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.
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.
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!
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.