I have clips in Nature, Science, and more. I also have editing experience. See below to view my featured stories or a complete list of my stories by date.
Featured Stories (* indicates that I contributed photos to a story)
- Q&A: UW researcher discusses future of quantum research, UW News Blog — co-written with James Urton
- UW’s Yejin Choi wins MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’, UW News
- ‘We need to be patient’ — UW’s Dawn Lehman on the collapse of the Champlain Towers South, UW News blog
- Tire-related chemical is largely responsible for adult coho salmon deaths in urban streams, UW News
- ‘Hands-on’ classes online? How some instructors are adapting to a new teaching environment, UW Notebook
- ‘Alexa, monitor my heart’: Researchers develop first contactless cardiac arrest AI system for smart speakers,* UW News
- Early spring rain boosts methane from thawing permafrost by 30 percent, UW News
- The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off, UW News
- Seeing Shifting Cells,* UCSC Science Notes – story also includes my podcast and infographic
- California’s farm communities mobilize to ban pesticide, San Jose Mercury News
- Fossil of oldest known baleen-whale relative unearthed in Peru, Nature and Scientific American
- When long-lived oysters roamed Earth, Science
- Measure Z pits oil biz, environmentalists,* The Salinas Californian
Stories by Date (* indicates that I contributed photos to a story)
2023
- Q&A: UW researcher discusses future of quantum research, UW News Blog — co-written with James Urton
- Q&A: How AI can help people be more empathetic about mental health, UW News
2022
- Q&A: UW researchers find privacy risks with 3D tours on real estate websites, UW News
- How low-cost earbuds can make newborn hearing screening accessible, UW News
- A new approach, not currently described by the Clean Air Act, could eliminate air pollution disparities, UW News
- Q&A: UnlockedMaps provides real-time accessibility information for urban rail transit in six metro areas, UW News
- UW’s Yejin Choi wins MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’, UW News
- A smartphone’s camera and flash could help people measure blood oxygen levels at home, UW News
- Q&A: UW researchers develop a reactor that can destroy ‘forever chemicals’, UW News
- (un)Taming the Beast, micro essay in Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World
- How to help assembly-line robots shift gears and pick up almost anything, UW News
- ClearBuds: First wireless earbuds that clear up calls using deep learning, UW News
- Is there snow in that tree? Citizen science helps unpack snow’s effect on summer water supplies, UW News
- VoxLens: Adding one line of code can make some interactive visualizations accessible to screen-reader users, UW News
- ‘I don’t even remember what I read’: People enter a ‘dissociative state’ when using social media, UW News
- Q&A: Making Earth-friendly electronics, UW News Blog — co-written with James Urton
- Tiny battery-free devices float in the wind like dandelion seeds, UW News
- Google’s ‘CEO’ image search gender bias hasn’t really been fixed, UW News
- Smartphone app can vibrate a single drop of blood to determine how well it clots, UW News
2021
- Despite cleaner air, pollution disparities for people of color remain across the US, UW News — co-written with Rebecca Gourley
- 3D imaging method may help doctors better determine prostate cancer aggressiveness, UW News
- A chatbot can help doctors better understand incoming emergency department patients’ social needs, UW News blog
- Political ads during the 2020 presidential election cycle collected personal information and spread misleading information, UW News — co-written with Rebecca Gourley
- UW students designed a rover to inspect culvert conditions to help fish, UW News blog
- Video: Arsenic makes these south Puget Sound fish unsafe to eat, UW News blog — co-written with Kiyomi Taguchi
- UW and UC San Diego researchers honored for their work discovering that someone could hack a car, UW News
- Do Alexa and Siri make kids bossier? New research suggests you might not need to worry, UW News
- UW engineer explains how the redesigned levee system in New Orleans helped mitigate the impact of Hurricane Ida, UW News blog
- UW to lead new NSF institute for using artificial intelligence to understand dynamic systems, UW News
- Gaming graphics card allows faster, more precise control of fusion energy experiments, UW News
- From ‘distress’ to ‘unscathed’ — mental health of UW students during spring 2020, UW News
- ‘We need to be patient’ — UW’s Dawn Lehman on the collapse of the Champlain Towers South, UW News blog
- UW researchers can turn a single photo into a video, UW News
- Cause, scope determined for deadly winter debris flow in Uttarakhand, India, UW News
- Q&A: It’s not just social media — misinformation can spread in scientific communication too, UW News blog — co-written with Jackson Holtz
- Using engineering methods to track the imperceptible movements of stony corals, UW News
- Arguing on the internet: UW researchers studying how to make online arguments productive, UW News
- New system that uses smartphone or computer cameras to measure pulse, respiration rate could help future personalized telehealth appointments, UW News
- Alexa, do I have an irregular heart rhythm? First AI system for contactless monitoring of heart rhythm using smart speakers, UW News
- ‘Audeo’ teaches artificial intelligence to play the piano, UW News blog
- New treatment allows some people with spinal cord injury to regain hand and arm function, UW News
2020
- The Smellicopter is an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smells, UW News (This story is one of SciShortform’s institutional writing top picks for July-December 2020).
