Landmark Stories

This month our team traveled to Sonora, Mexico to tag along with doctoral student and researcher .marin as he works with wildlife at Cuenca Los Ojos. is a 121,000-acre protected area in the Sky Islands — a landscape of imposing mountains and lush canyons located along the United States-Mexico border where many important species, like the black bear and the jaguar, make their home. Check out some pictures of our visit!

Our team has been hard at work filming content for two of our major upcoming projects. We’re grateful to have the opportunity to team up with community members, biologists, and rangeland professionals to help disseminate stories of their scientific efforts. Check out some pictures of our team out on the field this week!

We are so excited to welcome our newest member, creative designer and communications specialist Elena Lopez to our team!

Elena is driven to use her creative skills to help tell stories of human advancement and develop innovative documentary films that will make a positive difference in people’s lives.

Growing up in Nogales, Mexico, she discovered her love for design when she acquired her first graphics tablet at age 15. Today, she has extensive experience working in broadcast, online, and social media platforms.

Before joining Landmark Stories, Elena served as a multimedia specialist at Arizona Public Media, the NPR/PBS affiliate in Tucson, where she helped solidify the brand, enhance marketing efforts, and develop advertising campaigns. She received a regional Edward R. Murrow award and earned an Emmy nomination for her work on “Pandemic Dreams”—a fully animated short documentary on Arizona Illustrated at Arizona Public Media.

We are excited to share our new short documentary “P**p Doesn’t Lie.” The film follows a team of researchers at the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and their work with a life-saving public health tool that helped prevent COVID-19 outbreaks and may help manage the pandemics of the future.

Watch the film here:

P**p Doesn't Lie: How Wastewater Testing Became a Global Public Health Tool When COVID-19 cases first spread to North America, Ian Pepper had a big idea – what if he could use wastewater to track the spread of the virus in communitie...