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Eric Romero

@erthromero.bsky.social
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PhD Student at ESPM UCB -- researching wetland carbon cycle dynamics with remote sensing

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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.
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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.
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UC San Diego @ucsandiego.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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
Two people conducting plant researchResearcher arranges harvested root system for data collection. Photo: Salk Institute
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Sonoma County gets it!! We need a healthy, science-driven NOAA!!
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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'
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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 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
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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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Zander @zforest.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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...
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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
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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).
Tidal mudflat emerging next to a rocky shoreline as the water recedes in San Francisco Bay, California, USA.
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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...
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Don't forget non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems!
Non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems need to be conserved and restored for biodiversity and climate benefits
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Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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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Robert Fournier @robfour.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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.
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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...
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Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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.
Gentoo penguinsAntarctic ice floatingAntarctic shag coupleAntarctica sunset with a leopard seal
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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.
Speakers at today's Geolunch lightning talks
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
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...
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GIF - Workshops
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
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...
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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.
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Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
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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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Even small wetlands are very important for biodiversity and hydrology of rangelands in our dry-summer climate. End of summer makes this especially evident!
Small wetland located in the rangeland area with senescent vegetation
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Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
A hilarious sticker made by my talented lab-mate #Wetlands #MakeLandWetAgain
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/07/2024
Tree bark removes methane from the atmosphere, making trees 10% even more better for climate than we previously thought! New study: phys.org/news/2024-07...
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Trees reveal climate surprise: Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere
Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere, according to a study published 24 July in Nature.
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Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
In non-science related news, here are some photos I captured of gorgeous coastal Oregon earlier this summer
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Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
Excited to announce I was officially selected for this years NASA FINESST student fellowship! Big thanks to @irynad.bsky.social, @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social, @biometlab.bsky.social, and so many others for helping me develop my ideas for wetland science.
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Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
Going to try and be more active on here, posting about science updates and personal photography!
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
might got to Governors Island this weekend to see the seaweed nursery, etc. ... desperately seeking optimism
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Seaweed Farming and Wetlands in a Box: How Governors Island Has Become a Climate Lab
Entrepreneurs are testing ideas and products that aim to advance solutions to the climate crisis, which you can see in action this weekend.
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Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
The UC Berkeley Botanical Garden just published an article on our group's work looking at #SIF of a taro plant, check it out! botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/research-con...
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Innovative technology and the UC Botanical Garden Collections – UC Botanical Garden
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
It's still cold in our woodlands but the spring is here
A tree in spring blossomForest herbs in the groundcoverA moss-covered treeCalifornia wild Red flowering currant
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
Our new commentary on the impacts of destruction of urban forests in Ukraine and considerations for reconstruction - huge thanks to collaborators Dr. Igor Lacan and our Professor Emeritus Joe McBride. this link is open-access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ijS65m5d8...
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
Two years of the senseless, unprovoked russia's war in Ukraine. So much loss and pain. In my heart Ukraine remains like this: full of rich beauty and love. And we are beyond grateful to everyone who has been a true friend at this most difficult time. Ukraine fights for more than its own future.
Dnipro RiverChornobryvtsi - popular garden flowers in UkraineHeart-shaped balloon over a gardenA historical castle in Ukrainian city Kamenets-Podilsky
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Anthony Stewart @ajstewart04.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
Excited to have our paper, "Revealing the hidden carbon in forested wetland soils" just recently published in Nature Communications! t.co/MDILHNNWc2 We found a vast amount of soil carbon is stored in unmapped forested wetlands, which we call "cryptic carbon".
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Revealing the hidden carbon in forested wetland soils - Nature Communications
A large proportion of wetland extent is not mapped in currently available national datasets. Incorporating newly revealed wetlands into soil carbon mapping methods increases estimates of wetland soil ...
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Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
#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!
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
It was wonderful to share some of our wetland research at the Cal State Monterrey Bay with @erthromero.bsky.social So exciting to discuss the potential of remote sensing to collaborate with wetland field studies (which remain absolutely crucial with the growth of spatial tools).
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Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Great presenting yesterday with @irynad.bsky.social at Cal State Monterrey Bay. It was great to see and hear from so many people who are excited about ecological remote sensing :)
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
California fuchsia is one of the late-blooming native species I planted this year, brightens up the end of the season with lovely color. So happy to see that the hummingbirds visit them often!
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Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Just arriving to BlueSky for science comm. Thanks to @irynad.bsky.social for the invite! Looking forward to the new platform for #Science 😄
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
russia's war remains a tragic everyday for Ukrainians everywhere. Those of us far away wake up to the news that someone's loved ones, friends, children, who never wanted this war, have been taken yet again, could be ours any time. All while the climate change clock is ticking louder and louder.
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Iryna Dronova @irynad.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Some landscapes have the signature of prevailing wind so imprinted on them that we can guess its main direction even on a calm day.
Wind-shaped vegetation on a calm day at the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, California.
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