“When a whale washes up it’s kind of like being a doctor on call,” says Moe Flannery, senior collections manager at the California Academy of Sciences. Flannery’s day job means caring for more than 140,000 bird and mammal specimens at … Read more
Author Archives: Kaitlyn Kraybill-Voth
Kaitlyn Kraybill-Voth is a freelance writer and illustrator who lives in San Francisco.
Spring Issue 2019
The Surprising Story of the Color in a Butterfly’s Wing
How does a butterfly get its green? It’s not pigment.
Summer Issue 2018
“Plain” Cabbage White Butterflies are Anything but Ordinary
A commonplace butterfly with an interesting history in the United States becomes the subject of a citizen science initiative to study climate change.
Spring Issue 2018
Why Fires Make Mudflows Worse
The damage from California’s record-setting 2017 fires didn’t stop when the flames were finally extinguished.
Climate Change
A Pretty Pink Nudibranch Moves North, and It’s a ‘Canary in the Tidepool’ for Climate Change
At low tide on the North Coast right now, the tidepools teem with Hopkins’ rose nudibranchs. “This is not normal business as usual,” says scientist Terry Gosliner.
Botany, Stewardship
‘Slow Coast’ May Get a National Monument
Santa Cruz Redwoods National Monument has a certain ring to it.
