Projects
Connect Wabanaki community members with science and conservation organizations; coordinate efforts to rebuild access and agency in coastal lands and waters (March 2022– ).
Contribute science art, science writing, and communications consulting for the Nordic Society Oikos, encompassing the ecological societies of Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden along with five international scientific journals (February 2019– ).
Present art exhibitions, sketching workshops, live and virtual presentations, and other events on themes including field sketching and seabird conservation (2017– ).
Taught sketching to UMaine archaeology field school students (June 2024).
Taught sketching in New Zealand to Carleton College geology students; resumed previous island research with the Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust (December 2022–April 2023).
Completed a three-week artist residency on the Isles of Shoals, seven miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire; taught sketching to marine biology students (June–July 2021).
Sketchbiologized on La Gomera, Canarias; project abbreviated by pandemic (March 2020).
Sailed on the SSV Corwith Cramer out of Puerto Rico; taught sketching as an observational tool for Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program students (January-February 2020).
Sketched seabirds in New Zealand for nine months while living out of an old station wagon, hitching boat rides to remote islands, and writing stories about seabird conservation as Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow (2017–18).
Sketched geologic features in Iceland for Bowdoin College (June 2017).
Nest-searched, sketched endemic birds, and worked as communicator on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo, with research crew from University of Montana (March 2017).
Worked as communicator for American Ornithological Society (2015–17).
Banded songbirds, censused heron nests, resighted terns, and sketched wildlife on Stratton Island, Maine, with Audubon's Project Puffin/Seabird Restoration Program (May 2016).
Sketched plants and megafauna in Kenya (December 2015).
Bicycled and sketched across eastern Europe from Pisa to Budapest (May 2015).
Assisted with one month of Black-tailed Godwit research and conservation in Friesland, Netherlands, for University of Groningen (April 2015).
Sketched wildlife in southeast Asia (January–March 2015).
Worked as communicator for Bowdoin College (2013–15).
Worked as science writer for Cornell Lab of Ornithology (2012).
Wrote master’s thesis on gull taxonomy in Maine and Massachusetts (2011–12).
Sketched birds in southern Florida and Keys (May 2011).
Spent two field seasons researching breeding Nazca Boobies on Isla Española, Galápagos, for Wake Forest University (2009–10).
Surveyed avian diversity by sight, sound, and mist-net capture at three nature reserves in Ecuador jungle and cloud forest (2009).
Went on a three-month birdblogging roadtrip around the western United States (2008).
Drove a lobsterboat in Bar Harbor, Maine, and sketched coastal wildlife (2007–2008).
Contributed to Project Owlnet, HawkWatch, Christmas Bird Count, and International Migratory Bird Day surveys across North America (2005–08).
Worked on farms and sketched on the Iberian Peninsula (2006).
Researched undergraduate thesis on forest community ecology in western MA (2005–6).
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