WRITING
The Atlantic
A Mystery That Took 13,200 Years to Crack, June, 2022
The Dark Secrets of Earth’s Deep Past, Feb 3, 2021
Oxygen and the Amazon, August 27, 2019
The Anthropocene is a Joke, August 13, 2019
When a Killer Climate Catastrophe Struck the World's Oceans, Dec 6, 2018
A Climate Catastrophe Paved the Way for the Dinosaurs’ Reign, October 24, 2018
Scientists Have Uncovered a Disturbing Climate Change Precedent, Aug 6, 2018
Why Earth's History Appears So Miraculous, March 15, 2018
A Foreboding Similarity in Today’s Oceans and a 94-Million-Year-Old Catastrophe, January 12, 2018
The Strange Future Hurricane Harvey Portends, August 31, 2017
Burning Fossil Fuels Almost Ended All Life on Earth, July 11, 2017
The Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction (book excerpt), June 13, 2017
A Possible Break in One of Evolution's Biggest Mysteries, December 12, 2016
The Last Great Arctic Shipwreck, September 20, 2016
Is Middle America Due for a Huge Earthquake?, June 23, 2016
New York Times
To Understand Our Future on Earth, Look to the Laws That Govern Nature (Book Review), December 9, 2021
The Bizarre Tale of the ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils (Book Review), October 1, 2018
Rambling through Time, January 27, 2018
When Life on Earth was Nearly Extinguished, July 29, 2017
Lessons From Underwater Miami, April 23, 2016
The Death of the Dinosaurs, February 1, 2015
Headstone for an Apocalypse, August 16, 2013
The New Yorker
We May Never Understand the Ocean-Wide Damage Done by Industrial Whaling (Book Review), August 8, 2018
Glimpses of a Mass Extinction in Modern Day Western New York, July 4, 2018
Scientific American
What Ancient Mass Extinctions Tell Us about the Future, September 1, 2020
Wired
Is It So Bad If the World Gets a Little Hotter? Uh, Yeah (book excerpt), June 16, 2017
Tracking the Secret Lives of Great White Sharks, December 19, 2013
Aeon
Sound Off, October 14, 2014
Washington Post
The Search for Forgotten Slave Cemeteries at James Madison’s Virginia estate, January 2, 2018
Planets are Easy to Find; He's Aiming for Aliens, July 22, 2013
Power Play: U.S. Prepares to Lease Huge Tracts off the East Coast for Windmill Farms, July 23, 2012
Right Whales on Wrong Track, April 30, 2012
Slate
Gross National Product, May 3, 2013
Boston Globe
Conch Fishery Lucrative, Imperiled, August 19, 2012
Harvard Business School Press
The Northwest Passage and Epilogue, (requires purchase) October 24 2008
Microbe
Microbial Muse, November 2013
Martha's Vineyard Magazine
The Secret Life of Clay, August 2017
Living on the Edge, August 2013
On the Ground at Nomans Land, September-October 2011
Vineyard Gazette
Separated at Birth, Nantucket Meets Martha’s Vineyard, June 28, 2012
Last Groundfisherman Speaks Out, October 6, 2011