2024
September 4, 2024. Wildfire smoke has gone to the birds. KUOW 94.9 FM (Seattle, WA).
August 14, 2024. The American West’s megafires are silencing birds. Grist.
August 8, 2024. Birds Are In Danger From Wildfire Smoke In Golden State. KRSO 103.5 FM (Sonoma County, CA).
August 6, 2024. How are the California wildfires affecting birds? The San Francisco Chronicle.
July 25, 2024. Researchers are trying to learn how wildfire smoke affects local bird populations. Spectrum News (Los Angeles, CA).
July 15, 2024. How Northstate wildfire smoke can lead to disruptions for local bird populations. KRCR (Redding, CA).
July 11, 2024. A Major Climate Threat Could Be Disastrous for Birds. The Atlantic.
July 9, 2024. California wildfire smoke linked to reduced bird activity and health. UCLA Newsroom.
July 3, 2024. What happens to birds when it’s smoky outside? High Country News.
June 2, 2024. How To Help Birds When It’s Smoky Outside. What On Earth with Laura Lynch | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio.
2023
Winter 2023. How Do Birds Respond to Extreme Wildfire Haze? Project Phoenix Aims to Find Out. Audubon Magazine.
November 21, 2023. Wildfire Brought Wolves Back to Southern California after 150 Years. Scientific American.
October 21, 2023. In the face of increasingly destructive wildfires, birdwatchers and community science projects endeavor to help the survival of California’s avian residents. COLORS.
October 18, 2023. How Megafires Are Remaking the World. The New York Times.
September 4, 2023. Killdeer – The ‘Broken Wing’ Display, Also a Discussion on Wildfire Smoke Impacting Birds. Birds of a Feather Talk Together Podcast.
August 25, 2023. Wildfire Smoke and Birds: A Q&A with Dr. Olivia Sanderfoot, Director of Project Phoenix. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
August 18, 2023. What Wildfire Smoke Means For Birds. The New York Times.
August 17, 2023. Health experts are still learning the impact of wildfire smoke on animals. WDET 101.9 FM (Detroit, MI).
July 31, 2023. Inspiring Stories: Olivia Sanderfoot. VoyageLA.
July 18, 2023. Project Phoenix uses community science to learn how smog and smoke affect birds. UCLA Newsroom.
July 7, 2023. How smoky air is affecting birds in Minnesota. Minneapolis Star Tribune.
June 30, 2023. It’s smoky outside. How are birds and other wildlife coping? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
June 30, 2023. Birds and other wildlife also affected by wildfire smoke. Wisconsin State Journal.
June 22, 2023. How Do Wildfires in Canada’s Boreal Forest Affect Birds Across the Continent? Audubon.
June 20, 2023. Wildfire smoke affects birds too. Here’s how you can help. National Geographic.
June 19, 2023. Clouds of wildfire smoke are toxic to humans and animals alike. Popular Science.
June 12, 2023. For birds, wildfires pose a hazard — but also opportunity. Ottawa Citizen.
June 7, 2023. How Wildfire Smoke Affects Wildlife—and Your Pets. TIME Magazine.
March 2023. Wildfire smoke and Central Oregon’s wild birds. Sunriver Scene.
February 20, 2023. When you can’t take a swim, or a good breath of air, it’s time to take a stand. Living Here.
2022
November 10, 2022. Wildfire Smoke and Central Oregon’s Birds. Sunriver Nature Center and Observatory.
November 9, 2022. Birds, Wildfire, and Smoke with Olivia Sanderfoot. American Birding Podcast.
October 24, 2022. Birding Binoculars Blurred by Smoky Skies. Living Here.
August 23, 2022. How did human activity during the COVID-19 lockdowns impact birds? The Wildlife Society.
August 15, 2022. How dramatic pandemic shifts affected Northwest birds. KUOW 94.9 FM (Seattle, WA).
August 11, 2022. New UW study shows how COVID lockdowns affected Northwest birds. The Seattle Times.
July 26, 2022. Wildfire Smoke Is Terrible for You. But What Does It Do to Cows? Wired.
March 11, 2022. Birdwatching in the wintertime. UW College of the Environment.
February 21, 2022. Seattle Now: Peepin’ birds. KUOW 94.9 FM (Seattle, WA).
January 4, 2022. Incendios generan drásticos cambios en la migración de los gansos en California. Telemundo 48 (San José, CA).
2021
October 22, 2021. New Study Is First to Explore How Wildfire Smoke Derails Bird Migration. Audubon.
October 21, 2021. Wildfire smoke pushes migrating birds hundreds of miles out of their way. High Country News.
