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Interested in my work? Let me know! I’m thrilled to offer talks, programs, and book signings across the U.S. and beyond. I would be happy to exchange ideas, accept feedback, discuss new opportunities, or hear about your own experiences. My interest areas are listed below.

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Melissa’s Interest Areas & Potential Topics

  1. Chasing the Aurora Below the 45th Parallel: What It Takes to Catch the Northern Lights
  2. Why Dark Skies Are Critical for Low Latitude Aurora Chasers
  3. Aurora Myth & Legends: From the Dark to the Inspiring
  4. Secrets of the Goddess of the Dawn: A Cultural Look at Aurora and Aurora Chasing
  5. A Fool-Proof Formula to Catch the Northern Lights
  6. Making the Dream a Reality: From Reporting as a Small Town Journalist to Leading Tours in Iceland
  7. Celebrating the Art, Culture, Science, History and Photography of the Aurora
  8. In Full Color: How to Spot Colorful Aurora Displays at Lower Latitudes and Why It’s Different on Camera
  9. Overcoming your fear of the dark and enjoying nature’s most rare and beautiful spectacles (aurora, eclipses, conjunctions, comets, night hikes, and nightime lakeshores)
  10. Building community around dark sky adventures and nature enthusiasts (from social media to in person events
  11. Colors in the Night Sky: From Artificial Light Pollution to the Northern Lights, the Sightings Might Surprise You
  12. Science and How It Informs (and sometimes unravels) Our Dark Skies (a lot of science goes into the Aurora and aurora forecasting, but we also have StarLink and space junk getting in the way of phenomenal views) (I also work at U-M with the engineers who build for satellites and rocket launches)
  13. Surprises in the dark, things you might not have thought about, stories from the night (Safety on aurora chases, best practices for night lights and photography, preserving the delicate land and respecting wildlife, howling coyotes and wolves, etc
  14. Founding the Michigan Aurora Chasers, a group of nearly 100,000 members
  15. Behind the Scenes at NASA: Covering a Launch as a Social Media Ambassador and How You Can Too
  16. Discovering Aurora Formations & Serving on the SolarMax Mission Ground Support Team

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