by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Oregon State University’s Strata Magazine, Nancy Steinberg profiles the work of Astrid Leitner, who studies areas of the ocean that have rarely — or never — been explored. Steinberg explains the tools and techniques the scientist uses to observe and take samples...
by Matt Vivion | Aug 2, 2019 | Past Events
Volcano Camping Adventure at Mount St. Helens NSWA experienced the majesty, awesome destruction, and amazing rebirth of the Pacific Northwest’s most violent volcano on our first-ever camping adventure Aug. 2 – Aug. 4. Hosted by the Mount St. Helens Institute, we...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
Wudan Yan has just arrived in Seattle after living and writing in Southeast Asia. For JSTOR daily, she took a trip to the Irrawaddy delta of Myanmar to talk with a man jailed for cultivating trees. In words and photos, Wudan (@wudanyan) documents the politically...
by Chris Tachibana | May 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
Carry on, explorers! Virginia Emery reports that true field biologists still exist. They’re out in the forests and deserts and plains with their binoculars and nets and magnifying glasses. Writing for Berkeley Science Review, Virginia talks with biologists who step...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
Amelia Apfel, a young science writer with a stellar pedigree, writes about the science-art-communication crossover in High Country News. Talk about multidisciplinary: Apfel talks with faculty members at the Department of Art and Ecology, University of New Mexico, and...