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A complete chronological list of my work across science writing, content marketing, and everything in between. If you’re looking for specific examples, feel free to reach out and I’ll point you to a few favorites. (Looking for curated highlights? Head over to my writing portfolio →)

Winter 2025-2026 Filling the Gap: Holden Seed Bank Steps Up to Grow Native Tree Seedlings (Forests & Gardens magazine)
2025.11.11 What’s That Thing on the Emergent Tower? Holden Tests New Forest Pest Monitoring Tool (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.11.03 UWM researcher reconstructs ancient landscapes from the Midwest to Mars (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
2025.10.27 Raising the next researcher: Enabling students to give back big through research (Marquette University)
2025.10.22 Newfound garlic mustard aphid may help, but won’t solve, our garlic mustard problem (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.10.17 Meet Samantha Worthy, Holden’s Newest Scientist (Holden Forests & Gardens)
Fall 2025 Why Old Forests Matter (Forests & Gardens magazine)
2025.10.14 From Navy corpsman to community advocate: UWM public health student finds his purpose (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
2025.10.10 MSU scientists discover regulatory pathway behind cyanobacteria’s carbon-fixing factories (Michigan State University)
2025.10.09 Breakdown, It’s Alright (Wildflower Magazine)
2025.09.17 Restoring Forests, Engaging Landowners, Advancing Science – All in One Place (The Applied Ecologist) (cross-posted to Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.09.08 Ongoing HF&G Study Tests a Novel Way to Give Urban Tree Plantings a Boost (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.08.27 Forest Pests & Diseases (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.07.30 Discover What Happens Behind the Scenes at Holden at the 10th Annual SEARCH Symposium (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.07.22 UWM engineering student brings metal casting to the masses (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
2025.07.22 UWM professor is fighting superbugs in Milwaukee and around the world (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
2025.07.22 UWM instructor and entrepreneur is shaping Milwaukee’s tech future (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
Summer 2025 Science in the Working Woods Learning Forest (Forests & Gardens magazine)
2025.06.12 Inside Marquette Mentors — students’ guiding lights (Marquette University)
2025 Public Gardens: Hidden Heroes of Climate Change Research (Public Garden, Volume 40, Issue 2)
2025 Life in Technicolor (Wildflower Magazine, Volume 42, No. 1)
2025.04.28 Collaboration in the Flint Hills: A Conservation Success Story (Natural Areas Association)
2025.04.28 New study confirms beech leaf disease threatens European beech trees, too (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.04.28 Study Shows Forest Soils Still Bear the Scars of Industrial Pollution (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.04.28 A New Way to Detect Beech Leaf Disease: Rainwater Running Down Tree Trunks (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.04.25 Good News for Forests: Invasive Shrub Removal Gets Easier After Two Years of Work (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.04.23 Beech Leaf Disease-Causing Nematode More Widespread Than Visible Symptoms Suggest, New Study Finds (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.04.15 Phenology (Holden Forests & Gardens)
Spring 2025 Conserve & Restore (Holden Forests & Gardens – 2024 Impact Report)
2025.03.24 30% of Beech Trees Killed by Beech Leaf Disease, New Study Shows (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.03.05 How Nonnative Plants Respond to Climate Change: Holden Arboretum Researchers Report (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.02.24 The Power of Plant Records: How Tracking Plants Helps Save Species (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.02.06 A Swarm of Cyborg Insects Might Save You From Disaster (Discover magazine)
