Science Communication

My outreach work focuses on the intersections of science, society, and efforts towards justice. On this page is a collection of public facing work on corporate accountability, science policy, multispecies justice, education outreach, as well as collaborative work with artists, links to press coverage, and events.

How major carbon producers drive sea level rise and climate injustice

A blog post called The Science Behind Sea Level Rise: How Past Emissions Will Shape Our Future

Corporate Climate Accountability

Corporate high emitters not only produce products that cause climate change, they also often work against regulatory action and spread disinformation. Here are some articles I have written on corporate climate accountability. Click the images below to read the full articles:

A blog post called the Fossil Fuel Companies Make Billions in Profits as we suffer billions in losses 2024 edition

A blog post called the fossil fuel industry continues producing heat trapping emissions that drive climate change

The blog was for the new release of the Carbon Majors dataset in 2024.

A blog post called the Fossil Fuel Companies Make Billions in Profits as we suffer billions in losses

A blog post called exxonmobil accurately projected rising temperatures while publicly disparaging climate science

This blog discusses the paper Supran, Rahmstorf, and Oreskes, 2023 putting it into context with the broader landscape of corporate climate accountability.

A blog post called unrelenting heat requires action and accountability

My corporate accountability research and outreach work focuses on both fossil fuels and animal agriculture. Here is an article I wrote discussing why emissions from animal agriculture are important to consider and why using the Carbon Majors research to downplay the need for just transition to plant based diets is a misrepresentation.

Press

A selection of news articles I have been interviewed for. Click the images to read the articles.

Shoestring article about weather whiplash in western MA

A guardian article called 'off-the-charts' records, has humanity finally broken the climate

A nature feature called how scientists are grappling with the uncertain future of Antarctica's melting ice

An article from MHC news on the brush fire during the red flag warning in MA

A shoestring article called meet your neighborhood greenhouse gas emitters

A daily beast article called exxon's own science was scary accurate about global warming so it covered it up

Interview with the Enviro Show recording here.

Art and science

This panel discussion featuring musician Sirintip, artist Sandy Litchfield, historian Kevin Young, moderator Malcolm Sen, and I was part of the "Art Sustainability Activism: From the Ground Up" series. We discussed the intersection of climate change, science, literature, performing arts and social justice.

A video by just wondering called 'natural' gas the bridge to climate disaster

My friends in the artist collective "just wondering..." create incredible videos where they use art to discuss pressing topics and communicate published research to a wider audience. I was honored to work with them as a science advisor on their video "Natural" Gas: The Bridge to Climate Disaster. Watch it here.

An elder man is teaching a woman in a dress holding a drum how to dance as an audience watches

While at COP26 I had the honor of being taught some Inuit dance steps by Piita Taqtu Irniq, you can see it starting at minute 1:29 of this video.

My colleague Dr. Dave Schneider recently wrote this children's book about climate change, illustrated by Kira Davis. I love it not just for the great writing, and beautiful pictures, but also since it shows multispecies justice in action as scientists and penguins team up to save the world from fossil fuels. Read my interview with David and Kira by clicking the image below.

A blog post called how do you talk to your kids about climate change, this book has ideas

Beautiful art from the book goodnight fossil fuels

Science policy

International

My dissertation research looked at the UNFCCC history and ongoing efforts. My work engages with many aspects of the UNFCCC process and I regularly speak and write about climate policy at the international level. In recent years this has focused on methane mitigation and how the present insufficient mitigation exacerbates climate injustice, particularly around sea level rise. I also attended COP26 and presented research there in 2021. Recordings can be found on my research page.

A blog called COP28 global methane pledge efforts still not enough

A blog called do Paris Agreement Temperature Goals address sea level rise and climate justice

A blog called Dr. Shaina Sadai talks about COP27 climate justice, sea level rise, and corporate accountability

A blog called Global Methane Pledge Efforts Are Not Enough

Article: "Paris Agreement 101" for Time Scavengers

I am pointing to the UN climate change conference UK 2021 sign

Federal, state, and local policy

From 2020-2021 I was a Voices for Science Policy Fellow at the American Geophysical Union. Below are links related to my fellowship work including a recap of the Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill and a recording of a presentation on communicating with policy makers. I continue to regularly engage with congressional offices though my work has shifted from being solely about science policy to now foregrounding the intersection of human rights and climate change.

