
Outreach and DEI Activities
- In 2017, I recorded The saga of Farlin, 300 million years in the making for Montana Public Radio and the Montana Natural History Center’s Field Notes program. It aired originally in July 2017 and again in July 2020.
- In 2021, I joined the American Geophysical Union’s Voices for Science program.
- March 2021, Organizer/Host, Equinox Storytelling Summit with Upham Woods Outdoor Learning Center
- Spring 2021, Member, Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE): UW-Madison Geo2 Pod
- In February 2022, I published an essay, A Story Written in Ice: Reading Wisconsin’s Landscape, in Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine.
- In March 2022, I publish a piece of creative nonfiction (scientific storytelling), Of Icicles and Ice Sheets, in Agate Magazine.
- In April 2022, I gave a talk on the geology of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for Friends of the Boundary Waters. You can view a recording here.
- In July 2022 I published a “prose poem” about Wisconsin’s glacial history as part of Layered in Time, alongside Marica Bjornerud and Eric Carson.
- 2021-present, host of the Under Our Feet podcast
- 2022-present, editor at Edge Effects magazine
- The Transformative and Hungry Technologies of Copper Mining, Robrech DeClercq & Duncan Money, March 16, 2023.
- The Boy and the Bird, Nancy Jacobs, March 2, 2023.
- The Cold Never Bothered Native Hawaiians Anyway, Hi’ilei Julia Hobart & Jen Rose Smith, February 16, 2023
- Studying Yellowstone’s Burn Scars to Reveal its Future, Nathan Kiel, December 8, 2022.
- On the Alchemy of Soil, Tory Tepp, October 21, 2022.
- Unearthing the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming, Liz Carlisle & Ben Iuliano, October 13, 2022.
- There’s Something About the Bike, Rudy Molinek & Bob Giordano, September 1, 2022.
- Environmental Evacuation Is a Collective Problem, Max Lubell, July 21, 2022.
- What Minnesota’s Mineral Gaze Overlooks, Andrew Hoyt, July 14, 2022.
- When Wetland Restoration and Big Oil Collide, Gardiner Brown, June 30, 2022.
- To Conserve Nature, Recognize Its Rights, Austin Miles, April 7, 2022.
Letters to the Editor (non-geology advocacy)
- Wisconsin State Journal, June 3, 2020 – Johnson, not Evers, needs a spine
- Wisconsin State Journal, February 17, 2020 – Reinvest tax cut funds in the future
- Billings Gazette, February 5, 2019 – Fox’s energy policy is dangerous
- Billings Gazette, August 31, 2018 – Tester proves his honesty in office
- Billings Gazette, June 16, 2018 – Tester meets, listens to Montanans
- Billings Gazette, May 6, 2018 – GOP makes healthcare partisan