Selected Talks, Outreach, and Events

  • Boston University | April 2023

    • CAS EE 500 | The Art of Science Communication | Invited Lecture

  • Institute at Brown for Environment and Society | 2024

    • ENVS 1421 | Podcasting for the Common Good: Storytelling with Science | Invited Lecture

  • Curry College | November 2023

    • ENVS 2215 | Environmental Science | Invited Lecture

  • Ig Nobel Improbable Research Dramatic Reading | Invited Performer | 2023

  • Institute at Brown for Environment and Society | 2023

    • ENVS 1421 | Podcasting for the Common Good: Storytelling with Science | Invited Lecture

  • Cambridge Science Festival | Invited Talk | 2022

  • Green City on KFMG 98.9 FM | Invited Radio Interview | February 2022

    • “Keeping up with Climate Issues”

  • College of William and Mary | April 2021

    • The Environmental and Human History of North America | Guest Lecture

  • Cambridge Science Festival | April 2021

    • “Monitoring Earth from the Kwajalein Atoll”

    • “Tornadoes with a Twist!”

    • “Weather... in SPACE?!”

  • MIT Faculty Forum | February 2021

    • “Landing on Mars”

  • Institute at Brown for Environment and Society | February 2021

    • ENVS 1421 | Podcasting for the Common Good: Storytelling with Science | Guest Lecture

  • Brown University | Cogut Institute for the Humanities | February 2021

    • Panel Conversation • Pitching Your Writing to The Public (I)

    • Panel Conversation • Pitching Your Writing to The Public (II)

  • MIT Better World | November 2020

    • “To Mars: Exploring the Ancient Martian Environment with the Perseverance Rover”

    • “And Back: Returning Mars Rocks to Earth”

  • Brown University | Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Lunch Bunch Series | September 2020

    • “Dismantling the Dichotomy between Scientists and Science Writers”

  • MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Summer Research Series | June 2020

    • “Science Journalism”

  • MIT Chats | June 2020

    • “Exploring Earth and Other Planets for Ancient Life”

  • MIT Alumni Association Reunion Weekend | May 2020

    • “Virtual Tour of MIT’s Solar System Exhibit Led by Professor Richard P. Binzel”

  • Brown University | Graduate Student Seminar Series | November 2019

    • “How to Effectively Communicate your Science”

  • Brown University | Voss Environmental Fellowship Seminar Series | November 2019

    • “Science Writing 101”

  • Boston Hubweek | Open Doors | July 2019

    • Invited Talk for Cambridge and Boston’s science, art and technology festival

    • “How Analyzing Rocks Helps Us Communicate Science”

  • AGU Sharing Science | Invited Article | May 2019

    • “Revealing the Baseline of Geoscience Outreach”

  • Council of the Arts at MIT Playwrights’ Lab | Invited Panelist | April 2019

    • Discussed experiences as a scientist and writer for the board of the Council for Arts at MIT

  • Brown University | Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Undergraduate Student Series | March 2019

    • “Science Writing: Case Study through Astrobiology”

  • Green City on KFMG 98.9 FM | Invited Radio Interview | January 2019

    • “Climate Change, Seafloor Mining, and Science Writing”

  • Valley High School | Guest Lecture | December 2018

    • December 2018 | “Astrobiology and You”

  • Science and Us | Featured Speaker | December 2018

    • “Archiving Astrobiology and Archaeology”

  • EOS Magazine | Featured Science Haiku | October 2018

    • “Paleoclimate Biomarkers”

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Biogeochemistry Discussion Series | June 2018

    • Invited Lecture

    • ”Mining the Seafloor: Seafloor Massive Sulfides, Ferromanganese Crusts, and Polymetallic Nodules”

  • Circle Program for Girls | Invited Talk | June 2018

    • “Pursuing STEM”

  • Green City on KFMG 98.9 FM | Invited Radio Interview | January 2018

    • “Climate Change, Sustainability, and Science Communication”