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‼️Reminder for our #CallForPapers! Deadline is approaching, don't miss this chance!

Poster for a student project titled “Lehre@GEO.” A red retro telephone handset hangs on a curly cord over a mossy forest background. Large white text reads “LISTEN!” with a soundwave graphic beneath it. Smaller text says “bringing natural soundscapes to an urban environment” and “Create a SOUND BOOTH with us!”

📞🌳 Bastelt eine #Soundbooth mit uns! Wir wollen Natursounds in den Großstadtlärm holen und suchen motivierte Studierende, die das Projekt mit uns umsetzen wollen 💪
Mehr Infos zu Projektidee & Kontakt gibt's aus unserem Blog: 🔗 www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/d... #geosky #greensky #geography 🧪

View onto the snowy mountain tops of the alps.

Students are preparing their final project presentations in one of the conference rooms of the Schneefernerhaus. The walls are made of glass and offer a stunning view onto the snowcovered mountains.

Image of the Schneefernerhaus that is build directly at the mountain slope. Everything is ccovered by snow. In the foreground, one can see a cable car that is the only way to reach the Schneefernerhaus.

Now that's a venue for a project presentation! ⛰️ Dr. Christoph Jörges invited his students to the #Schneefernerhaus at the Zugspitze for the last seminar meeting this semester. More info & stunning images on our blog: www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e... #geosky #academicsky

🚨Contribute to #EGU26 "Natural forest expansion under global change: assessing causes and consequences in time and space" egu26.eu/session/56740
ONE WEEK LEFT!
@nico-anselmetto.bsky.social @arthurbayle.bsky.social @nexuslmu.bsky.social

Before everyone vanishes into their well-deserved Christmas break, here's a reminder for the #CallForAbstracts for our session at the 𝟲𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝗦𝗣 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 in Prague next year (𝟭𝟴-𝟮𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝘆)! 📅‼️𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟭! #geosky #ecosystems #sustainability #greensky 🧪

Students and teaching staff sitting around festively decorated tables, eating cake, drinking Punsch and talking to each other in a relaxed setting.

Students and teaching staff sitting around festively decorated tables, eating cake, drinking Punsch and talking to each other in a relaxed setting.

Students and teaching staff sitting around festively decorated tables, eating cake, drinking Punsch and talking to each other in a relaxed setting.

The GeoCafé was a great opportunity to connect with students in a relaxed setting over cake, Punsch & Glühwein. We loved hearing their thoughts on teaching, research, and everything beyond uni. Huge thanks to our Fachschaft and all students who joined us! Such a valuable event! #GeoSky #AcademicSky

New publication in #EcologicalModelling! Benedikt Hartweg & his colleagues simulated tropical forests in #Brazil under disturbance scenarios and fitted allometries at different spatial scales. Super helpful insights for the new #BIOMASS mission by @esa.int🌳🧪 #geosky

🔗 www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e...

From Lab to Orbit Stefanie Steinhauser presented her Master's Thesis at the Geographische Gesellschaft Munich.

🛰️ Stefanie Steinhauser presented her MA thesis on the hyperspectral mission #EnMAP at the Geographische Gesellschaft Munich. Her focus: detecting non-photosynthetic vegetation (NPV), the tricky, but important brown plant material satellites often misread 🔗 www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e... 🧪 #geosky

🛰️ Greetings from #Potsdam! Stefanie Steinhauser attended the #EnSUP project meeting, discussing the next steps for the #EnMAP mission. Besides exchanging insights across the work packages, she shared impressions from our extensive summer field campaign (stay tuned, more info soon!) 👀
#greensky 🧪

Researching sustainable food production, with help from the cows Helena Kuoppala gets to work early to tend to a herd of dairy cows, exploring how dietary changes affect their health, milk yields and methane emissions.

"Our research aims to find ways to make food production more efficient, thereby reducing greenhouse gases and increasing carbon sequestration without harming animal welfare"

This is a day in the life of a dairy cow research technician 🐄

go.nature.com/3Xpkfu3

ESP Europe 2026: Call for Abstracts! Uta Schirpke hosts session T2a

📢 #CfA #ESPEurope26 session T2a Integrating co-benefits into the evaluation of nature-based solutions to support ecological restoration

🌱 Possible Topics
• NbS benefits & trade-offs
• Distribution of #NbS benefits
• Uptake in planning & policy
🔗 www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e...

