Selected Works

“On Kaho’olawe, new technology could restore a sacred Hawaiian island,” Mongabay

After decades of ecological destruction, a new project uses camera traps and drones to address a lingering threat to this sacred place: invasive cats.

“To Speak of the Sea in Irish,” Hakai Magazine

As Ireland’s fishing industry dwindled, Irish speakers stopped using its distinct coastal vocabulary. But a new project aims to safeguard these words and the unique perspectives they provide.

“New York’s Bustling Underwater City,” The New York Times Kids (Print)

Improving water quality is leading to a resurgence of life in the watery world that surrounds the Big Apple. (Infographic available in print only.)

“Orcas Found to Kill Blue Whales, the Largest Animals on Earth” National Geographic

The attacks, filmed off Western Australia, may actually signal good news about the recovery of both species.

ALL Work

2024

• There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea? Actually, There Are Thousands (Hakai)

• Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets’ and other invasive insects (Mongabay)

• Breadfruit’s low carbon storage could be offset by fast growth, study finds (Mongabay)

• On Kaho’olawe, new technology could restore a sacred Hawaiian island (Mongabay)

2023

• At Sharkathon, Shark Fishers Are a Keen Audience for Conservation Advice (Hakai)

• New Platform Offers Toolkit for Companies to Prove Their Eco Claims (Mongabay)

• AI Is Writing Books About Foraging. What Could Go Wrong? (Civil Eats)

• What Will Justice for Climate Change Culprits Look Like? (Nautilus)

• Breadfruit: A Starchy, Delicious Climate and Biodiversity Solution (Mongabay)

• When a Lab-Grown Burger Costs $100, How Can It Possibly Compete With McDonald’s? (Eater)

2022

• Clicking With Your Kin (Nautilus)

• To Stop Illegal Fishing, Send a Seabird (Nautilus)

• How One Food Stylist Creates Otherworldly Dishes for Your Favorite Sci-Fi Show (Eater)

• Scientists Have Built a Real-Time Sperm Whale Collision Detection System (Hakai)

  • Reprinted by Smithsonian Magazine and Popular Science

• ‘The return of land to Indigenous people is key’: Q&A with Shinnecock Kelp Farm’s Tela Troge (Mongabay)

  • Related video: Meet Tela Troje, from the first Indigenous-owned kelp farm on the United States’ East Coast

• How “Wilderness” Was Invented Without Indigenous People (SAPIENS Magazine)

• Orcas Found to Kill Blue Whales, the Largest Animals on Earth, for the First Time (National Geographic)

• Satellites Spot Stranded Whales from Space (Hakai Magazine)

  • Reprinted by The Atlantic

• By Cultivating Seaweed, Indigenous Communities Restore Connection to the Ocean (Mongabay)

2021

• Raising Baby Sharks from the Dead (Hakai Magazine)

  • Reprinted by Smithsonian Magazine & The Atlantic

• Manatee Deaths in Florida Point to a Global Decline in Seagrass Ecosystems (Mongabay)

• Going Deep With Hadal Zone Expert Alan Jamieson (Nautilus Oceans)

• New Ecolabel Will Certify ‘Whale-Safe’ Shipping Companies and Cruise Lines (Mongabay)

• Covid Is Forcing America to Fix Its Water Supply (WIRED)

• In Indonesia, An Illegal Leopard Trade Thrives Out of Sight, New Study Shows (Mongabay)

• To Speak of the Sea in Irish (Hakai Magazine)

• Fake It ‘Til You Save It? Synthetic Animal Parts Pose A Conservation Conundrum (Mongabay)

• Canadian First Nation Deploys ROV in Push for Stronger Marine Protection (Mongabay)

• An Eye In the Sky on Deforestation: Q&A with Jean Jardeleza and Kim Carlson (Mongabay)

• We Didn’t Evolve for This (Nautilus)

2020

• The Ocean’s Largest Shark Has A Little Something to Say (Atlas Obscura)

• The Long-Term Effects of Covid-19 on Field Science (Undark Magazine)

  • Reprinted by: Slate, Eos, and Atlas Obscura

• Killer Whales’ Cultural Bottleneck (Hakai Magazine)

• North Atlantic Right Whales Now Officially 'One Step From Extinction' (The Guardian)

