 Complete the following phrase:  Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Parade, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and many other journals. Her research has taken her to such diverse locales as Mata Atlantic in Brazil working with endangered golden lion tamarins, Patagonia right whales, Hawaii humpback whales, California tagging monarch butterflies at their overwintering sites, French Frigate Shoals monk seals, Toroshima, Japan short-tailed albatross, Texas with Bat Conservation International, the Amazon rainforest, and Antarctica penguins. In 1986, she was a semi-finalist for NASAs Journalist-in-Space Projectthis program was cancelled after the 