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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Digitization of ‘breathtaking’ neuroanatomy slide collection offers untapped research gold mine
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Shaena Montanari
22 January 2025 | 3 min read
Fleeting sleep interruptions may help brain reset
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Shaena Montanari
13 January 2025 | 5 min read
Brain gene expression syncs between bonded prairie voles
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Shaena Montanari
10 January 2025 | 5 min read
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
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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