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INTERVIEWS

• Fact-Checking Help from Readers: A Conversation with Ann Patchett on “The Dutch House”. LA Review of Books, 12 Nov, 2019
• Glass Act. Nature 575 (250), doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03367-w. 6 Nov 2019
• Ann Patchett Gets Inside a Man’s Head. Electric Literature, 24 Sep 2019.
• Nowhere to Hide When the Fire Comes Next. Earth Island Journal, 16 April, 2019.
• Exploring Urban Wildlife: Five Questions for Gavin Van Horn. Undark, 15 Mar 2019
• Life After Death: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley. The Rumpus, 14 Jan 2019.
• ‘In a Marriage, You Grow Around Each Other’: An Interview with Tessa Hadley. Longreads, 14 Jan 2019.
• On History, Marriage, and Politics: A Q-and-A with Barbara Kingsolver. LA Review of Books, 3 Dec 2018.
• ‘I’ve Always Been Either Praised or Accused of Ambition’: An Interview with Barbara Kingsolver. Longreads, Oct 2018.
• Woman in Science: Britt Wray. Canadian Science Publishing. 12 Jun 2018.
• Woman in Science: Dr. Genevieve Ali. Canadian Science Publishing. 22 May 2018.
• Saving lives and property with accurate flood forecasts. Nature 554 (267) (6 Feb 2018); doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-01614-0.
• Woman in Science: Bernadette Conant. Canadian Science Publishing. 13 Dec 2017.
• Trade Talk: Habitat Helper. Nature 550, 421(19 Oct 2017); doi:10.1038/nj7676-421a.
• Women in Science: Dr. Tara Macdonald. Canadian Science Publishing, 25 Sep 2017.
• Woman in Science: Caroline Fox. Canadian Science Publishing, 11 Apr 2017.
• Women in Science: Dawn Bazely. Canadian Science Publishing, 16 Feb 2017.
• Interview with Margo Farnsworth: On Biomimicry, Loss, and Building Community in Nature. Terrain.org, 29 Jan 2017.
• Women in Science: Mary Anne Moser, CEO and Co-founder of Beakerhead. Canadian Science Publishing, 23 Nov 2016.
• Women in Science: Anna Warwick Sears. Canadian Science Publishing, 11 Oct 2016.
• Women in Science: Dr. Kathy Lewis. Canadian Science Publishing, 10 May 2016.
• Women in Science: Interview with Sarah Boon. Canadian Science Publishing, 8 Mar 2016.
• Women in Science Series: Dr. Imogen Coe. Canadian Science Publishing, 17 Feb 2016.
• Women in Science Series: Dr. Rita Winkler. Canadian Science Publishing, 17 Sep 2015.
• Women-In-Science Series: Dr. Kathy Bleiker. Canadian Science Publishing, 20 May 2015.
• Women-In-Science Series: Usha Srinivasan, PhD. Canadian Science Publishing, 31 Mar 2015.
• Women-In-Science Series: Dr. Christie Bahlai. Canadian Science Publishing, 20 Feb 2015.
• Women-In-Science Series: Deborah Martin-Downs. Canadian Science Publishing, 18 Dec 2014.
• Women-In-Science Series: Dr. Alwynne Beaudoin. Canadian Science Publishing, 8 Dec 2014.
• Women-In-Science Series: Dr. Line Rochefort. Canadian Science Publishing, 11 Nov 2014.
• From GSA 2014: An Interview with Randy Enkin, Associate Editor, CJES. Canadian Science Publishing, 21 Oct 2014.
• Women-In-Science Series: Gwen Bridge. Canadian Science Publishing, 15 Oct 2014.
• Women-In-Science Series: Meet Carolyn Relf, PhD. Canadian Science Publishing, 26 Aug 2014.
• Women-In-Science Series: Meet Catherine Anderson, PhD. Canadian Science Publishing, 5 Aug 2014.
• Women-In-Science Series: Meet Dr. Andrea Kirkwood. Canadian Science Publishing, 2 Jul 2014.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Women’s Anger in the Trump Era. Chicago Review of Books, 25 Nov 2019.
• David Guterson’s book “Turn Around Time” applies mountaineering themes to youth, aging. Alpinist Magazine, 11 Oct 2019.
• Shaped By Snow: Defending the Future of Winter. Backcountry Magazine, 17 Sep 2019.
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. Terrain.org, 27 June 2019.
• Mountaineering in reverse: Tales from the Underland. Alpinist Magazine, 21 June 2019.
• Exploring the Uneasy Coexistence of Bears and Humans. Outside Magazine, 16 April 2019.
• Working with Rejection: John McNally’s The Promise of Failure. LA Review of Books. 6 Apr 2019.
• Instead of Climaxing, Novels Should ‘Meander Spiral Explode’. Chicago Review of Books, 3 Apr 2019.
• 6 Essential Texts of Climate Change Written By Women. Literary Hub, 4 Jan 2019.
• Even as extinction looms for her subjects, an ecologist maintains hope for a better future. Science, 20 Nov 2018.
• Building an inclusive academy – one generation at a time. LA Review of Books, 4 Nov 2018.
• Time to take sexism in post-secondary education seriously. LA Review of Books, 27 Jul 2018.
• Recognizing their role in maintaining healthy watersheds, “beaver believers” work to rehab the rodent’s reputation. Science, 23 Jul 2018.
• Book Review: Firestorm, by Ed Struzik. Genome Alberta Genomics Blog, 14 May 2018.
• Women Writing the West: 6 Nonfiction Writers You Should Know. Literary Hub, 28 Mar 2018.
• A researcher collects accounts of scientists’ first inklings that the Arctic was in trouble. Science 359 (6382), pp. 1340; 23 Mar 2018. doi: 10.1126/science.aas9815.
• Science and mystery of freshwater mussels. Water Canada, Nov/Dec 2017.
• The Science Writers’ Handbook, by the Writers of SciLance. Canadian Science Publishing, 24 Oct 2017.
• Science Blogging: The Essential Guide, edited by Christie Wilcox, Bethany Brookshire, and Jason G. Goldman. Canadian Science Publishing, 9 Aug 2017.
• Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren. Canadian Science Publishing, 23 May 2017.
• Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction, by Mary Ellen Hannibal. Canadian Science Publishing, 16 Mar 2017.
• Book Review: The Scientist’s Guide to Writing, by Stephen B. Heard. Canadian Science Publishing, 14 Jun 2016.

