Christina Tyler Wenks is a journalist, educator, and communication consultant. She is a member of nonprofit organizations that teach sun, planetary and space science. She has coordinated several school science payloads launched via hydrogen balloon to the stratosphere and shared "space seeds" with classrooms in nine states as students learn the impact of space exposure on the growth of flowering and edible plants. At the December 2018 American Geophysical Union Conference in Washington, D.C., she discussed research to better prepare student journalists for real-world reporting, science communication, and publication. As a television, radio and newspaper reporter, photographer, videographer, and editor, Wenks’s favorite stories are told through people and issues that her peers don’t want to cover, which usually requires getting dirty. Stories about dune restoration, beach-grass cloning, sea-turtle population monitoring and pollinator decline combined with years of volunteer work with environmental organizations resulted in becoming a certified master gardener and beekeeper to continue research into colony collapse disorder and diminishing pollinator populations. Her television reporting was on network newscasts and news-magazine programs. Published works include newspapers, magazines and more. Wenks can be found volunteering in her community, shooing deer from her garden or with cameras focused on critters or rocket launches.