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Sophie Bodek

@streamofsophie.bsky.social

PhD student in CEE @ Stanford; interested in geomorphology 🏞, sediments 🪨, and fluids 🌊; she/her; go birds 🦅🦅🦅

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Sophie Bodek@streamofsophie.bsky.social · 4d ago

Excited to share two preprints for companion papers that examine the statistics of bedload motion! We used high-resolution imagery to capture grain tracks from flume experiments across a range of fluid shear stresses. We also subject the sand bed to "stress history" to see how grain motion changes.

Three-panel figure from a scientific paper. The top panel (a) shows example sediment trajectories from a particle-tracking analysis overlaid onto an image of the underlying sediment bed; note the appearance of fluorescing sand grains illuminated by the ultraviolet light. These trajectories represent transport conditions over a subset of the sediment bed that is 1.2 times the threshold for grain motion. The middle panel (b) shows the same sediment trajectories as depicted in panel (a) with markers indicating periods of motion (blue) and rest (red); one of the trajectories is highlighted in yellow. This highlighted track is further examined in panel (c), which shows a timeseries of streamwise position (black line) and velocity (red/blue markers) for the example trajectory illustrating segments of motion and rest.
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics@kitp-ucsb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Watch recorded talks from this week at #KITP's Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics conference buff.ly/UjqsoZ8 Stay tuned for the associated program, Soft Earth Geophysics (#softearth26), continuing next week!

KITP Conference | Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics (#softearth-c26)

We live on a soft matter landscape. Earth materials such as soil, mud, ice and rocks exist in a fuzzy state between solid and fluid, depending on the timesca...

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Sophie Bodek@streamofsophie.bsky.social · 7mo ago

First chapter of the PhD has officially been published in @jgrearthsurface.bsky.social! We subject a sand bed to directional flows, then examine grain velocity and activity statistics to show that stress history is stored anisotropically in sediment beds. Check it out: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Anisotropic Stress History Effects in Erodible Sediment Beds

We use particle tracks from laboratory experiments to study grain velocities and activity subject to fluid flows from different directions Our sand bed strengthens under unidirectional flows, but...

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Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis! Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

‘Every Single Dollar Mattered’: Donations Save Museum of the Earth From Foreclosure

Just days before a year-end foreclosure deadline, the Museum of the Earth has paid off its mortgage following a wide fundraising campaign that rescued the Ithaca area landmark.

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Sophie Bodek@streamofsophie.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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.
Sophie Bodek@streamofsophie.bsky.social · last yr.

I finally got around to learning about version control and using Git and Github. I've been putting it off, but it's secretly Totally Fine and actually better than having 5+ scripts named things like plottracks, plottracks_old, and plottracks_party, then forgetting why you named your code "party"

Zoltán Sylvester@zzsylvester.bsky.social · last yr.

What if you laid out all the meanders of a river along a straight line, so that you can break the river into straight-ish segments and fill arbitrary spaces? This is the Purus River in Brazil; you can see how it is getting wider and the meanders are getting larger in the downstream direction

The meandering planform of the Purus River (a tributary if the Amazon), shown as white wiggles on a black background. The width of the river and the size of the meanders are increasing downstream (top to bottom, left to right).
Sophie Bodek@streamofsophie.bsky.social · last yr.

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.
Sophie Bodek@streamofsophie.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

Sophie Bodek@streamofsophie.bsky.social · last yr.

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.
Sophie Bodek@streamofsophie.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.
Dr. Brendan Anderson@fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · last yr.

For #fossilfriday please share this updated article about efforts to save PRI.🦑🧪⚒️ In addition to an anonymous $1 million donation PRI has raised approximately $1.1 million towards the remaining mortgage and needs another $2.2 by year end to be free of the liability ithacavoice.org/2025/04/dona...

Donation spike gives Museum of the Earth new life but future remains uncertain - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — Following a surge of donations sparked by The Ithaca Voice’s reporting, the Museum of the Earth — one of the last natural history museums in upstate New […]

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D.@estebanjq.bsky.social · last yr.

The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️ Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m... Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Screenshot of Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map
Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D.@estebanjq.bsky.social · last yr.

Here are updated forms for Federal Cuts Tracker Map project, live later this week 🙏🏼 Help share and crowdsource!!! www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · last yr.

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.