We’re going 3D now, thanks @andreasbert.bsky.social @freshwaterau.bsky.social

Nerve-wracking (but fun!) training of installing shear probes and thermistors into our new microCTD with @tubabucak.bsky.social Now we’re ready for the field!

Let’s do this!

How can we build better predictive models? And what can AI tell us about complex ecosystem mechanisms?

I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on applying data-driven discovery methods on high-frequency lake data to begin September 2025. Application is due on May 4.

I’m excited to share that I received the Villum Young Investigator grant. Thank you! In this project, I’ll develop new ecosystem models to improve our projections of stochastic processes, ie, turbulent mixing and algae dynamics. The grant will fund a PhD, a postdoc, and high frequency monitoring.

Big trapped bubble

First lake* ice of the year with beautiful white and black ice layering

*more like a puddle

Wanna meet up in Europe’s most beautiful city to chat about lake-catchment dynamics? We’re excited to host this session to promote needed collaborations and talks between limnologists and hydrologists to advance water management.

A physical neural network

Too early to call it, but I think the bug that I’m chasing for nearly a year now, which has caused endless rewriting of code, was just a bracket in the wrong place …

Buoy is safe, winter can come!

Accidental modeling art:
"Particulate Carbon settling in the Lake"
2023

Okay, finally figured out how to code the modified Patankar Runge Kutta method

Hi BlueSky! My name is Robert and I’m a scientist who uses computational models to project how lakes and reservoirs will react to external stressors like climate change and urbanization. Love to chat about numerical modeling, deep learning and open source scientific software.