About Sam Norton

Sam Norton is an Environmental Journalist for Fondriest Environmental. He began freelancing with Fondriest in 2023 before moving into his current position in 2025, and enjoys learning about environmental research across the country. As a journalist, he writes articles for the Environmental Monitor, FishSens, and Lake Scientist magazines, creates video content, and works on social media. He graduated from Miami University with a degree in Biology, an Environmental Science co-major, and a Journalism minor. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, rock climbing, watching soccer, and planning his next adventure.

Articles By Sam Norton

PWA Hydrologists measure discharge in Cooper Mill Creek as part of this ecosystem restoration project.
A restored wetland approximately two months after construction in October 2025. Tree and shrub planting to follow in spring 2026.
Installation of camera traps in the Cerro Anfiteatro during the Puelo Patagonia participatory monitoring program in January 2026.
A water quality monitoring site in the Indian River Lagoon.
Dasysiphonia japonica inundation on Popponesset Spit in January 2021.
A low-cost in-house air quality monitoring device (called a SensWA) installed near a community garden.
Dr. Enie Hensel makes a small puncture in Thalassia testudinum blades for growth analysis.
Joao Macedo rides a huge wave in Nazaré--for Hope Zones, the waves are at the core of the inspiration to protect the ocean.
San José State researchers deploy Doppler radar at the Dixie Fire in Northern California.
A volunteer lowers a Secchi disc to measure the water clarity of the lake.
The East Greenland coastline from the site at 71°N where the VBB system was deployed.
Shepherd samples for bacteria as part of the Creeks Division’s biweekly sampling protocol on Arroyo Burro Creek at Cliff Drive.
A sunshade in the Tema canoe basin.
A boat carrying juvenile oysters for planting in the Manokin River.
Inland Fisheries Research Unit staff sampling Blue and Flathead Catfish populations on the Ohio River using low-frequency electrofishing.
Instrumentation at one of the 1st-order tributary sites (Saddleback Mountain) within the Lamprey River watershed. On river right is a PVC pipe housing a S::CAN spectrolyser. In the foreground, a HOBO pressure transducer and staff gauge are housed in PVC.
UNR graduate student Dre Presswood carrying out the Blaszczak Lab s::can spectrolyser from an upper watershed location at the end of the 2024 field season. While the outlet of the watershed is monitored year-round, many upper watershed locations are inaccessible during the middle of the winter.
Emily Larrimore responding to a customer request reporting scum on the lake.
Idaho DEQ and USFS employees working together on late summer sediment monitoring in the main channel of the South Fork Clearwater River.
Undergraduate Auldyn Faulk ensures one of the Speir Lab’s s::can spectro::lysers is secure and clean during a routine maintenance visit.