Melissa Barton

A selection of my clips, primarily organized by publication, can be viewed here. Additional clips available upon request. I’ve also done some grant writing and am very interested in doing more.

Reprint rights are available for many of these articles; please contact me for more information.

Student Health 101

• Article on depression and community college students, October 2009
• Article on depression, October 2009 (extensively revised with new statistics and interviews)
• Beating the Summer Blues, June 2009
• Dealing With Depression: From Clinical Mental Health Problems to Homesickness, October 2008 (available upon request)
• When Relationships Go Bad, April 2008 (available upon request)
• Chronic Illness: Not a Roadblock to College Success, February 2008 (available upon request)
• Exploring Sexual Identity, January 2008 (available upon request)
• The AIDS Crisis: Are You At Risk? December 2007 (available upon request)
• Not Just for Jocks: Students Turn to Alternative Exercise for Fun and Fitness, November 2007 (online)
• Gender Neutral Housing on the Rise, October 2007 (available upon request)
• Health Brief: Back Pain? Bungee Cords to the Rescue!, February 2007 (available upon request)
• Health Brief: Beat the Winter Blues, February 2007 (available upon request)
• Health Brief: Spending Spring Break Helping Others, February 2007 (available upon request)

Colorado College Alumni Bulletin

• How the West Was Studied: State of the Rockies 2007 (p. 8 of PDF file), July 2007 (print and online)
• Turner Named Champion of the Rockies (p. 8 of PDF file), July 2007 (print and online)
• Laying a Cornerstone for the Arts (p. 6 of PDF file), April 2007 (print and online)
• Playing Soccer in Püke (p. 14 of PDF file), April 2007 (print and online)
• Interns Experience the Cutting Edge of Medicine, July 2006 (print and online)
• Singh Supports “Disruptive Innovations”: An Adaptive Continuum of Cancer Care, July 2006 (print and online)
• Marty Finds Ordinary Grace, March 2006 (print and online)

Bookslut

A complete list of my reviews for Bookslut can be found here.

• The Poison Eaters, by Holly Black (fiction), May 2010 (online)
• Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries, by Molly Caldwell Crosby, May 2010 (online)
• Insectopedia, by Hugh Raffles, April 2010 (online)
• A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome, by Alberto Angela, translated by Gregory Conti, September 2009 (online)
• The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: François D’Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon, by Veronica Buckley, September 2009 (online)
• Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer, by Chuck Thompson, February 2008 (online)
• The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland, by Barbara Sjoholm, October 2007 (online)
• I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature, by Lucia Perillo, August 2007 (online)
• The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Story of How Modern Astronomy Began, by Stuart Clark, August 2007 (online)
• Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife that Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard, by Jack Lynch, August 2007 (online)
• Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Danny Danziger, June 2007 (online)
• The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine, by Steven Rinella, May 2007 (online)

Transitions Abroad

• Hiking in South Iceland, January/February 2008 (print and online)
• Immersion in Russia, September/October 2005 (print)

Miscellaneous Publications

• Book Review: The King’s Servants: Men’s Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII, by Caroline Johnson, in Your Wardrobe Unlock’d (online, subscription required)
• All in the Family, in Hands On, July 2007 (print and online) [first paragraph is editorial introduction]
• Escape the City: Nature Awaits, in Colorado Springs News & Views, June 2007 (print)
• Behind the Dioramas at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, in Gifted Travel, April 2007 (online, temporarily down)
• Software Review: Scrivener (Mac OS X), in Notes in the Margin, March 2007 (online)
• Dominica: The Caribbean “Nature Island,” in Geotimes, December 2006 (online)
• At the Ecotone, in Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds Newsletter, Fall 2006 (print)
• Jesus Was a Punk: Talking life and faith with Pastor E.J. Branch of The Refuse, in The Cipher, April 2006 (print)
• Not Your Average Biker Gang: C-Springs cyclists insist on their right to the road, in The Cipher, March 2006 (print)

Museums and Nonprofits

• The Friends of the Florissant Fossil Beds, Inc., March 2007-present (website)
  Content (primarily science, nature, and travel), photography, web design, and maintenance of nonprofit website. Run off WordPress open-source blogging software.
• Tiny Collectors: Harvester Ants, June 2009 (exhibit website)
  Developed content and selected images for an exhibit on harvester ants and the scientifically important objects and artifacts they collect, particularly fossils.
• Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Co-presents Field Conference, November 18, 2008 (press release)
• Patrick Kociolek Appointed New Director of Museum, April 22, 2008 (press release)
• University of Colorado Museum of Natural History brochure
  Drafted and edited final text for quadfold brochure advertising the museum (graphic design by Sugar Design). Brochure describes the museum’s mission, public programs, research, collections, and ways to get involved.
• University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Object of the Month: Fossil Ginkgo from Siberia, February 2008
  Educational web feature for museum website.
• T.D.A. Cockerell Centennial site bulletin and field trip guide June 2006, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (print)
  Informative site bulletin about historical scientist and short field trip guide for the June 9-10 centennial of the Cockerell expeditions to Florissant, 1906-1908. For Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
• Mammals, Minerals, and Microorganisms: What’s new in research at Florissant Fossil Beds NM (PDF file), in Impressions (summer park guide and newspaper), Summer 2006, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (print)

Salem Press

• (forthcoming) Boreal Forest
  Encyclopedia entry for The Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues.
• (forthcoming) The Far Western States: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington State
  Encyclopedia entries for The Encyclopedia of American Immigration.
• (forthcoming) Bess of Hardwick, countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall, Sir John Spencer, Ivan Borisovich Cherkassky, and Alanus Rufus
  Encyclopedia entries for Great Lives from History: The Incredibly Wealthy.
• (forthcoming) Diatomite and Biosphere Reserves
  Encyclopedia entries for Encyclopedia of Global Resources.
• Reefs, Climate reconstruction, and Mauna Loa Record
  Encyclopedia of Global Warming (December 2009)
  Entries in reference book.
• Organic food movement, AmeriCorps, and Sustainable design
  The Nineties in America (February 2009)
  Entries in reference book.
• Luis W. Alvarez and Barbara Walters
  Great Lives from History: The 20th Century (September 2008)
  Biographies of nuclear physicist Luis W. Alvarez and journalist Barbara Walters in reference book.

JobMonkey

• Alaska Summer Jobs, April 2007
  Research, interviews, and content about how to find and choose a non-fisheries summer job in Alaska. Covers hospitality and tourism industry, outdoor guiding, and seasonal scientist and ranger jobs.
• JobMonkey: College Financial Aid, Outdoor Jobs, Summer Camp Jobs
  Short web articles.

Grant Writing

• United Government of Graduate Students Travel Grant (2009)
• Walker Van Riper Grant, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (2008)
• Charles Schuchert and Carl O. Dunbar Grant-in-Aid, Yale University (2008)
• Colorado College Venture Grant, Colorado College (2005)