Caitlin Hodges, Soil Scientist
@kanhapludult.bsky.social
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critical zone biogeochemist, reader, cyclist, animal lover, environmentalist
and also somehow obsessed with F1
critical zone biogeochemist, reader, cyclist, animal lover, environmentalist
and also somehow obsessed with F1
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I’m excited to share this publication, based on the research of my first MS student, Jacob Clements! He conducted a very fun experiment that examined the effect of different soil moisture and wetting patterns on nitrate and phosphate biogeochemistry in riparian soils
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In all scientists is a crappy little writing elf waiting to be unleashed for a first draft. Mine is nocturnal and works best between 9pm and 2am
hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
August 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In all scientists is a crappy little writing elf waiting to be unleashed for a first draft. Mine is nocturnal and works best between 9pm and 2am
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How do you take your nitrogen? In Arctic rivers, the answer is, increasingly, “organic.”
New #AGUPubs research from @nyutandon.bsky.social, @carnegiescience.bsky.social
New #AGUPubs research from @nyutandon.bsky.social, @carnegiescience.bsky.social
Arctic Rivers Trade Inorganic Nitrogen for Organic - Eos
Climate change is shifting the makeup of a key nutrient in rivers across Russia, Alaska, and Canada, with the potential for ecosystem-wide impacts.
eos.org
August 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
How do you take your nitrogen? In Arctic rivers, the answer is, increasingly, “organic.”
New #AGUPubs research from @nyutandon.bsky.social, @carnegiescience.bsky.social
New #AGUPubs research from @nyutandon.bsky.social, @carnegiescience.bsky.social
A beautiful silvery checkerspot butterfly hanging out in my garden today! Earlier in the season there were a ton of checkerspot caterpillars chowing down on my Maximillian sunflowers (a preferred host plant for the checkerspots).The joys of a native garden! 🌻
July 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A beautiful silvery checkerspot butterfly hanging out in my garden today! Earlier in the season there were a ton of checkerspot caterpillars chowing down on my Maximillian sunflowers (a preferred host plant for the checkerspots).The joys of a native garden! 🌻
A soil scientist’s day at the beach
July 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A soil scientist’s day at the beach
I’m excited to share this publication, based on the research of my first MS student, Jacob Clements! He conducted a very fun experiment that examined the effect of different soil moisture and wetting patterns on nitrate and phosphate biogeochemistry in riparian soils
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
June 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’m excited to share this publication, based on the research of my first MS student, Jacob Clements! He conducted a very fun experiment that examined the effect of different soil moisture and wetting patterns on nitrate and phosphate biogeochemistry in riparian soils
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
What the Grapes of Wrath… drove through a little dust storm this week in southwest OK.
I’m perpetually shocked that there are still land managers in OK that allow fallow land to sit uncovered and unvegetated for a growing season.
I’m perpetually shocked that there are still land managers in OK that allow fallow land to sit uncovered and unvegetated for a growing season.
June 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
What the Grapes of Wrath… drove through a little dust storm this week in southwest OK.
I’m perpetually shocked that there are still land managers in OK that allow fallow land to sit uncovered and unvegetated for a growing season.
I’m perpetually shocked that there are still land managers in OK that allow fallow land to sit uncovered and unvegetated for a growing season.
This past month we built 24 rainfall exclusion shelters for our USDA-funded project to study the effects of drought, fertilizer, and hay harvest on soil biogeochemistry and plant community composition! I’m super proud of the team for the hard work!
June 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This past month we built 24 rainfall exclusion shelters for our USDA-funded project to study the effects of drought, fertilizer, and hay harvest on soil biogeochemistry and plant community composition! I’m super proud of the team for the hard work!
What a delightful and wild race to attend for the first time in person!
June 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What a delightful and wild race to attend for the first time in person!
New publication out on the transformation of ferrihydrite in salty systems, with implications for our understanding of iron oxides on Mars! In @agu.org JGR Planets
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May 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
New publication out on the transformation of ferrihydrite in salty systems, with implications for our understanding of iron oxides on Mars! In @agu.org JGR Planets
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Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour
Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Even just looking at images of nature changes our brain and can reduce physical pain, a new study by @maxsteininger.bsky.social and colleagues finds!
Nature exposure induces analgesic effects by acting on nociception-related neural processing - Nature Communications
Virtual nature exposure reduces self-reported pain and is associated with decreased brain responses linked to somatosensory and nociceptive processing, providing new insights into the underlying mecha...
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Even just looking at images of nature changes our brain and can reduce physical pain, a new study by @maxsteininger.bsky.social and colleagues finds!
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February 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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We are looking for two postdocs for a synthesis project focused on soil carbon dynamics and warming experiments. If you are excited about applying ML and process-based models to synthesize mechanisms of temperature sensitivity of soil respiration, please apply!
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February 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
We are looking for two postdocs for a synthesis project focused on soil carbon dynamics and warming experiments. If you are excited about applying ML and process-based models to synthesize mechanisms of temperature sensitivity of soil respiration, please apply!
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“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.”
