I'm a writer and editor with experience covering science, the environment and education. I've worked in weeklies, bimonthly magazines, and faster paced online environments.
How Can You Stop a Disease-Carrying Mosquito?
An effort to slow the spread of deadly avian malaria is giving Hawaiian forest birds a fighting chance.
To Monitor Loggerhead Turtles, Scientists Look to Their Eggs
In Georgia, scientists are using “genetic tagging” to track nesting loggerheads in one of the world's longest-running monitoring programs.
The Long Journey
Writing Clip
Five decades of land conservation in Georgia have made space for some of the world’s oldest sea turtle monitoring projects.
Secret Garden: Unearthing the Secrets of Orchids
"Sliding down a steep creek side somewhere in western Maryland, a group of botanists and ecologists are on the hunt. It’s a cloudy day in May 2018, and they’re searching for an elusive orchid called the white lady’s slipper, or Cypripedium candidum..."
An Interview with the author of The Invention of Nature
An interview with Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature
Front of the Book Worldview Section
Editing Clip
An example of Nature Conservancy magazine's front of the book news section called Worldview
I was the lead editor on this section at the time of its production.
Counting on Fish
An Editing Clip
New technology is revolutionizing how we track fish catches and yielding a treasure trove of data that is driving better management of fisheries.
Written by Melissa Gaskill
Urban Roots: A Look at New York City's Trees
For a famously crowded and sleepless city, New York has a surprising number of quiet, shady retreats. Shaded parks and playgrounds line Riverside Drive, cemeteries form a belt between Brooklyn and Queens, and there’s even an old-growth forest at the northern tip of Manhattan. More than 8.6 million people live in the city, but 7 million trees grow alongside them.
A Search for Silence
An Editing Clip
In a new book, a photographer reflects on the sounds behind his images.
Written by Pete McBride
An Interview on D.C.'s Stormwater
An Editing Clip
The Nature Conservancy’s director of urban conservation in Maryland and Washington, D.C., Kahlil Kettering, talks about keeping city stormwater out of rivers.
Written by Courtney Leatherman
Barley Dreams: An Arizona Town Gambles on Beer to Save Water
Magazine Feature: A small farming town between Phoenix and the Grand Canyon is rallying around barley—a crop that's profitable for the local farmers but uses less water than the current crop staples of corn and alfalfa.
Interview: A More Open Outdoors
An Editing Clip
Marcela Maldonado Medina, preserve stewardship coordinator for The Nature Conservancy in New York, talks about who parks were made to serve.
Written by Amanda Machado
Interview: Rainforests of the Sea
An Editing Clip
Ashlee Lillis, The Nature Conservancy’s coral manager for the U.S. Virgin Islands, brings cutting-edge research to Caribbean reef restorations.
Written by Ilima Loomis
A Big Plan to Save a Tiny Rabbit
An Editing Clip
For two decades scientists have fought to save America's smallest bunny.
Written by Beth Geiger