Currently in the midst of inventorying hundreds of snail shells for an upcoming exhibit - 300 down, ???? to go! 🐚

I’m at the Sun City Library Local Author’s Fair with WSC peddling my book! 🐴

Hello from the ice!

For the first time my email away message says “out at sea” - I’ve been aboard the RV Steadfast as a Polar STEAM Educator Fellow! ⛴️

I’m with a team of researchers studying Leconte Glacier in southeast Alaska, and I’ll be bringing back what I learn to WSC. ❄️

So much gear and this isn’t even all of it! Getting ready to go to sea for the first time as a @polarsteamteam.bsky.social Fellow.

I’ve been practicing my film photography again in anticipation of my Alaska trip. 35mm, Canon AE-1.

1. Santa Barbara
2. San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
3. Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology
4. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Popping back on Bluesky to say that am so excited to announce that I am a 2025 Polar STEAM Educator Fellow! I'll be deployed to Alaska to work on a glacier - I can't wait work w/ Jesse & Vanessa from OSU this summer & bring back everything I'll learn about glacial melt and climate change back to WSC

New paper out today! Super proud to be included on this one. Do you want to learn about Pacific mastodon genetics and morphology? Of course you do!

(I made a silly little meme to summarize the paper, please enjoy).

peerj.com/articles/188...

Who has four paws and scared me half to death with his first emergency vet visit and has made me super behind in all my work, including my terror camp presentation! This little dude!

(He is doing a-ok now and has a follow-up visit with his regular vet later today)

SHE’S HERE

Friendsgiving also feels like a great time to finally break out this Samantha Pleet harvest dress 🍑🍇🍎

Feeling pretty proud of my contribution to today’s Friendsgiving - cranberry tart!

Grim says good morning, everyone say it back

I'm already planning my fit for the Moby Dick Marathon and my hand slipped and I ordered this beauty in brass, whoops (from JTopolski on Etsy!)

I took my film camera to Maine in September and while I need to fix the light leak issue I never regret lugging that thing with me on my trips.

Oh to be back on the Atlantic coast.

I am going to Copenhagen in November with a friend (long live winter travel!) and I chose our accommodation specifically so we could end each day of frivolity at a place called the Library Bar because I am Predictable