Time Scavengers post called Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill

AGU Climate Action has me giving advice for meeting with policymakers to conduct background research, come with specific ask, bring local data, and thank them

Connecting with Any Audience about Climate Change hosted by the American Geophysical Union. Click the image to view the recording.

Connecting with Any Audience about Climate Change hosted by the American Geophysical Union. Recording is here.

Op ed in the Hampshire Gazette on "Holyoke’s shortsighted decision on energy transition grant"

Multispecies Climate Justice

Multispecies climate justice expands the framing of climate justice to the broader interrelated beings and ecologies on Earth. This section contains some of my outreach work on this topic and my research work is here.

Article: "The coasts are disappearing, we need to protect them for everyone" for Sentient Media, co-written with Jeff Sebo.
Article: "The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change" for Time Scavengers

I spoke at the Animals x Climate x Health webinar series on Climate Change and Multispecies Justice discussing how changes in physical oceanography and the cryosphere are impacting nonhuman animals and the implications of this for multispecies justice. Watch it in this embedded youtube video. My portion begins at 44 minutes in.

I often partner with the Food Empowerment Project. Recently we worked on a public comment campaign based around the California Public Utilities Commission case in which PG&E was looking to pass the burden of a a dairy methane biodigester's pilot project overspending onto ratepayers. Read about the campaign here and read how the case turned out in the gallery below. I also spoke about the climate and environmental injustices of animal based dairy production as part of Food Empowerment Project's webinar The Embodiment of Injustice: The Dairy Industry. The recording is available here.

A quote saying 'working towards climate justice means getting to the root of the causes not merely reducing emissions'

CA Bill SB 1383 requires construction of a dairy methane pilot project for biodigesters

The biodigesters feed into the gas pipelines owned by electricity companies

This slide recaps the letter campaign from FEP linked above

Quotes from community members in opposition to the project

The CPUC ruled that most of the costs needed to be paid by ratepayers

The fight continues since biodigesters are not a good solution to the methane issue

Quotes from lauren and Shaina discussing that work is still left to be done

Inclusive climate action

In summer 2024 I gave a presentation on Queer Climate Resilience for the Boston Museum of Science Pride celebration. The images below are a condensed version of the slides, I encourage folks to check out the resources mentioned here.

Climate change and queer resilience talk

screenshots from queer and present danger

Advice from queer and present danger on addressing inequitable impacts

For climate solutions look to queer and disabled folks

Beautiful rainbow art of people's hands around earth

Recommendations for queer ecojustice project and institute of queer ecology

Climate justice isn't possible without disability justice. Since the start of the pandemic much of my advocacy work has revolved around the intersections between climate change and pandemics. I recently helped co-create guidelines for event organizers that take into account climate adaptation and covid safety. A link is coming soon. Prior to the pandemic much of my advocacy was based on inclusive and sustainable conference food. Here is an article I wrote on Inclusivity and sustainability of conference food for Time Scavengers.

Inclusivity and sustainability of conference food blog link

Events

Flier from the Carbon Majors data release

Flier from Climate Action Now war and climate event

A 2021 briefing on Rising Emissions and Climate Destabilization for Climate Action Now Western MA. Recording here

Flier from Scientists for Palestine climate justice talk

In 2021 I organized and moderated a panel on Climate Justice in Palestine through Scientists for Palestine. The panelists were Nedal Katbeh-Bader, advisor for Climate Change of Palestine’s Environment Quality Authority and member of Palestine's negotiating team at COP26, and Abeer Butmeh, environmental engineer and coordinator of PENGON – friends of the Earth Palestine. You can watch the discussion here.

Event: Pulse Cafe & Mass Audubon host a discussion of Our Food, Our Planet