My published work includes essays, articles, research reports, technical documentation, and creative writing featured in a range of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, newsletters, blogs, zines, government websites, and reference websites. Find a selection of my work below.
Selected Work
Academic Research
- Pausch, R., Alexander, T., Howard, E., & Garske-Garcia, L. (2024). On-site and in-kind: Compensatory mitigation of California Coastal Zone habitat impacts between 2010 and 2018. Journal of Environmental Management, 366, 121674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121674
- Alexander, T. (2020). Evaluating the Success of Compensatory Wetland Mitigation in the California Coastal Zone. Master’s Projects and Capstones, 997. https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/997
Climate and Environment
- Senate designates September 14-21, 2019 as National Estuaries Week (The Bay Link, September 2019)
- New bill would help San Francisco Estuary Partnership’s resiliency efforts (The Bay Link, July 2019; also featured on ABAG website)
- Community Challenge Grant Funds New Interpretive Signs on Mount Sutro (Sutro Stewards Blog, July 2019)
- Standing Rock is Only the Beginning (SF Examiner, December 2016)
- Water is Life: Staring Climate Change in the Face on Mount Kilimanjaro (AFAR, August 2016)
- ‘The White Fire’ Blazes Through Los Padres National Forest (The Bottom Line, May 2013)
- Painted Cave Fire Contained, Firefighters Maintain Watch on Area (The Bottom Line, October 2012)
Politics and Policy
- Hundreds Protest Trump Cabinet Picks Outside Senator Feinstein’s SF Office (Hoodline, January 2017)
- With Only 2 Navigation Centers, Which Homeless Encampments Get Priority? (Hoodline, December 2016)
- Tent Encampment Measure Passes, but Implementation Remains Unclear (Hoodline, November 2016)
- What, Exactly, is the Soda Tax? A Summarized, No-Nonsense San Francisco Voter Guide (The Bold Italic, November 2016)
- Back From the Debt: Students, Workers Stand Up to School Privatization at UC Regents Meetings (The Bottom Line, June 2012)
- San Francisco Appeals Court Rules Prop 8 Unconstitutional (The Bottom Line, February 2012)
Local News and Features
- Have Uber and Lyft Reduced Drunk Driving in San Francisco? (The Bold Italic, October 2017)
- BAVC Celebrates 20 Years in the Mission (Hoodline, November 2016)
- Minerva: The College with the World as its Campus (AFAR, August 2016)
- Compound Medicine: Exploring the Potential of Medical Marijuana (Jollity, June 2015)
- Deltopia 2013 Brings Larger Crowds, More Arrests and Injuries (The Bottom Line, April 2013)
- Santa Barbara Police Cars Outfitted with Cameras (The Bottom Line, February 2013)
- UCSB Student Killed by Fall From Balcony Early Thanksgiving Morning (The Bottom Line, November 2012)
- Constant UCSB Alerts Not Due to Spike in Crime, Just an Increase in Notifications (The Bottom Line, September 2012)
- Common Ground Releases Quarterly Report: Progress with Santa Barbara’s Homeless (The Bottom Line, October 2011)
Essays, Stories, and Travelogues
- Mount Sutro Bioblitz Recap (Sutro Stewards Blog, March 2018)
- We Live on Ohlone Land. But What Does That Mean? (The Bold Italic, September 2017)
- How I Encountered the Kindness of Strangers in One of the Wildest Places in the World (AFAR, June 2017)
- Nayarit, Mexico: El Panadero de Sayulita (Odyssa Magazine, 2017)
- I Lived in a 38-Person Co-op in San Francisco, and So Can You (The Bold Italic, September 2016; also picked up by Business Insider)
- Nature’s Lasagna (Invironment, November 2016)
- The Dawn Balloon Rosary (December 2016)
- The Ebb and the Flow (The Catalyst, Spring 2015)
Poetry
- Sound Collage for a Bicycle Commute (The Remembered Arts Journal, August 2016)
- From Every Footstep / LISTEN / Fuck (The Offbeat, Fall 2016)
- I Want to Watch You Grow (Arrow Magazine, May 2016)
- Branching / Joy-Song (SunStruck, March 2016)
- Jar / Foggy Morning in the Channel (The Catalyst, 2014)
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