A Summer Experience Working with the US Fish and Wildlife Service
This blog post was originally published by the Early Career Climate Network. The last eight years of my life I’ve spent most of my time...
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Ashley R Booth
Sep 8, 20223 min
An Opportunity for Franklin’s Gull Recovery at Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge
“What we can remember, we can bring back.” - Albert Naquin (Traditional Chief of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of the...
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Ashley R Booth
Jun 25, 20223 min
Gulf of Mexico Sea-Level Rise Workshop at the Gulf of Mexico Conference
This article was originally published in the June 2022 CERF's UP! - Newsletter: Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation. As butter melted...
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Ashley R Booth
May 14, 20201 min
Publications in Print
This Spring (prior to the coronavirus pandemic) was a flurry of science communication activities. I helped coordinate two science...
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Ashley R Booth
May 14, 20207 min
There Are More Tigers in the USA than in the Wild. Should We Really Be the Tiger King of the World?
Tiger King may not be on Netflix’s Top 10 anymore, but that doesn’t mean issues with the tiger trade in the United States have gone away.
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Ashley R Booth
Mar 30, 20205 min
Effective Environmental Policy Requires Inclusion
Identifying and including stakeholders gives marginalized voices power over NEPA policy decisions. Originally published on Envirobites.org
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Ashley R Booth
Mar 30, 20204 min
What's scarier than zombies, ghosts, and witches? A modern mass extinction
Originally published on Envirobites.org. Now, the things that scare me are all too real – things like climate change and mass extinction.
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Ashley R Booth
Oct 2, 20193 min
Native milkweed supports healthy monarch communities
Monarch butterflies do well on the exotic milkweed species that’s being widely sold, but it may be detrimental to their longterm health.
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Ashley R Booth
Oct 2, 20193 min
Trees, Tempests, and Time: What trees can tell us about weather in the past
By increasing our knowledge of the past, we can increase our confidence in future predictions. This is where tree rings come in....
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Ashley R Booth
May 10, 20191 min
SciComm Collaborations
Earlier this semester, I was honored to collaborate with the artist Pooja Gupta to create a visual representation of my research. The...
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Ashley R Booth
May 10, 20194 min
Preserving Culturally-Important Xochimilco Wetlands Requires Policy and Personal Change
Created by the Aztecs in 500 CE for agriculture, Xochimilco is an area of culturally important wetlands in southern Mexico City.
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Ashley R Booth
Dec 11, 20184 min
Sea Level Rise and Coastal Wetlands: Predicting the Future
This post was originally published on Envirobites. What is happening to coastal wetlands around the world? Imagine being told that the...
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Ashley R Booth
Nov 6, 20182 min
My Research in 280 Characters
In October, I had the opportunity to participate in the Society of Wetland Scientists' first Twitter Symposium, #SWSTwitterSymp2018. It...
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Ashley R Booth
Oct 22, 20184 min
McGraw Sponsors Workshop to Save Coastal Wetlands
For me, the Workshop for Coastal Wetland Wildlife Managers started not with presentations or a field trip into the marsh, but a...
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Ashley R Booth
Oct 22, 20184 min
For the Jurassic World, Pollen Shows What Plants Grew When Dinosaurs Roamed
For many of us, the pollen that comes with springtime is a nightmare. Sneezing, coughing, runny noses, and an inability to focus are the...
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Ashley R Booth
Apr 3, 20185 min
Not All Wetlands Are Created Equal
“Are you sure the GPS is right? You set it for the right point?” I asked as we floated towards our destination. Not because I didn’t...
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Ashley R Booth
Jan 23, 20182 min
E.O Wilson Speaks on Hope, Biodiversity and "Half-Earth"
As I was cleaning out my email inbox (in an attempt to avoid "real" work), I came across this fabulous interview with renowned ecologist...
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Ashley R Booth
Jan 18, 20181 min
One Program’s Story: Nicholls Department of Biological Sciences
Proud to be an alumnus of the Nicholls State University Masters in Marine and Environmental Biology program. This program and my mentors...
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Ashley R Booth
Jan 18, 20182 min
Impact of molt-disrupting BDE-47 on epidermal ecdysteroid signaling in the blue crab
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are environmentally pervasive flame retardants that have been linked with endocrine disruption in...
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Ashley R Booth
Jan 16, 20184 min
Predicting Elk Migrations to Lessen the Spread of Brucellosis
Wind sweeps down off the mountaintops and ears twitch, legs tremble, tails shake. The air is cold and with the wind comes the smell of...
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