Welcome to Eco-Logic!

Thanks for joining me here. The years ahead may be tough, so it’s a good time to keep in mind the ongoing resilience of nature.

I’ll be sharing thoughts on this on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Eco-Logic reclaims the name of a weekly column I had back in the 1990s while working as a copy editor for Puerto Rico’s English-language newspaper, The San Juan Star. I lived there during two major hurricanes. Watching Puerto Rico’s tropical forests recover from hurricanes back in 1989 helped me realize nature is more powerful than we sometimes think.

I left the paper, a Pulitzer-prize-winning daily, before it folded in 2008 to pursue graduate studies in paleoclimate—past climates—based at the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. My work there and as a postdoctoral researcher with the UA’s Climate Assessment for the Southwest gave me a chance to explore what nature, especially forests, have done under changing climates in the distant past as well as in modern times.

I continued to weave journalism into my life as well as essay writing. In addition to working at newspapers for about a decade in total, I’ve published in Scientific American, High Country News, Environment, Native Science Report, and Nature Climate Change. I’ve also published in scientific journals, such as the Journal of Climate, the Journal of Forestry, and Forestry Ecology and Management.

For more background on me and the Eco-Logic column, please see this introduction.

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