I’m a science journalist and researcher at The Watchers, contributing to the Epicenter edition, where I cover peer-reviewed scientific research and emerging discoveries across Earth and space sciences. With a background in astronomy and a passion for environmental science, I’ve worked in shark and coral conservation in Fiji, conducting reef and shark-behavior research, contributing to mangrove restoration, and earning PADI Open Water and Coral Reef Certifications. I bring a blend of scientific rigor and storytelling to illuminate the discoveries shaping our planet and beyond.
I’m a science journalist and researcher at The Watchers, contributing to the Epicenter edition, where I cover peer-reviewed scientific research and emerging discoveries across Earth and space sciences. With a background in astronomy and a passion for environmental science, I’ve worked in shark and coral conservation in Fiji, conducting reef and shark-behavior research, contributing to mangrove restoration, and earning PADI Open Water and Coral Reef Certifications. I bring a blend of scientific rigor and storytelling to illuminate the discoveries shaping our planet and beyond.
NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory completed its first all-sky infrared mosaic, six months after beginning systematic observations from Earth orbit, delivering the most spectrally detailed panoramic view of the universe ever produced.
An international scientific assessment published on December 18, 2025, concludes that the January 15, 2022, eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano caused the most severe stratospheric disruption ever observed in the satellite era, increasing global stratospheric water vapor by about 10%.
Virginia Tech researchers used Sentinel-1 radar satellites to identify hidden ground movement across U.S. high-hazard dams, revealing potential structural instability and urgent risks to downstream communities.
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the aftermath of two massive planetesimal collisions in the nearby Fomalhaut star system.
Scientists have produced the most detailed picture yet of the layer 2 900 km (1 800 miles) beneath Earth’s surface where the mantle meets the core. Using records from more than 5 300 earthquakes, they discovered that ancient tectonic plates sink to this depth, flatten against the core, and slowly spread sideways, driving flows in the planet’s deep interior.
Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaiʻi have observed AT2025ulz, a possible first-of-its-kind superkilonova that appears to have exploded twice — first as a supernova, then as a kilonova — on August 18, 2025.
A new seismic study reveals that Bermuda’s uplift is sustained by a 20 km (12 mile) thick layer of buoyant underplated rock, not by a deep mantle plume. The findings, published in Geophysical Research Letters on November 28, 2025, reshape the geological understanding of the Atlantic’s most persistent ocean swell.
Yellowstone smells like sulfur, boils with heat, and vents enormous volumes of gas – yet one of volcanology’s most important signals is missing. The near-absence of sulfur dioxide reveals why Yellowstone’s magma stays deep, quiet, and chemically transformed long before reaching the surface.
An M7.8–M7.9 earthquake struck Haiyuan County, China, at 19:05 local time (LT) on December 16, 1920, killing an estimated 259 000 to 273 400 people and triggering tens of thousands of landslides across the Ningxia–Gansu region.
Lake-effect snow occurs when cold Arctic air flows over unfrozen lake water, triggering intense, localized snowfall as moisture rises and forms narrow but powerful snow bands downwind. The phenomenon is common across the Great Lakes region and parts of northern Japan.
