SCIENCE AND TRAVEL WRITING
🦜 What Species Are San Francisco’s Parrots? It’s Complicated. Bay Nature, April 2026
🔌 Electrical panels 101: a beginner’s guide to your home’s breaker box. Switch Is On, December 2025
💵 Invest In the Future of Heat: Five Perspectives from Climate Week NYC. Building Decarbonization Coalition, September 2024
⚡Affordable Heat, Efficient Grid. Building Decarbonization Coalition, September 2024
🔄 Commoning For Resilience, Commoning Through Change. SEAS Perspectives, April 2024
🏘️ 10 Things I Learned About Neighborhood Scale. Building Decarbonization Coalition, March 2024
🤝 The Commons: More Than Just Resources. SEAS Perspectives, February 2024
🧳 GeoEx’s Ultimate Guide to Gorilla Trekking. Wanderlust, reprinted January 2024. Recipient of a bronze Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the Society of American Travel Writers
🌲 Rebuilding Big Basin. Bay Nature, March 2021
🗑️ Can New Trash Cans Clean Up SF’s Streets? SF Weekly, January 2021
🌱 Into The Congo. Originally published in Wanderlust; reprinted in The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True Stories From the World’s Best Writers, 2016. Recipient of a silver Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the Society of American Travel Writers
☕ Where to Find Some of the World’s Best Coffee in the United States. AFAR, reprinted in 2018
👪 6 Travel Companies That Offer Genealogical Tours. AFAR, February 2013
🎿 Get To Know Some Birkebeiner Enthusiasts. AFAR, December 2012
academic and report writing AND EDITING
♨️ The Future of Heat: Thermal Energy Networks as an Evolutionary Path
for Gas Utilities Toward a Safe, Equitable, Just Energy Transition. Camargo, Ana Maria, Jessica Silber-Byrne, Audrey Schulman, and Zeyneb Magavi. The Future of Heat: Thermal Energy Networks as an Evolutionary Path for Gas Utilities Toward a Safe, Equitable, Just Energy Transition. Building Decarbonization Coalition and Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET), August 2024.
🦓 Coexistence, Competition, and Contradiction: A Review of the Evidence on Wildlife- Livestock Relationships in East Africa. Silber-Byrne, Jess. Coexistence, Competition, and Contradiction: A Review of the Evidence on Wildlife-Livestock Relationships in East Africa. Master’s thesis, University of Michigan, 2024.
Jess Silber-Byrne: I Write 