Melissa Sevigny
Science & Technology ReporterMelissa joined KNAU's team in 2015 to report on science, health, and the environment. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR and has been featured on Science Friday.
Before joining KNAU, Melissa worked as a science communicator in the fields of space exploration, western water policy, and sustainable agriculture. She was the education and public outreach specialist for the Phoenix Mars Mission, which landed on Mars in 2008. She has a bachelor's degree in environmental science from the University of Arizona and a master of fine arts in environmental writing from Iowa State University.
She grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where she fell in love with the ecology and geology of the Sonoran desert. She enjoys hiking, reading, and gardening.
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The shrinking shoreline of Lake Powell has revealed a wonder: an extraordinary collection of fossil bones from the Early Jurassic period that offers a glimpse into the life of a now-extinct creature called a tritylodontid.
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A new study from Northern Arizona University found redwood trees burned by wildfires can draw on century-old carbon reserves to re-sprout.
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The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque hosts a unique holiday tradition this time of year. It’s the Pueblo Gingerbread House Contest, an annual — and edible — celebration of Pueblo architecture.
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A Navajo woman who found success in Silicon Valley returned home to start a new business incubator on her reservation.
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The Navajo Nation is home to the world’s first Native American-owned luxury cosmetic company. Its founder Ahsaki LaFrance-Chachere is Diné and African American and she wants to bring Native and Black beauty into mainstream society with cosmetics that represent every skin color.
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More than 260 bird species in North and South America will be getting new common names. On the docket for revision are all English eponymous bird names, that is, any bird named after a person.
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A nonprofit on the Navajo Nation has started a business incubator known as Change Labs to foster economic development without losing Indigenous ways of thinking.
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Homes on the Navajo and Hopi Nations largely rely on firewood to keep warm in the winter. The Wood for Life program is stepping up to meet that need.
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A human burial site in Grand Canyon National Park was recently uncovered during construction work on the cross-canyon water pipeline.
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The planet Jupiter will shine extra-bright in the evening sky tonight due to an astronomical alignment that occurs just once a year. Here's how to see it.