- Tire-related chemical is largely responsible for adult coho salmon deaths in urban streams, UW News (This story won a Best of CASE District VIII award)
- Q&A: Animal Crossing to K-pop: Gaming, music fandom groups provide human connection during the pandemic, UW Today blog
- SoundWatch: New smartwatch app alerts d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing users to birdsong, sirens and other desired sounds, UW News
- Airdropping sensors from moths: Researchers use flying insects to drop sensors from air, land them safely on the ground, UW News
- UW researchers driving around Seattle to track COVID-19 response over time, UW Today blog
- Q&A: UW researchers clicked ads on 200 news sites to track misinformation, UW Today blog
- UW team developing model to help lower COVID-19 infections in King County, guide eventual vaccine distribution, UW Today blog
- A GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insects, UW News
- Is the air getting cleaner during the COVID-19 pandemic?, UW News — co-written with Rebecca Gourley
- A contact-tracing app that helps public health agencies and doesn’t compromise your privacy, UW News
- ‘Hands-on’ classes online? How some instructors are adapting to a new teaching environment, UW Notebook
- How families can use technology to juggle childcare and remote life, UW News
- ‘I saw you were online’: How online status indicators shape our behavior, UW News
- UW researchers need your (digital) coughs, UW Today blog
- How people investigate — or don’t — fake news on Twitter and Facebook, UW News
- Survey: What blocks your bus?, UW Today blog
- Navigating the potential pitfalls of tracking college athletes, UW News
- Simple, fuel-efficient rocket engine could enable cheaper, lighter spacecraft, UW News
- Hydropower dams cool rivers in the Mekong River basin, satellites show, UW News
- The one ring — to track your finger’s location, UW News
- What’s in Puget Sound? New technique casts a wide net for concerning chemicals, UW News
2019
- Warmer temperatures will increase arsenic levels in rice, study shows, UW News
- Carpentry Compiler helps woodworkers design objects that they can actually make, UW News
- Emissions from electricity generation lead to disproportionate number of premature deaths for some racial groups, UW News
- Single discrimination events alter college students’ daily behavior, UW News
- Popular third-party genetic genealogy site is vulnerable to compromised data, impersonations, UW News
- First smart speaker system that uses white noise to monitor infants’ breathing, UW News
- How bike sharing in Seattle rose from the ashes of Pronto’s failure, UW Today blog
- Americans would rather drive themselves to work than have an autonomous vehicle drive them, study says, UW News
- New tools to minimize risks in shared, augmented-reality environments, UW News
- How ergonomic is your warehouse job? Soon, an app might be able to tell you, UW News
- Stressed at school? Art therapy reduces teenage girls’ headaches, UW News
- How you and your friends can play a video game together using only your minds, UW News
- ‘Alexa, monitor my heart’: Researchers develop first contactless cardiac arrest AI system for smart speakers,* UW News
- Behind the magic: Making moving photos a reality, UW News
- Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft, UW News
- Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’, UW News
- First smartphone app that can hear ear infections in children, UW News
- Patterns of compulsive smartphone use suggest how to kick the habit, UW News
- Project Sidewalk helps users map accessibility around Seattle, other cities, UW News
- Water and wastewater disinfection can help prevent the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria, but what about their genes?, UW News
- New method to assess platelet health could help ER doctors, UW News
- Black and Hispanic Americans bear a disproportionate burden from air pollution, UW News (adapted from a release by the University of Minnesota)
- How to train your robot (to feed you dinner), UW News
- Early spring rain boosts methane from thawing permafrost by 30 percent, UW News
- First-of-its-kind center hosts tools to analyze the effects of natural disasters, UW Today blog — co-written with Kiyomi Taguchi
- First smartphone app to detect opioid overdose and its precursors, UW News
2018
- Researchers develop a new houseplant that can clean your home’s air, UW News
- Underwater sensors for monitoring sea life (and where to find them), UW Today blog
- Researchers create first sensor package that can ride aboard bees, UW News
- UW-led philosophy team receives $1.5M grant to study the ethics of neurotechnology research, UW Today blog
- Urban Freight Lab will help UPS evaluate its new e-bike delivery service in Seattle, UW Today blog
- Creating curious robots: UW researchers get Honda grant to build a mathematical model of curiosity, UW Today blog
- Could parcel lockers in transit stations reduce traffic congestion in Seattle?, UW Today blog
- Prescience: Helping doctors predict the future, UW News
- Researchers develop 3D printed objects that can track and store how they are used, UW News
- Engineering lecture series focuses on engineering for social good, UW Today blog
- Lunar library to include photos, books stored in DNA, UW Today blog
- UW-based center updates name to highlight role of ‘neurotechnologies’ in healing the brain and spinal cord, UW Today blog
- Bus battle: Do private shuttles affect the reliability of public transit?,* UW Today blog
- Flying blind: How a drone can soar without using GPS, UW Today blog
- Q&A: What can we learn from the hidden history of technology design?, UW Today blog
- Guided by the light, inquiry@ UC Santa Cruz Research Magazine
- Designed for evil: How to make bad technologies better,* UW Today blog
- The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off, UW News
- Washington Research Foundation awards fellowships to UW researchers, UW Today blog
- Researchers achieve HD video streaming at 10,000 times lower power, UW News
- Let the good tubes roll, PNNL News and PNNL Physical Sciences Research Highlights – This paper was published after my fellowship at PNNL ended, so PNNL’s Susan Bauer is listed as the media contact on the news story.
