Essays || Selected Other Nonfiction Writing || Academic Publications || Design, Editing, Layout, etc. || Selected Other Professional Publications

Essays

“An Ornithologist’s Response,” aired May 24, 2021 on Season 1, Episode 9 of The Freeflow Podcast

“Flicker,” published March 31, 2020, Lammergeier

“Conversation With a Dipper,” published March 12, 2020, Entropy

“Know This Place,” published Aug. 16, 2018, Parks & Points

“This Is How Much,” published Summer 2018, Alpinist Magazine, Issue 62

“Looking at Weasels,” published Nov. 2017, Animal Literary Magazine

“Through The Window,” published Feb. 2017, Bird’s Thumb

“Scattering Blue,” published July 25, 2016, Entropy

 

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Selected Other Nonfiction Writing

Letter to the Editor. Autumn 2018, Orion Magazine.

“The American Robin: My Least Favorite Bird.” September 2017, In The Air, Montana Woman Magazine. 

“Afternoon with an American Dipper.” July 2017, In The Air, Montana Woman Magazine. 

“Snow Geese at Freezeout Lake.” April 2017, In The Air, Montana Woman Magazine. 

“Black-capped Chickadee.” February 2017, In The Air, Montana Woman Magazine.

“All About The Western Meadowlark,” aired on Montana Public Radio on May 22, 2016 on the Montana Natural History Center Field Notes segment. 

“Townsend’s Solitaire: Soundtrack To Your Hike,” aired on Montana Public Radio on February 7, 2016 on the Montana Natural History Center Field Notes segment.

“Why I Climb.”  posted Feb. 27, 2013, on OutdoorMindedMag.com

 

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Academic Publications

Smith, L. ed. RTC:Rural, 2017.  Advocacy Skill Building Toolkit.  A toolkit for Centers for Independent Living and others to conduct workshops that use improv to introduce and develop advocacy skills in youth with disabilities.

Summers, J.A., Nary, D., Lassmann, & Smith, L. (April, 2017). “What is Rural Resilience?” Poster presentation at the annual NARRTC conference in Alexandria, VA. See http://rtc.ruralinstitute.umt.edu/resilience-poster-2017-narrtc/.

Smith, Lauren A., “Wingspan: Living with Birds” (2016). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. University of Montana, Missoula, MT. 

Burtt, Edward H., Jr., Schroeder, Max R., Smith, Lauren A., Sroka, Jenna E., and McGraw, Kevin J. “Colourful parrot feathers resist bacterial degradation“. Biology Letters. 7.2. (2011): 214-216.

 

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Design/Editing/Layout/Etc.

Print Publications

The Roost | Editor, Design, Layout, etc. (responsible for all aspects of creation & production)

Annual newsletter of the Owl Research Institute

• November 2021 | Volume 25
• November 2022 | Volume 26

 

Camas: The Nature of the West | Co-Editor (design, layout, etc.)

Literary magazine produced by the University of Montana Environmental Studies graduate students

• Winter 2015: Movement
• Summer 2016: Revolution

 

 

Website Design & Management

Owl Research Institute (2021-present)

Research & Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities (2016-2021; new website created 2021)

 

 

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Selected Other Professional Publications

Owl Research Institute

The better to see you with- motion parallax in young owls | May 26, 2022 | Owl Research Institute blog post

The Owls Are What They Seem | April 18, 2022 | MonsterTalk Podcast

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Wild Birds, including Owls and other Raptors: What we know as of April 15, 2022 | April 15, 2022 | Owl Research Institute blog post 

Owl about Owls | April 5, 2022 | Brains On! Podcast

Danger In the Nest: Osprey and Baling Twine | 2021 | Owl Research Institute blog post

Banding Northern Saw-whet Owls | 2021 |Owl Research Institute blog post

 

Research & Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities (RTC:Rural)

Tribal Vocational Rehabilitation Self-Employment Toolkit | 2020/2021 | RTC:Rural (adapt & edit content; created worksheets & other materials)

More to discover in the Rural Disability Resource Library | April 2019 |Promotional video (developed, filmed, and edited video for one of the websites I help populate and maintain).

Knowledge Translation in action: Making research more accessible | May 2018 | RTC:Rural (blog post; wrote post, and created materials featured in blog)

Does your bathroom routine drain your battery? How effort and exercise shape community participation | August 25, 2017 | RTC:Rural blog post