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Lucia S. Layritz

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PostDoc UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social | Fire recovery, Climate and Model Uncertainty | Editor-in-chief @egubg.bsky.social | On a quest for climate literacy 🌿

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Jul 31

Happy to share that the first chapter of my PhD was published earlier this week in Biogeosciences! 🎉

Using a DGVM, we looked at joint and separate effects of changes in climate vs. disturbance regimes on boreal forests 🌲🌳🌲❄️

Read the article 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Read a summary blog👇

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 7d

Nice!

Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 7d

I love this!

Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 7d

Late to the party for this week's #TidyTuesday 🦢🦢🦢

#cranes #dataviz #ecology #ggplot

(Code as always here: github.com/lucialayr/Ti...)

Polar plot of daily observations of cranes at a Lake, underlied with a pictogram of a crane such that the two peaks of observations in spring and fall align with the wings

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 12d

I continue to find this Elsevier equity survey puzzling - by which logic is Greece in Western Europe?

A survey listing Greece, Sweden and the UK as example countries for Western Europe and Poland, Russia, and Hungary as examples for Eastern Europe.

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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · Sep 5

📣 New BG blog post is out!
In this post, Kara Sampsell tells us about her research at the Glacier d’Argentière in search of fine glacial sediment where she aimed to learn more about the microbial fauna that inhabit this environment 🏔️ blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
Edited by @lucialayr.bsky.social

Microbial Adventures in the Mont Blanc Massif

As we passed the town of Saint-Gervais-Les-Bains on the French highway, en route to a sampling campaign, Mont Blanc’s glaciated terrain suddenly emerged above the spring foliage. Breaking the silent…

blogs.egu.eu

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Sep 3

Of course, thanks for your interest :)

Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Sep 3

Totally! github.com/lucialayr/Ti...

TidyTuesday/20250902.R at main · lucialayr/TidyTuesday

Contribute to lucialayr/TidyTuesday development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Sep 3

Super honored to have my #TidyTuesday viz featured in last week’s The Crunch newsletter from The Guardian Australia! 🙌 @australia.theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/au...

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's #TidyTuesday again! This week, we looked at #frog abundance in #australia - not a lot of frogs found in the desert 🐸🏜️

#ecology #dataviz #maps

Gridded data of number of observed frogs, forming an image of the coastline of australia

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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Aug 26

👏DSE postdoc @mayazomer.bsky.social published new research in the @jxbotany.bsky.social! It explores how #MediterraneanShrubs resprout to recover after #disturbance and their resilience to global change: bit.ly/4mAwH5p

cc @cideinvestiga.bsky.social ‪‪@bmoreira.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social

Maya holding resprouted plants while conducting fieldwork in Spain

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Aug 21

I‘m still trying to evaluate if I believe the science of Dune makes sense. This copy has an Appendix on the Ecology of Dune, that I don’t think I’ve read before so that’s going to be interesting. 😌

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s a bit crazy, but also somehow moving #dune

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Aug 21

Holiday readings

Two books: Dune by Frank Herbert and Plant Ecology in the Middle East by Hegazy&lovett-doust

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank youu 🙏🧡

Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Aug 20

thank youu!

Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Aug 20

This weeks' #TidyTuesday looked at the number of #munros (type of 🏔️) in Scotland over time. I utilized my PhD here, using an alpha-stable distribution to add texture to the mountain outline: The heavy tails create a more 'rugged' profile than the Gaussian noise I used for the snow- and tree line. ❄️🌲

Lineplot, looking like a mountain range, where peaks indicate the number of munros counted in that year

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some scans from the #Mojave capturing typical scenes of post-fire recovery: Burnt juvenile #JoshuaTree that is resprouting from the base. Burnt, toppled Joshua Trees and lots of grass within the burn scar. Unburned Joshua Tree woodland in the background. #canon #kodakgold #NationalParks

Burnt Joshua Tree Juvenile with burnt and unburnt vegetation in the background

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 6

As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Jul 26

📣 Join us for our AGU2025 session IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in The Cloud"! Can't wait to see you there :)

Submissions are due *Wednesday, July 30*! Visit our website for more details and to submit:

events.geojupyter.org/conferences/...

A flyer for our AGU sesion "IN029 - Open Source Geospatial Workflows in the Cloud: Tools and Techniques for Data Access, Analysis, Visualization, Storytelling, and Sharing in the Python and Jupyter Ecosystem". Includes a URL and QR code for our website (https://events.geojupyter.org/conferences/2025-agu/). Lists invited speakers (Dr. Fernando Pérez, co-founder of Project Jupyter, Dr. Tasha Snow, co-founder of CryoCloud, and Dr. Julia Lowndes, Openscapes Founding Director), conveners (Qiusheng Wu, Max Jones, Chelle Gentemann, Tyler Erickson, Wilson Sauthoff) and organizers (Matt Fisher).

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Jul 24

Haha 😀

Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks! Yes, that was new information to me, too. I am still thinking how I could adjust the keys to make it less crowded in Lower Manhattan

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Jul 23

Revised the NYC metro stations art map after some feedback. Learned that less is often more #TidyTuesday #NYC #dataviz #maps

Map showing which NYC metro stations feature mosaics, other art or no art

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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you! :)

Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · Jul 23

Had a look at what materials art works in in NYC metro stations are made for for today's #TidyTuesday 🚋🗽🏙️

Learned that the @nyu.edu Spatial Data Repository is a great resource for base maps.

#NYC #dataviz #NYCT #maps

Map of NYC metro stations where color indicates material of artwork

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