https://www.alixpfennigwerth.com/home daily 1.0 2022-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/16901abb-b5bd-40d9-8f98-4682dbf56a5e/tempImagerMXME9.jpg home - Make it stand out Photo by Emily Klarer Photography https://www.alixpfennigwerth.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/d160ab47-1ad6-4f5f-b871-bb596c21e38a/Alix+Desert+Portraits-141.jpg contact Photo by Emily Klarer Photography https://www.alixpfennigwerth.com/about daily 0.75 2023-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/f243257e-5ac3-4293-8090-fc8670a00cdf/tempImageRm47bm.jpg about Writer | Ecologist | Conservationist My work explores science, conservation, the outdoors, and how the natural world is inextricably connected to our daily lives. I believe that by knowing and healing the earth, we can begin to know and heal ourselves. I love a good story that resonates, moves, surprises, or inspires. For the past decade, I’ve worked as a professional ecologist, conservationist, and science communicator. You can find my bylines on NPS.gov and in Smokies Life, the Moab Sun News, and Asheville Citizen Times, among others. When I’m not writing, you can find me in the garden, on the trail, and always nerding out on desert ecology. https://www.alixpfennigwerth.com/portfolio daily 0.75 2023-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/98e45602-e056-41e4-bf9d-e3eeef2e69b8/Screen+Shot+2022-05-24+at+4.45.31+PM.png portfolio - Changing climate, changing access New research examines how climate change is impacting Indigenous communities’ access to subsistence coastal resources in and around Western Arctic National Parklands. | NPS.gov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/a1404743-b7ff-48da-ba17-df1e270c09e3/Screen+Shot+2022-05-24+at+4.47.25+PM.png portfolio - Tackling marine debris in Kenai Fjords Picture a remote, national park coastline off the Gulf of Alaska. Wilderness—surrounded by towering mountains, narrow fjords, steep headlands, and rocky islands. Does your picture contain man-made materials or trash? It probably doesn’t. But should it? | NPS.gov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/2613847a-6df7-4a76-80c1-e4fc0ee1e18b/Screen+Shot+2022-05-24+at+4.43.02+PM.png portfolio - Learning more through collaborative archeology Coastal erosion is threatening archeological sites in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. Can joining forces help? | NPS.gov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/10fec50d-d5ce-4ba4-9999-10f9daf9a2ea/Screen+Shot+2022-05-24+at+4.37.53+PM.png portfolio - Getting to the bottom of a keystone quandary Sea otters, once hunted to near extinction in the northern Pacific Ocean, may be returning to Lake Clark National Park and Preserve’s coast. What would that mean for the ecosystem? | NPS.gov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/3fbdd8ad-56b1-40a1-b91b-889ba28b34e3/Klein_TMP_thicket.JPG portfolio - Plant life makes a comeback after 2016 wildfire In the southeastern US, the 2016 fire season was one for the books. How are forests faring in the aftermath of this tumultuous season? | Asheville Citizen Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/9d502b20-cee8-490a-84ff-a80badb19d82/Screen+Shot+2022-05-24+at+4.41.01+PM.png portfolio - SeeBird: Fostering the next generation of stewards A partnership between the Alaska SeaLife Center and Seward High School is helping to raise Alaska’s next generation of stewards. | NPS.gov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/91eb9cc2-d21f-4156-85ec-7154841cea4d/Screenshot+2023-11-06+at+2.14.08+PM.png portfolio - Fire, lost then found, in the Smokies In Southern Appalachia, a story of fire, humans, and ecology through time. | Smokies Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/2925433d-6423-4690-ab61-f47b363b748e/WorldRide.jpeg portfolio - Empowering women, one bike ride at a time A look inside Moab local Julie Cornelius’s nonprofit, World Ride | Moab Sun News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/69ce9d85-aa49-472a-beb8-1646a8eb90a1/MULES.png portfolio - Park gets behind the mule In the backcountry of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, pack mules make the impossible possible. | Smokies Life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/1644492923174-NYFFPDX5OV4E2OW78I0X/Smoky+Signal+2.jpg portfolio - Collections | Gathering sochan I’m the co-founder of Smoky Signal, a National Park Service podcast about the science behind the Smokies. In this episode, I explore how citizens of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians are renewing connections to their traditional homelands in the park, with the help of a certain plant species. | Smoky Signal podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/d706c6de-04b4-468b-a636-8ce4bca369c9/Screen+Shot+2022-05-25+at+8.20.13+AM.png portfolio - Katmai National Park & Preserve Marine Science Primer Based on extensive research and interviews with subject matter experts, I developed this comprehensive training tool for Alaska’s Katmai NPP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/12c5044a-25b5-4ad8-8741-5c70e8f2898d/Screen+Shot+2022-05-25+at+8.29.52+AM.png portfolio - NPS.gov webpage: Chimney Tops 2 Fire Repeat Photography I developed this educational NPS webpage highlighting research on wildfire recovery in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The page, which includes interactive before/after images, was picked up by several local media outlets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/75c325e7-79d8-4be5-be4a-a16f3e21244e/Screen+Shot+2022-05-25+at+8.25.12+AM.png portfolio - Ocean Alaska Science and Learning Center 2021 Report In collaboration with OASLC leadership, I overhauled the content strategy for the organization’s Annual Reports and authored their 2021 report. https://www.alixpfennigwerth.com/media daily 0.75 2023-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/1644494150610-J4CIF1V3V5WBIV2N5ZTH/DareToImagine3.PNG media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/1644494276191-001JCDIEWDMDAOJIKCFF/ScienceMoab.png media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/1660663950337-8CGKTF0UR6VY2SUL4BC3/KZMU.png media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/1660664382354-U0AU3J7MKLD87VY0710E/Alix.png media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cd9e3514fb9202a7cac640/8ee464d7-37b5-415d-9355-474e08286c5a/alix+previews-6.jpg media