I'm traveling around the country working on a YouTube series about the intersection of folklore and science. I'm in my car, traveling to remote corners of the eastern US, and seeing as many libraries as I can.

See: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmfdadkR0P5aoa0Oh_yitsA

Interests

• folklore
• reading
• bouldering
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• rock climbing
• biology
• ecology
• history
• science
• plants
• climbing
• space
• conservation
• fungi
• mycology
• space exploration
• mars
• enceladus

Music, Movies, and Books

Authors: Michael Chabon, Nicholas Christopher, Christopher Isherwood, H. P. Lovecraft, George R. R. Martin, David Mitchell, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, J. R. R. Tolkien. Music: The Smiths, The Crookes, Fleetwood Mac, Nickel Creek. Movies: Young Frankenstein.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed trees with researchers studying the effects of climate change on redwoods.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you how lichens reproduce.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Knowledge of and passion for fungi, plants, forest ecology, and space.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy