Last week was #EarthScienceWeek, and to celebrate my co-editor and I over at Science Borealis picked our top 10 earth & environmental science stories from the past year. Our list included: Rosetta Philae lander California drought NASA’s New Horizons Pluto flyby algal blooms in the Great Lakes discovery of water on Mars Siberian methane craters…

Last week my latest women in science interview went up on the Canadian Science Publishing blog. This time I profiled Dr. Rita Winkler, a Research Hydrologist with the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources Operations. I chose Rita because we’ve been friends and colleagues for almost ten years now – ever since I…

Spring is out in full force on the West Coast, punctuated by pink cherry blossoms, yellow forsythia, and the delicately sculptured white blooms of sweet-scented magnolia. Red-winged blackbirds are puffing up to squeeze out their buzzing marsh song, and the nighttime frog chorus has become deafening, like those rocky Atlantic cliffs shown on British nature…

I enjoy blogs like Words Are My Game, where Liana M. Silva chronicles her writing life: the struggles to fit writing in amongst family issues, or the difficulties in finding direction with a new book she’s working on. Her blog is the story of process, of a work in progress, and does away with the…