Shaena Montanari joined The Transmitter as an enterprise reporter in January 2023. She was previously an investigative health reporter at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting in Phoenix. Prior to becoming a journalist, Shaena worked as a paleontologist.
Shaena Montanari
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The non-model organism “renaissance” has arrived
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Calli McMurray, Angie Voyles Askham, Claudia López Lloreda, Shaena Montanari
20 December 2024 | 3 min read
Autism prevalence increasing in children, adults, according to electronic medical records
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Shaena Montanari
21 November 2024 | 2 min read
Rousing a ‘new era’ of hibernation research
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Shaena Montanari
8 November 2024 | 9 min read
How ‘walking fish’ feel, taste hidden food with their legs
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Shaena Montanari
26 September 2024 | 5 min read
Education
- M.A. in investigative journalism, Arizona State University
- Ph.D. in comparative biology, Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History
- B.S. in geological sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fellowships
- AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
- AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
- Royal Society Newton International Fellowship
Articles
- “Cracking the egg: the use of modern and fossil eggs for ecological, environmental and biological interpretation” | Royal Society Open Science
- “Pliocene paleoenvironments of southeastern Queensland, Australia inferred from stable isotopes of marsupial tooth enamel” | PLOS ONE
- “Dinosaur eggshell and tooth enamel geochemistry as an indicator of Mongolian Late Cretaceous paleoenvironments” | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
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