Recent Features

CBS News feature on Soil Warming

I was featured alongside my colleagues at Berkeley Lab, helping explain their research on artificially warming soils to study carbon fluxes in a climate-change future. The program aired on September 19, 2025 on CBS San Francisco.

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Recent talks

How Water Shaped the West
My talk at AGU Ignite

This NASA-sponsored SciComm event at the annual American Geophysical Union conference is designed to keep scientists on their toes with slides that advance every 15 seconds. It was my biggest audience yet, with a full house of several hundred people at the Great American Music Hall in SF.

My talk was a photographic tour of how water has shaped the natural and human landscapes of the American West, the science needed to study those river systems, and why I think photography is a powerful tool for telling that story.

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My Artist Talk with Peak Design

I gave this talk to accompany a gallery show of my photos at the Peak Design flagship store in San Francisco. This recording captures the first half of the talk, about how rivers and watersheds shaped the natural landscapes of the American West.

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My Nerd Nite Performance: The Story of Sand

I gave this talk at Nerd Nite SF on how the formation and transportation of sediments underpins a lot more of life on Earth than most people realize.

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The River Process

As part of my Watson fellowship, I collaborated with the Aquatic Ecology Lab at University of San Fransisco, Quito to produce a video encapsulating some of the core ideas behind their work. This video was written, voiced, and produced by me, using footage from myself and several collaborators.

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Microcosm Podcast

My brother and I started Microcosm in college because we felt that education about our chosen academic disciplines often left out the weirdest, funniest, and most interesting stories. After years of conversations nerding out about these hidden worlds of science and history, we decided to share some of our favorites with the world, and Microcosm was born.

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