Elyse DeFranco

Audubon

• With a Historic Dam Removal Imminent, Tribes Prepare for a Klamath River Rebirth

• Absent for More Than a Century, California Condors Soar Above the Redwoods Again

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Bay Nature

• Encountering an Alien on a Point Reyes Beach
  (selected as a 2020 award winner for best science writing by SciShortForm)

• How birds help keep the Pajaro River levees safe without poison

• Six million acres to go: How California is trying to stave off
  the Sixth Mass Extinction

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KQED

• Don't Go Chasing Water Bugs
  (article paired with Deep Look video)

• Meet a Great Dad From the Animal World: The Poison Frog

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Science News

• How Mythology Could Help Demystify Dog Domestication

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Science Notes

• Returning Condors to Yurok Ancestral Lands

 

San Jose Mercury News/Monterey Herald/East Bay Times

• A Good Virus Comes to the Rescue of California's Abalone 
  (Featured in the New York Times' California Today Newsletter)

• Illegal Dumps Choke Bay Area Watersheds and Open Space

• Harbor Seal Pupping Season in Pacific Grove Disturbed by Road Work

• The Rancher-Scientist: Carmel Valley Man Uses Lab Discoveries
  to Help His Ranch Fight Climate Change

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Undark Magazine

• It's Time to Bring Wildlife Policy Into the 21st Century

(Republished in Salon, The Adventure Journal, Canada's National Observer,

Atlantic Media Group's Route Fifty, and included in the Aspen Institute's

Five Best Ideas of the Day)

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Mongabay

• Carnivores avoid rush hour by taking to roads at night

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California Sea Grant

• Gassy cows are warming the planet, and scientists are turning to the sea for answers

• California’s Marine Protected Areas are safeguarding rocky intertidal zones

• Reforesting California's kelp forests, one pebble at a time

• Bringing endangered abalone back from the brink

• Protection from harvesting may help kelp forests flourish, but is it enough in the face of climate change?

• New study measures contaminant levels in feral San Diego Bay oysters

• Community science for Marine Protected Areas

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Eos

• Ancient Fish Thrived During a Period of Rapid Global Warming

 

Biological Strategy Pages for Asknature.org

• Earwig's complex origami wing-fold

• How black garden ants shepherd aphids to milk them for honeydew​

• The hooked seeds that inspired velcro​​

• How the Yeti crab farms bacteria to survive in the deep sea​

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Spire: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability

• I produced and edited the 2020 issue as Editor-in-Chief. Check it out and read my Letter from the Editor.

• A New Model for Environmental Discourse: How an online environmental journal is removing traditional barriers between academia and the local community in rural Maine

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Massive Science

• Green bridges in Germany are keeping a growing gray wolf population- and their prey- safe

• Your own yard could help reverse global insect declines

• Noisy, high speed recreation disturbs sensitive wildlife

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SF Estuary News Magazine 

• Bay Trail Retreat at Bothin Marsh (Republished in Kneedeep Times)

• Coverage of the 2021 Bay-Delta Science Conference 

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Newsroom, National Association of Science Writers

• A perfect storm: 2020 has all the indicators for a year of major social upheaval

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San Francisco Chronicle

• What the 'Fearless Girl' Really Shows

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Portland Press Herald

• Close Enough to Swim, But You Still Can't Get There (my own title for this piece on Cuban-American relations)

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Research

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Ecology

Plant and small‐mammal responses to large‐herbivore exclusion in an African savanna: five years of the UHURU experiment

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Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences

Low functional redundancy among mammalian browsers in regulating an encroaching shrub (Solanum campylacanthum) in African savannah

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Maine Sea Grant Publications

Best Practices for Healthy Beaches and Watersheds in Maine: Potential Bioremediation Strategies for Improving Water Quality

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