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Sophie Bodek

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PhD student in CEE @ Stanford; interested in geomorphology 🏞, sediments 🪨, and fluids 🌊; she/her; go birds 🦅🦅🦅

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · Feb 16

New platform, new me:

I'm a 2nd-year PhD student in the EFML at Stanford CEE working on flume experiments to investigate the effect of stress history on erodible beds. I'm broadly interested in geomorphology, sediment transport, and fluid mechanics! I enjoy hiking and watching wildlife around CA.

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · 21h

I had an absolute blast at the NorCal/Northern Nevada Geomorphology Symposium this past weekend in Yosemite Valley! Who knew camping for conference lodging could be so fun! Many thanks to the organizers for making this happen in such a beautiful part of the world

Scientific poster session in an open room – people are standing and talking in front of various posters around the room perimeter. Projector screen at the far end of the room reads "Geomorphology Symposium".

Group of people are gathered along the sandy bank of the Merced River. Two volunteers are holding up a poster while the presenter speaks to the rest of the group. Behind the poster and presenter is Yosemite Falls.

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david jon furbish @davidjonfurbish.bsky.social · Sep 1

eBook Preview

Statistical Physics of Rarefied Sediment Particle Motions and Transport: Applications to Hillslopes and Rivers

Posting this preview of material from my next (unfinished) book might be a mistake. But eh… what the hell.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · Aug 25

Tell a sad geology story in five words:

The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 25

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · Aug 21

Almandine garnet is my favorite mineral because it looks like little soccer balls!

Nadine, Haunter of Rocks 👻 @nadwgab.bsky.social · Aug 20

232 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️

Almandine:
- An iron-rich garnet group mineral
- Often forms in schist and gneiss
- The state gemstone of Connecticut
- Named after Alabanda, an ancient city in present day Turkey, where gemstones were cut #minerals

Composite dodecahedral almandine crystals with a deep red BBQ sauce colour, with some green clinochlore. From Ala, Italy.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Dark red, almost black icositetrahedral crystals of almandine on a black matrix. From St. Just, Cornwall, England, UK.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

Group of dark red, almost black dodecahedral almandine crystals on a grey mica schist. From Rombo Pass, Bolzano, Italy.

Specimen on display in the Natural History Museum, London.

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Doug Jerolmack @dougjerolmack.bsky.social · Aug 20

Check out the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social conference we're (Vashan Wright, Sujit Datta, Nathalie Vriend) organizing:
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9!
Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪

KITP

www.kitp.ucsb.edu

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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'm incredibly proud of PhD student Nacere Mohamed Samassi for submitting her first ever paper, as well as the first experimental paper from the DRIP lab! Check out the preprint here: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · Jul 28

I finally got around to learning about version control and using Git and Github. I've been putting it off, but it's secretly Totally Fine and actually better than having 5+ scripts named things like plottracks, plottracks_old, and plottracks_party, then forgetting why you named your code "party"

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Jul 23

Over the weekend I drew these two subway maps for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and shared them. A lot of you asked about purchasing them, and now you can!

You can buy one or both (as digital files or as prints) at my brand new Etsy shop:

surprisedeelmaps.etsy.com

Subway-style map of the itinerary in The Hobbit. The main journey is show in three different lines: red (Hobbiton to Goblin Town); green (Goblin Town to the Elvenking's Halls); and blue (Elvenking's Halls to Erebor). There are multiple stops on these lines. There is a yellow line going back from Erebor to Hobbiton, making stops at Beorn's Hall, Rivendell, and the Troll's Lair. There is an orange line directly from the Iron Hills on the map's right side to Erebor, and a purple line from Gundabad directly to Erebor.

The map's title reads: "Hobbit Transit Map" and there are directions for both There and Back Again listing the lines and transfer points. Between them, in the middle of the page, is a dragon drawn to resemble the dragon on Thror's Map from The Hobbit.

A key shows the names of each colored line:
Red: Western Lands Line
Green: Mountains and Forests Line
Blue: Barrel Line
Yellow: Gandalf Express
Orange: Iron Hills Business Line
Purple: Orc and Goblin Reserve Line

Text at the bottom right reads Surprised Eel Maps, 2025

Subway style map to go with The Lord of the Rings, showing the different pathways of various parties throughout the book. The title reads: "Lord of the Rings Transit Map: One Does Not Simply Walk Ino Mordor When One Can Ride." The map takes up the middle part of the page, and there are two keys. The one on the left is titles "Standard Service Lines, and has color keys matched to the subway lines on the map. Lines are named:
"Shire-Bree Commuter Line
Old Forrest Crescent
Wildland Scenic Line
Fellowship Line
Gollum / Sméagol Line
Uruk Hai Express
Three Hunters Line
Fangorn Slow Service
Rohan to Gondor Business Line
Black Ships Ferry Service
Oliphant Direct Line
Army of the West Line
Gandalf Express

A smaller key on the right side of the map is labeled: "Limited Service Lines" and has color keys matched to the following names lines:
"Eagle Express
Paths of the Dead Line
Nazgûl Search & Resuce
Valinor Ltd."

Two notes at the bottom read:
"* Mount Doom station only accepts Rings of Power in payment. Plan accordingly.
+ Transfer voucher for ferry service at Grey Havens station is for outbound tafle only."

