I believe that scientists have a responsibility to communicate their findings to the public and consider public outreach to be an essential component of conservation science. Popular press pieces that I have authored and selected media coverage of my research are listed below.

Popular press publications

• Saving the swimming dead, Guest blog on Nature Saltwater Science
• Congress shouldn’t undermine conservation measures that can help rebuild New England fisheries, Opinion piece in the Bangor Daily News

Select media coverage of research

• Nature's Archive podcast, "Pirates, Trophy Fish and Shifting Baselines"
• Washington Post, "240-year Old Nautical Charts Show Coral Loss is Much Worse Than We Knew," by Ben Guarino
• AtlasObscura, "The Coral Reef Loss Data Hidden in Old Navigational Charts," by Cara Giaima
• Christian Science Monitor "Why Large Animals Face A Double (or Triple) Jeopardy," by Story Hinkley
• IFLScience! "Large Animals Suffer the Highest Trade-Driven Extinction Risk," by Janet Fang
• RadioLab "Big Fish Stories Getting Littler" by Robert Krulwich
• National Public Radio Morning Edition "Old Hawaiian Menus Tell Story Of Local Fish And Their Demise" by Christopher Joyce

• Newsweek “The Ocean of Life’—And the Sorrow Beneath the Sea.” by Callum Roberts

• New York Times Green Blog, "Ancient Hawaiians Caught More by Fishing Less" by Douglas Main 

• New Scientist, "Prehistoric Fisheries Offer Clues to Sustainable Catch" by Jude Isabella

• takepart "Hook, Line, and Sustainable: 5 Ways Community-Supported Fisheries Trump Supermarket Seafood" by Richard Conniff

• Scientific American, Science Sushi "Native Hawaiians Provide Lessons in Fisheries Management" by Christie Wilcox
• Washington Post, "The Reality of Finding Nemo's Marine Life"" by Juliet Eilperin
• New York Times Green Blog, "Finding Nemo and his Fellow Travelers" by Dylan Walsh

• NBC News Cosmic Log “New species found… and lost?”

• Southern Fried Science, "Saving Nemo" by David Shiffman
• Scientific American, Guilty Planet "Finding Nemo Isn't Easy" by Jennifer Jacquet
• Wired Science "Transcending Time: Great Long Term Datasets" by Brandon Keim
• The Walrus, "A 10 Percent World" by James MacKinnon
• Smithsonian, “Our Imperiled Oceans: Seeing Is Believing” by Laura Helmuth
• San Diego Union Tribune, "Fish Story" by Scott Lafee
• Nature, “Oceanography: The Real Sea Change” by Mark Schrope
• New York Times, “A Comeback Story Proves a Cautionary Tale” by Henry Fountain

Collaborative work with Kyle Van Houtan and Jack Kittinger featured on NPR's Morning Edition

Collaborative work with Nick Dulvy, Andy Cooper, and Kent Carpenter featured in the Washington Post

Work on Florida trophy fish featured on RadioLab