Environment
2024
Plan organizers set open house to help preserve the Peaceful Side of the Smokies, Hellbender Press
Mountain monarchs inspired Wanda DeWaard’s legacy of citizen science, Hellbender Press
Not just a bougie supper club: Slow Food returns, patiently, to mountains, Hellbender Press
Smokies tourists are coming to see the light, Hellbender Press
Little River Dam-Removal Project Flowing Forward, Specific Timeline TBA, Hellbender Press
Fighting Our Own Worst Enemy Along the Way to Better Seeds and Systems, Hellbender Press
2023
From Soil to Sky: Will the Misty Microclimates of the Smokies Prevail in a Warming World?, Hellbender Press
2020
Restricting Ammonia Emissions Not Enough to Control Nitrogen Deposition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2016
Fire on the Mountain: What It’s Really Like to Be Caught in a Wildfire, Knoxville Mercury
Protecting the Natural Sounds and Night Skies of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Knoxville Mercury
2008
Fighting Hemlock Woolly Adelgid: One Man’s Plight to Save the Eastern Hemlock, Tree Care Industry Association Magazine (via Wayback Machine)
Politics + Social Justice
Topics: Climate Change, Religion, Reproductive Rights, Disability
2024
Experts and Citizens Plan and Commiserate over TVA’s Lack of Public Process, Hellbender Press
2023
Will Little River Run Wild and Free Again?, Hellbender Press
Urban Sprawl is Eating up Valuable Tennessee Farms and Woods and People are Fighting Back, Hellbender Press
2021
Mapping the Way to Climate Justice, Sojourners
2020
“Same God” Shows True Solidarity is Always Costly, Sojourners
Amid Climate Crisis, Many Americans Still Don’t Know What the Green New Deal Is, Truthout
The Personal and the Political: The Transformational Politics of Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Amplitude Magazine
2019
Coal Knew, Too, HuffPost
Arts & Culture
2019
Joy Harjo’s New Poetry Collection Brings Native Issues to the Forefront, Smithsonian.com
Tiny Dancer Takes Big Leaps Through Life, Amplitude Magazine
Disabled Queer Poet Jillian Weise Upends Ableist Assumptions in Cyborg Detective, 3:AM
The Coolest Couple on YouTube, Amplitude Magazine
Where There’s a Passion There’s a Way, Amplitude Magazine
2017
David Higgins: Technical Meets Flexible and Makes Beautiful, Silkworm Magazine
Open Infrastructure
Selections from employment by ORCID (Open Researcher Contributor ID)
2024
CERN a Top Data Contributor to ORCID through INSPIRE’s Integration for High-Energy Physics Community, ORCID blog
Case Study: Stanford University Integrates ORCID into a Centralized Identity Management System, ORCID blog
2022
ORCIDat10: Celebrating 10 Years of the ORCID Galaxy, ORCID blog
Engineering
Selections from employment by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Tickle College of Engineering Communications Department.
Topics: Civil and Environmental Engineering + Nuclear Engineering
2020
Predicting Tungsten’s Role in Powering the Future, University of Knoxville — Department of Nuclear Engineering
Radiating Hope: Khan’s Medical Breakthrough Sparks Hope During COVID-19 Crisis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Nuclear Engineering
UT, ORNL Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding Atomic-Scale Nature of Disordered Materials, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Nuclear Engineering
Robotic Technology May Play a Key Role in Helping Combat COVID-19, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Disease-Resistant Buildings and Infrastructure for Resilience to COVID-19, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Road Traffic Injuries and the Opioid Crisis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nuclear Energy Holds Key Role in a Low Carbon Future, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Nuclear Engineering
2019
A World in a Grain of Sand, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
UT’s He Part of Global Team Improving Wastewater Treatment, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nashville’s Landfill Problem Might Have Unlikely Solution: Bacteria, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Genetic Algorithms: Where Evolutionary Biology Meets Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Nuclear Engineering
A Scattered Approach, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Nuclear Engineering
A Future in Fusion: The Race to Harness the Next Generation of Nuclear Power, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Nuclear Engineering
America’s Changing Transportation Landscape, University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Department of Nuclear Engineering
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