October 20, 2021. How does wildfire smoke affect wildlife? Here’s what we know. National Geographic.
October 14, 2021. Outside/In[box]: Is Wildfire Smoke Impacting Bird Migration? New Hampshire Public Radio.
September 13, 2021. What Scientists Know About Wildfire Smoke and Its Impact on Wild Animal Health. Discover Magazine.
July 12, 2021. Detecting birds amidst the smoke. The Wildlife Society.
July 8, 2021. It’s easy to be a bird nerd. Seattle Now | KUOW 94.9 FM (Seattle, WA).
July 7, 2021. Study: How smoke affects birds in Washington … and our ability to see them. KNKX 88.5 FM (Seattle, WA).
July 5, 2021. Wildfire smoke impacts what birds we see, hear according to UW study. The Spokesman-Review.
June 29, 2021. When the wildfire smoke arrives, where do the birds go? UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.
June 29, 2021. Air pollution from wildfires impacts ability to observe birds. UW Newsroom.
May 26, 2021. How birds in the Pacific Northwest experienced the pandemic. Crosscut.
April 17, 2021. Things you can do in the Seattle area to make every day Earth Day. The Seattle Times.
2020
October 20, 2020. Birds to Reef Campaign, featuring Laura Dern. Island Conservation.
September 22, 2020. Birding: Smoky days were here again, and affecting birds. The Chinook Observer.
September 21, 2020. Raptors and Smoke: Exploring impacts of air pollution on birds. Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
September 18, 2020. Thousands of dying birds out West could reveal an even bigger environmental tragedy. Popular Science.
September 18, 2020. Mass mortality in the southern Rockies: Smoke, climate change, and bird migration. BirdCast.
September 17, 2020. Seattle is in smoke. What’s happening to the birds? The Seattle Times.
September 11, 2020. As Wildfire Smoke Blots Out the Sun in Northern California, Many Ask: ‘Where Are the Birds?’ Inside Climate News.
September 11, 2020. How wildfires impact birds. Audubon.
August 1, 2020. Volunteers help researchers track bird populations during pandemic. KGW8 (Portland, OR).
June 2, 2020. How UW researchers are studying the impacts of COVID-19 through remote data collection. The Daily.
May 28, 2020. The pandemic from a bird’s eye view. The Daily.
May 22, 2020. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, people are paying more attention to tweets. And not the Twitter kind. The Washington Post.
May 18, 2020. You could be the citizen scientist the world needs right now. Crosscut.
May 4, 2020. Six students from UW Environment honored in 2020 Husky 100. UW College of the Environment.
May 4, 2020. Three SEFS students named to 2020 Husky 100. UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.
April 9, 2020. Community science project tracks changes in bird behavior during coronavirus. UW College of the Environment.
April 9, 2020. A New Study Aims to Learn the Impacts of Social Distancing on Birds in the Pacific Northwest. The Portland Monthly.
April 3, 2020. Trapped at home? You can help UW study bird responses to social distancing. KUOW 94.9 FM (Seattle, WA).
2019
August 19, 2019. Endangering the Endangered Species Act. WORT 89.9 FM (Madison, WI).
July 2019. Raptors & Smoke. Pacific Raptor.
January 15, 2019. Broad Show of Support for a Clean Fuel Standard for Washington State. Audubon Washington.
2018
August 29, 2018. Wildfire advantageous to wildlife — or not. Methow Valley News.
August 28, 2018. Birdwatching: How does wildfire smoke affect birds? The Chinook Observer.
August 21, 2018. Birds Studied for Reaction to Wildfire Smoke. Spokane Public Radio.
July 4, 2018. Should Science Be Political? Wisconsin Engineer.
2017
September 1, 2017. What Can Birds Tell Us About Pollution? Audubon Magazine.
August 24, 2017. UW Study Finds Surprising Lack Of Research On How Air Pollution Affects Birds: Researchers Try To Find Bigger Picture Among Few Individual Studies. Wisconsin Public Radio.
August 11, 2017. Canary in the Coal Mine: Survey captures global picture of air pollution’s effects on birds. University of Wisconsin–Madison Newsroom.
May 5, 2017. Zoethica. Isthmus.
May 4, 2017. Madison’s March for Science. WORT 89.9 FM (Madison, WI).
2016
October 13, 2016. Preparing for a churning world: Stretching students’ knowledge for 21st century challenges and careers. University of Wisconsin – Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Winter 2016. “Drive forward and be inspired”: A student’s pragmatic, optimistic assessment of today’s energy challenges. In Common.
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