REBECCA DZOMBAK
REBECCA DZOMBAK
All works
Freelance science writing
Miscellaneous outlets
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Rocky Mountain wildfires are taking us into uncharted territory (Scientific American)
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Excess fertilizer can cause low crop yields in drought (Civil Eats)
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Black In Microbiology: From Twitter hashtag to nonprofit (AWIS Magazine)
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Topsoil in the Midwest's Corn Belt is eroding (Smithsonian Magazine online)
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Reindeer need to eat up to survive winter (Eos)
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Meet the soil scientist who makes pigments with dirt (Smithsonian Magazine online)
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Window to an ancient world at the bottom of Lake Huron (Michigan Science Writers)
Massive Science - articles
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A map of Mars' ancient rivers unlocks new possibilities for learning about the Red Planet
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Fingerprinting ancient life on Earth
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Our back-up coffee bean might not be reliable
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Arctic climate change has ripple effects for the whole planet
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Does the age of humans need a geologic name?
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There's no corner of the globe safe from microplastic pollution
Massive Science - lab notes
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Flight of the Belgium bees: climate change makes winners and losers emerge
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Early cats only liked us for the snacks
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Metal mining pollution can be airborne for 30 km, community science effort reveals
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66-million-year-old sabre-toothed anchovy discovered... in a cabinet
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Deep-sea currents transport microplastics around the globe
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Lakes store a surprising amount of carbon
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The Colorado River is drying out
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Heat waves may drive bees to extinction
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Algae are eating microplastics. From there, they climb up the food chain to us
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Lake Victoria, world's largest tropical lake, is drying up faster than we thought
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By tracking star "pollution," scientists found exoplanets with similar structures to Earth
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Human disturbance is drying out forests
Other freelance writing
Essays
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Field camp requirements are ableist and outdated (SisterSTEM)
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A provost at Michigan got away with decades of abuse. Why is anyone surprised?
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Adjusting our expectations while working at home during a pandemic (AWIS Magazine)
For institutions
Articles and blog posts
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Seniors adapt thesis projects to COVID-19 (Univ. of Michigan)
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Advancing diversity & equity at GSA
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Can't-miss diversity, accessibility, and inclusion talks and sessions at GSA 2020
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Queer visibility in geoscience has been almost nonexistent for decades. A new generation is working to change that. (GSA)
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Indigenous perspectives on geoscience education (GSA)
Press releases
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Hidden magma bodies pose hard-to-detect eruption risks (GSA)
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Rare fossilized algae, discovered unexpectedly, fill in evolutionary gaps (GSA)
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Past Arctic methane release linked to ice-sheet melt (GSA)
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New experiments suggest record of early life could be full of "false positives" (GSA)
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New study maps the rivers on Mars, guiding future exploration (GSA)
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PFAS: These "forever chemicals" are highly toxic, under-studied, and largely unregulated. (GSA)
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Microplastics in our groundwater (and our drinking water) present unknown risk (GSA)
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Ancient lake contributed to past San Andreas ruptures and could explain current "earthquake drought" (GSA)
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Dust may have controlled ancient human civilization (GSA)
Editing
Association for Women in Science - Michigan
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Nontraditional student pathways are the new norm
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Complex systemic shortcomings, not individual failures, are at the root of graduate school hardships
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"I wonder where my wonder went."
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Parenting and post doc-ing during a pandemic
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Tackling self-doubt and toddlers as a work-from-home postdoc
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Rethinking parental leave policies during COVID-19
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I'm young, fit, and healthy. I got COVID-19.
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Complex systemic shortcomings at the root of graduate school hardships
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Hidden things you learn in grad school
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The undermining of female identity in STEM
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Standing tall in scientific space
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Proof reading on other posts at michiganawis.wordpress.com; posts which originally appeared on other outlets are noted.
Geological Society of America
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Forthcoming for GSA: From experiencing to research earthquakes; Field diary of a paleontologist; Tracking sulfur from vineyard soils to Napa rivers
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Tracing sediment provenance in the Pantanal of Brazil
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Planetary geologists are the solar system's forensic scientists
MiSciWriters
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Forthcoming: Student organizations have a role to play in carbon-capture efforts
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Why we should be concerned about the long-term effects of COVID-19
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equilibriUM magazine (Sept. 2020)