About M.R. O'Connor: M. R. O’Connor is a journalist who writes about the politics and ethics of science, technology and conservation. Her work has appeared online in The Atavist, Slate, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, Nautilus, UnDark and Harper’s. Her first book, Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) and was one of Library Journal and Amazon’s Best Books of The Year. Her second book, Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World (St. Martin’s Press, 2019) is an exploration of navigation traditions, neuroscience, and the diversity of human relationships to space, time and memory. Its writing was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan’s Program for the Public Understanding of Science, Technology, & Economics. She recently wrote a book called Ignition (September 2023, Bold Type Books) on fire ecology and prescribed burning, for which she became certified as a wildland firefighter.
In 2008/2009, O’Connor was a reporter for The Sunday Times, an English-language newspaper in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her investigative reporting on topics like disappearances in Sri Lanka’s civil war, global agriculture trade in Haiti, and American development enterprises in Afghanistan have been funded by institutions such as the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, The Phillips Foundation, and The Nation Institute’s Investigative Fund. For a long time, she made her bread and butter as a stringer covering crime, courts, and breaking news in New York City for publications such as The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and covered the criminal justice beat for the online investigative site The New York World. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and was a 2016/17 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her partner, the screenwriter Bryan Parker, and their two sons.
Arboriculture with Arborist Charlie Blume_November 2022
Biotechnology & Forests with NC State’s Jason Delborne
Fall Foliage with Gary Mead
How the Pandemic Drove up the Cost of Wood Products with USDA’s Jeff Prestemon
Turkey Vultures_Natures’s Grim Reaper_Part 2
Turkey Vultures_Nature’s Grim Reaper_Part 1
Woodland Valley Observations with Paul Misko_Last 10 minutes
Woodland Valley Observations with Paul Misko
Drought Impacts on Trees with Gary Mead
First Growth Forest in the Catskills with Forest Historian Dr. Michael Kudish
Open Discussion with Ryan, John, & Zane
Logging’s Ongoing Public Relations Battle with NJ Forester Bob Williams
Forest Vegetation Management with Arborchem’s Todd Hagenbuch
Old & First Growth with Gary Mead
August in the Catskills: American Ginseng, Leaf Diseases, and Looking Forward to Fall
Painting the Line Between Public & Private Stewardship
Mike’s Trip Across the United States (2nd Half)
Mike’s Trip Across the United States (1st Half)
Sustaining Local Part 2 with Gary Mead
Bats as Biomonitors of Heavy Metals in Urban Areas with Chris Blume
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. Marshall
The No-Frills Teacher Podcast
Heal, Survive & Thrive!
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Mel Robbins Podcast