Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi
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Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi
@cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social
Assistant professor of environmental engineering @ UC Berkeley CEE. Ecohydrologist - water, carbon, plants, isotopes, satellites. Fighting the War On Cars on my cargo bike 🚲, one pedal stroke at a time. 🇫🇷+🇨🇴 in 🇺🇸. She/her.
First day of this semester of Terrestrial Hydrology! Full house!!
August 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
So excited for the 2nd edition of this all-encompassing urban ecohydrology session, aiming to bring together the entire urban science community at #AGU25!

H147 - Urban Ecohydrology in a Changing Climate: People–Plant–Water Dynamics in the Built Environment

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@agu.org
July 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Do you work on Land Use/Land Cover change and its impact on the water cycle and/or the climate? Then consider submitting to our #AGU25 session: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
Sam Zipper and Erin Hanan will be our invited speakers!

We look forward to seeing you in NOLA! 🥳
July 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Just about done with my 1st week as a Visiting Scholar at the @wmo-global.bsky.social where I will spend the summer! It has been a whirlwind of new faces and exciting projects to learn about, and I’m looking forward to contributing to the agency’s efforts on remote sensing of water and ecohydrology!
June 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Wonderful to listen to Dennis @biometlab.bsky.social recount a career of curiosity-driven research yesterday during the ESPM seminar, what an inspiration to us all!
April 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
All hands on deck for the final biomass collection of Becca’s senior thesis looking at the physiological impact of increased salinity on native and invasive species from the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta! A beautiful day to count and cut shoots! 🌱
April 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Incredible study sheet made by one of my students, connecting all the aspects of surface hydrology we have covered so far in my graduate hydrology course! 🤯
March 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Standing up for science with UC Berkeley colleagues and students, today and every day! #Standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Had a great day yesterday visiting @oregonstate.edu’s campus for the first time! Thanks Steve and the Water Resources program for the seminar invitation!
January 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Why do Joshua Trees grow at angles that seem so unnatural for trees? 🤔 I feel like @kheyduk.bsky.social is the only person I know who could answer that question?
January 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Happy New Year 2025 from the land of crazy trees!
January 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Finally, lab alumni Tianjiao Pu presented some of her PhD work on tracking and characterizing fires in the Pantanal! Great presentations from everyone!
December 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Paul Seibert and Ashley Cao showed their results on fieldwork and modeling focused on plant water-carbon interactions.
December 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Anna Valcarcel, Katie Stephens, and Ann Scheliga presented on various aspects of my group’s GNSS-R work on #CYGNSS and #SPIRE data to map surface water.
December 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM
What an awesome time at #AGU24! It’s always amazing to catch up with old friends and colleagues, meet new people, and see my own students blossom in this stimulating environment!
December 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Still planning your schedule for #AGU24? Don't miss all the great presentations from my lab! Satellites 🛰️, plants 🌱, dew 💦, machine learning 💻, and of course lots and lots of water 🌊! See you all in DC!
December 7, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Spent the day at JPL today (first time ever visiting!) to talk about our SIF work and chat with a whole bunch of very exciting people I had never met in person! Thanks Anthony Bloom and the Carbon Club for the invitation!
December 6, 2024 at 1:32 AM
So much #Ecohydro fun at #AGU24 next week!

- Ecohydro social meetup MONDAY at 6PM at the Lobby BAR of the Marriott Marquis, ALL WELCOME! 🥳

- Lunch meetups Tuesday-Friday 🥣, sign up here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

- Two sponsored sessions! 🤓

ALL the INFO 👉 linktr.ee/agu_ecohydro
December 3, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Spent a fun day talking about our group’s work on #CYGNSS and chatting with faculty and students of the Stanford CEE department! Thanks @marslogander.bsky.social for the 📸!
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 AM
So excited for my student Anna Valcarcel who learned yesterday that she had been awarded a #GRFP from the #NSF ! 🥳 Can't wait to see her continue to grow as a scientist and @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social ! 🛰️🫧
April 5, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Hello from warm and sunny Honolulu where the AGU Chapman conference on remote sensing of water is currently happening !

Banyans are amazing ! 🤩
February 15, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Ended last week with our first Water & Carbon group social event! It was a truly heartwarming week of science and community 🥰 but I’m also grateful for the peace of quiet of this week to let my brain recuperate! 🤯
December 19, 2023 at 8:27 PM
3 presentations from our group at #AGU23 today to end the week with a bang! 💥Paul Seibert presenting on SIF imaging at Point Reyes, Ann Scheliga on reservoirs’ impact on GRACE and Tianjiao Pu on the synergies between wetland filling and fires in the Pantanal. So much science! 🥳
December 16, 2023 at 12:59 AM
#AGU23 Pro-tip: if you have time, walk to the Ferry Building for lunch: lots of yummy options, beautiful setting, and just far away enough from the Moscone Center that crowds aren’t crazy!
December 12, 2023 at 9:00 PM
Are you an ecohydrologist attending #AGU23? Find me, @jvwilkening.bsky.social, Sam Zipper, or Salli Dymond to get your very own #SelfidentifiedEcohydrologist ribbon!!
December 11, 2023 at 10:26 PM