2025.01.16 Seedling Scramble: How Warming Changes Plant Communities (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.10.10 Rhododendrons (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.01.08 Holden’s Wildflower Garden Is a Living Laboratory for Climate Change Research—Here’s What Our Researchers Have Learned (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2025.01 The Seeds of Restoration: New Effort Launches at NAC24 to Address Shortage of Local Ecotype Seed in Kansas & Missouri (Natural Areas Journal)
2024 Collaboration in the Flint Hills: A Conservation Success Story (for the Natural Areas Association)
2024 Invader’s Arsenal (Wildflower Magazine, Volume 41, No. 2)
2024.11.11 Time of Impact, Time to Rise (Marquette Magazine)
2024.11.08 Holden researchers put forest management strategies to the test. Here’s what they found (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2024.09.24 Anna’s Birth Control Odyssey: Learn about one customer’s experience with birth control as she navigated trial‑and‑error to find a method that worked for her (adyn.com)
2024.09.19 How senior engineering student Elise Raschke leads: intentionally with a heart for service (Marquette Magazine)
2024.09.19 Modern Master’s (Marquette Today)
2024.08.06 Celebrating the Holden Seed Bank: One Year of Growth (Freshwater Cleveland)
2024.07.18 NSF Grant to Bring New Computing Infrastructure to Campus (Colgate University Research News)
2024.06.24 Targeting PFAS: Marquette research aims to make forever chemicals less permanent — and more manageable for communities (Marquette Magazine)
2024.05.16 Babs knows best: How the Marquette alumna became the internet’s favorite mom (Marquette Magazine)
2024.02.01 Why We’re Here: Statement of Need for Botanical Belonging
2023.12.22 What Comes After Oceangate? (Discover magazine, Jan/Feb 2024 issue)
2023.11.20 Science Sleuth Looks To Expose Research Fraud (Discover magazine. Nov/Dec 2023 issue)
2023.11.06 A prairie grows at 14th and Wisconsin (Marquette Magazine, fall 2023 issue)
2023.08.21 Holden Researchers Explore an Underappreciated Way Warmer Temperatures Will Impact Ecosystems: Decomposition (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2023.08.08 A Seed Station for Forest Restoration (Forests & Gardens, summer 2023 issue)
2023.07.26 Holden Researcher Will Study How Microbes Alter How Plants Respond to Climate Change with Prestigious Award from the NSF (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2023.06.02 Researchers develop new detection tool for beech leaf disease’s nematode pest (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2023.04.28 Acid Rain’s Effects Still Visible Belowground in Eastern Forests (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2023.04.28 Snowballing Effects of Beech Leaf Disease Hurt Helpful Root Fungi (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2023.04.27 Forest Wildflowers and their Overstory Trees Are Changing with Climate, But Not Always Keeping Pace (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2023.04.25 How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate (Quanta Magazine)
2023.03.19 Passing the Torch (Marquette’s College of Health Sciences Magazine)
2022.12.2 Why We’re Celebrating Soil for World Soil Day — And You Should Too! (Holden Forests & Gardens)
2022.12.19 Great Lakes, Great Trees (Forests & Gardens, winter 2022-23 issue)
2022.11.17 Shaped by culture (Marquette Magazine)
2022.11.17 Surge protector (Marquette Magazine)
2022.11.16 Of wealth and values (Marquette Magazine)
2022.11.01 Rising star in astronomy: Jedidah Isler (Astronomy Magazine)
2022.11.01 Rising star in astronomy: Yvette Cendes (Astronomy Magazine)
2022.09.16 Startup strives to solve stormwater surge problems (Marquette Today)
