Published Writing

2022

• Home construction goals set to quadruple in Santa Cruz County (Santa Cruz Local)
• Monterey Bay Aquarium shares a treasure trove of data about young white sharks (Monterey Herald)
• Ocean Arts Festival uses art and science to celebrate the sea (Monterey Herald)
• Protecting Monterey’s baby hummingbirds (Monterey Herald)
• Monterey: Warm weather is on its way (Monterey Herald)
• How to get rent assistance in Santa Cruz County (Santa Cruz Local)
• These spiders hunt in packs. Watch how they do it (Science)
• Sifter: Coronavirus may be evolving in deer (Science)
• Pollinators like their flowers with a dash of salt (Science)
• Archerfish can distinguish non-animals from animals—even if they’ve never seen them before (Science)
• Sifter: How mosquitoes avoid pesticides designed to kill them (Science)
• Sifter: Viruses may play an unexplored role in the gut-brain axis (Science)
• What is annihilation? (Symmetry Magazine)
• Amazon losing far more carbon from forest degradation than deforestation (Mongabay)
• New artificial enamel is harder and more durable than the real thing (Science)
• A day in the life of two accelerator experts (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Report)
• Dig this: Iconic clams make a comeback at Pismo Beach (San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, Santa Cruz Sentinel, East Bay Times)
• How do squirrels bulk up while hibernating? (Science)
• Mother jaguars may flirt to save their cubs’ lives (Science)
• The truth behind pseudoscience: Cryptozoology (Good Times, Silicon Valley Metro)

2021

• Native trees could provide climate solutions to Houston (Eos)
• Geneticists have identified new groups of tiger sharks to protect (Mongabay)
• Catherine Heymans shines as Astronomer Royal for Scotland (Symmetry Magazine)
• Researchers recreate deep-Earth conditions to see how iron copes with extreme stress (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
• Rental housing market squeezed by pandemic, wildfire in Santa Cruz County) (Santa Cruz Local)
• Aditya Sood receives 2021 LCLS Young Investigator Award for work at intersection of materials science and ultrafast physics (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

2019

• Why you should be a fan of Orit Peleg’s model for beehive ventilation (Science Buffs)

2018

• #ThanksScience for parade floats (Science Buffs)
• Day in the life: Hydrogeologist Grace Guryan (Science Buffs)

2017

• Ten-hundred word challenge: The little circle a doctor gives you vs. the bad block (Science Buffs)
• Graduate student snapshot: Zac Holmes (Science Buffs)