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Professional science journalist, amateur everything else. Making podcasts @nasa & writing for @natgeo, @theatlantic, etc.

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#alaska #landslide #geology #science #climatechange

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My 28th birthday present today: 21 pages in National Geographic magazine, Volume 249, Number 06! As glaciers retreat and permafrost thaws, the world's cold, steep places are falling apart. When mountains collapse into lakes and fjords, they can generate thousand-foot tsunami waves. And government science and warning systems are lagging so far behind they may as well be non-existent. One man is sounding the alarm and trying to save Alaska singlehandedly – crisscrossing the state, ruffling feathers wherever he goes like some prophet of bad climate news – maverick independent geologist Bretwood “Hig” Higman. I first met Hig in the remote village of Seldovia, Alaska in 2023. We talked late into the night at a NOAA field station. I learned he'd built his own cheap landslide monitoring instruments (in glass mason jars to resist grizzly bites) and offered them to communities at risk (much to the chagrin of the United States Geological Survey). As federal agencies and budgets imploded last year, Hig’s quest gained new resonance. Especially in a place like Alaska, with a long independent streak and distrust of authority, could grassroots disaster warning systems be a real path forward? Drama, life-and-death stakes, conflict, adventure, quirky characters — what more could you ask for as a writer? Last summer I followed Hig across Alaska, scrambling breathless up treacherous slopes, lagging far behind the indefatigable mountain goat of a man, perched next to him on narrow cliff ledges, holding a caulk gun as he drilled into bedrock, flying over glaciers in helicopters, sleeping on cots in preppers' sheds. Over the following months, I did more than 100 interviews with landslide scientists all over the world and Alaskans across the state. More to say, but for now, thanks to @bresnick01, my editor, who took this story on and shaped it through many dozens of phone calls and email exchanges and drafts into something worthy of this magazine. And to @arni_coraldo, who brought the pages to life with some of the most stunning photography I've ever seen. When I started in this career, four years ago, a print feature story in @natgeo was pretty well beyond my wildest dreams. 10 May 2026

There were some bumps along the road—the dress flew to Portland, Maine instead of Portland, Oregon, we got locked out of the rental car, the morning dawned rainy—but the clouds literally cleared just as Summer walked down the aisle. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect day to celebrate surrounded by friends and family. 💍 5.31.25 🏔️ @mthoodmeadowsweddings 💐 @songbirdfloristry 📷 @anchorandpinecollective 📽️ @amandajaephotography 🎂 @dreamcakespnw 29 Jul 2025

What to say about Artemis II? It was the honor and privilege of a lifetime to play a small role in documenting this moment in history for @nasa. ✅ Booked and facilitated 261 live interviews with TV stations around the world for the NASA Live Shots team (s/o fearless leader @shellbell7099) ✅ Watched the Artemis II astronauts land their jets at the @nasakennedy Space Shuttle runway ✅ Aced (Maybe? You tell me @tippy.ki.yay) my first photography gig—a glamour shoot with Rise in the Vehicle Assembly Building ✅ Interviewed dozens of folks for Curious Universe at the launch (including Rise's creator, the adorable Lucas Ye) (now in your podcast feed, s/o @pinterjacob and @katiekonans) ✅ Met four astronauts ✅ Ran microphones around for a live post-launch press conference (and made a few accidental broadcast cameo appearances) ✅ Watched (and felt) the largest rocket ever built send four humans to the Moon ✅ Experienced Moon Joy Yes, ofc we blasted Starman on the drive back to the Press Site on launch day. Let's do it again next year? Go @nasaartemis III! 08 Apr 2026

Eyes on the sky 🚀 05 Sep 2026

Not sure I can recommend Florida in August... But what a privilege it was to cover the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch with this team. Go Roman! 🚀🔭 04 Sep 2026

While I was in Alaska reporting on landslides for @natgeo, I met a man I immediately knew I had to profile — a 77-year-old retired librarian living in a cabin atop a bluff that's slowly sliding into the sea. "Where I live is a foolish place to live, on the edge of a crumbling cliff," Phil Gordon told me. But "25 years ago, when I first looked over the edge ... I thought I was the kind of fool that should live here." There's no denying the beauty — Phil lives among peonies and raspberry bushes with an unobstructed view of the Pacific Ocean and multiple snow-capped mountain ranges. A bald eagle literally came in for a landing (looking for fish handouts) while we talked. So when he learned his bluff was actually a slow-moving landslide, eroding due to climate change, Phil decided to move his cabin 30 feet back from the edge, entirely by hand. Hig, an independent geologist, donated an extensometer to measure the cliff's movement in real time (and often suggests via text on stormy nights that Phil should go sleep at his wife's place in town). To me, Phil's literal and metaphorical life on the edge, unmediated by government agencies or insurance companies, is a look to our future — he's making right now the hard decisions we'll eventually all have to make as climate change reshapes our world. Side note: This is definitely the first time on a field reporting trip I've had to decline both "a nip of bourbon" and swinging out over a 247-foot cliff on a rope "to feel more alive." Thanks to @bresnick01 for editing and @arni_coraldo for the fantastic (as always) visuals. 24 Aug 2026

A week this May in the world's happiest city 🥐🕯️🇩🇰 (Yes this trip was inspired in part by The Bear) 09 Aug 2026

My latest piece for @theatlantic lays out an argument that I've been hearing about from scientists for a while now in my reporting — that we need to stop thinking about climate change as a phenomenon restricted to the atmosphere and the ocean and start thinking about it as an unstable land problem. When the Earth's waters shift, so does solid ground. Now, mountains are shifting, permafrost is melting, and the risk of landslides is rising. Warming in the atmosphere and hydrosphere has penetrated the geosphere, destabilizing land across the planet, and geology is becoming a real-time science. In more and more places, the floor is giving way. Thanks to the many geologists, seismologists, geophysicists and hydrologists who spoke with me for this piece, and to Sarah Laskow and the editorial team for giving this idea a home! 31 Jul 2026

Spring in Bergen 💐☂️ 20 Jun 2026

Alaska is falling apart. 🛘 As glaciers retreat and permafrost thaws, The Last Frontier's mountains are crumbling. For @natgeo, I traveled to Alaska with photographer @arni_coraldo to follow one maverick geologist on a mission to discover where the next giant landslides might strike, before it's too late. Read the full story in the June issue of National Geographic magazine. 📒 🎥: @csbelliott #alaska #landslide #geology #science #climatechange 15 Jun 2026

The year has flown by ~ 5.31.25 🏔️💍 Thanks @amandajaephotography for capturing our wedding on Super 8 film. We cherish reliving the day. ❤️ 31 May 2026

OK, it deserves a spot on the feed... I had no idea my story about landslides for the @nytimes would end up in the print paper days later! I found out via an email from a random New Yorker who wanted to tell me the cliff in the photo looked like "the face of an 18th century raccoon hunter." Anyway, that makes this my first print newspaper byline! 29 May 2026

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