Creative
Creative writing, photography, sketching, and podcasting have provided outlets for exploring, questioning, appreciating, and gathering stories about the world. This is a place where I can share some of these stories—I hope that you find something wonderful or interesting that catches your eye. Thanks for checking it out!
Intertidal Entanglements
Center for Humans and Nature
Center for Humans and Nature
At the seaward fringe of my coastal city, there is a place that defies the rigidity of hard edges and boundary lines. In this place, where the ocean licks the land, a colorful and lively community thrives in an ecological borderland.
In tune with the clockwork of the moon and sun, the ocean pulls herself back twice each day. In doing so, she unveils the microcosmic worlds of urban tidepools—worlds that occupy the liminal spaces between land and sea and between city and submarine wildlands...
In tune with the clockwork of the moon and sun, the ocean pulls herself back twice each day. In doing so, she unveils the microcosmic worlds of urban tidepools—worlds that occupy the liminal spaces between land and sea and between city and submarine wildlands...
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An Owl Limpet's Garden
Urban Field Naturalist Project Today’s urban tidepool exploration begins as I kneel next to a patch of barren rock occupied solely by a squat, snail-like creature. She is a female Owl Limpet (Lottia gigantea), with ridges and barnacles texturing the top of her conical, chicken-egg-sized shell. As I rub my inquisitive fingers along her serrated upper surface, I notice a green hue and slimy texture—a layer of algae, I deduce—growing upon the surrounding rock. The algal layer is arranged in a striking patchwork pattern, as if a miniature lawn mower had been haphazardly dragged across an overgrown, slippery lawn... |
Figure 2 from Gerraty et al. (2026) Ecol. Apps. - Drawn on iPad
Figure 1 from Gerraty et al. 2026 (in press at Front. Ecol. Environ.) - Drawn on iPad
Central Coast Naturalist
Since 2022, I have been a radio show host of the Central Coast Naturalist on KSQD public radio. Check out some of my episodes here:
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