Scholarship/Creative Work

Select publications:

Laura J. Martin, “Proving Grounds: Ecological Fieldwork in the Pacific and the Materialization of Ecosystems,” Environmental History 23 (2018): 567–592. pdf

Bradley Cantrell, Laura J. Martin, Erle C. Ellis, “Designing Autonomy: Opportunities for New Wildness in the Anthropocene,” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32 (2017): 156-166. pdf, The Atlantic, Landscape Architecture Magazine

Laura J. Martin, “Mathematizing nature’s messiness: graphical representations of variation in ecology, 1930-present,” Environmental Humanities 7 (2015): 59-88. pdf

Laura J. Martin et al., “Evolution of the indoor biome,” Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30 (2015): 223-232. pdf, Süddeutsche Zeitung, New York Times

Laura J. Martin and Sara B. Pritchard, “Correspondence: inclusive conservation excludes,” Nature 516 (2014): 37. pdf

Laura J. Martin et al., “Conservation opportunities across the world’s anthromes,” Diversity and Distributions 20 (2014): 745-755. pdf

Laura J. Martin, Bernd Blossey, Erle C. Ellis, “Mapping where ecologists work: biases in the global distribution of terrestrial ecological observations,” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10 (2012): 195-201. pdf, Nature News, onearth

Laura J. Martin, “Where are the women in ecology?” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10 (2012): 177-178. pdf

“How Does Architecture Affect the Evolution of Other Species?” RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society, 2016 no. 5

“G. Evelyn Hutchinson’s Exultation in Natural History,” American Scientist, July-August 2016

“The x-ray images that showed midcentury scientists how radiation affects an ecosystem,” Slate, 28 December 2015

“Space cadets and rat utopias,” The Appendix – Futures of the Past Issue, 28 August 2014

“Is a footprint the right metaphor for ecological impact?” Scientific American, 2 April 2014

“Butterflies and bombs,” Scientific American, 26 March 2013

“The death of natural selection,” Scientific American, 5 November 2012

“Scientists as writers,” Scientific American, 15 August 2012