Hi!

I'm Amanda — a writer and content strategist from British Columbia, Canada.

I specialize in technology, science, and the environment.

"Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences." Sylvia Plath

A writer with a passion for communicating the mysteries of the environment, the technology that helps us understand it, and the reason why you should care about it all, too.

After completing my BSc. in Environmental Science, Certificate in Spatial Information Systems, and Advanced Diploma in GIS, I wound up writing on a digital marketing team about spatial data. It was a great way to combine both the technical and creative sides of my brain and I loved having a reason to explore new trends, big topics, and challenges others face.

Writing has since become a medium I've taken a deep dive into. Freelancing for clients and pitching to publications has been an extremely rewarding and exciting experience.

When I'm not writing, you can find me climbing rocks, playing with paint, or wandering different areas of beautiful British Columbia.

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Featured Work

WC137 JulyAug 2024 - Magazine - Page 17 • 8th August 2024

Removing Nanoplastics in Wastewater with a Circular Approach

Algo Communication Products Ltd. • 11th June 2024

Using Zero-Touch Provisioning for IP Deployments

Doing something thousands of times can make you an expert. But, once you’ve reached a professional level of expertise, tedious repetition becomes a chore, not a learning experience.

Water Canada • 15th March 2024

Measuring Water Health with Bioindicators

Traction Complete • 21st February 2024

4 ways to improve the marketing to sales lead handoff

4 ways to improve the marketing to sales lead handoff

Lead routing is easy when you have the right criteria and the entire sales team available.

But whether it’s due to a changing go-to-market strategy, sales reps joining or leaving the team, or BDRs being on vacation or at capacity, things are rarely that simple.

What do you do when a junk lead comes through your round robin? Or when an SDR is on vacation for two weeks, but they’re still being assigned leads?

Building a contingency plan whe

Water Canada • 20th September 2023

Above or Below: Connecting cities and crossing the Fraser River

September/October 2023 Issue of Water Canada Magazine

CarboNet • 1st October 2022

The Importance of Water Treatment Chemicals

As long as water has been used by humans as a resource, it has been treated in some shape or form. Basic treatment methods such as boiling, straining, and using sand or gravel to filter water have been utilized to secure clean water for more than 4,000 years. Since then water treatment has been a dance of understanding what contaminants are in water, finding treatment solutions, and improving these methods to support more people.

Water treatment would remain relatively simple for the next 3,700

The Globe and Mail • 19th April 2022

Everything I know about slow and steady living, I learned from snails

I wasn’t raised to be a fan of snails. Having a gardener for a grandmother, my brother and I were taught from a young age that if we see a snail on a plant, we should pluck it from the branch or leaf it was stuck to, place it on the cement, and give it a huge stomp.

This brought us the kind of giggly satisfaction that only children experience. We loved it. Finding a snai

Safe Software • 10th June 2020

Using Geospatial Data in Snowflake

Innovative, modern technology is what Snowflake is all about. This cloud data warehouse is one of the most flexible and fastest ways to manage your data in the cloud. So, it’s no surprise that Snowflake has taken cloud computing to the next level by incorporating geospatial support into their system. This allows users to store and use geospatial data directly within Snowflake’s cloud data platform.

Why did they do this?

Well, quite frankly, it’s what people want. More and more Snowflake users