Communication

Communication

I write, edit, and sketch about my science to a variety of audiences. I particularly care about communicating an intuition for climate science and modeling without using a lot of maths.

Book on Klimamodellierung verstehen (Understanding Climate Modeling)

I co-wrote and illustrated a popular science text book on climate modeling, to be published in German by Springer Nature in Summer of 2026. The book is intended for a general audience, and covers the basics of climate modeling, how models work, and what they can and cannot do. Fingers crossed for an English edition in the future!

Editor-in-Chief — EGU Biogeosciences Blog

Since 2024, I am serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the European Geosciences Union’s Biogeosciences Division blog. I lead a team of four topical editors to maintain the blog as a space for and by the Biogeosciences community. If you’re interested in writing for the blog, please reach out to me at lucialayr@berkeley.edu.

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Public Writing

The existential modelling crisis – and how to overcome it A reflection of modeling as a scientific practice, and how approach it as a PhD Student. GeoLogs, 2025. https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/09/05/the-existential-modelling-crisis-and-how-to-overcome-it/

“Was unterm Strich zählt” (What counts in the end)
politische ökologie/ political ecology, issue 02/2020
A lifecycle analysis of plastic emissions — examining what the numbers actually mean for policy and production.