Dr. Valerie Trouet
@epispheric
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Scientific Director of the Belgian Climate Centre @climatecentrebe ; Author of "Tree Story", "Wat Bomen Ons Vertellen", Professor @uarizona ; columniste @demorgen
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This happened:
Now available from Johns Hopkins University Press: "Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings" by Dr. Valerie Trouet (
@epispheric
):
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when you send an email to your department announcing your new PNAS publication and the only response you get is an emeritus professor pointing out a typo in your email.
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If you insist on not including any women on your 16-author list, then please do not suggest 4 women as potential anonymous reviewers for your manuscript. That does not go over well with this woman editor.
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What strange times to be celebrating good news, but here we are: yesterday I received the news that I've been promoted to Full Professor. Yay! First woman full professor in the
@TreeRingLabUA
since it was founded in 1937, hard to believe. 1/3
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Twee professoren zaten vanavond aan tafel in
@deafspraaktv
(great!): een oudere man en een jongere vrouw (). De ene sprak
@bartschols
pertinent aan met 'professor', de andere met 'mevrouw'.
Implicit bias, it's a thing.
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some professional news: in January, I'll be taking a leave of absence from the
@TreeRingLabUA
to take on the position of Scientific Director of a brand-new Federal Climate Center in Belgium. I'm excited for this new, impactful challenge in my home country.
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just the right diameter for storing tree-ring cores in the field. Paper rather than plastic reduces chances of molding. Festive colors make tedious coring job less tedious.
#reviewforscience
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YES! Belgium, Spain and 10 other countries sign joint statement on phaseout of fossil fuel subsidies initiated by the Netherlands. Bravo!
@KhattabiZakia
@RobJetten
#COP28UAE
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Ik loop wat achter op de media met deze tweet, maar dus: vanaf januari verhuis ik terug naar België en neem de positie aan van wetenschappelijk directeur van het nieuwe federaal klimaatcentrum. 1/2
Valerie Trouet gaat klimaatcentrum leiden via
@demorgen
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dear
#sciencetwitter
, it is heartwarming to see all the shoutouts to women scientist mentors on this
#womeninscience
day. You know what would be even more great? NOMINATE THOSE WOMEN SCIENTISTS FOR THE AWARDS THAT THEY DESERVE! INCLUDE THEM IN YOUR ALWAYS ALL-MALE AUTHOR LISTS!
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Nog wat moeite om het te geloven, wat een eer!
danku danku danku!
@lannoo
@kvanoost
@tiffanypub
en de jury
@jpgeelen
Boomwetenschapper Valerie Trouet wint Jan Wolkers Prijs 2020 via
@volkskrant
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What she said!
@Maikadekeyzer
Relativisme van Joren Vermeersch over klimaatverandering is gevaarlijk
@destandaard
:In 2023 nog steeds vlakkeloos wetenschapsontkenning rond klimaat publiceren? Shame on you, jullie journalisten weten beter
@TomYsebaert
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Time to let the cat out of the bag: I am writing a book:
#Treestory
It is a broad audience book about climate history, human history, and tree rings.
It will be published by
@JHUPress
with my wonderful editor
@tiffanypub
.
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I wrote about 'good fire' and the value of indigenous knowledge in
@guardian
@alastairgee
:
What turned California forests into a tinderbox? Fire suppression, paradoxically | Valerie Trouet
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I wonder how the tree is going to record "work-from-home", "political stress/outrage", and "lack of exercise" in the 2020 ring?
Cross Section Of Tree Suggests It May Have Gone Through Psychedelic Period During ’60s
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exciting news!
@radiolab
dropped an episode on
@dendrotrog
,
@dendroresearch
, and my research on tree rings, shipwrecks, and hurricanes. enjoy!
The Fellowship of the Tree Rings
#botany
#dendrochronology
#hurricanes
#pirates
#storytelling
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but then when it comes to suggesting anonymous reviewers, all of a sudden you do know knowledgeable women scientists who can spend their time doing this service to you without getting any recognition for it? yeah. I don't think so. 3/3
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Thank you! One of the greatest honors in my career so far! congrats also to other section award winners
@other_rock
,
@ecoclimatelab
,
@Novick_Lab_IU
,
@waterbarnes
, Francina Dominguez, and Armin Sorooshian, amongst others. What splendid ranks to join!
