News

7/18-20/11

Conservation Photography workshop with the Grand Canyon Trust. Contact me if you're interested in learning how to have one with your NGO! moheim@gmail.com.

 

5/12/11

Finalist in one of the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award categories. Woo-hoo! OK, the rest is top secret.

 

5/1/11

Fund raising success for CAT in WATER on Kickstarter! There's still time to pledge though. Help add some sugar to those sparse journalism funds and give a little sugar to the endangered fishing cat. Yes it does like to swim! 

 

4/6/11

Nature Needs Half presented at Boulder REI. Debut of Chapter 1 of the Boulder case study, "Boulder's Conservation Legacy," also available on natureneedshalf.org.

 

3/11/11

Presented Nature Needs Half and How to get involved with conservation photography at the NANPA Summit. Thank you to all who attended and to my wonderful co-presenter Jaime Rojo!

 

1/20/11

Black-Footed Ferret story and pics in Smithsonian Magazine.

 

1/4/11

Image displayed in the "iLCP RAVE: a Retrospective" exhibit at the G2 Gallery in Venice, CA

 

9/20-10/1/10

Several Chesapeake Bay RAVE images on display at the Russell Senate Building in Washington, D.C. in partnership between the iLCP and Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

 

7/19-7/31/10

Shooting for the iLCP RAVE Chesapeake Bay

 

5/19/10

Pics published in the current issue of National Wildlife Magazine. Check out Paul Tolme's article, "The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Natural Gas."

 

5/13/10

Am excited to report that Jaime Rojo and I will be presenting a breakout session on Nature Needs Half (TM) at the 2011 NANPA summit! Also photographer Ethan Welty and I have joined forces to participate in the Boulder leg of the Meet Your Neighbors project led by Clay Bolt and Niall Benvie. Lots of local wildlife photography planned for the next year!

 

5/10/10

Joined NANPA's Environmental Committee!  

 

5/1/2010

Embarking on a new conservation project for the WILD Foundation and Nature Needs Half (TM). I'll be documenting the story of how Boulder County managed to protect 67 percent of its wild places. And what it's dealing with now as they try to manage them.

 

2/10/2010

Launched Eco Leads the story source for conservation photographers, a free monthly newsletter that gives photographers the scoop on fresh science news just begging to become a photography project. Sign up by clicking on Eco Leads at the top of the page.

 

2/4/2010

Am preparing to track the "prairie ghost" this spring, shadowing a mountain plover biologist. Stay tuned for an upcoming story about the vulnerable birds in High Country News and hopefully other outlets too.

 

2/3/2010

New year, new adventures. I've been invited to become a trustee of the Wild Foundation. Should be official come the end of the month.

 

I also serve on the committee organizing the first Fine Outreach for Science gallery event at the premiere GigaPan conference. If you're a FOFS fellow, start picking out your best science focused GigaPans for submission! 

 

2/1/2010

Am busy writing an article for the magazine Subtel Forum on how CIRES scientists can detect a passing open-ocean tsunami by measuring changes in the electrical fields of submarine cables. The discovery may help supplement already in place tsunami warning systems.

 

1/27/2010

Took to the ice to document CIRES researchers as they sample water from Dillon Reservoir, Denver's largest watering hole. We also teamed up with the EPA to gather samples that will be analyzed for pharmaceuticals in the drinking supply. Check out the new gallery in Photo Stories - Science in Action.

 

12/13/2009

AGU conference begins. Planned two CIRES press conferences, and getting ready to learn the news from 16,000 geophysicists.

 

11/4/2009

World Wilderness Congress in Merida, Mexico. Where I will speak on blogging with a purpose and participate in WILD's Young Professional Media Training day, as well as iLCP's 12 Shots.

 

10/22/2009

New fellow of Fine Outreach for Science with CREATE labs and GigaPan. Embarking on a one year project to use GigaPan technology to document 12 science projects.

10/6/2009

Prairie dog story up and running on SmithsonianMag.com, photos and text.

 

08/22/2009

Received invite to attend the GigaPan workshop at Carnegie Mellon University this October. I'm going to learn how to make massive panoramic photomosaics using this technology that was partially designed by the university and NASA!

 

08/20/2009

Thank you to the WILD Foundation and WILD9 World Wilderness Congress for the scholarship to attend the conference in November!

 

08/15/2009

Am writing and photographing an article for Smithsonian Magazine online. Stay tuned in September!

 

08/3/2009

I've started work as the science writer and multimedia journalist for CIRES, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. Check out our Web site at http://cires.colorado.edu or follow us on Twitter at theCIRESwire!

 

07/27/2009

Returned from a successful trip shooting aerials of energy development on the Roan Plateau as part of an on-spec effort for National Wildlife Magazine.

 

06/1/2009

Gave in to the Twitter craze. Follow me for science updates and other cool news at NotesfromMo!

 

05/18/2009

Just returned from a wonderful Mom & Daughter road trip through Navajo Country in the southwest. Check out the newly added gallery featuring the trip. I'm just starting to go through the nearly 1,500 photos, so there will be changes and additions as I go along. In the meantime, enjoy. There are new additions in the other galleries as well, including a whole new section dedicated to Holga photos.

05/7/2009

Graduation Day! Congrats to all my friends who also graduated today! My we all find jobs worth all the hard work of the past two (or three, c'est moi) years!

 

04/7/2009

Woo-hoo! Graduation is official! I successfully defended my master's project today. Thank you to all my friends who showed up. Your support really helped calm a girl's nerves.

 

03/21/2009

Just received word that I've been accepted into the Emerging League with the International League of Conservation Photographers!!! Thank you to everyone who has helped support me on this road so far.

02/1/2009

Paul Moloney wrote this column about my work on the Red Desert in his Wandering Photographer column for the Greely Tribune. 

 

01/27/2009

Art for Conservation has featured my Red Desert project on their Web site under People Making a difference. Check it out!