2022.08.29 What it Took to Get the Monarch Listed as Endangered – And How Citizen Scientists Helped (Science Near Me blog for discovermagazine.com)
2022.08.26 Why you should trim your beech trees in September (Holden Forest & Gardens)
2022.08.26 Can I save my beech tree? And other beech care questions, answered (Holden Forest & Gardens)
2022.08.24 A Dynamic Mathematician (Colgate Research)
2022.08.05 19th Century Citizen Science Shows How the Climate Has Already Changed (Science Near Me blog for discovermagazine.com)
2022.06.22 Garden Partners Unite to Save U.S. Forests (BGCI Cultivate)
2022.05.19 Jillian Paulin ’23 Earns Goldwater Scholarship for Study of Dark Matter (Colgate University News)
2022.05.11 Beyond bonds (Discover for Marquette University)
2022.03.31 A Single Gene in One Species Can Cause Other Species to Go Extinct (Scientific American)
2022.03.08 Scientists want to map the genome of a slime-shooting worm — here’s why (Inverse)
2022.02.13 Great Migrations (Midwest Living, Mar/Apr 2022 issue)
2022.01.08 What Decriminalizing All Drugs Means for Oregon (Discover magazine, Jan/Feb 2022 issue)
2022.01.05 Science in the White House: Has Biden Delivered? (Discover magazine, Jan/Feb 2022 issue)
2022.01.05 The COVID-19 Pandemic: Year 2 (Discover magazine, Jan/Feb 2022 issue)
2021.12.25 Communicating Through Lucid Dreams (Discover magazine, Jan/Feb 2022 issue)
2021.11.22 The Future of Our Food (Colgate Magazine, fall issue)
2021.09.14 Focused on climate change (University of Richmond Magazine)
2021.08.07 Olympic World Records Broken in 2021: The Science Behind the Spectacle (Inverse)
2021.08.04 The Physics of Skateboarding: How Olympians Master Science to Win (Inverse)
2021.08.02 Twisties and Yips: Simone Biles Reveals a Powerful Mind-Body Connection (Inverse)
2021.08 CC Alumna Wins Ecological Award Using Both Her Degrees (The Bulletin – Colorado College)
2021.07.30 Dangerous Olympic Myth About Age Is Being Debunked (Inverse)
2021.07.28 Colgate Mathematician Investigates Shape Formation (Colgate University)
2021.06.29 How excessive sweating affects daily life (Stacker)
2021.06.29 Major cities with the biggest projected temperature changes by 2050 (Stacker)
2021.06.09 OCD, PTSD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder And More: What’s The Difference? (Discover magazine)
2021.06.06 Are Thyroid Diseases On The Rise? (Discover magazine)
2021.05.17 This Rare Genetic Condition Leads to Cancer After Cancer (Discover magazine)
2021.05.14 Can Climate Fiction Writers Reach People in Ways That Scientists Can’t? (Smithsonian magazine)
2021.05.10 When it comes to the air we breathe, experts say Kansas City is a ‘good place’ (The Kansas City Beacon)
2021.05.07 Inside The Brain Of Your Psychopathic Boss (Discover magazine)
2021.05.05 A year later, pandemic ‘victory gardens’ are still blooming in KC (The Kansas City Beacon)
2021.05.03 Sorry allergy sufferers: Research shows KC’s pollen season is longer (The Kansas City Beacon)
2021.04.30 How the coronavirus has affected alcohol use in adults (Stacker)
2021.04.27 States that have vaccinated the most residents (Stacker)
2021.04.22 To Protect Earth, Humans Need to Redefine What Is the “Best” Nature (Inverse)
2021.04.13 How Close Are We To A Cure For HIV? (Discover magazine)
2021.04.08 There Might Be Remnants of an Ancient Planet Buried Inside Earth? Yup (Discover magazine)
2021.04.06 Colgate Physicist Patents New Tool for Communication Tech (Colgate University News)
2021.04.02 Why Is It So Hard to Find a Cure for Cancer? (Discover magazine)
2021.04.01 Self-healing “Xenobots” mean a future with living machines (Inverse)
2021.03.27 The Science of Migraines (Discover magazine)
2021.03.23 Scientists Can Implant False Memories — And Reverse Them (Inverse)
2021.03.22 Should You Walk or Run for Exercise? (Discover magazine)
2021.03.15 Does Smoking Marijuana Cause Cancer? (Discover magazine)
2021.03.13 Magma Ocean Discovery Illuminates Earth’s Extremely Metal Past (Inverse)
