Press

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Featured

America’s Arctic: A Remote Patch Of Oil-Rich Tundra That Teems With Migratory Birds, Cornell’s Living Bird magazine (Apr 2024)

Where Are the Birds — And Where Are They Going?, WNYC (Oct 2022)

Exploring Bird Migration with Melanie Smith & Chad Witko, American Birding Podcast (Oct 2022)

Audubon Spotlight: Melanie Smith Finds Inspiration in the Powerful Force of Nature, National Audubon Society (Sep 2022)

Trump Administration Looks To Expand Oil Development In Alaska, NPR’s Here and Now (Sep 2017)

Radio and Podcast

Bird Curious: On Audubon’s New Bird Migration Explorer, Postlight Podcast (Dec 2022)

New oil estimate for NPR-A: It’s ‘HUGE’, Alaska Public Media (Dec 2017)

There’s a new Arctic drilling battle brewing…and it’s not in ANWR, Alaska Public Radio (Aug 2017)

Grounded Russian Oil Tanker Leaks Into North Pacific, Alaska Public Radio Network (Dec 2015)

New Southeast Atlas Identifies Valuable Habitat and Threats, Alaska Public Radio Network (Oct 2015)

BOEM Reviews Lease Sale Comments, Alaska Public Radio Network (Dec 2013)

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper

Track seasonal bird migration with National Audubon Society’s tool, The Register-Guard (Mar 2024)

Bird Migration Explorer Can Help Hatch Environmental Stories, Society of Environmental Journalists (Nov 2022)

Birds flying high, do you know how they feel? New app reveals migration routes, dangers, USA Today (Sep 2022)

New atlas of bird migration shows extraordinary journeys, Associated Press (Sep 2022)

Scientists were stumped when seabirds started dying. Now they have answers, Los Angeles Times (Jan 2020)

Climate Change Likely to Blame for Mass Seabird Die-off in Bering Sea, The Wire (Jun 2019)

Why Hundreds of Puffins Washed Up Dead on an Alaskan Beach, The Atlantic (Jun 2019)

Review of Ecological Atlas of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas, Second Edition, Cartographic Perspectives (2018)

A Journey Into the Heart of Alaska’s Pristine and Imperiled Arctic Refuge, Audubon Magazine (Winter 2018)

Smooth Sailing: A New Route through the Bering Strait will protect wildlife from ship traffic, Audubon Magazine (Winter 2018)

America’s Wildest Place is Open for Business, New York Times (Nov 2017)

New Arctic Alaska marine atlas details ecosystem of the changing region, Alaska Dispatch News (Aug 2017)

National Audubon Society: Conservation Pioneers – Women in the Field, Orion Magazine (Nov 2015) 

On Thin Ice, Audubon Magazine (Nov 2011)

Polar Bears Could Persist on Persisting Ice, Nature Magazine (Dec 2010)

Blogs & Online Stories

Our Favorite Stories of 2022 (Aerial Odysseys), Esri (Dec 2022)

National Audubon Society Maps the Wondrous Routes of Bird Migration, Esri (Nov 2022)

Audubon Alaska Receives Coast Guard Public Service Commendation, National Audubon Society (Jul 2018)

Audubon Alaska produces an award-winning atlas, Audubon Alaska (Jul 2018)

Building an Arctic Atlas, Edge Effects (Nov 2016)

Field Biology, Models, and Alaska’s Caribou, The Nature Conservancy via Alaska Public Media (Apr 2012)