CURRENT WORK

5/00 to present

Freelance science writer and editor, based in Stockholm, Sweden, and in California
My work has been published in Nature, Science, Scientific American, Environmental Science & Technology, and elsewhere. I have also served as a technical editor for academic texts; for more information, please contact me.

REPORTING EXPERIENCE

4/06 to 10/08

Associate editor, Environmental Science & Technology, Washington, DC
Reporter for the biweekly magazine published by the American Chemical Society. Please see my stories at the website, pubs.acs.org/est.

8/03 to 3/06

Staff writer, Geotimes, Alexandria, VA
Reporter for the monthly magazine published by the American Geological Institute. You can read many of my stories at the website, www.geotimes.org, where you will find profiles, news, features and other geoscience stories I've written. Other duties included copyediting, page proofing, and posting and managing the website every month.

4/03 to 8/03

Intern, Science magazine, Washington, DC
News writer for the international science weekly, a publication of the AAAS (see my work at Science NOW or Science).

5/00 to 4/03

Freelance reporter and production assistant, Bay Area, California
News writer, tape logger, editor, and producer for a variety of radio programs, as well as print and online media outlets, including American RadioWorks, NPR-affiliate KQED, Science Interchange (a nonprofit science newsgroup in San Rafael, CA), and others. I interned at Scientific American and Science Friday in New York City, the summer of 2000.

12/95 to 5/98

Production Editor, Annual Reviews, Inc. (nonprofit science publishing house), Palo Alto, CA
Managed production schedule and copyedited multiple volumes (geology, astronomy, entomology, biophysics, microbiology).  Edited online, proofread, managed book schedules, organized editorial meetings, conducted correspondence. (www.annualreviews.org)

1/95 to 10/95

Physical Science Technician, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Marine Geology Branch, Menlo Park, CA
Conducted laboratory experiments, maintained a chemical database, produced graphics for publication. Word, Excel, Canvas, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (Macintosh environment).

EDUCATION

Columbia University, New York; Earth and Environmental Science Journalism
       Geology M.A., 2/00, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
       Journalism M.S., 5/00, Graduate School of Journalism.

Carleton College, Northfield, MN
       Geology B.A., cum laude, 1994.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

National Association of Science Writers; Society of Environmental Journalists
Marine Biological Laboratory science journalism program, Woods Hole, MA;
       June 2003 microbiology laboratory course
Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment, Boulder, CO; May 2005
Oregon State University oceans media fellow, Corvallis and Newport, OR; September 2008 (http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2008/fellowships-connect-osu-faculty-with-key-journalists/)

INTERESTS
Printmaking, outdoors, swimming, travel, fluvial geomorphology, literature...