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Lucia S. Layritz

@lucialayr.bsky.social
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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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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Got to talk to Berkeley News about some of our recent work on wildfire recovery in Drylands 🏜️
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New paper out in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social on the future of post-disturbance recovery in boreal forests 👇 🌲🌲 We used the LPJ-GUESS vegetation model to understand how future warming might alter recovery trajectories and influence species composition. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Sketch of different recovery trajectories in the boreal forest, different in theor shares of needleaf and evergreen trees
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The website for AGU26 abstract submissions is not good.
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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New on the blog: @lucialayr.bsky.social visited the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area & Channel Islands National Park to assess how our #OpenSource data science tools can improve fire recovery in these arid ecosystems. 🌱 See Lucia's notes & pics➡️ dse.berkeley.edu/news/field-s...
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From the Field: Scaling Recovery Efforts for Southern California's Fire-Scarred Ecosystems | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
Postdoc Lucia Layritz recently traveled to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Channel Islands National Park with the National Park Service (NPS) to assess opportunities for scaling ou...
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This month, we have a really special contribution to the BG blog: soil science poems! 🤗🍂🪱
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
One of my personal highlight of current AI is no more direct interaction with matplotlib.
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Want to get some experience in science writing? Consider writing for the BG blog! @egubg.bsky.social blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...
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Writing for the BG blog
Thank you for your interest in writing for the Biogeoscience Blog! The BG blog is created for and by EGU’s biogeoscience community. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any ideas, feedback or ques...
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Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We're hiring a full-time research software engineer for biodiversity & bioacoustics! Position offers a strong research component with independence + research pub opportunities and real-world impact. expected salary range $111K - $116K. dse.berkeley.edu/news/were-hi...
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We’re Hiring! Help Build the Future of Biodiversity Research | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
We’re excited to announce a new, full-time position opening for a Research Software Engineer / Data Scientist, who will focus on biodiversity and bioacoustics research.
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
If you are into vegetation modeling and disturbance recovery, meet me at #AGU25 this week! ❄️ Oral on disturbance recovery in the boreal forest - Tue, 8:50 - 9:00 tinyurl.com/oralBoreal 🔥 Poster on new approaches in fire recovery modeling - Wed, 14:15 tinyurl.com/joshmodels @schmidtdse.bsky.social
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Assessing the Role of Post-Disturbance Recovery in 21st-Century Boreal Forest Vegetation and Carbon Dynamics Using a Dynamic Vegetation Model
Ecosystem disturbances, such as wildfires, windthrows, or biotic attacks, play ...
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Wrapping up the year at the BG blog with some holiday book recommendations 📚 🤗 Check it out!
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It's been a while since I tidied - here is 2023 population per country in a fun bubble chart 🌎🌍🌏 #TidyTuesday
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Are you studying vegetation dynamics 🍃, tree mortality 🪵, or other aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle? 🌍 Consider submitting to our #EGU26 session "Present & future global vegetation dynamics & carbon stocks from observations & models". We'd be delighted! ☺️ 👉 www.egu26.eu/session/57391
Flyer for EGU26 session:  Present and future global vegetation dynamics and carbon stocks from observations and models
Convener: Lucia Sophie LayritzECS | Co-conveners: Ana Bastos, Viola HeinrichECS, Thomas Pugh, Martin Thurner | Deadline January 15th 2026
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Ana Stritih @anastritih.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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...
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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🌱 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...
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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 ...
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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Excellent work led by @ttkeller.bsky.social and important for stewarding forests w/ high-severity #fire regimes @esajournals.bsky.social @uwmadscience.bsky.social
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Beautiful!
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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
Development of km of train tracks per area in different world regions. Mostly stagnant.
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Late to the party for this week's #TidyTuesday 🦢🦢🦢 #cranes #dataviz #ecology #ggplot (Code as always here: github.com/lucialayr/Ti...)
Polar plot of daily observations of cranes at a Lake, underlied with a pictogram of a crane such that the two peaks of observations in spring and fall align with the wings
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I continue to find this Elsevier equity survey puzzling - by which logic is Greece in Western Europe?
A survey listing Greece, Sweden and the UK as example countries for Western Europe and Poland, Russia, and Hungary as examples for Eastern Europe.
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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
📣 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
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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…
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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...
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The Crunch: The shrinking space to exist in Gaza; redrawing the world map; and are there any safe seats on a plane?
