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.
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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




