🌳 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: nature.com/articles/s41586-0… This led to @SelvaFlux 🌳
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Pitching EmberSat today at the @azcommerce Arizona Innovation Challenge, one of 25 semifinalists. My 10-minute case: most wildfires are caught after they're too big to stop, and satellites can close that gap. Crews, land managers: what would make an early alert worth acting on?
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What sinks most AI agents and assistants? Not intelligence, capability, or anything else. It’s freaking auth, permissions, and browser use. Fix that, and the universe is yours.
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You can literally type a sentence and watch a Transformer process it. This interactive explainer runs a GPT-style model in the browser and lets you follow the whole path: tokenization → embeddings → Q/K/V → attention → MLP → logits → next-token probabilities You can inspect attention maps, intermediate values, and change temperature, top-k and top-p to see how generation changes. If Transformers still feel like boxes connected by arrows, this is worth opening. poloclub.github.io/transform…
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(1/3) #XPRIZEWildfire recently had a big week in New York City! 🔥Following the announcement of our awardees, the teams had a memorable moment during #ClimateWeekNYC ringing the Closing Bell at the @NYSE. XPRIZE Wildfire was also featured on a Times Square billboard. 📸: NYSE
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We’re proud to announce the awardees of the #XPRIZEWildfire Space-Based Detection & Intelligence Track, presented by @Minderoo Foundation! 🏆1st place - SIRIUS 🏆2nd place - Snuffed Special Recognition: 🏆 DeepFire 🏆 Mayday.ai 🏆 MyRadar These teams are helping turn faster, more accurate detection of wildfires into a reality.
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the weekly limit imposed by @claudeai code, which would 'only affect 5% of users' is cramping my style. Really doubt I'm in that top 5% either.
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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: youtube.com/watch?v=ecfxcTEl… (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/…
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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 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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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. fema.gov/press-release/20250…
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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) nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/po…
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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. go.selvaflux.com/demo #NACW
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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! rb.gy/n1vgcy
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