My first published fiction story: “Cracking Open”
My first piece of fiction “Cracking Open: A Walk to the Precipice” was published six months ago in Dark Mountain Issue 20: ABYSS. The window to not re-publish has passed, and now I’m sharing it here. It’s an illustrated coming of age story about a girl and the creatures that live at the Center of […]
Lichen Yoga in the California Alpine: Yoking the creative and scientific parts of self
Lichen taxonomy is really exciting to some people. And I’ll be honest, I’m not one of them. I prefer the meta-stories — ones about how land and climate barriers have propelled speciation into many divergent paths, how species assemblages shift along different environmental gradients, and ways in which the lichen symbiosis can inform a more […]
Finally! The manuscript for the Lichens of the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge is being written…
After three years of field work in Argentina, Chile, the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, and the Great Basin Desert of Nevada, we’re finally making the time to publish the Turnbull NWR lichen inventory. The manuscript is going to be more bare boned than we’d imagined it at the beginning of the project, but Jason and I […]
