media
Selected Media Coverage:
Book: “Fossil Men” By Kermit Pattison (much-praised author). HarperCollins Publishers, 2020, 352 pages. (Interviewed by the Author about our human evolution research in Ethiopia, particularly the Nature Communications paper and the rebuttal with Tim White).
View from the Hill: WKU Geology grad lands dream job. December 13, 2018. (also featured on local ABC TV channel and Kentucky Living magazine).
Herald, College Heights (WKU): Under the Sea, Professor leads team mapping Gulf of Mexico seabed. Aug 25, 2016. Volume 92, Issue 2. (Cover story)
BBC Natural History: advised on submarine channels for a documentary on "World's Weirdest Events, Episode 8". (aired April 9, 2016).
Earth magazine, interviewed: Recent trends in human evolution studies. Dec 31, 2014.
National Geographic documentary "Earth: Making of a Planet" (received Gemini Award for Best History Documentary Program): a documentary on physical and biological evolution of Earth. Advised Lindsey Truman (Production Coordinator) on geologic controls on human evolution and dispersal during past 6 Ma. (aired March 6, 2011) (also aired the same day on Discovery Channel Canada).
MS-NBC, 2011: Humans originated alongside rivers, evidence suggests, December 20.
Yahoo News, 2011: Humans originated alongside rivers, evidence suggests, December 20.
Book: "In Motion: The Experience of Travel" By Tony Hiss (much-praised author). Random House Digital, Inc., 2010, 352 pages. (Author devoted a few pages explaining our published idea of tectonic hypothesis of human evolution).
Discovery Channel series "Atlas 4D: Great Rift Valley": a documentary on the Great Rift Valley. Advised Jez Bradshaw (producer) on the part where geological links between the Great Rift and human evolution was shown. (aired on March 22, 2010).
Book: "In Motion: The Experience of Travel" By Tony Hiss (much-praised author). Random House Digital, Inc., 2010, 352 pages. (Author devoted a few pages explaining our published idea of tectonic hypothesis of human evolution)
NPR : National Public Radio, December 19, 2007
MS-NBC: Study: Human evolution had rocky start, December 19, 2007
FOX News: Geology May Have Created Perfect 'Cradle of Humanity, December 20, 2007
Discovery Channel: Geologists: Ethiopian Plateau Spurred Human Evolution, Sept 18, 2007
New Scientist: Climate change drove humans out of Africa, September 08, 2007, page 17
Salt Lake Tribune: Theory of evolution gets geologic update, in print, January 14, 2008
Daily India: Tectonics created 'Wall of Africa' allowed humanity to emerge, Dec 19, 2007