Banner Artwork by L. Fields © Royal Ontario Museum

​Research has been featured in thousands of media outlets in 65+ countries, including on the website homepage of Nature. I have extensive experience in communicating research with science reporters and the public, including through live radio and TV broadcasts. I was also interviewed for a documentary episode of CBC’s The Nature of Things, First Animals. 

Press releases:

• Manitoba Museum, ROM Palaeontologists Discover 506-Million-Year-Old Predator
• Royal Ontario Museum researchers identify oldest known species of swimming jellyfish
• 500-million-year-old fossilized brains of Stanleycaris prompt a rethink of the evolution of insects and spiders
• Remarkably preserved 450-million-year-old marine animal discovered in Ontario
• Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale
• A voracious Cambrian predator, Cambroraster, is a new species from the Burgess Shale discovered by ROM palaeontologists
• Palaeontologists classify mysterious ancient cone-shaped sea creatures

Jean-Bernard Caron and I during the filming of First Animals. Photo by Andrew Gregg © Red Trillium

Select Articles

• New York Times: This fossil's 3 eyes are not Its most surprising feature
• CBC Quirks and Quarks: Why this evolutionary dead end makes understanding extinction even more difficult
• ​Natural Hisotry Museum: New species of ancient Cambrian predator named after Mothra
• CTV: Manitoba Museum exhibit showcasing unusual artifacts hand-picked from its vaults
• Globe and Mail: Toronto’s fossil hunters are unearthing the history of the city
• CBC: This jellyfish was the terror of the sea 500 million years ago
• Gaurdian: Oldest species of swimming jellyfish discovered in 505m-year-old fossils
• Science: World’s oldest jellyfish might have swallowed prey whole
• ​Globe and Mail: Fossils of ancient predators with three eyes shed light on evolution of insects
• ABC: Three-eyed marine predator's brain preserved in 500-million-year-old fossils
• Live Science: What has no eyes, walked on stilts and died in 'Paleo Pompeii'? This ancient weirdo
• Toronto Star: New fossil on display at ROM predates dinosaurs and was discovered in Ontario
• New York Times: ‘Spaceship-Shaped’ Fossil Reveals Hungry Predator of Ancient Oceans
• Science: This early ocean predator was a giant ‘swimming head’
• New Scientist: Half-metre-long predator was giant of the seas 500 million years ago
• Nature: The Millennium Falcon look-alike that terrorized the ancient seas
• Science: ‘Millennium Falcon’ predator soared across ocean floor at dawn of animal life
• Reuters: Hundreds of fossils of strange primordial predator unearthed in Canada
• U of T News: U of T students who crushed it in 2019
• New York Times: Finding a home on the tree of life for a tentacled ice cream cone with a lid
• BBC: Mysterious fossils find place on the tree of life
• Wall Street Journal: Rare fossils reveal the family tree of an ancient cone shaped creature
• Guardian: Paleontologists solve ancient tentacled mystery
• CBC: Paleontologists classify ancient cone-shaped sea creatures
• U of T News: U of T undergrad leads team of Palaeontologists, classifying mysterious ancient sea creatures​

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