COMMUNICATIONS/LITERATURE

• 14 Tips for Interviewing Authors. Hippocampus, 4 Nov 2019.
• The Indignity of Confession. Brevity Blog, 24 October 2019.
• The Virtue of Smartphones. Brevity Blog, 3 September 2019.
• The Secret Life of a Scientist at the End of the World. Narratively, 31 July, 2019.
• A Shed of One’s Own. Brevity Blog, 27 June 2019.
• Exploring a Rocky Mountain Glacier in the Space Between Science and Storytelling. Catapult, 30 May 2019.
• Building Indigenous Relations in an Age of Reconciliation. Science Borealis, 30 Nov 2018.
• How do you scale your community activities? Community playbooks map the pathways. Science Borealis, 1 Nov 2018.
• Breaking Our Silence With Anger. LA Review of Books, 10 Oct 2018.
• Equifinality. Chronically Lit. 22 Aug.
• Science Communication in the Era of Fake News. Genome Alberta Genomics Blog. 2 Jan 2018.
• Editing with a Disability. Editors BC, 13 December 2017.
• Science Communications and Science Literacy: An Evening in Victoria, BC. Science Borealis. 12 Oct 2017.
• Canadian Science Needs More Than Funding: It Needs Public Champions. Science Borealis. 11 Sep 2017.
• Canadian Science Funding Review Should Include Science Communication. Science Borealis, 11 Jul 2016.
• Science Blogging 101. Canadian Science Publishing, 3 Mar 2016.
• Writing By Your Own Rules. Creative Nonfiction Collective Society, 24 Sep 2015.
• Scientists Must Communicate! But How? Canadian Science Publishing, 16 Apr 2015.
• To Communicate or to Excommunicate – Is That the Scientist Versus Journalist Question? Canadian Science Writers’ Association, 9 Apr 2015.
• What is this ‘science communication’ you speak of? Canadian Science Publishing, 4 Feb 2014.
• So you write about the environment: Are you a science writer or a nature writer? Canadian Science Writers’ Association, 10 Jan 2014.
• Putting the science in fiction writing. Canadian Science Writers’ Association, 15 Oct 2013.
• The gift of depression and mood disorder. Double X Science, 26 Jul 2013.

