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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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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👇
Reposted by Lucia S. Layritz
Do you like forests and computer models? 🌳🧑‍💻
Within the Future Forests excellence cluster, we are hiring two modellers for 7 year (!) positions here in Freiburg.

A scientific coordinator role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

And and a scientific programmer role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Lucia S. Layritz
🌱 Meet the #EGU #Biogeosciences Division Team 2025/26!
From soil microbes to ocean carbon, our BG team brings together diverse voices from across the globe. Get to know the people behind the science: #ECS reps, division officers, policy leads & more
📖 Read more: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
Meet your BG team 2025/2026
The Biogeoscience division team has changed over the last year, and in this blog post, we are delighted to introduce our new team of representatives and describe their roles and research interests so ...
blogs.egu.eu
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Reposted by Lucia S. Layritz
Excellent work led by @ttkeller.bsky.social and important for stewarding forests w/ high-severity #fire regimes @esajournals.bsky.social @uwmadscience.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Train tracks around the world 🚂🛤️🛤️🛤️ I was really interested in this slice of this weeks' #TidyTuesday data, unfortunately there is not much happening 🥲

#trains #tracks #travelingbytrain #bytrain
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Late to the party for this week's #TidyTuesday 🦢🦢🦢

#cranes #dataviz #ecology #ggplot

(Code as always here: github.com/lucialayr/Ti...)
October 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I continue to find this Elsevier equity survey puzzling - by which logic is Greece in Western Europe?
September 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Reposted by Lucia S. Layritz
📣 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
September 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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...
September 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Reposted by Lucia S. Layritz
👏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
August 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Holiday readings
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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. ❄️🌲
August 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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
August 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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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) 🫠
August 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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👇
July 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Lucia S. Layritz
📣 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/...
July 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Revised the NYC metro stations art map after some feedback. Learned that less is often more #TidyTuesday #NYC #dataviz #maps
July 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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
July 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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New blog posts! Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social shares her personal #EGU25 highlights and newest developments in inland water GHG emissions. 💧🐟🌾

Let us know some of your personal highlights of this year's #EGU25!

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
My EGU25 highlights: Inspiring inland water greenhouse gas emission science
The notion that inland waters are passive participants in biogeochemical cycling, with lakes as recipients and rivers as pipes, has long been overturned. More and more research suggests the global imp...
blogs.egu.eu
July 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt
Programmer in Ecological Modelling
Full-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72
shorturl.at
July 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Late to this week's #TidyTuesday, took me a while to wrap my head around this datasets. I learned how to add #markdown rendering to #ggplot while taking a closer look at all the colors we call brown 🪺🐿️🍂🍁
July 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Used this week's #TidyTuesday dataset to have a go at polar coordinates in ggplot! 🌐🦠
June 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Seems fair to me, they really should work on reimbursing people faster! Got reimbursed last week for travel I took in July of 2024 🙃 And there where times during my PhD when my university owed me four-digits amounts in reimbursement which is a lot of money to not have a a grad student.
The fact that European institutions take months to issue reimbursements, coupled with Trump's actions causing the US dollar to fall against the euro (and other currencies), means that I'm getting back more than I spent. 🫠
June 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Desert plants and sunsets in the Mojave. (And also fieldwork) 🏜️

#mojave #california #ecology
May 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM