Feature: When and How Plate Tectonics Began on Earth
Published in EARTH magazine June 2017
Feature: The first Americans: How and when were the Americas populated?
Published in EARTH magazine January 2017
Feature: Redefining Homo: Does our family tree need more branches?
Published in EARTH magazine in August 2016
Feature: Of airplanes and ash clouds: What we've learned since Eyjafjallajökull
Published in EARTH magazine 2017
Mastodon bones point to significantly earlier human presence in North America
Published in EARTH magazine April 2017
Green corridors led humans out of Africa
Published in EARTH magazine December 2016
On the trail of Hannibal's army - and elephants - in the Alps
Published in EARTH magazine in July 2016
Tallying temperature drops inside tornadoes
Published in EARTH magazine April 2017
Early spring thaw triggers Arctic greenhouse gas release
Published in EARTH magazine March 2017
Initial earthquake behavior does not predict outcome
Published in EARTH magazine January 2017
Travels in Geology: Rafting the Pacific Northwest's heavenly Hells Canyon
Published in EARTH magazine September 2015
Travels in Geology: Basalt cliffs and columns along Nothern Ireland's Causeway Coast Way
Published in EARTH magazine July 2014
Travels in Geology: The inspiring, globe-trotting rocks of Scotland
Published in EARTH magazine November 2014
Travels in Geology- Hike to the Burgess Shale
Published in EARTH magazine January 2013
Travels in Geology- Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Published in EARTH magazine April 2011
Travels in Geology- The German Alps
Published in EARTH magazine January 2009
Travels in Geology- John Day, Oregon
Published in EARTH magazine March 2008
Travels in Geology- Ecuador
Published in EARTH magazine April 2008
Travels in Geology- New River Gorge, WV
Published in EARTH magazine October 2008
Travels in Geology- Florida Keys
Published in EARTH magazine August 2008
Travels in Geology- Arkansas
Published in EARTH magazine August 2009
Space Travels in Geology- Io
Published in EARTH magazine May 2008
Feature: Setting Sail on Unknown Seas, the Past, Present and Future of Rafting
Published in EARTH magazine March 2013
Feature: Thinking Outside the Rocks In the Search For Ancient Earthquakes
Published in EARTH magazine September 2011
Writers on the Range: Still Wild
Published in High Country News June 2009
The Suffer Fest
Published in Best Women's Travel Writing 2010
Feature: Mysterious disease sounds the death knell for bats
Published in EARTH magazine June 2011
Feature: Of Sounds and Cetaceans
Published in EARTH magazine February 2010
Fantastic Fossilized Finds Fill Farmhouse
Published in Geotimes magazine March 2008
Genomic Medicine: A prelude
My master's thesis in science writing from Johns Hopkins University
Movie Review: Wall-E
Published in Geotimes magazine August 2008
Movie Review: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Published in Geotimes magazine July 2008
Complete Travel Photography Portfolio 2005-present
My Sister's Paintings
My sister Sarah is a fine painter.