New Stuff

EXPEDITION TO COSTA RICA

November 2023

Listening to Leviathans

Call me wishful. Some two miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, in a fiberglass fishing boat, researcher Laura May-Collado scans the horizon. She’s hunting for humpback whales in this warm and watery part of the world. And I’m looking around too, tipsy on anti-sea-sickness medicine, hoping to see a white whale, perhaps breaching above the waves like the second coming of Moby Dick.

July 21, 2023

One of my photos was published in the New York Times. Another in the Washington Post, Wired, USA Today, and CNN. Not a bad day.

VERMONT QUARTERLY

Cover Story—Spring 2023

To Save the Forest. Should We Move the Trees?

As the woodlands of New England face a hotter future, researchers are exploring the promise and peril of "assisted migration." I wrote and photographed this cover story.

VIDEO

Ready for Take Off

My friend and former colleague Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist made this video about a student intern at the electric airplane maker Beta Technologies. I tagged along to help with interviews and edits.

UVM TODAY

Team Builds First Living Robots That Can Reproduce

My story about Xenobots 3.0 led to hundreds of stories in media around the world.

INTERVIEW

March 2023

We, Robots

I invited a poet, a philosopher, and a roboticist to talk together about the future of artificial intelligence. I had questions. They had questions.

VERMONT QUARTERLY

Fixing Phosphorus

From corn fields to sewage plants to this trip in a motorboat, I went out with scientists who are working to get phosphorus to stay where it’s wanted and out where it’s not. I wrote and photographed this cover story.

UVM MAGAZINE

April 2023

Parasite Insight

With a curved pair of tweezers, Lori Stevens picks up a miserable bug. The insect itself is not miserable—it’s dead and just came out of a freezer. It’s a kissing bug, a member of a blood-sucking group called triatomines—that causes the deadly disease Chagas.

CNN

Over the Big Ice

I took this photo flying in a helicopter over Greenland. CNN published it.

VERMONT QUARTERLY

Story Cores

I hiked up Camels Hump mountain with a dendrochronologist looking for ancient spruce—and wrote this story for Vermont Quarterly.