Boyce Upholt

Author bio

Boyce Upholt is a writer and editor based in New Orleans, Louisiana. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Oxford American, and the New Republic, and he was the winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation award for investigative journalism.

Boyce Upholt’s Contributions:

The Quest for a Floating Utopia

Can casting away from established society to inhabit sea-based colonies save us from the problems of modern life—or are we bound to repeat our mistakes?

Apr 6, 2021 | 6,200 words, about 31 minutes

Aerial view of a thick layer of weathered oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill floating atop the Gulf of Mexico June 17, 2012

Ten Years after Deepwater Horizon, Worries Remain

Efforts to clean up the lingering effects of the oil spill are well underway, but secrecy and deregulation have returned to the Gulf, raising the specter of a repeat.

Apr 20, 2020 | 900 words, about 4 minutes

Hakai Magazine

Coastal science and societies