🧪 #geosky #greensky

Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal Dr. Christoph Jörges is guest editor of a special issue on

‼️🛰️ #CallForPapers for Special Issue of #RemoteSensing on "Machine Learning for Applications in Agriculture and Vegetation Using Remote Sensing". 📆 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 28 February 2026.

🔗 Infos & submission details: www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e...

🧪 #geosky #sustainability #greensky #academicsky

EGU26: Call for Abstracts Uta Schirpke is co-hosting a session on

#CallForAbstracts‼️#EGU26 session BG3.11 "Natural forest expansion under global change: assessing causes and consequences in time and space"

🌳 Possible Topics:
• Biodiversity
• Landscape dynamics
• Socio-economic implications

🔗 Info & submission link: www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e...

Uta brings a clear vision:
“𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮’𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴.”

Combining GIS, modelling & participatory research, her research helps us understand how humans and mountain ecosystems can thrive together! ⛰️

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀: Interactions between humans and mountain ecosystems

🥾 How do human activities like agriculture or tourism shape mountain ecosystems?
⛰️ How do these ecosystems, in turn, support human well-being?
🌳 How do mountain regions cope with pressures from human use and #ClimateChange?

Welcome to our team, Prof. Uta Schirpke! Uta will lead our chair as acting professor over the coming year, collaborating with us on research and teaching.

🎉 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦! We’re welcoming 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗗𝗿. 𝗨𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗽𝗸𝗲 as our new Acting Professor. ⛰️ She’ll lead our chair for the coming year and brings her expertise in alpine landscape ecology and ecosystem services. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 on our blog:
🔗 www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e...
#geosky #ecosystems #greensky #alps 🧪

The image shows a social media slide, reading: "Major excursion: Eastern Alps. From natual landscape to intensively cultivated region." In the lower part of the slide, there are four images. Bottom image: A group picture of the excursion group on an alpine hiking trail. In the backgrounds, there are snow-capped mountain tops and what looks like a glacier. Top left image: A beautiful scenery from amountain into the valley. There are low-hanging clouds, green trees and shrubbery and bare rock. Top mid image: The excursion group in front of a door to a mining shaft in Idrija. Most people wear dark green jackets and orange or white helmet. On the wall above the door, there is a black image of a hammer and a pickaxe, and the word "SRECNO". Top right image: The excursion group on the cliffs of Duino in Italy. On the left side of the image, in the distance, there is the blue mediterranean sea. On the right, there is green shrubbery.

⛰️ Across 4 countries & 1,500 km, our students experienced how humans have reshaped the eastern Alps: exploring melting glaciers, historic mercury mines, rebuilt mountain towns and coastal protection.

📸 More info & image gallery on our blog: www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e... #geosky 🧪 #ecology

A slide, saying: major excursion Québec: exploring the environmental and social impacts of energy transition. Underneath, there is a collage of four images: a skyline view of Totonto, a large red sign on the highway towards Maagami, some sticks assembled to the structure of a tipi, and our students standing in front of a reservoir, wearing orange vests and blue helmets.

🇨🇦 We're back from #Québec! We had an amazing time on the #MajorExcursion, exploring the benefits and the problems of Québec's #EnergyTransition 💧🌱 Read all about our lessons learned and scroll through some snapshots on our blog: 🔗 www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e... #geosky #sustainability

View of Montréal’s skyline from Mount Royal: lush green trees and shrubs in the foreground contrast with the blue-grey cityscape in the background, where skyscrapers and buildings stretch across the horizon.

Students sit on the grass on a sunny day, listening to Dr. Sonja Behmel discuss challenges and solutions in managing the Lac St-Charles catchment, the main drinking water source for Québec City.

Where better to understand #Geography than out in the field? 🌍 Greetings from #Montréal - just one stop on our #Québec excursion! In Québec City, @gampedavid.bsky.social & his students learned about the city's water management from Dr. Sonja Behmel💧Stay tuned: insights & impressions coming soon!

Benedikt Hartweg during his talk.

Benedikt Hartweg tackles uncertainties in #forest biomass estimates by combining satellite data, forest models and #MachineLearning. The method improves flexibility and accuracy - successfully tested in tropical regions, next step: scaling with #ESA #BIOMASS.

Christoph Jörges standing in front of his poster.

