We had a heck of a view out in SWWYO last night as solar particles line-danced across Earth’s magnetosphere last night! ✨

#aurora #stars #wyoming #beautiful

Out here in SWWYO the hazards speak for themselves. They're wildin' (…about environmental science!). 🤠 #moose #environment #science #fieldwork

I met an old soul Utah Juniper last week while completing fieldwork. It’s a living pillar that has likely endured (SWWYO) for more than a millennia (TBD). It has witnessed languages rise and fall, migrations beneath cold stars, and the hush of lives past.

#botany #QueerInStem #landscapearchaeology

Ain’t no party like a fieldwork party ’cause a fieldwork party don’t stop—it just gets sunburned, loses cell service, and celebrates with lukewarm Gatorade and data sheets.

#science #QueerInSTEM #BeYouInStem #paleoethnobotany #ResearchMatters

Zion NP sunsets are a whole vibe.

#Zion #Nature #naturephotography #canyonviews #desertvibes #hikingadventure

Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa). Opens at dusk, pollinated by hawkmoths. Leaves + roots used historically by Indigenous groups for poultices, food, and ceremonial healing. Thrives in rocky, well-drained soils of sagebrush steppe and pinyon-juniper woodlands of SWWYO.

Fashionably late: [Trans] visibility, for me, lives in a niche presence—showing up as a queer scholar and science communicator in underrepresented spaces. It’s the soft strength of authenticity, the echo of those who came before, and pride as shared dignity with my community and chosen family. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Abundant needle-leaf fleabane (Erigeron nematophyllus), yellow rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis). In bloom during their typical late spring phenophase in the intermountain region of western Wyoming.

Arrowleaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) in full bloom brings vitality to the Sagebrush steppe of the intermountain west.