ABOUT ME
I’ve my written news and features on topics ranging from insect forensics to medical tourism. I’ve worked as a reporter for The Scientist, Scientific American, and Nature but you can also find my stories in places like Slate, Smithsonian, and the Los Angeles Times.
I’ve gone toadbusting in Australia, hunted for chili peppers in the Bolivian Chaco, and watched scientists collect bacteria from an alpine lake in Spain. A day at the museum taught me the cruelties of taxonomy, and a trip to the botanical garden introduced me to a butternut squash guru who never finished graduate school.
Some of my favorite projects have been a profile of a billionaire’s quest to build a supercomputer for the drug industry, a story about the reckless passion of Australian bird-lovers, and a series of dispatches on food science. I also caught some flack for my piece in Slate about conservation and climate change.
I’ve got a Ph.D. in biology from Berkeley and wrote for The Oregonian as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow before striking it out on my own.
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