Eric Romero
@erthromero.bsky.social
PhD Student at ESPM UCB -- researching wetland carbon cycle dynamics with remote sensing
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Starting Wednesday 200 weather and climate experts will conduct a 100 hour marathon on Weather and Climate
wclivestream.com
Youtube page will be
www.youtube.com/@wclivestream
I plan to talk on Breathing of the Biosphere, next Saturday at 3 pm Pacific time.
wclivestream.com
Youtube page will be
www.youtube.com/@wclivestream
I plan to talk on Breathing of the Biosphere, next Saturday at 3 pm Pacific time.
The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
wclivestream.com
May 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Starting Wednesday 200 weather and climate experts will conduct a 100 hour marathon on Weather and Climate
wclivestream.com
Youtube page will be
www.youtube.com/@wclivestream
I plan to talk on Breathing of the Biosphere, next Saturday at 3 pm Pacific time.
wclivestream.com
Youtube page will be
www.youtube.com/@wclivestream
I plan to talk on Breathing of the Biosphere, next Saturday at 3 pm Pacific time.
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Researchers at @scrippsocean.bsky.social and @gpsucsd.bsky.social are comparing methods of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, discovering that genetically enhanced crops could be the best way to meet CO2 removal at the scale it needs. ➡️ bit.ly/4d3u48f
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Researchers at @scrippsocean.bsky.social and @gpsucsd.bsky.social are comparing methods of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, discovering that genetically enhanced crops could be the best way to meet CO2 removal at the scale it needs. ➡️ bit.ly/4d3u48f
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Sonoma County gets it!! We need a healthy, science-driven NOAA!!
Canoes shaped into letters to spell out NOAA❤️ on a Russian River beach in Healdsburg CA #cawx #sonoma @christinatoms.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Sonoma County gets it!! We need a healthy, science-driven NOAA!!
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Shocking to learn
'more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% of respondents are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to such information'
'more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% of respondents are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to such information'
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
www.npr.org
May 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Shocking to learn
'more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% of respondents are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to such information'
'more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% of respondents are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to such information'
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Today I start as a Co-Editor-in-Chief in Landscape and Urban Planning - one of favorite journals with a broad interdisciplinary scope. Look forward to working with the editorial team to help promote landscape research and innovation. (this is not an April 1 joke 😄).
April 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Today I start as a Co-Editor-in-Chief in Landscape and Urban Planning - one of favorite journals with a broad interdisciplinary scope. Look forward to working with the editorial team to help promote landscape research and innovation. (this is not an April 1 joke 😄).
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Beautiful essay on why remaining silent won’t protect us - academia as a whole should rise up!
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
www.thecrimson.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Beautiful essay on why remaining silent won’t protect us - academia as a whole should rise up!
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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This story by @arminda.bsky.social was my quiet source of joy this week. Ridiculous cooking method? ✔️ A whole heap of eggs cooked in the name of science? ✔️ Plot twist at the end? ✔️ 🧪
This Method of Cooking a Perfect Egg Sounds Absurd, But Scientists Swear Its Worth It
Materials scientists have found a way to perfectly cook an egg white and egg yolk simultaneously
www.scientificamerican.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This story by @arminda.bsky.social was my quiet source of joy this week. Ridiculous cooking method? ✔️ A whole heap of eggs cooked in the name of science? ✔️ Plot twist at the end? ✔️ 🧪
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This and all the other fascist action to remove facts is not right. Plus this is data we paid for as tax payers. They think out of sight out of mind. Now spread the high and low the unAmerican things it and his maga crowd are doing that is also illegal and unconstitutional
Me in AgriPulse on USDA removing their climate-smart conservation web page: "Taking down the page makes it really hard for farmers to even know what to do on their farms for mitigation." evrimagaci.org/tpg/usda-scr...
USDA Scrubs Climate Change Content From Websites
USDA Removes Climate Change References From Public WebsitesUrgent directive to web managers sparks concerns about climate-smart agriculture initiatives.On January…
evrimagaci.org
February 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This and all the other fascist action to remove facts is not right. Plus this is data we paid for as tax payers. They think out of sight out of mind. Now spread the high and low the unAmerican things it and his maga crowd are doing that is also illegal and unconstitutional
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If you use any USDA climate or carbon data or reports - download them NOW. The are being removed from the web.