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Peter Burgess @geopeteal.bsky.social · Jul 25

You have to love a pebbly beach, but especially one with a great range of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks 😍

Six pebbles from Nefyn Beach, two igneous, two sedimentary and two metamorphic

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · Jul 25

OMG there's a Bernie Sanders version too --> github.com/R-CoderDotCo...

Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · Jun 10

"A View to a Kill" is another great James Bond movie with terrible geology - he saves Silicon Valley by preventing an explosion that would cause both the San Andreas and Hayward faults from simultaneously moving. Also his love interest is the buxom state geologist.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · Jun 5

How do proposed staffing cuts to California Department of Fish and Wildlife affect the ocean you love?

Harbor seals rest on sea grass during low tide at Hopkins Beach

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · Jun 5

Omg is the mole named Darcy after Darcy's law???

Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · Jun 4

Cute animation by Aardman about groundwater flooding 💧⚒️ . H/t @geoscientistmag.bsky.social
youtu.be/J21mlxlr0qc?...

Darcy's Tale - Aardman short film for Let’s Talk Groundwater Flooding

YouTube video by Aardman

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · May 28

I was not the creative force behind this cake, but I think they were Bugle chips

Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · May 26

More cakes! This time for Dr. Hochschild on "Convergence of full-scale measurements and large-eddy simulations to advance the prediction of high-rise building wind loads". The cake is made to look like the wind pressure sensors he mounted on buildings, like the Space Needle!

Cake decorated to look like an orange wind pressure sensor mounted on a gray building.

Wind pressure sensor mounted on the Space Needle in Seattle. The pressure sensor is mounted on a gray roof with a view of the sun low in the sky across Puget Sound.

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Zoltán Sylvester @zzsylvester.bsky.social · May 23

What if you laid out all the meanders of a river along a straight line, so that you can break the river into straight-ish segments and fill arbitrary spaces? This is the Purus River in Brazil; you can see how it is getting wider and the meanders are getting larger in the downstream direction

The meandering planform of the Purus River (a tributary if the Amazon), shown as white wiggles on a black background. The width of the river and the size of the meanders are increasing downstream (top to bottom, left to right).

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · May 22

This cake is for Dr. Ciarlatani, who presented on "An LES-based multi-fidelity framework for wind loading predictions." The cake is meant to look like a building, where the red and blue cotton candy represent vortices created by wind passing over the structure.

Cake with frosting in a yellow and orange color gradient. The cake is decorated with red and blue cotton candy meant to look like vortices created by wind passing over a building.

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · May 22

Next is a cake based on the Y2E2 building at Stanford for Dr. Vargiemezis, who placed a Y2E2 model in a wind tunnel for his research on "Modeling Wind Loading on Low-Rise Buildings in Urban Environments: Leveraging Large-Eddy Simulations and Deep Neural Networks To Quantify Interference Effects"

Cake decorated to look like the Y2E2 building on Stanford University's campus. The cake and building are L-shaped with arches along the first floor and balconies on the second and third floors. The cake sits on a baking sheet in a kitchen.

Picture or rendering of the Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy (Y2E2) building on the campus of Stanford University.

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · May 22

Here is a coral reef cake for Dr. Hamilton who presented on "The impact of turbulence and waves on mixing in coral reefs." The corals were made by drizzling melted sugar into a bowl of ice!

Cake decorated to look like a coral reef. The frosting is blue and the corals are made out of melted sugar. There are Swedish Fish candies swimming through the sugar corals.

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · May 22

Starting a thread for the backlog of defense cakes I have photos of... here is a wind turbine and wind rose cake for Dr. LoCasio who presented on "Analytical wind farm flow modeling for power production estimation and optimization"

Cake decorated to look like a wind farm. The wind turbines are made from a pretzel stick with Bugle snacks arranged to look like turbine blades.

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Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · May 13

I have a whole backlog of amazing cakes I've been meaning to post too

Sophie Bodek @streamofsophie.bsky.social · May 13

This time I'm proud of the ocean mixing cake I baked and decorated for Dr. Hilditch's defense on "The behavior of near-inertial waves in submesoscale flows". The frosting and marbled layers are meant to show mixing at an ocean front!

Top-down view of a circular cake with a gradient of purple to blue frosting, and writing in blue icing.

View of the interior of a cake showing layers with blue and dark red marbling.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · May 9

cartoon boy Dexter sheds a tear while looking at a photo in his locker. the photo is Joseph Bazalgette and he says “stunt on these flows.”

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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment @woods.stanford.edu · Apr 14

The Stanford Environmental Research Year in Review is here! bit.ly/Enviro-YIR-2...

Read about all the 2024 highlights, including:
🌊 tracing #microplastics in the ocean
🔥 materials that protect homes from #wildfires
🪱 how #climatechange promotes diseases

Browse the pubs: bit.ly/StanfordEnvi...

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · Apr 4

For #fossilfriday please share this updated article about efforts to save PRI.🦑🧪⚒️

In addition to an anonymous $1 million donation PRI has raised approximately $1.1 million towards the remaining mortgage and needs another $2.2 by year end to be free of the liability

ithacavoice.org/2025/04/dona...

Donation spike gives Museum of the Earth new life but future remains uncertain - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — Following a surge of donations sparked by The Ithaca Voice’s reporting, the Museum of the Earth — one of the last natural history museums in upstate New […]

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