• For the Amazon’s Rarest Wild Dog, Deforestation Is A Very Real Threat (Mongabay)

• Spying on Fear In the Wild: Q&A with Ecologist Meredith Palmer (Mongabay)

• Fishing for Change: Local Management of Amazon’s Largest Fish Also Empowers Women (Mongabay)

• New Artificial Intelligence Could Save Both Elephant and Human Lives (Mongabay)

• New Tool Alerts Ships When Whales Are Near. But Will They Slow Down? (Mongabay)

• With the Help of An App, Nunavut Hunters Document the Changing Arctic (Mongabay)

• The Social Network of Coral Reef Fish: Q&A with Ecologist Mike Gil (Mongabay)

• The Turtle Egg that Pinged Back: Tracing a Poaching Pathway in Costa Rica (Mongabay)

• Where to Patrol Next: ‘Netflix’ of Ranger AI Serves Up Poaching Predictions (Mongabay)

• Lessons for the Return of Great White Sharks (Nautilus Oceans)

2018

• 'Restoration Of West Falmouth Harbor' Event Leaves Residents With Hope, Challenges (Falmouth Enterprise)

• Atlantic Circulation Weakening: No, We’re Not All Gonna Die (Futurism)

• Have Companies Really Done Enough to Bring An End To Deforestation? (Futurism)

• Tracking Unexploded Munitions (Oceanus Magazine)

• Cape Town Is Running Out of Water. Can We Prevent A Global Crisis? (Futurism)

• We Should Make Technology Less Addicting. Will Developers Ever Want to? (Futurism)

• Our Climate Is Changing Rapidly. It’s Time to Talk About Geoengineering. (Futurism)

• Does Life In 2018 Live up to What We Predicted a Century Ago? (Futurism)

• Advanced Reproductive Technology is Here. But Who Decides Who Gets Access? (Futurism)

2017

• These May Be the Deepest Traces of Life on Earth (National Geographic)

• CDC Director: There are no banned words at the CDC. Period. (Futurism)

• Net Neutrality a Concern? Companies Are Already Denying You Access to Content (Futurism)

• Our Future Pets May be Plastic and Metal Instead of Flesh and Blood (Futurism)

• Smart Cities and the Future of Privacy (Futurism)

• For Sharks, Even Catch and Release Can Kill (Hakai Magazine)

• How Superstitions and Myths Affect Animal Conservation (Atlas Obscura)

• How Animals Develop Regional Accents (Atlas Obscura)

• Cuttlefish Masquerade as Objects by Morphing their 3D Skin (MBL The Well)

• Death By Killer Algae (Hakai Magazine)

• How Much Should Expectation Drive Science? (Nautilus)

• Robotic and Cyber Systems Help Elderly Retain Health, Independence (AAAS News)

• Photosynthesis Redux (Lateral Magazine)

2016

• Why Scientists Sank a Telescope Into the Deepest Parts of the Ocean (Atlas Obscura)

• Different Strokes: How Lampreys Use Suction Thrust to Swim (MBL The Well)

• How a Father And Son Helped Create Weather Forecasting as We Know It (Atlas Obscura)

• In Antarctica’s Shallows, a Climate Paradox (Undark)

• How Climate Change Makes Social Learning Among Animals More Important (Nautilus)

• Benchtop Black Holes Help Physicists Glimpse the Quantum Universe (Nautilus)

• Conservation Purgatory: Listing a Species as ‘Data Deficient’ (Undark)

• 7 Ways Humans Have Tried to Predict Earthquakes (Nautilus)

• The Long Road to Obama’s Cancer Moonshot: Short Film (MIT Tech Review)

• The Ocean Gets Big Data (Nautilus)

• El Niño Has Ended Kingdoms and Civilizations (Nautilus)

• Following Sharks Through Tags and Twitter (Undark)

• Shocking Before-and-After Photos of the World’s Coral Bleaching Catastrophe (Atlas Obscura)

• Architect Calls For Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Rights Work (AAAS News)

• Of Rumors and Tremors (Undark)

• Much Ado About Algae (Undark)

• Of Shrimp and Science Funding (Undark)

2015

• Antarctica’s Melting Ice Sheets Could Slow Climate Change (NOVA)

• The West Coast Is Still Safe from Fukushima Radiation (NOVA)