Katie Jewett

09.16.2019

Katie Jewett

Katie Jewett

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Katie Jewett is a writer and video producer based in Sausalito, California where she covers science and the environment. Jewett is passionate about the power of storytelling to spark conversations, shift perspectives, and shape how we view our place in the natural world.

African jacana male with babies - by Charl Stols Hanging with Dad 10.22.2021 Spotlight - A male African jacana has his feathers full while navigating Botswana’s rich but treacherous wetlands.
Starling-Studded Skies 07.13.2021 Photo Essay - A modern approach to a 19th-century photography technique celebrates both the art and science behind one of the planet’s most mesmerizing spectacles.
Olms are aquatic, cave-dwelling salamanders found beneath the Dinaric Alps of southern and southeastern Europe. Saving Slovenia’s “Human Fish” 12.15.2020 Article - Scientists in this Central European country are leading the charge to understand and protect a charismatic, cave-dwelling salamander—and the subterranean habitats that supply much of the region's drinking water.
A grey-headed flying fox carries her pup as she flies over Yarra Bend Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia. Mother Load 12.11.2020 Spotlight - Multitasking bat moms carry their nursing pups underwing all while navigating a growing array of threats in the Australian forests they call home.
prawns Protected by Prawns 03.17.2019 Video - Restoring native crustaceans along West Africa’s Senegal River may be a critical step in controlling one of the world’s deadliest tropical diseases.
Using remote camera traps, photographer Heath Holden captured rare images like this one of wild Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) in their natural habitat. The animals’ bright red ears and eerie, raucous scuffles earned the scrappy marsupials their haunting common name. All Eyes on the Devil 07.31.2018 Photo Essay - Some Tasmanian devils have taken a surprising turn in response to a devastating cancer, offering new hope for the endangered species' survival.
Sustainability in Prisons Project cofounder and forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni lectures inmates about trees. Photograph by Benjamin Drummond. Conservation Meets Corrections 07.26.2017 Article - Prison sustainability programs can bring science to the sentenced and their findings to the world
On a bed of the latest headlines, Ruj, a research assistant on fthe Fishing Cat Research and Conservation Project, affixes a radio collar to a young male fishing cat. If the collar stays on, the cat will reveal invaluable data on the movement of a species that has rarely been recorded. Fishing Cat’s Cradle 10.11.2016 Photo Essay - Under the watchful eye of a local conservation biologist, the world’s only wetland cat eeks out a strange existence in some of Southeast Asia’s most heavily fragmented habitats.
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