Congratulations to Valerie Trouet (
@epispheric
) of the University of Arizona on winning the Willi Dansgaard Award!
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it's August. There is a weather dipole over Europe with heatwaves and wildfires over the Balkans and Italy, while northwestern Europe is cold and wet.
Yes, it's a recurring pattern and yes, it's becoming more extreme:
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Best collaboration ever! We compiled more than 14,000 tree-ring series in a pantropical network and found that tropical tree stems grow less as the dry season gets hotter or drier. Not good news under global warming, unfortunately.
Article: Dry-season climate variability plays a key role in the growth of tropical trees
@Dendro_Unicamp
@epispheric
@Pieter_Zuidema
@TreeRingLabUA
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I am truly very honored and a little emotional. Thank you for this honor
@ForewordReviews
, and thank you
@JHUPress
,
@tiffanypub
,
@oliveruberti
, and so many others for all that you did/do.
Congratulations to the 2020 INDIES Awards Winners in Nonfiction: Ecology & Environment
Gold: Tree Story, Valerie Trouet
@JHUPress
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this is a hill I'm willing to die on: just was asked to review another all -(15!)- male-author paper for a high-impact journal. 1/3
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Celebrating my 2nd Pfizer shot today. Rarely felt so grateful and so privileged.
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Amidst all of this,
#treestory
is
#1
new release in Botany and its still 3 weeks away from coming out. Also: trees beat marijuana and magic mushrooms 😉
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journalist
@JimRobbins19
visited
@TreeRingLabUA
and wrote a beautiful piece about our climate, fire, and societal history research for
@NYTScience
:
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Job Alert! We are looking for a post-doctoral scholar to join the Trouet Lab
@TreeRingLabUA
to work on tree-ring based reconstruction of atmospheric circulation patterns. Apply by May 1. More info here:
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It’s been a week never to forget:
@koninklijk
paleis, Belgie for Women’s rights Day w 8 spectacular women & received an Honorary Doctorate
@WUR
with a big ceremony & old friends. So grateful I cld burst!
@DendroResearch
@KristofHaneca
@BerkeleyBiomet
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I am delighted to announce that I am starting today as an Editor for
@theAGU
's Geophysical Research Letters. Please send your exciting science our way, I look forward to reading it!
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I decided to treat myself, so I ordered a couple of these for self-motivation.
@JHUPress
@reb_roz
@tiffanypub
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wow! often hard to see rings this clear in roots of living trees, leave alone in trees that have been dead for *checks* 370 million years.
@MostlyMammoths
7 years in the life of a tree that lived 370 million years ago!
#FossilFriday
Great growth rings in a late Devonian Callixylon root - thanks to Anne-Laure Decombeix and Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud for hosting a brilliant visit to Montpellier!
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When lining up the number of dated wooden archeological samples in Europe over the past 2,500 years, we see a distinct dip in the mid-14th century that reflects decreased wood use and building activity as a result of the Black Death. Fig. 7 in
#treestory
1/3
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we have a new paper out today, led by Gene Wahl at
@NOAANCEIclimate
:
. We reconstructed E Pacific jet stream dynamics back to 1600 CE and linked them to CA hydroclimate and wildfires 1/3
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We have a new paper out today, led by Flurin Babst, co-authored by
@poulterlab
and others: . We find that already in the 20th century, under limited climate warming, tree growth across the globe becomes more limited by water than by temperature. 1/2
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This just came in the mail. People are awesome. Too bad twitter does not capture wood smell.
#treestory
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Zeg,
@demorgen
, ik ben wel Belgische, hé!
Jullie zouden het er bv. ook over kunnen hebben dat ik de enige vrouw op de shortlist ben?
'Brijs maakt kans op Jan Wolkersprijs. ... De vier Nederlanders op de shortlist zijn Denters, Janssen, Trouet en de Vos.'
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‘De globale opwarming gaat veel sneller dan verwacht’:
@RozemienDeTroch
, mijn collega aan het Klimaatcentrum, zegt het zoals het is in dit
@demorgen
interview
via
@demorgen
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gaan slapen, wakker geworden, en het is nog altijd waar 😊
De prijs voor het beste natuurboek gaat naar Wat bomen ons vertellen van
@epispheric
. De Jan Wolkers Prijs 2020 werd uitgereikt in
@VroegeVogels
. 'Trouet is een boomwetenschapper die je overlaadt met verrassende feiten', aldus juryvoorzitter
@jpgeelen
:
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I know I made a big announcement yesterday and I apologize for not responding to your messages, but there is a category 4 hurricane heading straight to my second home town of Sarasota, FL. My partner, plus daughter, and dog have safely evacuated to Miami, but yes, I am worried.
