Awards and Mentions

Once in a while, someone notices something I’ve written and gives me an internet high-five.  Here is a compilation of those instances.

Blog Award

• 3/23/2010: Seed’s Research Blogging community selected Culturing Science as the Best New Blog (launched in 2009)

Interview

• 8/16/2010:  Q&A with T. Delene Beeland for the Charlotte Observer — “A Place to Learn about Ecology and Evolution“

Post Awards

• July 2010: Forest canopy height: why do we care? — Selected as the PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the month // Post
• June 2010: Microbe biogeography: the distribution, dispersal and evolution of the littlest organisms — Selected as a runner-up for PLoS ONE Blog Pick of the Month // Post

Elsewhere on the Web

• 11/10/10: Now in 3D: The shape of krill and fish schools — on the Scientific American guest blog
• 9/20/2010: Marine snow: poop and dead organisms as manna in the ocean — republished on the American Society for Microbiology blog, Small Things Considered // Post
• 7/20/2010: Why Scientists Should Read Science Fiction — republished on io9 and Geekosystem // Post

Research Blogging Editor’s Selections

• 11/5/2010: If you feed them, they will come: the effects of nitrogen fertilization on community composition in the salt marsh — Post // Editor’s Selection
• 9/17/2010: Can seabirds overfish a resource? The case of cormorants in Estonia —  Post // Editor’s Selection
• 8/19/2010: Marine snow: poop and dead organisms as manna in the ocean — Post // Editor’s Selection
• 7/19/2010:  DMSP: the amazing story of a pervasive molecule in the marine food web — Post // Editor’s Selection
• 6/22/2010: Inevitability and Oil, Pt. 1: the inherent risk for accidents in complex technology — Post // Editor’s Selection
• 5/25/2010: Molecular biology and globsters: dashing cryptozoologists’ dreams — Post // Editor’s Selection
• 2/11/2010: Nature-inspired network design: recent studies in slime mold and leaf veins — Post // Editor’s Selection
• 12/24/2009: How dirt affects atmospheric carbon dioxide — Post // Editor’s Selection

Write-ups / Mentions

• 7/21/2010: Octopuses doing tricks on the internet and our search for non-human “intelligence” — Seed Magazine Research Blogging Column, “Are Octopuses Smart?” by Dave Munger // Post
• 6/2/2010: Molecular biology and globsters: dashing cryptozoologists’ dreams — Seed Magazine Research Blogging Column, “Spineless But Deadly,” by Dave Munger // Post
• 2/24/2010: Nature-inspired network design: recent studies in slime mold and leaf veins — Seed Magazine Research Blogging Column, “Sentient Slime?” by Dave Munger // Post