Luke’s attempts to tell the world about rad science...
The Most Unknown (Netflix from 2019 - 2022), a documentary by VICE Motherboard and ScienceSandbox, 2018
Reviews of The Most Unknown by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Film Journal International, LA Weekly, Dan Rather, Forces of Geek, Cinema 365, First Showing, Film Forward, The Village Voice, What (not) To Doc
Ancient Yellowstone Ep. 1, CuriosityStream, 2020
‘El científico que ayuda a encontrar vida extraterrestre,’ Revista Mundo Diners, 2019 (‘The scientist helping to find extraterrestrial life’)
Sediment, Methane, and Energy, Joana Xavier & William Martin, Nature Microbiology News & Views, 2019
MSU team discovers organism in Yellowstone hot spring potentially linked to earliest life on Earth, MSU News & Bozeman Chronicle, 2019
Behind the paper: Methane and Sulfur Metabolisms Collide in the Korarchaeota, Nature Microbiology Community Blog, 2019
The Expanding Universe of Methane Metabolisms in Archaea, Joint Genome Institute News, 2019
Article: Tiny Organisms in Earth’s Most Unlivable Places May Help Us Find Alien Life, Motherboard, 2018
YouTube: Extreme Life on Earth Will Help the Search for Aliens, Motherboard, 2018
TEDxBozeman: “Life, Electrons, and Aliens”, 2018
"Original Discoveries" about Luke's work as an Astrobiologist in Yellowstone National Park, Park + Life Magazine, September 2017
"Study Analyzes Metabolic Pathways of Oil-Degrading Bacteria", Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, August 2017
"The genomic hunt for oil-degrading bacteria after the Deepwater Horizon blowout: More than the usual suspects", Andreas Teske for Nature Research: Microbiology, May 2016
"MSU scientist receives NASA fellowship to expand research in Yellowstone", MSU News Service, April 2015
"UNC researchers helping tackle the Gulf oil spill", UNC-Chapel Hill Sustainability, Fall 2o1o
"Biological Breakdown", Scientific American, August 2010
"Researchers on NOAA Mission Alter Course to Collect Sediment and Water Samples Near Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill", Newswise, May 2010
"Slick Solution: How Microbes will clean up the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill", Scientific American, May 2010
"Louisiana coast protects itself from Deepwater Horizon oil spill", The Guardian, May 2010
Past Events
Closing speaker, REMEX (Mexican Network of Extremophile Research), November 2022
Invited speaker, Maryville College, September 28, 2021
Science Speed Dating X Wrong Answers Only, NAS Science & Entertainment Exchange, July 21, 2021 (YouTube video here)
Invited speaker, MSU Honors College, Freshman Research Symposium, October 2020
Presenter, American Geophysical Union fall meeting, San Fransisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019
Seminar speaker, MSU Dept. of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, November 25, 2019
Invited speaker, MSU Honors College, Freshman Research Symposium, October 5, 2019
Invited seminar, Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory, Washington DC, September 30, 2019
Invited Lecturer, MSU Environmental Sciences 110, September 16, 2019
Invited speaker, “The New Frontier for Everyone”, C2, Montreal, Canada, May 22-24, 2019
Invited speaker, Yellowstone Explores Science (YES!), April 2019
Invited seminar, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC, Canada, April 29, 2019
Presenter, American Geophysical Union annual meeting, Washington DC, December 2018
Invited speaker, Pajama party screening of Alien and discussion of alien life, Montana State University: Leadership Institute, October 30, 2018
Invited speaker, National Academy of Sciences Documentary Filmmakers Retreat, Woods Hole MA, October 26-28, 2018
Invited speaker, Montana State University screening/panel of The Most Unknown, Bozeman MT, October 19, 2018
Invited attendee/speaker, HATCH, Big Sky MT, October 3-7, 2018
Presenter, ISME17 Conference, Leipzig, Germany, August 12 - 17, 2018
The Most Unknown Netflix release party & panel discussion, Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, August 10, 2018
Bozeman showing of The Most Unknown, The Rialto, June 1, 2018
Speaker, "Life, Electrons, and Aliens" at TEDxBozeman, Montana, April 28, 2018
Red carpet premier and Q&A for The Most Unknown, NYC, April 18, 2018