Leaving the Dream
I have never not wanted to be a scientist. As a kid, I would copy down—by hand—the entirety of encyclopedia entries about animals. In fifth grade, I was regularly running […]
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Stories of Subsistence in Wilderness – Inian Islands
Scroll to the end for the photo gallery. — I originally wrote this post for the Sitka Conservation Society‘s website in 2014. This trip was part of the Stika Community […]
Species range maps with GGplot
The other day, I wanted to tweet out a map showing the distribution of some wood frog tissue samples compared to the entire range of the species. I’m not much […]
Chasing Arctic Frogs
A short recipe for adventurous field science Take me to the photos! Step 1: Come up with a hair-brained scheme. My labmate Yara and I had been dreaming up the […]
Tips for taking spherical panoramas
Spherical panoramas can be tricky to stitch properly in dense forests, and especially when canopy elements are very close to the camera (which exaggerates the parallax). Fortunately, the issue attenuated […]
Pulitzer Challenge
I’ve always been enamored with books, but when I started my PhD, I was worried that I would fall out of the habit of reading for fun. So, I set […]
Hot competition and tadpole Olympics
Our newest paper (pdf available on my publications page), led by Kaija Gahm is just out in the Journal of Experimental Zoology as part of special issue on herp physiology […]
Smartphone hemispherical photography
Hemispherical photography is one of those tasks often prefaced by the statement, “How hard could it be?” I’m pretty sure I said something like this at the beginning of my […]
Frogs in the Feral Atlas
“Every event in human history has been a more-than-human event.” This is the first line from the introduction of Feral Atlas: the more-than-human Anthropocene, a new book out from Stanford Univ. […]
The Anatomy of Data Viz
When I first started in communications, data viz was hard. You basically had to have a serious knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. At that time, “New Media” was just […]