2017
- How to write a proposal they can’t refuse, ARM News – I also made a video to accompany this story.
- Editor in Chief – November Transformations newsletter, PNNL’s Institute for Integrated Catalysis
- Seeing Shifting Cells,* UCSC Science Notes – story also includes a podcast and infographic that I created
- Let there be (connected) light, PNNL News
- Long time ARM leader set to retire October 1, ARM News and InsideARM News
- Tracking the perfect storm, ARM News
- California’s farm communities mobilize to ban pesticide, San Jose Mercury News
- Git Training Connects ARM Software Developers, InsideARM News
- Meeting Microbes, Metabolites, and More, PNNL Biological Sciences Research Highlights and EMSL News
- News Brief: PNNL and EMSL co-host conference on microbial communities,* PNNL News and EMSL News
- Research Highlight: White noise lowers tinnitus risk, Nature
- Research Highlight: A gel for lasting glucose control, Nature
- Neuroscientists rethink how the brain recognizes faces, Nature
- Research Highlight: Vaginal microbes thwart HIV prevention, Nature
- Research Highlight: Why baleen whales grew so big, Nature
- Seven Days: Final cause, Nature
- Mysterious flashes on satellite images of Earth explained, Nature and Scientific American
- Research Highlight: Antarctica is going green, Nature
- Fossil of oldest known baleen-whale relative unearthed in Peru, Nature and Scientific American
- Research Highlight: Ancient protein resurrected in bacteria, Nature
- Human noise in US parks threatens wildlife, Nature and Scientific American
- Research Highlight: Athletic endurance enhanced by metabolic shift, Nature
- Q&A with Brett Finlay, The SciCom Interviews
- Research Highlight: How fish sense Earth’s magnetic field, Nature
- Research Highlight: Gut bacteria could make cancer drugs work better, Nature
- What all those scientists on Twitter are really doing, Nature
- Seven Days: Trans-fat ban, Nature
- Research Highlight: Fish pool knowledge to solve problems, Nature
- How lizards get their spots, Nature and Scientific American
- When long-lived oysters roamed Earth, Science
- New Way to Gauge Lightning’s Role in Ozone Formation, AGU’s Eos
2016
- How do you track the mass of a tree over time? Watch it move, AGU’s Geospace Blog
- Humpback whales’ ‘humanitarian’ tendencies, The Monterey Herald and The San Jose Mercury News
- A Date Under the Stars? Maybe Not with Aerosol Injection,* AGU’s Eos
- He slimed me!,* Scientific American Guest Blog
- Teacher revs up STEM ed with robots, The Salinas Californian
- Salinas teacher among Aquarium honorees, The Salinas Californian
- Dust devils have an electric heartbeat, Science
- Science Spotlight: Banana Slug Slime,* Hilltromper
- Large branches fall from the western Amazon rainforest canopy at a surprising rate, Mongabay News
- Commercial crab season opens with regs to protect whales,* The Salinas Californian
- Millions spent on NO on Z did not matter, The Salinas Californian
- It’s close but Measure Z appears to pass,* The Salinas Californian
- Yes on Measure Z leads in early voting, The Salinas Californian
- AgKnowledge program celebrates 10th anniversary,* The Salinas Californian
- Oil firms pump big bucks into No on Z, The Salinas Californian
- There’s no money to fight fire with fire,* PLOS Ecology Community Blog
- Measure Z pits oil biz, environmentalists,* The Salinas Californian
- Judge relieves Huntsman’s defense attorney, The Salinas Californian
- Salinas High Homecoming Hits Oldtown,* The Salinas Californian
- Ag Digests, The Salinas Californian
- 12/07/16 Digest: EPA seeks comments for its proposal to ban chlorpyrifos
- 11/30/16 Digest: New study could help plants, New book to help middle schoolers, Sustainable bioenergy systems webinar
- 11/23/16 Digest: 4-H program directors win national award, Western Growers seeks scholarship applicants
- 11/16/16 Digest:Stopping avocado pests, Late-maturing oats for cows
- 11/09/16 Digest: Do No Harm workshop, Costs for growing almonds
- 11/02/16 Digest: What are cows eating, Water resources
- 10/26/16 Digest: Wine grape genome, Pesticide course announcement
- 10/19/16 Digest: Sudden Oak Death, Almond course announcement
- 10/12/16 Digest: Organic peppers, Organic farms
- 10/5/16 Digest: Honeybees, Rice, A ‘roof-breaking’ ceremony
- 9/28/16 Digest: Taylor Farms becoming a leader in sustainability