Selected Talks, Outreach, and Events

  • MIT EAPS 40th Anniversary | 2024

    • Ripple Effects — EAPS Impact on Science and Careers | Invited Session Host and Moderator

  • MIT Alumni Association Board Meeting | 2024

    • “Geology and Genetics: 2 Studies on Life’s Past” | Invited Talk

  • Boston University | 2024

    • 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 | 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 | 2022

    • “Astrobiology and Ancient Earth” | Volunteer Talk

  • Green City on KFMG 98.9 FM | 2022

    • “Keeping up with Climate Issues” | Invited Interview

  • College of William and Mary | 2021

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

  • Cambridge Science Festival | 2021

    • “Monitoring Earth from the Kwajalein Atoll” | Volunteer Moderator

    • “Tornadoes with a Twist!” | Volunteer Moderator

    • “Weather... in SPACE?!” | Volunteer Moderator

  • MIT Faculty Forum | 2021

    • “Landing on Mars” | Invited Moderator

  • Institute at Brown for Environment and Society | 2021

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

  • Brown University Cogut Institute for the Humanities | 2021

    • Pitching Your Writing to The Public (I) | Invited Panelist

    • Pitching Your Writing to The Public (II) | Invited Panelist

  • MIT Better World | 2020

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

    • “And Back: Returning Mars Rocks to Earth” | Invited Moderator

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

    • Dismantling the Dichotomy between Scientists and Science Writers” | Invited Lecture

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

    • “Science Journalism” | Talk

  • MIT Chats | 2020

    • “Exploring Earth and Other Planets for Ancient Life” | Invited Talk and Q&A

  • MIT Alumni Association Reunion Weekend | 2020

    • “Virtual Tour of MIT’s Solar System Exhibit Led by Professor Richard P. Binzel” | Invited Moderator and Session Planner

  • Brown University Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Graduate Student Seminar Series | 2019

    • “How to Effectively Communicate your Science” | Invited Talk

  • Brown University Voss Environmental Fellowship Seminar Series | 2019

    • “Science Writing 101” | Invited Talk

  • Boston Hubweek Open Doors | 2019

    • “How Analyzing Rocks Helps Us Communicate Science” | Invited Talk

  • AGU Sharing Science | 2019

    • “Revealing the Baseline of Geoscience Outreach” | Invited Article

  • Council of the Arts at MIT Meeting | 2019

    • Playwrights Lab | Invited Panelist

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

    • “Science Writing: Case Study through Astrobiology” | Invited Talk

  • Green City on KFMG 98.9 FM | 2019

    • “Climate Change, Seafloor Mining, and Science Writing” | Invited Interview

  • Valley High School | 2018

    • December 2018 | “Astrobiology and You” | Guest Lecture

  • Science and Us | 2018

    • “Archiving Astrobiology and Archaeology” | Invited Talk

  • EOS Magazine | 2018

    • “Paleoclimate Biomarkers” | Featured Science Haiku

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Biogeochemistry Discussion Series | 2018

    • “Mining the Seafloor: Seafloor Massive Sulfides, Ferromanganese Crusts, and Polymetallic Nodules” | Invited Lecture

  • Circle Program for Girls | 2018

    • “Pursuing STEM” | Invited Talk

  • Green City on KFMG 98.9 FM | 2018

    • “Climate Change, Sustainability, and Science Communication” | Invited Interview