Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine has caused significant environmental damage, but monitoring efforts and scientific interventions can help to address these impacts. Explore efforts to address environmental damage in Ukraine at our May 1 – 3 workshop: ow.ly/nlCI50Rm86b

Berkeley CED graduation!! Dr. Iryna Dronova

These words are by Halyna Kruk, a famous Ukrainian poetess. Her poetry references multiple genocides of #Ukrainians and offers a glimpse into why these embroidered shirts mean so much to us. Especially during this war. #VyshyvankaDay

Crimean Tatars are the indigenous people of Crimea. Russia is trying again to take away their homeland from them, because the existence of Crimean Tatars destroys the myth of “Russian Crimea”.

Love surprise encounters of "wild" nature on our university campus - so much is going on right next to our busy academic schedules.

What a wonderful State of the Estuary Conference - many thanks to SF Estuary Partnership organizers, sponsors, participants and volunteers! So many incredible people and institutions working to make our Estuary a healthy, resilient, climate change-ready ecosystem - truly a time of hope.

Outdoors tip: covering the whole bottom of your car with tarp and securing it before a mountain hike such as this one is highly advised for the safety of these amazing residents (and the cars'). #mysundaylandscape

Throughout her pioneering career, Kass Green, BS ’74 Forestry, has used GIS and other tools to identify, quantify, and monitor natural resources so they can be better managed. We spoke to the remote sensing rockstar in our latest issue of Breakthroughs. nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/…

Many countries have suffered under colonial wars. Russia isn't typically thought of as a colonial power. But it was and still is. Estonia, my own country, went through Russia’s colonisation and occupation for almost half a century, up until 1991. 5/

We are seeking abstracts for our AGU session "Tracking the Footprint of War: Earth and Environmental Science Perspectives on Monitoring Conflict Impacts" happening between 9-13 Dec 2024 in Washington, D.C. agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

This is Kyiv center right now. Russia has hit Ukraine's largest children hospital Okhmatdit (abbreviation from "Mother-and-Child Care", Okhorona Matery ta Dityny). Many wounded kids, including babies. Just imagine - your baby comes to hospital, bad enough, AND hit by Russians.

Check out our new paper with Yang Ju and colleagues - new insights on using spectral indices such as NDVI as proxies for different features of urban green space. Open link before Sep 15 here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jV005m5d81T… sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wetlands are full of life early in the morning. Even with the most detailed remote sensing data, nothing compares to the magic of being in the field.

On this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, I want to raise awareness about the Crimean Tatars, whose rights and freedoms are currently being violated. We have been living under russian occupation since 2014, facing repression, forced displacement, and cultural

Considering getting into #LiDAR? Please read this first! geonadir.com/lidar-drone-ma…

New faculty position in ... Climate Change Solutions at Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04196 nature-based climate solutions; ecosystem function and biodiversity; social and ecological determinants of risk and resilience [1/2]

New course at UC-Berkeley! I'm now teaching two participation courses: one for professionals (LDARCH C242) and (NEW!) one for researchers (LDARCH 254-4). For any research students at Cal interested in learning about participatory research methods, check out LDARCH 254-4!

it takes millions to wage a genocide like that, and millions more to stay complicit with their silence. putin didn’t create this cult of death. this cult of death created putin.