Radio & Film
My writing for radio and film scripts
Parched
When COVID-19 threatened to scuttle the in-person Parched art exhibit, the planning team pivoted quickly. Filmmaker Nick Geib interviewed the artists and the scientists and crafted an hour-long film that tells the story.
Vanishing River
A student project from NAU’s Advanced Media Lab, this aerial documentary takes a trip along the Colorado River to record how climate change is shaping Arizona’s water future.
Earth Notes: Birds and Noise
It’s well known that extracting natural gas for fuel contributes to global warming. But animals that live where these resources are mined face another problem: excessive noise.
Living with Fire in the Grand Canyon
With my NAU colleague Kurt Lancaster, I researched and produced a short film about the role that wildfire plays in the ecology of Grand Canyon forests and woodlands. Commissioned by the National Park Service.
Taking Earth’s Temperature
How do scientists know how climate has changed in the past? By using a variety of complex tools as windows into the past, they take Earth’s temperature. This hour-long documentary, screened on PBS, shows how they do it.
A Thousand Invisible Cords
The new field of community and ecosystem genetics seeks to understand how genetic changes within individual species can ripple through entire ecosystems. This hour-long documentary, screened by numerous PBS stations, profiles how scientists have untangled these ecological connections. I helped write the script, with Dan Boone.
Earth Notes
Since 2001, Earth Notes has presented stories of people and place each week to public radio listeners in northern Arizona and New Mexico. Each week’s show is less than two minutes long, but it’s a capsule view of something that makes the Colorado Plateau region such a great place to live.
Earth Notes: Exploring the Southwest’s Canyon Country from the Airwaves
A collection, published by the Grand Canyon Association, of greatest hits from KNAU’s Earth Notes show. Beautifully illustrated by Diane Iverson, and with contributions by eleven different writers. This slim volume is perfectly designed to fit into a daypack!