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Tears (of joy) in my eyes that this will be our new VP. Sea Change.
Kamala Harris says she feels a “certain kinship” with the new science team, as her mom was a scientist: “Science has a way of shaping how you think and way of life, and she instilled in me a fundamental belief in the importance of collecting and analyzing data. Facts.”
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Congrats, Dr.
@amyhud7
! Outstanding presentation, dissertation, and research!
#proudadvisor
w
@DJPMoore
@DaveBreshears
@Wkolby
@EnviroKaty
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Tree-ring cores on this month's cover of BioScience, thanks to this paper by
@TreeRingLabUA
's Margaret Evans,
@kelheil
,
@perforatedpits
, Flurin Babst et al.:
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deep breaths after writing this in an email today:
"I do not appreciate being addressed as ‘Ms. Trouet’. As an editor and tenured professor, I obviously have earned a PhD. Unfortunately, ignoring professional credentials is an oft-used strategy ...
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my family-in-law is isolating together in their cabin. Their order of Tree Story has just arrived.
@tiffanypub
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I have no words. No wisdom. I am only shocked and sad.
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In 2023,
#Belgium
is already 25% behind on reaching its 2030 (non-ETS) emission reduction target. This is a way bigger gap than EU-average, which is 8%.
Unless we ramp up our climate action immediately, we will miss our 2050 target by 59%.
#JustDoIt
Figures for
#Belgium
from the
@EU_Commission
Climate Action Progress Report 2023:
Distance to target in 2030 (for non-ETS emissions):
📉 minus 25% (in a scenario with existing measures)
📉 minus 4% (in a scenario with additional measures)
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I saw two shooting stars last night while election-avoidance camping on Mt Lemmon. Made the same wish twice. Surely all of that superstition has got to pay off, right?
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The differences between Belgium and AZ, you ask?
I started my lecture today by asking if anyone had any good news. 'It rained this morning', answered one student. That would not be considered good news in Belgium.
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I wrote an essay about tree rings and
#treestory
for
@thescientistLLC
Opinion: Tree Rings as Soothsayers
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on the very day of the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, the tree-ring community is having its own day of reckoning: Longtime UT professor resigns amid probe of sexual misconduct accusations by current, former students via
@knoxnews
a few thoughts:
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She did it! Raquel Alfaro-Sanchez, with help from
@amyhud7
,
@DesertRym
, me, et al. reconstructed 800 years of NH Hadley Cell variability using tree rings from 5 locations: .
@TreeRingLabUA
paper published in
@NatureGeosci
on
#dayofscience
@UAresearch
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this tweet clearly struck a chord with many. Thanks for all the congrats, which I proudly share with
@L_tulipifera
,
@prehistormic
,
@indianaclimate
& co-authors, and here's to everyone celebrating each other's successes.
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I am Valerie, an
#actuallivingscientist
who uses trees to study t climate of t past. Sure, I like to
#DressLikeAWoman
, but only by choice.
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pro tip for ECR scientists who want to get involved in the peer review process: create a google scholar profile and make sure journal editors can find your email address. As a GRL editor, I spend a surprising/frustrating amount of time looking for (most recent) email addresses
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What gorgeous artwork Wildflower magazine put on their cover to accompany
@susanjtweit
’s piece about tree rings & Tree Story
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thanks to
@NSF
,
@TreeRingLabUA
now houses an X-ray densitometer. This instrument allows us to measure wood density in tree rings, which is a very sensitive proxy for summer temperature. It is such a cool instrument that I have a hard time keeping
@mattdobbynmeko
away from it.
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Truly an incredible honor to receive an Honorary Doctorate from
@WUR
in March. Especially alongside two giants in env sci, Drs. Dennis Baldocchi & Willy Verstraete. Looking forward to the ceremony!
@FritsMohren
@Pieter_Zuidema
@DendroResearch
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Like many others, I am trying to think of Tom’s contagious grin n laugh, not about him being shot in his office. But today I am failing, heart broken.
