Language Alive! Hupa and Pomo stories

December 16, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

This Fall 2015 semester, as part of an ongoing effort to recognize and conserve biocultural diversity, two new bilingual animated story films in the Pomo and Hupa languages were created by San José State University students. The Native languages of California are among the most highly endangered languages in the world. We support the ongoing […]

Students produce book for Wailaki artist, Stewart Wilburn

December 15, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

Stewart Wilburn is master beadworker and a Wailaki/Tolowa/Pomo/Wintu artist. We adopted one another several years back, and have traveled together around Northern California attending tribal gatherings. This semester my San Jose State University students produced a book for and about Stewart: a collection of his artwork, quotes, photos, and an interview one of the students […]

Nature essays nominated for the Pushcart Prize

December 7, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

Writing is an act of courage, faith, heart, and joy. For the past seven years I’ve worked at crafting true stories (creative nonfiction essays), centered around my life as an ethnoecologist. I’ve gone through hundreds of drafts, dozens of rejections. My first essay to be nominated for a Pushcart was published in Fall 2014 by […]

Until We Have Loved – national essay finalist

November 1, 2015.Reading time 1 minute.

REVIEWS: An effective essay in that it manages to be completely engaging while also scientific, personality-driven, and utterly persuasive by the end. – Jennifer Alise Drew Masterful use of biological detail plaited with a moving story of love’s labor lost on a tiny creature than most of us would not shed a […]

Why Scientific Citations Matter

August 5, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

When I first began publishing in the sciences, most peer-reviewed academic papers – based on months, years, even decades of hard work – were read by an average of seven people. Seven. Thanks to open-access journals on the worldwide web, that number is rising. But not that much: a quick overview glance of study citations in […]