January 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
If you use any USDA climate or carbon data or reports - download them NOW. The are being removed from the web.
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This and all the other crap tRump & maga are doing harkens back to the book burning of Savonarola and bon fires of the vanities. If history is a guide it did not end well for Mr S
Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This and all the other crap tRump & maga are doing harkens back to the book burning of Savonarola and bon fires of the vanities. If history is a guide it did not end well for Mr S
Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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While We too are converting drained peatlands back to wetlands, a very effective and long term C sink, I find it Interesting that in Germany they are harvesting tules and using them for building products
Globally, drained peatlands unleash more heat-trapping gas than the aviation industry.
Germany is pushing to restore peatlands drained for farming, and to harvest their reeds and sedges for use in insulation and packaging.
Germany is pushing to restore peatlands drained for farming, and to harvest their reeds and sedges for use in insulation and packaging.
Turning Farmland Back to Peatland: Can It Slow CO2 Emissions?
Farmers have long drained peatlands for agriculture, but the dried-out soils release vast quantities of CO2. To halt this process, new initiatives in Germany are not only rewetting peatlands but also ...
e360.yale.edu
January 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
While We too are converting drained peatlands back to wetlands, a very effective and long term C sink, I find it Interesting that in Germany they are harvesting tules and using them for building products
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If you're interested in river drying and cross-ecosystem linkages, check out our new Ecology paper led by undergraduate extraordinaire Amin al-Jamal! -> Aquatic top predator prefers terrestrial prey in an intermittent stream esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If you're interested in river drying and cross-ecosystem linkages, check out our new Ecology paper led by undergraduate extraordinaire Amin al-Jamal! -> Aquatic top predator prefers terrestrial prey in an intermittent stream esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Mudflats are such critical wetland habitats, yet, in tidal systems their ephemeral emergence may be not too obvious to human eyes. It's fun to discover them in less expected places like channels that seem to look deep at high tides. (The birds, of course, know their mudflats).
January 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Mudflats are such critical wetland habitats, yet, in tidal systems their ephemeral emergence may be not too obvious to human eyes. It's fun to discover them in less expected places like channels that seem to look deep at high tides. (The birds, of course, know their mudflats).
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Happy to get this week’s post out. Don’t forget non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems!
Non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems need to be conserved and restored for biodiversity and climate benefits.
Check it out (and subscribe). I’d love to get your thoughts.
predirections.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
Non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems need to be conserved and restored for biodiversity and climate benefits.
Check it out (and subscribe). I’d love to get your thoughts.
predirections.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
Don't forget non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems!
Non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems need to be conserved and restored for biodiversity and climate benefits
predirections.substack.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Happy to get this week’s post out. Don’t forget non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems!
Non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems need to be conserved and restored for biodiversity and climate benefits.
Check it out (and subscribe). I’d love to get your thoughts.
predirections.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
Non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems need to be conserved and restored for biodiversity and climate benefits.
Check it out (and subscribe). I’d love to get your thoughts.
predirections.substack.com/p/dont-forge...
When you’ve been running a job on a computer cluster for 72 hours and it unexpectedly dies at 97% completion 🙃
January 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
When you’ve been running a job on a computer cluster for 72 hours and it unexpectedly dies at 97% completion 🙃
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What a good way to ring in the new year! Our new paper is (finally) out in Ecology Letters!
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
We looked at climate driven phenological patterns across food webs in the San Francisco, Chesapeake, and Massachusetts Bay estuaries.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
We looked at climate driven phenological patterns across food webs in the San Francisco, Chesapeake, and Massachusetts Bay estuaries.
Long‐term data reveal widespread phenological change across major US estuarine food webs
Climate change is shifting the timing of organismal life-history events. Although consequential food-web mismatches can emerge if predators and prey shift at different rates, research on phenological...
doi.org
December 31, 2024 at 6:16 PM
What a good way to ring in the new year! Our new paper is (finally) out in Ecology Letters!