2021.03.10 Billions of Birds Die Annually From Flying Into Windows — Here’s Why and How to Stop It (Discover magazine)
2021.03.10 To Predict a Cataclysmic Future, Scientists Explore Earth’s Geomagnetic Past (Inverse)
2021.03.09 Pandemic year 2: Vaccines, variants, and other developments (Stacker)
2021.03.07 U.S. cities with the cleanest air (Stacker)
2021.03.05 The Amazon Rainforest Could Die in Your Lifetime — Here’s Why (Discover magazine)
2021.02.22 What Are Macronutrients and Why Do People Keep Talking About Them? (Discover magazine)
2021.02.12 Species that went extinct in 2020 (Stacker)
2021.02.10 Colgate Computational Biologist Finds New Genetic Mechanism for Adaptation (Colgate University News)
2021.02.02 When can I get vaccinated? And answers to 30 other coronavirus questions (Stacker)

Discover magazine

2021.05.16 Show Me the Science (feature, June 2021 issue)
2021.04.14 Pollinators Are In Trouble. Here’s How Transforming Your Lawn Into A Native Wildflower Habitat Can Help (May 2021 issue)
2020.12.29 Here’s the Top 10 Science Stories You Missed This Year (While You Were Distracted by COVID-19)
2020.12.06 All Eyes on COVID (feature, Jan/Feb 2021 issue)
2020.11.16 Which Animals Are Going Extinct? The 32 Closest Ones Are Often Overlooked
2020.10.27 The Earth Is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds, and Seismologists Don’t Agree Why
2020.09.11 VIDEO: Why Vaccines Take So Long
2020.06.15 Stomachache? Your Gut Bacteria Might Be to Blame (feature, Jul/Aug 2020 issue)
2020.05.01 VIDEO: The %$#@ing Science of Swearing
2020.04.21 What Will It Take To Get People to be More Sustainable? (feature, May 2020 issue)
2020.04.18 It’s Not Easy Being Green (feature, May 2020 issue)
2020.04.10 VIDEO: Should You Eat Breakfast?
2020.03.26 VIDEO: The Sun: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Hot
2020.02.06 VIDEO: Is Alcohol Really That Bad for You?
2020.02.05 Seals Caught On Film Clapping In the Wild For the First Time Ever
2020.01.31 Native Americans Abandoned Cahokia’s Massive Mounds — But the Story Doesn’t End There
2020.01.30 VIDEO: Meet the Denisovans, Humans’ Mysterious Cousins
2020.01.22 New Gene Therapy In Mice Could Offer Lasting Protection Against Nerve Agents
2020.01.15 Is Something in Your Diet Screwing With Your Stomach? Here’s How an Elimination Diet Could Help
2019.12.20 Breakfast Might Not Be So Essential After All
2019.12.17 VIDEO: How Did Saturn Get Its Rings?
2019.12.12 When Dieting, Should We Be Fasting Or Grazing?
2019.11.11 A Particulate Matter (Dec 2019 issue)
2019.11.11 Consistent Exercise is Better Exercise
2019.11.06 Degrees of Separation (Dec 2019 issue)
2019.10.10 Researchers Find Dietary Changes That Help Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease
2019.09.26 Plastic Tea Bags Release Billions of Microplastics Into Every Cup
2019.09.18 One Protein Makes Ebola Deadly. Scientists Can Turn it Off
2019.09.12 9 Ways to Instantly Cut Your Environmental Impact
2019.08.28 A String of Unusual Experiments Claim to Show Plants Can Think. Few Scientists Are Buying It
2019.08.27 Next Steps (Sep/Oct 2019 issue)
2019.08.27 The Flamingo’s Future (feature, Sep/Oct 2019 issue)
2019.08.09 9 Things You Think Are Environmentally Friendly — But Aren’t
2019.08.07 Degrees of Separation (Sep/Oct 2019 issue)
2019.08.07 What a Jerk (Sep/Oct 2019 issue)
2019.07.24 Despite Dangers, Millions of Americans Are Still Taking Daily Aspirin
2019.07.20 Meteor Crater: Training Apollo’s first lunar scientists (for Apollo special with Astronomy)
2019.07.20 Cinder Lake: Blasting crater fields to test drive Moon cars (for Apollo special with Astronomy)
2019.07.20 Hawaii’s Big Island: Astronauts explore a moonscape on Earth (for Apollo special with Astronomy)
2019.07.20 The “sim:” Apollo astronauts survive a training gauntlet (for Apollo special with Astronomy)
2019.07.20 Underwater training: Astronauts use swimming pools to simulate low gravity (for Apollo special with Astronomy)
