Tag: Dungeons & Dragons

Jabberwocks and Snallygasters: teaching environmental education with monsters, mayhem, and dice.

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Conservation, Education, Exploration, Featured, Popular Culture

Did you see the Snallygaster? It was there, clear as day, rooting through the trash at Foxy’s Harbor Grille, its tentacles probing for scraps of fish and week-old oysters. More than a few people heard its horrifying caw as it took the the sky. Thus begins the Curse of the Snallygaster. The Snallygaster is an … Read More “Jabberwocks and Snallygasters: teaching environmental education with monsters, mayhem, and dice.” »

Smart Buoys, Deep-sea Mining, Marine Careers, and Dungeons & Dragons: 2025 in Ocean Science Podcasts

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Conservation, Education, Exploration

2025. Holy Mola was that a long year. I made a concerted effort to appear on more podcasts last year across more topics than I usually do. Excepting the weekly ocean science podcast I’m a part of, I hit a little more than 1 podcast a month throughout the year. If you need an expert … Read More “Smart Buoys, Deep-sea Mining, Marine Careers, and Dungeons & Dragons: 2025 in Ocean Science Podcasts” »

Teaching with D&D: My favorite source books for running a great Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

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Education, Featured

For the last several years now, I’ve been running educational themed Dungeons & Dragons campaigns through my local library, as well as with student groups in a variety of settings. While you only need the core rulebooks to run a good campaign (and not even that if you use the free System Reference Documents) there … Read More “Teaching with D&D: My favorite source books for running a great Dungeons & Dragons campaign.” »

Deep-sea mining, marine protected areas, and the eternal struggle to open doors: This Week in Andrew (and Angelo) Doing Podcasts

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Blogging, Policy, Science

It’s another podcast round-up! I was on how to Protect the Ocean talking about the most recent developments in deep-sea mining. Angelo and I caught up with Beth Pike of Marine Conservation Institute for Deep Day, to talk about marine protected areas, mining, and fishing. And over on my very silly ocean science Dungeons and … Read More “Deep-sea mining, marine protected areas, and the eternal struggle to open doors: This Week in Andrew (and Angelo) Doing Podcasts” »