#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Rochman: Putting Porn in Its Place
“Does watching porn as a teen ruin sex forever?” It doesn’t have to, Bonnie Rochman writes in her first piece for Elemental (@elemental), a new Medium publication on health and wellness. Bonnie (@brochman) interviews experts in porn literacy about how to talk to teens...
Scanlan, Long, DeWeerdt: Orca Love
For Love of Orcas, a new anthology, features work by three NSWA members: Adrienne Ross Scanlan, Priscilla Long, and Sarah DeWeerdt. The collection of environmental writing, poetry, and prose focuses on Puget Sound’s Southern Resident orcas. Proceeds from sales go to...
Watts: Mountains to the Sea
Andrea Watts, our correspondent in the U.S. Forest Service, now writes for the Rocky Mountain Research Station (@usfs_rmrs)—for example on how to predict how many trees died in a forest fire. She still writes for the Pacific Northwest Research Station (@usfs_pnwrs),...
Tankersley: Rings and Slides
What links tree rings and avalanches? Molly Tankersley explains, for Scientific American (@sciam). In Alaska, researchers are studying the rings to learn about the snowslides to protect Juneau, which has the country’s highest urban avalanche potential. Molly is a...
Braun: Research and Rescue
High-tech methods make de-extinction possible, Ashley Braun writes. But how exactly does that work? And does it work out for the animals that are a genetic likeness of the extinct species? In Longreads (@Longreads), Ashley dives into the complex biological and...