Daniella Silva
Writer | Science Communicator
about
I am a writer and researcher in a variety of styles including APA, MLA, and AP. Check out my writing portfolio, resume or freelancing page to see what I can do for you.
My experience includes studying and working in four different countries: Canada, USA, France and China. As a student, I taught university-level tutorials for English, French and communications courses, making many friends along the way.
My writing has appeared in Forests News, The World of Chinese magazine and The Collegian, where I worked as editor-in-chief from 2017-2018.
Since finishing my double master’s degree in Global Communication at Simon Fraser University and the Communication University of China, I have been working toward a career in science communications.
Today, I live in one of the most beautiful places on earth: Vancouver, Canada, where I can look for birds and banana slugs to my heart’s content. West coast, best coast.
Daniella Silva
Writer | Science Communicator
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Creature of the Month
After almost a year of COVID-19 lockdowns and quarantines, January 2021 feels like a breath of fresh air; it’s full of hope for a return to normal life. The West African lungfish also knows what it feels like to wait for a better tomorrow. When the summer sun dries up their ponds, this remarkable fish can survive buried underground for up to two years while it waits for the rain to return. During this time, it survives by digesting the muscle in its tail and going into a low-metabolic state called estivation. Once conditions are right, it can crawl out of the mud using specially-adapted apendages that work like primative legs.
Photo credit: Speckle-bellied lungfish by Joel Abroad/Flickr