Pisek seeks a better understanding of how forests absorb sunlight, carbon and heat go.nature.com/3Uo2lG4

Our @tartuobs space rock band will perform during the #Muuseumiöö event again! When: Sat 18.05.2024; 19:30 Where: Tartu Tähetorn, Tartu (muuseum.ut.ee/et/tahetorn) Full program: muuseumioo.muuseum.ee Come and cheer for scientists trying to play music - for free!

Ready to make your #radiativetransfer model more realistic? Our new #DatainBrief piece offers 3D surface geometry dataset of #ScotsPine, #NorwaySpruce shoots from the EU_ScienceHub JRC #Järvselja RAdiation transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) pine stand: doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.…

Thrilled to visit Jan Pisek & Oleksandr and their team at @tartuobs University of Tartu via a mobility project from Czech Academy of Sciences & the Estonian Academy of Sciences! Using novel approaches to create 3D models of #spruce and #pine shoots for the #DART radiative transfer model!

Congratulations to Dr. Kairi Adamson, who successfully defended her dissertation! First-authorship/contribution in 10 published papers (5 in the thesis), 3 kids, not a small achievement! Also thanks to committee and great opponent, Dr. Loïc Tadrist (Aix-Marseille Université)!

At NASA Goddard, I presented our Estonian Research Council-funded, DSCOVR:EPIC mission research in front of Dr. Jack Kaye, Associate Director for Research, NASA Earth Science. Grateful for opportunity by Dr. Alexander Marshak (left), Deputy Project Scientist for DSCOVR mission!

What do I and Al Gore have in common? We both attended the DSCOVR mission Science Team Meeting at NASA Goddard last week. Sitting less than 1 m away from the 45th Vice President of the United States, I could not but admire his immaculate sense for shoe fashion. Those boots rock!

Our first RSE @tartuobs University of Tartu FutureScapes, ETAg-funded paper in 2025: We show that our recent new optical model of a conifer shoot (doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsr…) may be applicable to species with longer, more curved, twisted, convex needles, too: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

This year Juhan Ross would have turned 100. We celebrate his legacy at Tartu Observatory, Tõravere tomorrow (May 16) at 2 pm. The invited speakers offer their perspectives on Juhan Ross as a scientist, colleague, supervisor, family friend. More details: kosmos.ut.ee/en/news/tartu-…