Nathan Dappen and I are proud to announce the launch of the Day’s Edge Productions website: www.daysedgeproductions.com! Day’s Edge Productions is our new multimedia production company, creating science and nature media for every audience. Please take a few minutes to browse the site — check out our videos and photos (more coming soon) and tell [...]
Albert Einstein will be remembered for many contributions before this one, but this quote has been resonating with me recently: “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” Einstein was probably being more self-deprecating than necessary – he knew what he was doing to a greater [...]
I got some exciting news late last week: the blog post I submitted to the NESCent evolution blogging competition, “Do mother birds play God?” was selected as one of two winners! There was some stiff competition, and I’m quite honored that the judges chose my blog among all the great entries (you can see them [...]
I’m officially launching a new website today: Sea To Sky: Birds of the Santa Monica Mountains. When I moved to LA in 2006, I was impressed with the diversity of birds in the area. I knew there were great birds in southern California, but I didn’t realize how many wonderful spots there would be close [...]
A couple of months ago, I posted an interview with Suzanne Rutishauser, part of the Untamed Science team. Untamed Science is a group of biologists and filmmakers who produce great educational science films. Well, Rob Nelson, co-founder of Untamed Science, liked our “Video Blog” project from the Science Filmmaking course enough that he’s featuring it [...]
Imagine you’re a biologist. Nothing in your formal training has prepared you to communicate with the public about your work… that just isn’t part of a scientific education these days. So, what if you want people outside the scientific community to understand what you do? Should you tell them to read the papers you’ve published [...]
About this time last year, I was preparing an application for the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) College Scholarship. Through this program, about a dozen young photographers in college or graduate school get to attend NANPA’s annual Nature Photography Summit. I had the honor of being selected to receive one of the scholarships in [...]
A friend recently turned me on to a really cool website: UntamedScience.com. Untamed Science is a group of scientist/filmmakers (“Ecogeeks” in their own words) who create short, educational science videos for young audiences. When I started watching some of the videos on their website, I loved the dynamic, in-your-face approach they took. After watching a [...]
Canopy in the Clouds is a really cool website created by a photographer, Drew Fulton, a tropical plant ecologist, Greg Goldsmith, and a cinematographer, Colin Witherill, and funded by National Geographic Society Young Explorers Grants (the same program that has partly funded my dissertation research on anoles). Through an intuitive interface, users can explore different [...]
I spent Saturday through Tuesday at the 95th Annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. On Sunday, along with co-organizers Molly Mehling and Dror Yaron, I co-instructed a full-day workshop on photography for ecologists: “Visual Communication of Ecological Knowledge: Photography as a Tool of Style and Substance.” Our goals were (1) to [...]