Outreach & Media
Featured news coverage
MIT News, 2024, “Study finds mercury pollution from human activities is declining” [article]
Living Planet (Deutsche Welle), 2024, as a podcast enthusiast, it was very exciting to be interviewed in “Deep dive: Mercury’s promise of gold in South America” [audio/transcript]
Mongabay, 2024, “Brazil tackles illegal miners, but finds their mercury legacy harder to erase” [article]
WFXT (Fox), 2024, TV news clip on our mercury deforestation research [archived clip]
MIT News, 2024, “Study: Global deforestation leads to more mercury pollution” [article]
Eawag News, 2021, “Atmospheric inputs of nutrients to soil to decrease in the future” [article]
Blog posts
Kudos Research Showcase, 2024, “Declining atmospheric mercury concentrations over the last two decades” [blog]
SpringerNature Behind the Paper, 2021, “From air pollution to your plate: declining atmospheric nutrient inputs to agricultural soils” [blog]
Wikipedia editing
Wikipedia is likely the first stop many people go (including general public, scientists, and students) to learn about a new topic. Inspired by a Twitter exchange about outdated information on the mercury Wikipedia page, I am working towards editing information on pages within my scientific expertise. The pages I found that need updates are:
Contact me if you’re interested in collaborating on this! I’ve found these resources helpful for starting my Wikipedia editing journey: