resources

field notes & essays.

things i've finished writing. the rest live in my journal.

14 · apr · 2026
On the first time I emailed a real coral scientist

I sent it. Then I waited. Then I learned the most important lesson of my year so far.

field notecold emailscoral reefs
things i'm reading right now

on the desk.

a rolling shortlist — papers and books open in tabs and on the bedside table.

paper
paper
book
Sharks: A new natural history

Stevens 2010

web
book
Acropora taxonomy notes

Wallace 1999