Have you ever read a book that ends with a cliffhanger? You can tell the entire story is building up to some grand, exciting finale. You have so many questions you’re dying to answer, so many plot twists you can’t wait to have resolved. Then BAM. The novel unexpectedly, prematurely ends. You’re left in agony, …
Author Archives: Hannah Bonner
You can’t unsee cyanobacteria
Have you ever learned or heard about something new and then – bam! – suddenly you see it everywhere? This is called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. It describes a cognitive bias in which people are more likely to recognize a specific thing frequently after noticing it for the first time. The past month I have experienced …
Harmful algal mats in Zion National Park
Hi. I’m Hannah. I’m a PhD Candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a hydrologist, and an applied physical scientist. And, as of this week, I have been the Scientists in Parks Fellow at Zion National Park for an entire month. An entire month! I shouldn’t be surprised time is flying by though. My …