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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Biodiversity Looking for Human-Nature Connections in Seasonal Wikipedia SearchesRead more
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Conservation Hiking with Reviewer 2Read more
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 SpotsRead more
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?Read more
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 NightRead more
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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Early Career Family and the FieldRead more
Over the weekend I submitted a grant proposal, wrote a quippy tweet, and read a paper. The paper was Dr…
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Citizen Science Summer Reading (Part 2)Read more
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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Climate Change Pikas Meet Cute: Two Subspecies, One National ParkRead more
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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Ecology The Rollercoaster of Exploding PollenRead more
When I think about reading peer-reviewed natural history papers — including contemporary articles in a ‘Natural History Miscellany Note’ or ‘The Scientific…
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Collaboration Science Twitter and the Secretly Super-rare SaxifragaceaeRead more
Top Image: a figure from “The hidden Heuchera: How science Twitter uncovered a globally imperiled species in Pennsylvania, USA” During one of…
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Biodiversity Hidden in Plain Sight: the Secret Tree Diversity of Cultural National Parks in the EastRead more
Last summer, my daughter received All Aboard! National Parks, a whimsical board book that devotes full-page spreads of colorful, kid-friendly illustrations to nine…
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Climate Change Coming Down the Mountain: How Changes in the Water Cycle are Affecting Mountain EcosystemsRead more
As plants take in sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, they also respire or “breathe” out part of that carbon dioxide back…