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
We looked at climate driven phenological patterns across food webs in the San Francisco, Chesapeake, and Massachusetts Bay estuaries.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
We looked at climate driven phenological patterns across food webs in the San Francisco, Chesapeake, and Massachusetts Bay estuaries.
A great AGU so far. Thanks to everyone for coming by the poster to chat about carbon and wetlands with me and @irynad.bsky.social !
December 10, 2024 at 11:32 PM
A great AGU so far. Thanks to everyone for coming by the poster to chat about carbon and wetlands with me and @irynad.bsky.social !
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If you are up at #AGU2024 this Monday morning, check out our presentations: @erthromero.bsky.social's morning session poster B11L-1478 on remote sensing and wetland carbon fluxes and my lightning talk GC12H-01 on urban greening and social vulnerability at 10:20am, Screen 0001‚ eLightning Theater 4.
December 9, 2024 at 12:18 PM
If you are up at #AGU2024 this Monday morning, check out our presentations: @erthromero.bsky.social's morning session poster B11L-1478 on remote sensing and wetland carbon fluxes and my lightning talk GC12H-01 on urban greening and social vulnerability at 10:20am, Screen 0001‚ eLightning Theater 4.
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5 years ago I visited Antarctica with #teamHB4. The stunning beauty of this place reminded yet again of the fragility of our global ecosystems and special gifts they keep bringing us even in the face of peril. But there was also a deep sense of hope, of which we must not let go.
November 27, 2024 at 2:47 AM
5 years ago I visited Antarctica with #teamHB4. The stunning beauty of this place reminded yet again of the fragility of our global ecosystems and special gifts they keep bringing us even in the face of peril. But there was also a deep sense of hope, of which we must not let go.
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Great turnout at our 2nd UC Berkeley GIF Geolunch on a very rainy day! This time we had lightning talks from 7 faculty groups in 4 departments on mountain snow, California water, public health, air pollution, plant spectral ecology, vulnerable wetlands, and more. Thanks to all speakers and guests.
November 22, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Great turnout at our 2nd UC Berkeley GIF Geolunch on a very rainy day! This time we had lightning talks from 7 faculty groups in 4 departments on mountain snow, California water, public health, air pollution, plant spectral ecology, vulnerable wetlands, and more. Thanks to all speakers and guests.
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Our free in-person workshops on open-access geospatial tools for @UCBerkeley students, faculty, postdocs and staff are back at Geospatial Innovation Facility - starting tomorrow Nov 1, more to come in later weeks & next semester, register here:
gif.berkeley.edu/support/work...
gif.berkeley.edu/support/work...
GIF - Workshops
gif.berkeley.edu
October 31, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Our free in-person workshops on open-access geospatial tools for @UCBerkeley students, faculty, postdocs and staff are back at Geospatial Innovation Facility - starting tomorrow Nov 1, more to come in later weeks & next semester, register here:
gif.berkeley.edu/support/work...
gif.berkeley.edu/support/work...
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Congratulations to our ESPM PhD student Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social on the 2024 NASA FINESST fellowship! Eric's exciting project is applying remote sensing to better understand wetland potential for nature-based carbon-subsidence solutions. ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/10...
Eric Romero awarded NASA Future Investigators graduate fellowship
The ESPM PhD student received a fellowship from NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology for his research on wetland resilience.
ourenvironment.berkeley.edu
October 23, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Congratulations to our ESPM PhD student Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social on the 2024 NASA FINESST fellowship! Eric's exciting project is applying remote sensing to better understand wetland potential for nature-based carbon-subsidence solutions. ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/10...
Late, but some great photos from family trip to CO this summer. Climbed our first 14-er and came across what might have been (?) a sub-alpine fen.
September 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Late, but some great photos from family trip to CO this summer. Climbed our first 14-er and came across what might have been (?) a sub-alpine fen.
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Even small wetlands are very important for biodiversity and hydrology of rangelands in our dry-summer climate. End of summer makes this especially evident!
September 4, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Even small wetlands are very important for biodiversity and hydrology of rangelands in our dry-summer climate. End of summer makes this especially evident!
A hilarious sticker made by my talented lab-mate #Wetlands #MakeLandWetAgain
August 20, 2024 at 3:38 AM
A hilarious sticker made by my talented lab-mate #Wetlands #MakeLandWetAgain