Christoph Jörges presented a new way to forecast European crop yields by merging Sentinel-3 satellite data with the #LPJmL model. Near real-time vegetation data and #MachineLearning improve early warning for food security.

Stefanie Steinhauser during her talk.

Stefanie Steinhauser showed how #hyperspectral satellite data and hybrid methods can track crop nitrogen and biomass. Using #EnMAP data from #California, the approach captures seasonal growth to support sustainable #agriculture.

Exhibition space at ESA's Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna. Large screens display colorful satellite imagery of landscapes and vegetation. People walk through the event hall. The text overlay reads: “Recap Living Planet Symposium #lps25 | vienna”.

We had a fantastic time at @esa.int's Living Planet Symposium #LPS25 in Vienna! This year, it was all about how we can use remote sensing for improving 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. More info on our blog: www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e...

Here's what we presented 👀🧵
#geosky #climatechange 🧪

Thanks James! We'd be so happy to see more projects like this! We already have the infrastructure - so why not use it to the fullest? 🤩

🗺️ The outcome: dynamic, street-level heat maps that support targeted climate action - essential for heat protection, especially for vulnerable groups. More greenery, cooling spots, better planning – solid data help us develop tailored solutions that benefit all! #climatechange #urbanheat

The map that Simon Schnitzler created from the data collected with the garbage truck sensors. It shows the Munich area south of Olympiapark. The measuring points of the garbage trucks are coloured red, orange, yellow, light and dark green, depending if the spot was cooler (green) or hotter (red) than the average city temperature on that day. Measuring was conducted from July 30 to August 1 2024.

Two partial images of orange garbage trucks, with the small white sensors on the roof circled in red.

But temperatures vary by time of day. Our Bachelor student Simon Schnitzler developed a method to normalize the mobile sensor data. He found that there are critical heat islands along Dachauer & Leonrodstraße, and cooler zones near Olympiapark.

A square social media slide in warm colours that shows the two towers of the Frauenkirche in Munich up close. The text says: Mapping Munich's HotSpots ... with Garbage Trucks! In the left bottom corner there is a circular image of the heat map that was created with the data from garbage truck sensors.

🌡️ Some parts of #Munich heat up more than others – and this can be dangerous! Thanks to garbage trucks turned climate sensors, Munich can now implement targeted heat mitigation measures where they are needed most. Read how: www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e... #UrbanHeat #ClimateAction #Geosky 🧪

Also, shoutout to Christoph Jörges who has made the start and pitched his poster on day one of the conference! His work: A new approach to seasonal crop yield #forecasting by combining #Sentinel3 satellite data with the #LPJmL vegetation model 🌱

Collage of photos from the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna. Top left: the event entrance with people sitting at outdoor tables under banners reading "Living Planet Symposium." Top right: Stefanie Steinhauser and Prof. Tobias Hank standing next to a satellite model. Center: Banner text saying "Meet us at the Living Planet Symposium!" Bottom left: Christoph Jörges presents a poster to two attendees. Bottom right: space-themed display cubes featuring images of Earth and colorful nebulae.

We’re at the #LPS25 Living Planet Symposium in Vienna! 🌍 Excited to connect, share ideas and discuss our research 🚀

Also: Don’t miss Stefanie Steinhauser’s talk tomorrow!
⏰ 16:15 📍 Hall N1/N2 💡 Deriving seasonal dynamics of crop development via spectroscopy in California #science #geosky 🧪

Ein sandiger Mittelmeerstrand mit blauem Himmel und türkisfarbenem Meer im Hintergrund. Darüber liegt weißer Text: „Mittelmeer – Das Urlaubsziel als Klima-Hotspot“. Oben rechts ein gelbes Podcast-Symbol mit der Aufschrift „jetzt anhören!“. Unten links ein rundes Porträtfoto von Prof. Marianela Fader. Darunter steht: „Prof. Marianela Fader im BR-Interview“.

🌡️ 𝗗𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗲𝗿 – 𝗨𝗿𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗯𝘀𝘇𝗶𝗲𝗹 & 𝗞𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮-𝗛𝗼𝘁𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁 🌡️
Prof. Marianela Fader im Interview mit dem @brkommunikation.bsky.social über Hitze, Wasserknappheit & Risiken für Mensch & Natur.

🎧 Jetzt reinhören: www.br.de/mediathek/po...

#science #sustainability #tourism #mediterranean 🧪