REPORTER

I have been a science journalist since 2000, after gaining a masters degree from the UBC School of Journalism. I was an intern with Time magazine, and then with New Scientist magazine in London, where I was a reporter from 2000-2003. I then moved to Nature in London, where I continue to contribute news and features. I have had freelance pieces in Scientific American, the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Chemistry & Industry, Current Science (a US children’s science magazine), and several websites including Canoe.com and Orato.com. Currently I work mainly for Nature, SAPIENS (an anthropology magazine), and Yale Environment 360, as well as my local paper the Pique.

My 'beat' includes earth sciences, natural disasters, climate change, Canadian science policy, and a collection of weird and wacky science. Here are a few clips:

AWARD WINNERS

Nature: Ocean uproar, saving marine life from a barrage of noise (winner: Acoustical Society of America communication award, 2020)

Yale E360: Microplastics Are Filling the Skies. Will They Affect the Climate? (winner: American Meteorological Society science communication award, 2023)

Hakai Magazine: Banking on the Seaweed Rush (winner: Webster award, 2023)

Nature: Carbon dating hampered by rising fossil-fuel emissions (winner: American Geophysical Union Perlman award, 2023)

New Scientist: Monster Ink (winner: Best science feature in a specialist journal, Association of British Science Writers / GlaxoSmithKline award, 2003)

HIGHLIGHTS

Pique newspaper feature: Saving the Spotted Owl
Sapiens news scoop: First Denisovan skull piece found
Sapiens feature on colour perception: Do you see what I see?
Education news feature, Nature: Minority Report
Science news feature, Nature: The new and improved kelvin
News, Nature: Science survives Canadian budget

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articles published in Nature
Yale E360 features
SAPIENS stories 
Hakai magazine
Pique newspaper
Columns in Nature Geoscience