Writing

Writing interests include deep-sea ecology; sustainable seafood and seafood labeling; fisheries in the undeveloped world; sustainable construction, transportation and agriculture; alternative energy; nutrition; science policy; and climate science. Really anything involving humans’ chances for a softer, cleaner, and healthier footprint on this planet.

Science writing- online & print

- From the Director’s Chair column, National Ski Patrol, Summer 2022, Fall 2022, May 2023 issues
- Paving over the Gender gap in the Philippines, Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT)
- Design and creation, writing and editing of SALT website
- Trekking to the Tropics for lobster, SALT
- Save the Data, Inquiry UC Santa Cruz Research Magazine
- Marine Geohazards (seafloor faults and slides) website, US Geological Survey
- Forcing Evolution’s Hand, pg 29 Inquiry UC Santa Cruz Research Magazine
- This Robot Could Make Exploring Oceans Deeper, Faster, and Cheaper, National Geographic
- The Wild Wild West Coast– special multimedia report (2 stories), University of California, Santa Cruz

Climate Change Research pages plus video of erosion in the Arctic- U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz
What are ecosystem services?– PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Trimming the FAT for Seafloor Research in China (behind paywall)- Sea Technology (SeaTech-JUN 2015)
Fishing for a Future– PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science)
Sound Waves article to accompany my revised website on climate change research in Santa Cruz- U.S. Geological Survey
Casting for a new job – Mongabay.com
Marry religion and conservation in Fiji’s fisheries– Mongabay.com
Blogs during JOIDES Resolution Expedition Blog posts of all Nat Geo Articles archived here National Geographic’s Ocean Views and blogs on JOIDESresolution.org
Nat Geo Posts also hosted on AGU Geoscience Blogosphere
Deep-sea brooding breaks record, Nat Geo’s Weird and Wild
Fishing for some regulation, Mongabay.com
Fijian’s Dying for Sea Cucumbers, Mongabay.com
Reporter’s Journal and other pieces, Mongabay.com
Battling Plasticulture– High Country News
Mutiny on the Reef, Baited Underwater Cameras, and Are tabu areas really taboo? Guest blogger for Wildlife Conservation Society in Fiji
A squid’s detachable limbs, ScienceNOW, stories carried by Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle
Risso’s Dolphins, Redwoods, and Sea Otters- a series of natural history posts for Hilltromper.com
Getting to the Heart of the Matter, Nuclear Disaster Investigator Awarded, World’s First Decoded Coral Genome, Revisiting Sustainable Development, Molding Metal– Underwater Connections, A LEED Laboratory, The Wonders of Foraminifera– Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Great Barrier Beefs– Conservation Magazine archive here
Tracking the coelcanth for two decades– Mongabay.com
From garbage to fuel- Santa Cruz Sentinel stories carried by San Jose Mercury News
Whales make it onto the big screen– Monterey Herald, carried by San Jose Mercury News
Oxygen-Starved Ocean, Salinas teacher rallies for education reform, Dieting Discoveries, Retired couple fulfill Peace Corps Dream ( this also made it into the Congressional Record!!)- Monterey Herald
Abyssal Bridges, Paleotsunami deposits, Sinking permafrost– AGU GeoSpace Blog
The New Grass Cycle– UCSC’s online magazine, Science Notes
Question and Answer with Scripps’s Dr. Lisa Levin– Under the Microscope
Nemo’s Troublesome Cousin, Plastic by numbers– UCSC CrashingEdge Blog
Research Vessel Tribute, Ocean Acidification, Dancing for Ocean Conservation, Tracking Phytoplankton– Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

Brochure/magazine for Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology– contributed to layout, theme, and wrote research stories (click on icon to see)