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I am a freelance web content writer who believes every great adventure should tell a story, and I want to help you tell yours. Through powerful words, stunning photography, and captivating video, put your audience in the scene with a truly immersive experience that won't just leave them craving more. They'll be cementing you as a leading authority in your industry.

Over the course of my career, I have saved my clients over $1 million and am incredibly proud to have never missed a delivery deadline.

Following our Ultimate Wildlife Adventure across Zambia, I co-founded Pangea with my friend Dani to share our passion for adventure and nature, as well as promote sustainable and responsible travel. If you're looking for samples of my web content writing, Pangea is the best place to see them.

We grew Pangea from zero to one thousand visitors in less than six months using nothing but search engine optimization and word-of-mouth. Despite neither of us having a lot of time to dedicate to it, Pangea has continued steady growth to this day, all using just SEO.

In addition to Pangea's website and online store, I also manage to produce video content for Pangea's YouTube channel. In 2023 and 2024, we averaged 41% subscriber growth per year from just SEO alone, reaching viewers in over 40 countries despite not having anything close to a consistent publishing schedule.

Water is one of the most precious and valuable resources in California. The state's Department of Water Resources hired me to help develop and report on two models that predict mercury flow through open water areas of the San Francisco Bay Delta and the Yolo Bypass in California's Central Valley.

After analyzing over 5 million data points each model run, I generated maps of our findings that were published in the final journal article. Having to go from 5 million data points to a simple map the general public will understand is not an easy feat, but you can read the methodologies I used in the final journal article.

The study will help the State of California better manage and sustain water allocation for its agriculture, transportation, and cities well into the future. Its impacts will be widespread, from keeping produce safe and affordable to ensure both urban and rural areas can support consistent and healthy growth for generations to come.

At the heart of my web development days, I designed, built, and maintained websites for several core clients between 2014 and 2019. But nothing stood out more than the web content writing and search engine optimization. When their new websites launched, three of my clients saw traffic to their websites more than double almost overnight, highlighted by one whose traffic rose nearly 700%.

On June 13, 2013, a rare meteotsunami struck my hometown of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, causing significant damage to some of the nearby harbors. Meteotsunamis form along squall lines and derechos, when the speed of an atmospheric pressure or wind disturbance is comparable to the phase speed of long waves in the ocean. Meteotsunami waves are small (rarely larger than a foot), but they can cause a lot of damage to coastlines.

For this project, I compiled a small database of 223 squall line and hurricane events that struck the US East Coast between 2000 and 2013. Following a detailed analysis of the data, our team wrote a paper on our findings. Despite the lengthy federal government shutdown in October 2013, we still published the article three months ahead of schedule in the Natural Hazards journal in 2014.

The U.S. Geological Survey originally hired me as a GIS analyst for two projects studying ocean acidification in the context of climate change: one in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska, and the other along the West Florida Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. But then my writing skills greatly expanded my role.

For both projects, I analyzed the three dimensional ocean acidification data and plotted them on a series of maps before writing up the methodology. Consolidating over 50 two-dimensional maps into 4 three-deminsional figures instantly saved over $7,000. I then created a short three-dimensional animation from those maps showing how the water in each stufy area acidified over time. By displaying that animation on an iPad (which was state-of-the-art technology at the time), our ocean acidification project was one of the most popular at the 2010 American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.



One of the most defining moments of both my life and career was witnessing firsthand the horrific EF-5 tornado that tore a 14-mile long gash through the neighboring city of Moore, Oklahoma on May 20, 2013. Nothing can prepare you for the tsunami of emotion you feel standing in the damage path, with unrecognizable piles of rubble and scoured neighborhoods as far as the eye can see.

As I struggled to process the unthinkable devastation, I turned to writing and photography. And it was in that moment, where tragedy and hope met, that I found my calling: telling immersive stories to build inclusive communities that educate and grow us in ways that courses, classrooms, and daily life cannot.