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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
Gridded data of number of observed frogs, forming an image of the coastline of australia
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Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
👏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
Maya holding resprouted plants while conducting fieldwork in Spain
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Holiday readings
Two books: Dune by Frank Herbert and Plant Ecology in the Middle East by Hegazy&lovett-doust
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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. ❄️🌲
Lineplot, looking like a mountain range, where peaks indicate the number of munros counted in that year
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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
Burnt Joshua Tree Juvenile with burnt and unburnt vegetation in the backgroundClose-up of a resprouting Joshua Tree
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2025
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) 🫠
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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👇
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Disentangling future effects of climate change and forest disturbance on vegetation composition and land surface properties of the boreal forest
Abstract. Forest disturbances can cause shifts in boreal vegetation cover from predominantly evergreen to deciduous trees or non-forest dominance. This, in turn, impacts land surface properties and, p...
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Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
📣 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/...
A flyer for our AGU sesion "IN029 - Open Source Geospatial Workflows in the Cloud: Tools and Techniques for Data Access, Analysis, Visualization, Storytelling, and Sharing in the Python and Jupyter Ecosystem". Includes a URL and QR code for our website (https://events.geojupyter.org/conferences/2025-agu/). Lists invited speakers (Dr. Fernando Pérez, co-founder of Project Jupyter, Dr. Tasha Snow, co-founder of CryoCloud, and Dr. Julia Lowndes, Openscapes Founding Director), conveners (Qiusheng Wu, Max Jones, Chelle Gentemann, Tyler Erickson, Wilson Sauthoff) and organizers (Matt Fisher).
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Revised the NYC metro stations art map after some feedback. Learned that less is often more #TidyTuesday #NYC #dataviz #maps
Map showing which NYC metro stations feature mosaics, other art or no art
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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
Map of NYC metro stations where color indicates material of artwork
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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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...
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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...
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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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
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Programmer in Ecological Modelling
Full-time, permanent, EG 10, Reference number: 2025/72
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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 🪺🐿️🍂🍁
Point cloud of colors we call brown, with redness on x axis and greenness on y axis. Data for normal vision remains close to diagonal, data for colorblind people is more broadly scattered
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Used this week's #TidyTuesday dataset to have a go at polar coordinates in ggplot! 🌐🦠
Infographic showing yearly increments in global measles cases
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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.
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Desert plants and sunsets in the Mojave. (And also fieldwork) 🏜️ #mojave #california #ecology
Cactus with a sunsetshrub- and grass land in the Mojave desertCreosote shrub and grass in the Mojave desertCactus with the town 29 Palms in the background
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Congrats, @sampottinger.com 🙌 🌽
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Reading up on one of my #EGU25 highlights, presented this morning by @sergio-vicente.bsky.social Not only a fascinating piece of climate science, but also a great international, collaborative effort. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High temporal variability not trend dominates Mediterranean precipitation - Nature
Our assessment of a 27-country weather station dataset in the Mediterranean region revealed long-term stability in precipitation over 150 years, along with substantial short-term variability on annual...
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A great tool to explore EGU abstracts! I definitely found some relevant ones I hadn't been aware of. #EGU25
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Sadly no in-person #EGU25 for me this year for obvious reasons. But, if you are interested in fire recovery, remote sensing or the Eastern Mediterranean, come to BG vPoster spot A on Wed, Apr. 30, 14:00-15:45 to chat or have a look at the poster here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Snow-covered peaks of Jabal al Makmel, Mount Lebanon, shot on Kodak Gold, 2018, by Lucia Layritz
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Sadly no in-person #EGU25 for me this year for obvious reasons. But, if you are interested in fire recovery, remote sensing or the Eastern Mediterranean, come to BG vPoster spot A on Wed, Apr. 30, 14:00-15:45 to chat or have a look at the poster here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Snow-covered peaks of Jabal al Makmel, Mount Lebanon, shot on Kodak Gold, 2018, by Lucia Layritz
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Our #EGU25 session on vegetation dynamics and the carbon cycle starts now in Room N1! Come and join 🍃
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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 25/04/2025
We are just 2 days away from #EGU25, and navigating a huge #conference like this still sounds intimidating 🫣? No worries- our General Assembly expert Jane Roussak has shared last-minute #protips to help you make the most of #EGU25 ✅! 🔗 Read more: egu.eu/5UUG5G
Image description: Entrance of the EGU General Assembly venue with attendees and a sign reading ‘Welcome to EGU25’. Text read: " How to make the most of EGU25' by Jane Roussak. Read now."
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Getting some #EGU25 fomo from seeing all the fun #train2egu content 🥲 If you are considering going by train next year, too, check out our blog post from earlier this year: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg... egubg.bsky.social
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Come work with me! The posting is still open for some days, please feel free to reach out if you have questions :)
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I am very happy that the topic of Mental health in Academia will be discussed to prominently this General Assembly. Check out our blog post and join the debate Monday, 16:15 - 18:00 in Room E1.
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Come work with us!
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We are hiring! We're looking to fill a PostDoc position on social-ecological systems. Are you excited about the spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled human and natural mountain systems? Then come join us, and work in a wonderful & diverse team + beautiful environment! www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
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