Published Writing

In Search of Greatness: Martha’s Vineyard’s Great Ponds

Islanders are hard at work conserving Martha’s Vineyard’s Great Ponds—what exactly is at stake?

Bluedot Living, 2022

Natural Neighbors: Tom Chase Has a Wild Idea for Your Backyard

Chase sees the backyards of Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, or anywhere else as thousands of acres of potential wildlife habitat.

Bluedot Living, 2021

Feathers, Stones, and Wings: The Art of Cindy Kane

Exploring treasured forms and patterns with self-taught painter Cindy Kane.

Arts & Ideas Magazine, Summer 2020

Seeking Solitude in the Mojave National Preserve

The Mojave National Preserve, an overlooked part of the National Park System, with towering sand dunes, and volcanic scenery.

ROVA Magazine, Adventure 11, 2019.

Looking and Seeing

Learning to absorb and refract the world around me.

Arts & Ideas Magazine, Summer 2018

The Cabinet of Curiosities at Felix Neck

A century of biological ephemera at the Mass Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary.

Arts & Ideas Magazine, Summer 2016

Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank goats chew away at their summer job

A herd of about 100 goats is being used to help maintain fields and meadows at Waskosim’s Rock preserve.

Martha's Vineyard Times, 2016

Mycotopia

A tour of the fungal wonderland at Menemsha Hills on Martha's Vineyard.

Martha's Vineyard Times, 2016.

Fossils are Heating Up

Can paleontologists use climate change to get people excited about bones again?

The Ecotone, journal of the Environmental Studies Department at the University of Oregon, 2014.