Berwald wrote school science textbooks, them being Focus on Earth Science California, Grade 6 and Focus on Life Science California, Grade 7, published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill in 2007.
Spineless ... (science memoir)
Berwald's science memoir, Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and The Art of Growing a Backbone, was published by Riverhead in November 2017. An excerpt from Spineless... was featured in a 2017 issue of the journal, Discover: The World of Science. Berwald and Spineless... were a major influence for artist Marina Zurkow's conceptual climate-change themed project, Making the Best of It. She wrote about the publishing process, and the book's difficulty of not fitting neatly into the science or memoir genres, for the National Association of Science Writers.
In July 2017, Reviews editors included it as one of the titles in Publishers Weekly's"The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2017". The book has been briefly mentioned by Alex Crowley for Publishers Weekly's Fall 2017 Adult Announcements, by Jennifer Ridgway for Brightly, by Eliza Thompson for Cosmopolitan, by Jane Ciabattari for BBC Culture's Between the Lines, and by Chelsea Stuart for Jetsetter.
Articles
Popular science
In March 2009, Berwald reported for Wired on the creation-evolution debate in Texas, and the impact on the state's science education standards. This was further explored in her role as a school science textbook author, in the 2012 documentary film, The Revisionaries. In September 2009, Berwald wrote for Oceanus magazine about the sedation of whales entangled in fishing lines, the key threats to Emperor penguins, and yellow-band disease in coral reefs. She also wrote an article for Oceanus in October that year on seafloor vents as an iron-rich nutrient source for organisms. In January 2010, Berwald wrote for the University of Southern California about the value of editing. In April 2011, Berwald wrote for Inside Science about the conservation efforts around the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit. In 2014, Berwald wrote for HuffPost about the methods of searching for life on Mars. In November 2014, Berwald contributed a New York Times op-ed about expansion of the Suez Canal, which was proceeding without environmental reviews. Concerns focused on the heightened opportunities the expansion presented to invasive species such as Rhopilema nomadica, with implications for the Mediterranean Sea. In January 2015, Berwald contributed to a Nature News in focus article about the Nicaraguan Grand Canal project. She noted its similarity to the Suez Canal expansion, in lacking environmental reviews. She followed with a HuffPost blog entry in August 2015 about the progression of the issue and the increasing numbers of concerned scientists. In early 2015, Berwald wrote for HuffPost about the possibility of carbon capture and sequestration for the Keystone-XL Pipeline project. In February 2016, Berwald disputed Benroy Chan's column in The Daily Texan about carbon capture and storage. In March 2016, Berwald wrote about the regenerative abilities of the moon jellyfish, Aurelia for National Geographic. In May 2016, in another National Geographic article she interviewed Rachel Buchholz about her book, Amazing Moms: love and lessons from the animal kingdom. In August 2016, she wrote about sea anemone research's impact on repairing hearing loss. In September 2016, Berwald co-wrote a Slate article with Elizabeth Devitt about Austin's focus on the word "weird". In December 2016, Berwald wrote for Hakai magazine on the uncertainty around, and limited oversight of, jellyfish harvesting and fisheries.
Academic
Article as part of University of Southern California:
Rodolfo H. Iturriaga, Juli Berwald, Gregory J. Sonek, "New technique for the determination of spectral reflectance of individual and bulk particulate suspended matter in natural water samples", Proceedings SPIE 2963, Ocean Optics XIII, ;
Interviews
Berwald was interviewed in a 1999 article about the automation of sampling equipment and data in oceanography and marine biology. In 2013, Berwald was featured in episode 11 of Texas Business Women's Women. Connected. podcast, on Building relationships and rapport over Skype. Berwald interviewed author Stuart Rojstaczer in October 2014 about his book, The Mathematician's Shiva. In November 2017, Berwald was interviewed about Spineless... by Laura Rice for the Texas Standard.
Personal life
In 2007, Berwald wrote for Redbook about how motherhood had changed her perspective on life, but that her ten years as a marine biologist aided in situations such as a swan being caught by a fishing rod. In May 2014, on Medium, she wrote about her grandmother's impact on her life, and her passing in April of that year.
