Earlier this week I completed my Twelve Days of 2019 Ecology Literature challenge. I read the last paper on my list, drained…
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Conservation This is The End
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Climate Change Reading & Listening to Cape Cod
Cape Cod does not appear on my CV. I study alpine plant ecology — my postdoc research is literally founded on carrying…
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Collaboration An ornithologist and an entomologist go into the kīpuka…
There is something magical about reading a well-written, remarkable paper from outside of your sub-discipline — the echoes of familiarity in methodology…
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Biodiversity Looking for Human-Nature Connections in Seasonal Wikipedia Searches
Recently, I was wrapping up some revisions on a phenology paper and to comply with the journal’s style for taxonomy, I needed…
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Conservation Hiking with Reviewer 2
This is a deep dive into my own research — the backstory behind a single line in a recently published paper and…
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Climate Change National Parks are Hot Spots
In this space, I’ve often shared my love for National Park-based research. I count myself among the researchers devoting time and energy…
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Biodiversity Bumble and Bumble: what’s black and yellow and maybe more than one species?
During the dark afternoons of December in New England, I like to scroll through my old field photos and think of all…
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Conservation Up All Night
As a parent to a newborn, I was drawn to the recent PLoS ONE paper ‘Creeping in the Night.’ I’m creeping…
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Citizen Science Summer Reading (Part 2)
Last week I wrote about my favorite new papers on mountains and phenology after a summer of scientific reading. In the second…
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Biodiversity Summer Reading (Part 1)
We’re rushing out of the dog days of summer and into the start of a new semester — or in my case the…
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Climate Change Pikas Meet Cute: Two Subspecies, One National Park
The National Park Service is wrapping up celebrations on its 102nd anniversary this August. I’m unabashedly biased towards park science: my dissertation and…
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Conferences On Story Telling
Last Monday night I took the mic at a Toronto bar. The whole second floor was full of conservation scientists in…