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Lisa S. Gardiner

Lisa S. Gardiner is a writer, geoscientist, and educator whose work has appeared in Scientific American, The Atlantic, bioGraphic, and other publications. Her second nonfiction book, Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival, was published in June 2025.

New Life for Rotting Seaweed

Problematic piles of <i>Sargassum</i> could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products

October 1, 2025

What Deep Time Can Tell Us About Coral Reefs

Lisa Gardiner on the 3 greatest revelations she had while writing <i>Reefs of Time</i>

July 8, 2025

In Search of the First Animals

A fossilized ocean reef on a mountaintop may hold clues to the evolution of complex life

April 21, 2025

The Mystery of the Siberian Craters

Why permafrost in the tundra has begun to explode.

November 1, 2024

A New Way to Predict Earthquakes

Using geometry to figure out where the next big one will strike.

June 25, 2024