Alexander Shenkin
@ashenkin
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🌳 Forests & Climate Tech | 🚀 Founder: SelvaFlux, Floe, Autonomous Ecology, EcoMonitor | 🎓 Prof @NAU | 🔬 Co-discovered trees eat methane | ⚡ Science→Ventures
Flagstaff, AZ
Joined February 2009
We discovered trees are secretly fighting climate change in a way no one expected. Microbes in tree bark are eating methane from the air - making forests 10% better for climate than we calculated. Published in @Nature: https://t.co/mewMPW4wpR This led to @SelvaFlux 🌳
nature.com
Nature - Studies of in situ woody surface methane exchange in upland tropical, temperate and boreal forest trees find that methane uptake can result in a net tree methane sink that is globally...
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You have a knowledge graph in mongodb atlas (local) and you want to enable an LLM to access it dynamically during user interactions. What architectures/frameworks/tools do you set up?
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In the age of AI, how does Siri still suck? Only the power of a large corporation is strong enough to achieve that.
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NASA's ESCAPADE #Mars mission is about to launch from Cape Canaveral with @NAU's student-built VISIONS thermal cameras! Fingers crossed! Watch along with us: https://t.co/YAV92HYasF (T - something! Current launched scheduled 3:45pm ET). EmberSat will use these cams too. @xprize
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Honored that ECOSAIL @ NAU has been invited to XPRIZE Visioneering 2025 in LA! We’ll showcase EmberSat, our wildfire-detection satellite system, and highlight ventures driving climate resilience and environmental justice. 🌍 #XPRIZE #ClimateTech #NAU
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Our new paper in @NewPhyt is out today. We investigated the bias involved in woody stem CO2 efflux measurements in tropical forests - including diel and vertical variations, and used TLS to upscale vertical variations and estimate stem surface area
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Stem CO2 efflux (EA) significantly contributes to autotrophic and ecosystem respiration in tropical forests, but field methodologies often introduce biases and uncertainty. This study evaluates...
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Investigating the accuracy of tropical woody stem CO2 efflux estimates: scaling methods, and vertical and diel variation Mills et al. @MariaBMills @LeicesterGeog đź“– https://t.co/tCGkztQUtf
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Hey @fema - we wanted to use BRIC funds build an early warning wildfire system that would enable firefighters to stop catastrophic fires before they started. ROI would be more than 2500%. Please explain how that would be “wasteful” to Paradise, LA, etc. https://t.co/JRIdzSW8Jm
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In case you missed it, would-be-king trump has taken the first baby steps (they’re always baby steps) to staying in power. “In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.” (DJT, July 27, 2024) https://t.co/8nXYCFQLK5
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President Trump, in an interview with NBC News, said there were “methods” that would allow a third term. The 22nd Amendment prohibits a person from being elected to more than two terms as president.
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How many extra carbon credits could your ARR or REDD+ projects earn by counting methane uptake in tree bark? Submit your polygons or areas here for a free analysis! We’d also be grateful for your thoughts via the survey there. https://t.co/gVU3YS7nc4
#NACW
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Next step in the playbook: “LEAKERS ARE THE PROBLEM.” https://t.co/OXzeKHEH1d
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The defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.
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Interested in joining the ForestGEO team? 🌳 We're hiring a Staff Scientist! 🧑‍💼 Click to learn more about our opening for a Research Ecologist in our Central and South American Forest Dynamics Plots. 🌎Apply now! https://t.co/Ibf1lhKHMN
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Hey @InternetH0F - are you on bluesky? If so, which is your official account there?
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Cluster hire in applied AI across many knowledge areas here at @NAU! Come join our highly collaborative university in beautiful Flagstaff, AZ! https://t.co/TMJboCvAw3
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We're looking for a plant ecophysiologist working in natural systems with an eye towards global change. Tenure track hire @WakeForest in @wfubiology. Fantastic place to live and work--join us! Details here, app review rolling: https://t.co/UfF65u9Vj5
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We’ve all seen how wind can change the shape of trees, but how does wind impact tropical forests? Our new paper answers that question using purpose-built sensors in Barro Colorado, Panama. [1/4] https://t.co/4bwpS5j0MB
@stri_panama @CCI_Cambridge @BristolBioSci @NERCscience
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Hey Brazil - if you still have temporary access to twitter/X, come connect with me and my lab at BlueSky. https://t.co/4vSBPQjBCQ
https://t.co/5WdEENoOGQ
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Had a super fun conversation with @kjzzphoenix's @markwbrodie about our discovery of methane uptake in tree bark. Have a listen! https://t.co/52D1JTZDpe
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New research finds trees are even more beneficial than we realized — microbes living in their bark can help remove methane from the atmosphere.
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