2019.07.11 New ‘Vegebot’ Highlights Why Robots Won’t Replace Vegetable Pickers Anytime Soon
2019.06.25 Elite Athletes Get a Performance Boost From Special Gut Microbes
2019.06.21 Americans Ignore Experts, Continue To Devour Processed Meats
2019.06.19 Our Gut Microbes Are Pickier Eaters Than We Thought
2019.06.12 Viruses: What They are, How They Spread, and How We Fight Them (feature, Jul/Aug 2019 issue)
2019.06.11 Record Rain Is Drowning Fields in the Midwest — Is It Climate Change?
2019.05.22 Bipolar Disorder Increases Parkinson’s Risk Sevenfold
2019.05.20 Training Apollo’s First Lunar Scientists (Jun 2019 issue)
2019.05.17 Processed Foods, Regardless Of Nutrition, Still Cause Weight Gain
2019.05.14 Migrants of the World (Jun 2019 issue)
2019.05.14 Degrees of Separation (Jun 2019 issue)
2019.05.14 High Prices Still Ramp Up Health Care Costs (Jun 2019 issue)
2019.05.03 The Flamingos’ Future: Lessons From A Race To Rescue Thousands of Abandoned Chicks
2019.04.29 A Brewery in Peru Ran For Centuries, Then Burned After One Epic Ancient Party
2019.04.23 Degrees of Separation (Mar 2019 issue)
2019.04.18 Aphid Suicide Squads Save Colonies With Body Ooze
2019.04.15 Repairing the Future (cover story, May 2019 issue)
2019.04.15 Future Flooding of Our Past (May 2019 issue)
2019.04.12 Solution for Climate Change Could Come From A Few Targeted Actions
2019.04.09 Robots, Now with a Gentle Touch (May 2019 issue)
2019.04.09 Mystery of Titanium Dioxide: Solved (May 2019 issue)
2019.04.09 Researchers Make Cells Make Insulin in the Lab (May 2019 issue)
2019.04.09 Cold Climate Dwellers Do Drink More (May 2019 issue)
2019.04.05 Craft Beer’s Quest For The Funky Flavors of Wild Yeast
2019.04.01 Science Uncovers the Secrets of Tennessee Whiskey
2019.03.21 This Woman Can Smell Parkinson’s. It Might Help Lead To Earlier Treatment ** Honorable mention, Best Shortform Science Writing: January-March 2019 (Single Study Deep Dives & Profiles)
2019.03.13 Top Scientists Call for Moratorium Blocking Gene-Edited Babies; Critics Want Action
2019.03.05 People Staring At Screens Still Interested In Natural Wonders
2019.02.12 Hurricane Maria’s True Toll (Mar 2019 issue)
2019.02.12 NASA Scientist Searched For ‘A Couple Hours’ Before Spotting Second Greenland Impact Crater
2019.02.11 Inner Magnetism (Mar 2019 issue)
2019.02.07 Not Only Can Honeybees Count, They Can Also Do Math
2019.01.25 New Genome Sheds Light on the Axolotl, a Master of Regeneration
2019.01.18 What 88 Bee Genomes and 10 Years of Studying Apples Tell Us About the Future of Pollinators
2019.01.14 Hijacked Bacteria Reveal New Compounds, New Drug Candidates
2018.12.20 Gut Microbes Could Soon Diagnose and Explain The Cause of IBS and IBD
2018.12.05 A Compound that Makes Bees Into Queens Could also Aid Human Stem Cell Therapies
2018.11.29 Jumping Spider Suckles Spiderlings Like They’re a Litter of Kittens
2018.11.26 Millions of Years Ago, the Poles Moved — And It Could Have Triggered an Ice Age
2018.11.16 The Bitter Truth: Coffee Lovers’ Love of Caffeine is Wired in their DNA
2018.11.14 Massive Impact Crater Beneath Greenland Could Explain Ice Age Climate Swing
2018.11.07 The 19th-Century Antarctic Air Molecules That Could Change Climate Models