Is equivalent to asking
“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”
www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
Is equivalent to asking
“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”
www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
About our agency
NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep the public informed of the changing environment aro...
www.noaa.gov
February 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.”
Is equivalent to asking
“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”
www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
Is equivalent to asking
“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”
www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
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I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us.
slate.com/technology/2...
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There Is Basically One Point to Space Exploration. Right Now, We’re Missing It.
Efforts to scrub DEI from NASA's websites get it all wrong.
slate.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I wrote about NASA, its people and the mission to connect us.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Daily number of Bluesky posts with the #RStats hashtag (case insensitive) Sept. 1 - Jan 24, excluding the CRAN Package Updates bot.
Coded with the {bskyr} and {ggplot2} R packages.
[Posted via R script and weekly cron job. Tx for your patience if something went awry]
Coded with the {bskyr} and {ggplot2} R packages.
[Posted via R script and weekly cron job. Tx for your patience if something went awry]
January 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Hang this in the Louvre 🔴
January 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Hang this in the Louvre 🔴
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Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
January 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
Beautiful day of fieldwork on the plains! We are setting up rainfall exclusion by nutrient addition plots to understand soil inorganic carbon cycling in response to land use intensification and climate change.
January 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Beautiful day of fieldwork on the plains! We are setting up rainfall exclusion by nutrient addition plots to understand soil inorganic carbon cycling in response to land use intensification and climate change.
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New in Geoderma: "Soil carbon concentration drives anoxic microsites across horizons, textures, and aggregate position in a California grassland" by Emily M Lacroix, Anna Gomes, Alexander S Honeyman, Katie R Huy [...] Meret Aeppli. https://buff.ly/40aIT2B
@Stanford @unil @SLAClab @EPFLEngineering
@Stanford @unil @SLAClab @EPFLEngineering
January 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New in Geoderma: "Soil carbon concentration drives anoxic microsites across horizons, textures, and aggregate position in a California grassland" by Emily M Lacroix, Anna Gomes, Alexander S Honeyman, Katie R Huy [...] Meret Aeppli. https://buff.ly/40aIT2B
@Stanford @unil @SLAClab @EPFLEngineering
@Stanford @unil @SLAClab @EPFLEngineering
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Some very sad news. Dr. Moore's impact in the meteorological community stretched far and wide.
Condolences to Dr. Moore's family and his weather colleagues at OU.
Condolences to Dr. Moore's family and his weather colleagues at OU.
A Message from President Harroz – Mourning the Loss of Dean Berrien Moore III
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing this morning of Dr. Berrien Moore III, an internationally recognized leader in Earth science and an invaluable member of our university family. With a...
www.ou.edu
December 18, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Some very sad news. Dr. Moore's impact in the meteorological community stretched far and wide.
Condolences to Dr. Moore's family and his weather colleagues at OU.
Condolences to Dr. Moore's family and his weather colleagues at OU.
Tiffany Legg, PhD candidate in the OK Critical Zone Biogeochemistry Lab, came up with this masterpiece while in a fieldwork planning meeting yesterday.
December 13, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Tiffany Legg, PhD candidate in the OK Critical Zone Biogeochemistry Lab, came up with this masterpiece while in a fieldwork planning meeting yesterday.
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Not sure where to start with this. Many of the dunefields on the semiarid margin in northern China were increasingly stabilized by vegetation from the late 90s onward (evident from remote sensing and ground observations). In part because of a decline in strong sand-driving winds, along with ...
Very interesting piece by Xiaoying You in Carbon Brief about the additional benefit from solar in China's desert areas: pushing back the desert. Physical barriers against sand movement, reducing wind-borne sand, more moisture retention, and more.
Explainer: How China’s renewables rollout boosts its ‘war on sand’ - Carbon Brief
China’s effort to build large solar power “bases” in and around the desert is a major part of its current renewable plan.
www.carbonbrief.org
December 12, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Not sure where to start with this. Many of the dunefields on the semiarid margin in northern China were increasingly stabilized by vegetation from the late 90s onward (evident from remote sensing and ground observations). In part because of a decline in strong sand-driving winds, along with ...
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I’m old enough to remember that in 2015, a detailed report by many scientists found that a dietary pattern higher in plants & lower in animal-based foods was better for both health & sustainability in the US.
USDA/HHS argued at the time that sustainability was “out of scope” of dietary guidelines.
USDA/HHS argued at the time that sustainability was “out of scope” of dietary guidelines.
U.S. dietary guidelines should emphasize beans and lentils as protein, proposal says
The report, from an advisory committee to the USDA, also suggests encouraging people to reduce their intake of sugary drinks and sodium and eat more whole grains.
www.nbcnews.com
December 12, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I’m old enough to remember that in 2015, a detailed report by many scientists found that a dietary pattern higher in plants & lower in animal-based foods was better for both health & sustainability in the US.
USDA/HHS argued at the time that sustainability was “out of scope” of dietary guidelines.
USDA/HHS argued at the time that sustainability was “out of scope” of dietary guidelines.
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An entire bank of posters on finding orphan oil and gas wells
December 11, 2024 at 9:01 PM
An entire bank of posters on finding orphan oil and gas wells