Category: Nature

• Steller’s Sea Eagle: King of the Air

  So large is the Steller’s sea eagle that occasionally, on a frozen bay, one of these birds can be mistaken for the hunched form of an ice fisherman. It is the…

• The Fragility of Field Plans

  When our truck broke through the ice of the Funtovka River, it nearly sank the 2012 field season. The river wasn’t particularly deep, maybe four feet at that spot, but…

• Science-Based Decision Making: An Example from the Russian Far East

  This article, written for Earth Day 2017 and in support of the March for Science, first appeared on the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Medium page. I’m a wildlife conservationist and I…