Interview with Stanford Intersect
Last spring I was interviewed by my former conservation photography student Cindy Liu (CL). The interview was published in the Summer 2017 issue of a Stanford student journal on science,…
Emotional images: capturing and conveying feeling in wildlife photography
The photo that set me on a course to becoming a biologist was published in 1965, but I didn’t see it until a few years later, when I was ten or maybe twelve years old. I’d been rooting through a stack of National Geographic (more…)
The elephant seal soap opera
The life of a scientist is an exercise in extracting information from signs. Nature speaks no words to convey her meanings, but though she is silent, she is endlessly and openly communicative. We scientists try to find a language (more…)
Catching lions
Through a loudspeaker hung near the decaying carcass of a poached elephant, we broadcast the bawls of a distressed buffalo. The calls ended in quiet. We scanned the bush with a red spotlight, less visible to cats than white light. (more…)
Communicating science through the arts
Danna Staaf wrote a terrific blog piece for KQED about The Senior Reflection at Stanford – have a look here. Andrew Todhunter and I launched TSR four years ago, and our experience has convinced us that the arts are a (more…)