Larson: Sea Gardens

Larson: Sea Gardens

A story by Samanatha Larson (@samantson) highlights a new interactive resource that synthesizes Indigenous mariculture knowledge and practice throughout the Pacific. Her feature in Signals Magazine, a publication of the Australian National Maritime Museum, delves into...
Kimbrough: Shade-Grown Coffee and Birds

Kimbrough: Shade-Grown Coffee and Birds

Writing for Mongabay, new member Liz Kimbrough (@lizkimbrough_) writes about new research that shows that while shade-grown coffee won’t support all bird life, set-asides of intact, non-agricultural forests by coffee plantations help preserve more species of birds,...
Yan: Field Research During COVID-19

Yan: Field Research During COVID-19

Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) received an honorable mention in NSWA’s 2021 Best of the Northwest Science Writing Awards (journalism award) for her April 2021 story in The Atlantic about how pandemic travel restrictions have affected researchers who typically conduct fieldwork...
Schnaiberg: Farm-Fresh Flies

Schnaiberg: Farm-Fresh Flies

For Anthropocene, Lynn Schnaiberg has a new take on insects as a sustainable protein source. Lynn’s piece is not about crickets, ants, or mealworms for our dinner table but as feed for farmed fish or meat. The black soldier fly (or its larvae, actually) could solve...

Bailey: Sea Change

The book we’ve been waiting for from Kevin Bailey is here. In Fishing Lessons: Artisanal Fisheries and the Future of Our Oceans from University of Chicago Press, Kevin traces the history of fishing through stories of fishermen and women he has interviewed,...