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Sophie Bodek
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PhD student in CEE @ Stanford; interested in geomorphology 🏞, sediments 🪨, and fluids 🌊; she/her; go birds 🦅🦅🦅
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I had an absolute blast at the NorCal/Northern Nevada Geomorphology Symposium this past weekend in Yosemite Valley! Who knew camping for conference lodging could be so fun! Many thanks to the organizers for making this happen in such a beautiful part of the world
Scientific poster session in an open room – people are standing and talking in front of various posters around the room perimeter. Projector screen at the far end of the room reads "Geomorphology Symposium". Group of people are gathered along the sandy bank of the Merced River. Two volunteers are holding up a poster while the presenter speaks to the rest of the group. Behind the poster and presenter is Yosemite Falls.
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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More cakes! This time for Dr. Hochschild on "Convergence of full-scale measurements and large-eddy simulations to advance the prediction of high-rise building wind loads". The cake is made to look like the wind pressure sensors he mounted on buildings, like the Space Needle!
Cake decorated to look like an orange wind pressure sensor mounted on a gray building. Wind pressure sensor mounted on the Space Needle in Seattle. The pressure sensor is mounted on a gray roof with a view of the sun low in the sky across Puget Sound.
May 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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This cake is for Dr. Ciarlatani, who presented on "An LES-based multi-fidelity framework for wind loading predictions." The cake is meant to look like a building, where the red and blue cotton candy represent vortices created by wind passing over the structure.
Cake with frosting in a yellow and orange color gradient. The cake is decorated with red and blue cotton candy meant to look like vortices created by wind passing over a building.
May 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Next is a cake based on the Y2E2 building at Stanford for Dr. Vargiemezis, who placed a Y2E2 model in a wind tunnel for his research on "Modeling Wind Loading on Low-Rise Buildings in Urban Environments: Leveraging Large-Eddy Simulations and Deep Neural Networks To Quantify Interference Effects"
Cake decorated to look like the Y2E2 building on Stanford University's campus. The cake and building are L-shaped with arches along the first floor and balconies on the second and third floors. The cake sits on a baking sheet in a kitchen. Picture or rendering of the Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy (Y2E2) building on the campus of Stanford University.
May 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Here is a coral reef cake for Dr. Hamilton who presented on "The impact of turbulence and waves on mixing in coral reefs." The corals were made by drizzling melted sugar into a bowl of ice!
Cake decorated to look like a coral reef. The frosting is blue and the corals are made out of melted sugar. There are Swedish Fish candies swimming through the sugar corals.
May 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Starting a thread for the backlog of defense cakes I have photos of... here is a wind turbine and wind rose cake for Dr. LoCasio who presented on "Analytical wind farm flow modeling for power production estimation and optimization"
Cake decorated to look like a wind farm. The wind turbines are made from a pretzel stick with Bugle snacks arranged to look like turbine blades.
May 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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This time I'm proud of the ocean mixing cake I baked and decorated for Dr. Hilditch's defense on "The behavior of near-inertial waves in submesoscale flows". The frosting and marbled layers are meant to show mixing at an ocean front!
Top-down view of a circular cake with a gradient of purple to blue frosting, and writing in blue icing. View of the interior of a cake showing layers with blue and dark red marbling.
May 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Photoshopped image of Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania with the Eye of Sauron mounted atop.
February 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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One of my favorite EFML traditions is the well-decorated PhD defense cakes. This time around we celebrated Dr. Boles with a coral reef cake - complete with spur and groove formations!
Chocolate cake decorated to look like a coral reef. The top of the cake has ridges with candy pieces to resemble corals, and depressions with graham cracker crumb to resemble sand. Blue icing and fruit roll-ups are meant to resemble waves.
November 21, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline
Photo of a sand beach with a large rock in the foreground. The rock is covered with tide pool fauna, including green anemone, starfish, and mussels. In the background are other large rocks and breaking waves.
November 17, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Proof of my wildlife viewing capabilities:
February 16, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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New platform, new me:

I'm a 2nd-year PhD student in the EFML at Stanford CEE working on flume experiments to investigate the effect of stress history on erodible beds. I'm broadly interested in geomorphology, sediment transport, and fluid mechanics! I enjoy hiking and watching wildlife around CA.
February 16, 2024 at 11:46 PM