ENVIRONMENT

• Post-Apocalypse Now: The Hard Work of Cli-Fi. The Millions, 8 Feb 2019.
• Small Gestures. City Creatures Blog of the Center for Humans & Nature. 5 Feb 2019.
• Good Neighbours. Nature Conservancy of Canada, Summer 2018.
• Safety Net: Canada coordinates its efforts to managing flood risk. Water Canada Magazine, May/Jun 2018, p. 14-16.
• Reconnecting Fish Habitat Starts With Good Data Management. BC Forest Professional Magazine, May/June 2017, p. 26-27.
• A Pumping Plan to Elude Drought. Hakai Magazine, 26 Oct 2016.
• On Vancouver Island, Summer Droughts are the New Normal. CBC The Nature of Things, 20 Oct 2016.
• Northern Alberta Wildfires. Science Borealis, 4 May 2016.
• Working With Sea Level Rise, Not Against It. Science Borealis, 18 Apr 2016.
• Are Fossil Fuels Really Worth It? Science Borealis, 18 Jan 2016.
• Restoration of Fish Passage on Elbow Creek, Southwestern BC. BC Forest Professional Magazine, Jan/Feb 2016.
• Happy Earth Science Week! Science Borealis, 13 Oct 2015.
• Water Problems in Water-Rich Canada. Science Borealis, 14 Jul 2015.
• Beyond the Boardwalk at the Garry Oak Preserve. Nature Conservancy of Canada, 4 Jun 2015.
• Remediation of Fish Passage at Stream Crossings on BC Forest Roads. BC Forest Professional Magazine, May/Jun 2015.
• It’s Earth Week! Have You Thought About Our Oceans Lately? Science Borealis, 20 Apr 2015.
• Soil: So Much More Than Just Dirt. Science Borealis, 26 Jan 2015.
• National Forest Week and the Misconception of Deforestation. Science Borealis, 6 Oct 2014.
• Rewilding and You. Canadian Science Writers’ Association, 6 Aug 2014.
• Challenge Accepted: Science in the Northern Gateway Pipeline Process. Science Borealis, 14 Jul 2014.
• It’s not just about the fish… Canadian Science Publishing, 20 Feb 2014.
• The Boreal Forest, Antarctica and Geophysics, Oh My! Science Borealis, 27 Jan 2014.
• An ‘abundance’ of bears: Aglukkaq cold-shoulders the science. iPolitics Opinion, 28 Oct 2013.
• Wildfire woes don’t end when the smoke clears. Al Jazeera English, 27 Aug 2013.
• Science as a jigsaw puzzle: Piecing together the picture on tidewater glaciers. Canadian Science Writers’ Association, 18 Jul 2013.
• Water, water everywhere: Will storms and floods like this become the new normal? Rabble.ca, 26 Jun 2013.
• What’s behind that money shot? The hidden impacts of disappearing glaciers. Canadian Science Writers’ Association, 2 Apr 2013.
• Under the Crowsnest Canopy. Outpost Magazine. May/Jun 2012.
• Show and Tell With Sea Ice. CH2MHill Field Notes newsletter, Jul 2007.
• On the Cutting Edge at Summit Station. CH2MHill Field Notes newsletter, Jun 2007.
• Faces of IPY: The Celebrity Glaciologist. CH2MHill Field Notes newsletter, May 2007.
• Studying Sea Ice with the Sea Goddess. CH2MHill Field Notes newsletter, Apr 2007.
• Studying Glaciers: An Initiation to the North. Above & Beyond Magazine, Jul/Aug 2004.
• The altered state of field research: Summer researchers dodge bears, side-step crevasses, long for indoor plumbing. UAlberta Folio, 17 Apr 2003.
• Study tracks collective effects of industry: First-of-its-kind research predicts enormous changes. UAlberta Folio, 17 Apr 2003.

