Teaching
I teach graduate classes in science communication at Northern Arizona University, and direct the university’s interdisciplinary Sustainable Communities Program. I research and write about how people communicate about climate change, and also direct multidisciplinary research and outreach aimed at improving food system access in northern Arizona.
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.
Hope and Trauma in a Poisoned Land
In 2017 I oversaw a team of students who conducted research into the lasting legacy of uranium contamination in northern Arizona. They interviewed oldtime miners and environmental scientists, water managers and Downwinders. The documentary panels they produced formed part of the Hope and Trauma art exhibit at the Coconino Center for the Arts.
Dislocated: Stories from the Navajo New Lands
In the 1970s the federal government relocated numerous Navajo families from their longtime homes to a faraway tract of ranchland. I oversaw a team of NAU students who went to the Nahata Dziil Chapter to gather stories.
Teaching
I teach graduate classes in science communication in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University, where I direct the Graduate Certificate in Science Communication. I also direct the university’s Master of Arts in Sustainable Communities Program, an interdisciplinary effort in teaching and research that focuses on community sustainability, study of the human and natural […]
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.
