Selected Nonfiction (2021-2025)
The Hidden Value of Vultures, The Washington Post
Vultures Prevent Tens of Millions of Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions Each Year, Scientific American
Frontier myth vilified the California grizzly. Science tells a new story, The Washington Post
Neither Plants nor Animals, These Ocean Organisms Protect Their Ecosystems against Heat Waves, Scientific American
Elk in the Sierra Nevada: An Invasion or a Recovery?, Sierra Magazine
Is Wildfire Smoke Causing Birds to Tend to Empty Nests?, Smithsonian
Vulture Cultures, JSTOR Daily
For Melon Farmers, Insects' Benefits May Outweigh Their Costs, Civil Eats
Corvallis Science & Nature: 63 weekly columns for the Corvallis Advocate
Oregon Capital Chronicle: 10 science, environment and agriculture stories
2025
Elk in the Sierra Nevada: An Invasion or a Recovery?, Sierra Magazine
A Most Opportunistic Colonizer, JSTOR Daily
Trump Administration Moves to End Major Conservation Rule, Sierra Magazine
Feds cancel research meetings, raising fears about jobs, hundreds of millions to Oregon, Oregon Capital Chronicle
Five March Birds to Look Out For in Corvallis, Corvallis Advocate
2024
The Hidden Value of Vultures, The Washington Post
Frontier myth vilified the California grizzly. Science tells a new story, The Washington Post
Neither Plants nor Animals, These Ocean Organisms Protect Their Ecosystems against Heat Waves, Scientific American
Is Wildfire Smoke Causing Birds to Tend to Empty Nests?, Smithsonian
Vulture Cultures, JSTOR Daily
(chosen as an Editor's Pick for 2024)
Why Do Trees Drop So Many Seeds One Year, and Then Hardly Any the Next?, Smithsonian
The Complicated Ecology of Cemeteries, Sierra Magazine
Are Black Vultures Being Scapegoated for Livestock Deaths?, Earth Island Journal
Current events: Marine biodiversity network keeps eyes on the California Current, OSU Strata Magazine
Out with a Whimper, JSTOR Daily
Tree of Peace, Spark of War, JSTOR Daily
Corvallis Science & Nature, 27 weekly columns for the Corvallis Advocate
Oregon Capital Chronicle: 2 science and environment stories
2023
Worried about Sea Level Rise? Look for the Lichens, Hakai Magazine (reprinted in The Atlantic, Popular Science, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
For Melon Farmers, Insects' Benefits May Outweigh Their Costs, Civil Eats
Bugging Out, JSTOR Daily
Ecologists Use Museum Specimens to Dig into the Parasitic Past, The Scientist
Oregon Capital Chronicle: 7 science, environment and agriculture stories
Book Review: Good Catch by Valentine Thomas, Civil Eats
Corvallis Science & Nature, 27 weekly columns for the Corvallis Advocate
A Bank of Her Own, JSTOR Daily
Why Do Sharks Attack Humans?, Discover Magazine
2022
Vultures Prevent Tens of Millions of Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions Each Year, Scientific American
130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Is Already Affecting What We Eat, Hakai Magazine (reprinted in The Atlantic, Wired and Atlas Obscura)
Every Good Bird Does Fine, JSTOR Daily
(chosen as an Editor's Pick for 2022)
Scientists Use Sound to Attract Baby Oysters Back to the Reef, The Scientist
Inside the Project Trying to Save Datasets from Extinction, The Scientist
A Precautionary Tale, JSTOR Daily
A World of Wildlife in Abandoned Mines, The Scientist
Solving the Mystery of Washington’s Bigleaf Maple Die-Off, Earth Island Journal
Corvallis Science & Nature, 9 weekly columns for the Corvallis Advocate
2021
Why Pair Bonding Seabirds Break Up, Hakai Magazine
Scientific Papers
SHEFFIELD GUY, L.M., ROBY, D.D., GALL, A.E., IRONS, D.B. & ROSE, I.C. 2009. The influence of diet and ocean conditions on productivity of auklets on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Marine Ornithology 37: 227–236.
GALL, A.E., ROBY, D.D., IRONS, D.B. & ROSE, I.C. 2006. Differential response in chick survival to diet in least and crested auklets. Marine Ecology Progress Series 308: 279-291.
2012-2016 (fiction)
The Ghost Lottery (Audio), The Overcast (2016)
Fylgia in the City, Plasma Frequency (2016) (Available through Amazon, Createspace, etc.)
There Once Was a Lady, New Myths (2015)
Trial of the God-Star, Daily Science Fiction (2014)
You Wouldn't Download a Mom, Plasma Frequency (2014)
Its Terrible White Horn, Mad Scientist Journal (2014)
Album, New Myths (2013)
Piper (Audio), Cast of Wonders (2013)
The Canary and the Roach, Redshifted: Martian Stories anthology (2013) (Available for purchase)
Setting the Price, Over the Brink: Tales of Environmental Disaster anthology (2012) (Available for purchase)
Interviews
ABC Radio (Australia): Climate change and seafood menus (2022)
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