2018.11.06 Flushed Pharmaceuticals Are Likely Drugging Stream Dwellers Like The Platypus
2018.11.01 Bad News for the Already Endangered Chinese Sturgeon
2018.11.31 Lost Research Notes Clear Up Racial Bias Debate in Old Skull Size Study
2018.10.26 America’s Pomegranates Are a Bore. One Researcher is Using His Grandfather’s Fruit to Change That
2018.10.09 Catch and Release Fishing Might Hurt Fish More Than Thought
2018.10.04 Wild Sparrows Learn Experimental Songs
2018.10.04 CRISPR Can Make Old Tomatoes, New Tomatoes
2018.10.01 Nutrition Science Has a Credibility Problem. We Might Blame Gut Microbes
2018.09.28 Ultra-Processed Food: It’s Not Just What We Eat It’s How It’s Made
2018.09.26 Moth Drinking Tears of a Sleeping Bird Caught on Video
2018.09.20 Sharing is Caring? Actually, it’s Just Contagious
2018.09.20 Gambling Monkeys Shed Light on Risky Behavior
2018.09.13 Scientists Can Now Forecast Bird Migrations With Radar and Weather Data
2018.09.12 Hurricane Florence Intensified Fast. We Still Don’t Understand Why Some Storms Fizzle And Others Erupt

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Early years

2018.02.03 Firehawks: Nature’s Arsonists (Plant//People)
2017.06.29 A GSPA Winner Learns that D.C. is “a lot more like Veep than House of Cards” and Explores a Newfound Career Path (ESA.org)
2017.04.26 Science degrees are not just for scientists. (Kellogg Biological Station News & Blog)
2017.02.10 R makes my blood boil and it’s Stack Exchange’s fault (Plant//People)
2016.12.03 Why you should hire me (feat. Hamilton) (Plant//People)
2016.11.30 The only eyeliner in the room (Plant//People)
2016.11.21 Academia, it’s not you… (Plant//People)
2016.10.26 Bad memory club: Gary Johnson, whatsherface, and me (Plant//People)
2016.09.16 Ecology at a Crossroads (Plant//People) **Runner-up, UWE Bristol’s SCU Science Writing Competition
2016.07.11 Pokémon Go’s Missed Opportunity (Plant//People)
2016.07.08 Breath of the Wild (Plant//People)
2016.06.07 “No, no, no, you first!” And other species interactions (Plant//People)
2016.05.22 Are native wildflowers always the best way to attract native pollinators to your garden? (Plant//People)
2016.05.11 Should we be breeding plants to be better suited for ecological restoration? (Plant//People)
2016.05.04 Can an ESFJ survive in academia? (Plant//People)
2016.04.09 Can evolution help us rebuild native habitats? (BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action)
Breeding for ecological restoration? (Seed Today)
2015.12.19 Seriously, how great is teaching? (Plant//People)
2015.08.19 Highlights from the 100th Ecological Society of America meeting (Plant//People)
2015.08.18 Favorite faith & science resources (Plant//People)
2015.08.11 Can you believe in evolution and be a Christian? (At a Crossroads by Noah Filipiak)
2015.06.15 A highly improbable flood (Plant//People)
2015.06.01 May: My busy season (Plant//People)
2015.05.11 Believing in creation, believing in evolution (Plant//People)
2015.05.11 Can science disprove religion? (Plant//People)
2015.04.27 Opening day! (Plant//People)
2015.04.22 Sick day doodles (Plant//People)
2015.04.20 At the science fair (Plant//People)
2015.04.09 Actually, I don’t know anything about “Plant Biology” so don’t ask me! (Plant//People)