Media appearances
TEDx 2013" "Generation Anthropocene Is Upon Us" (video, with Miles Traer)
PRX interview (print)
The Root Cause (documentary film, 2017) (video)
Breaking into Science Writing, 2017 (print)
Stanford Report story on 5th year of Generation Anthropocene, 2017 (print)
Invited talk, July 2016 (video)
Stanford Report story on Raw Data, 2015 (print)
In These Times, 2014 (print)
Plainspoken Scientist, 2013 (print)
On Air with Paleoclimatologist, 2013 (print)
Coast to Coast AM radio, 2012 (audio)
KQED – San Francisco
I was a AAAS Mass Media Fellow during the summer of 2013 at KQED Public Radio.
How do These Boats Sail Faster than the Wind? (print + audio)
California Simmers as Heat Wave Settles In (print + audio)
Who Profits from Proposition 65? (Part One) (print)
Who Profits from Proposition 65? (Part Two) (print
Can Mammalian Mothers Control the Sex of their Offspring? (print + audio)
Should California’s Biggest Reservoir Be Even Bigger? (print + audio)
Wildlife Officials Consider Killing Barred Owls to Save Spotted Owls (print + audio)
Is Raising Shasta Dam the Best Bet for California’s Water Supply? (print + audio)
Scientific publications
In a previous life, I worked as a research scientist. Here are my peer-reviewed publications.
Osborne, MC, Dunbar, RB, Muccairone, DM, Druffel, ERM, and Sanchez-Cabeza, J-A. 2014. A 215-year coral d18O time series from Palau records dynamics of the West Pacific Warm Pool following the end of the Little Ice Age. Coral Reefs, 1-13.
Osborne, MC, Dunbar, RB, Muccairone, DM, Sanchez-Cabeza, J-A, and Druffel, ERM. 2013. Regional calibration of coral-based climate reconstructions from Palau, West Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, (386) 308-320.
Glynn, D, Druffel, ERM, Griffin, S, Dunbar, RB, Osborne, MC, and Sanchez-Cabeza, J-A. 2013. Early bomb radiocarbon detected in Palau Archipelago corals. Radiocarbon, (55) 1659-1664.
Cowan, BD, Osborne, MC, and Banner, JL. 2013. Temporal variability of cave-air CO2 in central Texas caves. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 75(1).
Osborne, MC, Traer, M, and Hayden, T. 2012. Podcasting the Anthropocene: Student engagement, storytelling, and the rise of a new model for outreach and interdisciplinary science communication training. Abstract ED22D-03 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 3-7 Dec.
Osborne, MC. 2011. A comparison of recent d18O coral records from the Republic of Palau. Abstract III-1 presented at 2011 Graduate Climate Conference, Woods Hole , Mass, 29-31 Oct.
Osborne, MC, Dunbar, RB, Muccairone, DM, and Sanchez-Cabeza, J-A. 2010. A 200 year coral paleoclimate record of West Pacific Warm Pool variability and ENSO behavior from the Republic of Palau. Abstract PP43B-1672 poster presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.
Osborne, MC, Dunbar, RB, Muccairone, DM, and Sanchez-Cabeza, J-A. 2009. Coral d18O stratigraphy from the West Pacific Warm Pool, Palau. Abstract PP11A-1300 poster presented at 2009 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 14-18 Dec.
Osborne, MC, and Jass, CN. 2008. The relationship of mineralogical data to paleontological questions: a case study from Cathedral Cave, White Pine County, Nevada. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 70, 156-162.