SCIENCE

• Trudeau Promised to Bring Us Out of Canada’s Anti-Science Era, But We’re Not There Yet. Desmog Canada, 27 Dec 2016.
• Science and Academic Humour. Canadian Science Publishing, 20 Dec 2016.
• Canada Isn’t Immune to Trump-ism. Desmog Canada, 5 Dec 2016.
• Where Should I Submit My Journal Article? Canadian Science Publishing, 15 Nov 2016.
• Collaboration Station. Canadian Science Publishing, 3 Nov 2016.
• Faculty of Science Diversity Report. University of Alberta: Science Contours, 27 Oct 2016
• Volunteering With Your Scientific Society. Canadian Science Publishing, 25 Jul 2016.
• How to Write a Journal Article: Tips and Tools. Canadian Science Publishing, 19 Apr 2016.
• How History (Yes, History) Plays Into Your Science. Canadian Science Publishing, 21 Jan 2016.
• 21st Century Science Overload. Canadian Science Publishing, 7 Jan 2016.
• Making the most of your academic genealogy. Canadian Science Publishing, 1 Dec 2015.
• If Science is Broken – How Can We Fix It? Canadian Science Publishing, 18 Jun 2015.
• Is Science Broken? Canadian Science Publishing, 16 Jun 2015.
• Twitter for Teaching. Canadian Science Publishing, 14 Mar 2015.
• What is a scientist? Canadian Science Publishing, 10 Feb 2015.
• Hey Science! Try Checking the Historic Record. Canadian Science Writers’ Association, 9 Dec 2014.
• A Week to Remember: the 126th Annual Meeting of the GSA. Canadian Science Publishing, 27 Oct 2014.
• Coming Soon – the Geological Society of America Meeting in Vancouver! Canadian Science Publishing, 6 Oct 2014.
• Should I or Shouldn’t I – Advising Students on Academic (or Not) Careers. Canadian Science Publishing, 9 Jun 2014.
• Scientists using Twitter: Dispelling the Myths. Canadian Science Publishing, 6 May 2014.
• OpenSciLogs: The Evolution of Popular Science, Maybe. Canadian Science Writers’ Association, 22 Apr 2014.
• Open Access Publishing: Pipe dream or the way forward for science? Canadian Science Publishing, 22 Apr 2014.
• Citizens + science = a good combination. Canadian Science Publishing, 11 Mar 2014.
• Has Canada gone too far down the Conservative rabbit hole? Rabble.ca, 13 Feb 2014.
• Scientific societies in the internet age. Canadian Science Publishing, 14 Jan 2014.
• Don’t push that button – sexual harassment, science, and personal history. Medium (LadyBits Power of Harassment Collection), 1 Nov 2013.
• Academic science – feeling boxed in? Medium, 23 Aug 2013
• A prairie university’s hidden coastal gem: Bamfield Centre offers students and researchers a unique place to learn. UAlberta Folio, 16 Apr 2004.
• The freeze factor: The U of A’s cryopreservation lab blends biology and physics. UAlberta Folio, 2 May 2003.