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Fishwheels
on
the Copper River
June
2003
The Native Village of Eyak is
taking the lead in managing its king salmon fishery using
a combination of modern science and a long-used fishing
technique, the fishwheel. |
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Water
Sampling on the Yukon River
May
2003
During a trip to remote Eagle,
Alaska, I was invited to help USGS hydrologists sample
the Yukon River. Among the researchers’ quarry:
contaminants and greenhouse gases they suspect are being
released by melting permafrost. |
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Update:
My story for the Fairbanks Daily News Miner's Heartland
magazine took 3rd place for science reporting in SPJ's
Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Competition
and 1st place for "Best Story and Pictures"
in the Alaska Press Women contest. The piece will be reprinted
in The Polar Times newspaper.
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Digging
up an Arctic dinosaur
July
14-31, 2002
I accompanied a team of Dallas
paleontologists to a fossil-rich site above the Arctic
Circle to recover the fossilized remains of a pachyrhinosaur,
a type of horned dinosaur. See my Scientific American
article (part of it, anyway) here. |
Update:
My three-part radio report produced for Alaska Public
Radio Network was awarded 1st place for comprehensive
radio reporting in the 2002 Alaska Press Club Awards,
and third place in the Alaska Press Women awards. |
Exploring
Alaska's seamounts
with the submersible Alvin
June
22 - July 3, 2002 In early July,
I returned from 12 days aboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution research vessel Atlantis, parent vessel for
the submersible Alvin. The sub was on an exploratory science
cruise from Astoria, Oregon, to Kodiak, Alaska to investigate
the deep-sea volcanoes known as "seamounts"
and the life they support. I wrote about the trip for
the Oregonian.
(Unfortunately, now only available in paid archives: July
24 story "Researcher gets to 'climb' undersea mountains.")
A longer feature on the trip appeared in BioScience magazine.
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Courtesy of Randall Davis |
Spying
on sea otters
in Alice
Cove
Summer
2001
In a remote community near Cordova, Alaska,
I joined marine mammal biologist Randall Davis and a team
of Earthwatch volunteers as they observed a healthy community
of sea otters, recording habitat use as well as taking
photographs for later possible use in computer-asssisted
photo-identification. My story appeared in the October
2002 Earthwatch journal. |
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