In loving memory of Dr. Thomas Meixner
Tom was a wonderful and kind person, whose larger-than-life approach to being and doing inspired those around him and elevated the community. The world is different without him. He will be missed and loved by all.
@uarizona
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more good news in dark times: my home country Belgium has a new government. It took a looong time, but now literally half (10 out of 20) of its members are women, including one trans woman. Looking forward to what this newfound diversity will bring.
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What a great honor and surprise on a random Monday morning! Thank you to AmQua Leadership,
@IceAgeEcologist
,
@yarrowaxford
, and my nominators!
Congratulations to Valerie Trouet (
@epispheric
), recipient of AmQua’s Leadership in Quaternary Sciences Award. This new award recognizes a mid-career Quaternary scientist for both outstanding scientific discovery and exceptional broader impacts for our profession and society.
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I intend to pay it forward and to throw every ounce of my newly earned gravitas to lifting up others. That and doing science. And fighting the climate change fight. and maybe write another book. I've got my work cut out for me! 3/3
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@JacquelynGill
@highlyanne
I am a dendroclimatologist. I use the rings in trees to reconstruct climate and it’s impact on ecosystems and human systems over the last ~1000 years.
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very honored to collaborate on this unique record: tree-ring isotope-based Asian monsoon reconstruction back to Mid-Holocene w
@TimOsbornClim
et al
Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years
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#treestory
now also on
@ScienceNews
's 2020 book list:
Our favorite books of 2020 covered climate change, Mars, the end of the universe and more
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so you cannot think of a single woman scientist in your field knowledgeable enough on your paper's subject to join your middle-aged-boys club of 15 co-authors for your high-profile paper? 2/3
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Cannot think of a more deserving scientist & mentor. Congrats
@djpmoore
!
David Moore Receives 2019 Excellence in Earth and Space Science Education Award
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so happy and honored to have been part of this team using tree rings to show that tropical cyclone rainfall extremes are becoming more extreme:
I'm excited to share our new paper out in
@PNASNews
. Using the latewood of longleaf, we show that extremes in tropical cyclone rainfall totals have been increasing along the NC and SC coast.
w/
@prehistormic
,
@indianaclimate
,
@epispheric
and others
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What a game changer vaccination & safe travel are! Got a chance to catch up with
@YellowBuckeye
today and it was Great!
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Fantastic
#treestory
: Dendrochronology tells us that Rome was built using oak wood from more than 1,000 miles away in the French mountains:
Muddy Find Shows How Foreign Timber Helped Build Ancient Rome
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Turns out it was a manatee!
Beach bystanders who witnessed the whole scene said the manatee had been chilling right underneath me for a few minutes.
Me, floating: oblivious.
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From here on out, quite a bit of rainwater will be saved in this household. 2,100 gallons to be precise
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definitely the most exciting part of my
#dayofscience
week: MY ELECTRIC MOPED HAS ARRIVED! time to Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk. With my solar panels, I'll be cruising around Tucson on solar energy. So exciting!
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vandaag komt Wat Bomen ons Vertellen uit in Nederland en Belgie. Jammer dat ik er door omstandigheden zelf niet bij kan zijn, maar ik ben toch heel content.
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Sterk stuk weerom van
@FilipRogiers
‘De pauzeknop? Die drukken we al vijftig jaar in’ via
@destandaard
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we have a new paper out today, led by Ulf Büntgen and co-authored by
@GuobaoXgb234
,
@scottstgeorge
,
@ccia_geneva
,
@thirstygecko
, and others 1/5
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Whoa! Game changer!
🎄🎄 COMING SOON 🎄🎄
ForestScanner -- an iPhone/iPad application that allows LiDAR-based tree measurement
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New paper in
@NatureComms
- w Flurin Babst n Matt Meko - in which we use tree rings to reconstruction the position of the summer North Atlantic Jet (NAJ): 1/
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he was enabled to practice and expand his predator behaviour for more than 25 years. No more. It took the courage of a dozen people to finally put a stop to this. In different times, 25 years of ruined female scientist lives and careers might have been avoided.
#BelieveVictims
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graduate student, postdoctoral fellows or established scientist and want to come visit the
@TreeRingLabUA
in lovely Tucson for a couple of weeks or months? Get in touch with me or any of my TreeRingLab colleagues to discuss a research project and apply for a Haury Fellowship
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Rest In Peace, Keith Briffa. A dendro n climate hero has passed.
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