Natalie van Hoose

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Science journalist & filmmaker | Water, wildlife, disease | Stories in Science News, Fast Company, Florida Sportsman, American Archaeology & more | Angler, coonhound-wooer, PR rep for anoles

A Florida woman revives a red drum in the waters of the Indian River Lagoon before releasing.
Snook, tarpon, and other majestic Florida fishes swim at Miami's Frost Science Museum.
A protestor at a No Kings rally in Gainesville, costumed as Trump with crown and royal robe, holds a sign that says "I'm the King of Liars." Another protestor holds a sign that says "No Kings in America."
A crowd gathers with signs and American flags in a park in Gainesville, Florida, as a musician sings a song about the Constitution from Schoolhouse Rock.
A majestic, well-fed Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake slithers through North Florida underbrush before giving two humans a look that says, "Keep a move on, yokels."
A deluge of water thunders down a subtropical creek.
A giant tarpon surges out of the water to nab a baitfish from my hand off a dock at Robbie's in the Florida Keys.
Dr. Cindy Lewis stands above a KML tank of elkhorn corals that represent a new level of genetic diversity as scientists test who's tough enough to survive in Florida's waters.
At the Keys Marine Lab on Long Key, Dr. Cindy Lewis helps a volunteer check the pH and salinity in a cooler of corals newly arrived from The Florida Aquarium.
Three team members from The Florida Aquarium load coolers of corals onto a rental truck bound for the Keys.
Person in neon-green shirt from conservation org Reef Renewal holds a tray of baby elkhorn corals above a tank at the Keys Marine Lab.
Angler holds a beautiful redfish on a boat in Brevard County. Courtesy of Capt. Jonathan Moss.
Harmful algal bloom in Mosquito Lagoon in late April 2025. Water is brown and visibility is poor. Courtesy of Capt. Billy Rotne
Capt. Rocky Van Hoose wade-fishes in the Indian River Lagoon. Water is a cloudy green.
Bar chart showing the loss of seagrass acreage in the Indian River Lagoon since 2003. Grass dropped from 80,000 acres in 2007 to 20,000 in 2021. But it was up to 25,000 in 2023.
Cover of Florida Sportsman's May magazine. Two anglers point to a large snapper against a blue sky.
American alligator swimming in dusk-lit channel at Alachua Sink.
Footage from a Gainesville brewery as the Gators men's basketball team secure their third national championship. Fans going nuts -- cheering, screaming, pumping fists, hugging, chanting "It's great to be a Florida Gator."
The early morning sun burns the mist off North Florida's Suwannee River. Canoes rest in the foreground.
A scrub jay calls and makes clicking noises in shrubs before flying away.
Lightly battered and fried iguana nuggets, plated with black beans and rice, platanos and Cuban toast. Accompanied with fresh guava juice on a thrifted table.