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Thanks for visiting my Personal Website. I’m a writer and some other things from Colorado, now in NYC, where I report on all things environmental for New Scientist. Keep on scrollin’ to check out stuff I’ve made.

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NEWEST ONE:

How Weather Forecasts Can Help Dams Supply More Water in Yale Environment 360

LONG ONES:

How the ‘Diamond of the Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve in Quanta

The Ancient Potato of the Future in The Counter

The Brainiest Squid in the Sea in National Geographic (also read en Español)

Investigation: Below Aging Dams, a Toxic Threat in Undark Magazine

In Search of the Coywolf in The Boston Globe

The Wild Frontier of Model Organism Research in Undark Magazine

Can Cloud Seeding Help Quench the West? in Yale Environment 360

How do you like them apple genes? in The Counter

Can Synthetic Palm Oil Help Save the World’s Tropical Forests? in Yale Environment 360

The Gibbon’s Tail in bioGraphic

Can Retrofitting Dams for Hydro Provide a Renewable Energy Boost? in Yale Environment 360

New vaccine formulations could help beat the heat in Science Magazine

The Shift Back in Undark Magazine

Mohawk Language Revival in the North Country in In These Times: Rural America

Sounding the Deep for KCRW’s Here Be Monsters

The Great Disperser in Martha’s Vineyard Magazine

Something in the Water in Martha’s Vineyard Magazine

A Scramble to Define ‘Habitat’ in The Undark Podcast

How AI Accidentally Learned Ecology by Playing StarCraft in Discover Magazine

The Future of Fridges in The Undark Podcast

Toxic Coast in Silica Magazine/Engadget

An Unvarnished Woman in Martha’s Vineyard Magazine

This Is What Accessibility Sounds Like in Brooklyn Rail

Reginald Fessenden and the Invention of Sonar in the Science History Institute’s Distillations

WARNING! UNPUBLISHED UNDERGRADUATE THESIS – A History of Monsters: What does the Anthropocene mean for history? (And vice versa)

OTHER ONES:

Don’t Kill the Miller Moths in The Last Word on Nothing

Hungry Hominins in Scientific American

Why the Department of Energy is Spending Millions to Get Rid of Scientific Data in Slate: Future Tense

Book Review: Edgar Allan Poe––America’s first science writer in Undark Magazine

This century-old technology could be the key to unlocking America’s renewable energy future in Popular Science

Placentas May Help Fish Outswim Predators in Hakai Magazine

COVID-19 disrupts a major year for biodiversity policy and planning in Mongabay (also read en Español or auf Deutsch)

COVID-19 Can’t Stop Citizen Science in Undark Magazine

The Bots Helping Cope with COVID-19 in OneZero

Bringing Back Sea Otters Benefits People, Too in Smithsonian

Insights from an enormous aspen clone: Q&A with ecologist Paul Rogers in Mongabay

Offset Carbon, Not Responsibility in OneZero

Glacial Erratics in Prospect Park in BRIC’s Brooklyn, USA

A Quarter of All Reptile Species, Many of Them Endangered, Are Sold Online in Smithsonian

How People with Diabetes in Developing Countries Cool Their Insulin in Elemental

Why Is Insulin So Expensive? in Elemental

Canada working towards new future for Indigenous-led conservation in Mongabay

L’offre Et La Demande: The Christmas Tree Economy in BRIC’s Brooklyn, USA

Wildlife Cameras Are Accidentally Capturing Humans Behaving Badly in OneZero

In With The Old in Bello Collective

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