Creative Curiosity Transforms Ecosystem Flux Science into Embodied Experiences of Nature’s Resilience

The complex nature of our planet calls for reimagining how we relate to the biosphere and experience Earth system science. FLUXNET is a global network of nearly 1,000 research towers that track water, carbon, and energy moving between ecosystems and the atmosphere. It gives us a continuous and precise record of the biosphere's breath, helping us understand how soils, plants, people, and climate are connected through cycles of change. But FLUXNET is more than data, it’s a community built on curiosity and reciprocity, exemplifying how science grows when people work together. In the spirit of collaboration, fluxART (https://fluxnetart.github.io) invited artists to engage with scientists, the global datasets, and the ecosystems they study. They explored climate change, drought, and fire disturbances, the renewing rhythms of landscapes, and the often-invisible processes that sustain life on Earth. Artists turned flux science into stories and embodied experiences of nature’s resilience. Scientists reimagined academic function and culture by embodying the reciprocity in the biosphere’s fluxes they study. Here we share artworks and perspectives emerging from recent year-long art-science exchanges at FLUXNET research sites.