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Freelance journalist based in Saluda, North Carolina, specializing in the science of climate change. His byline has appeared recently in New Scientist, Science & Spirit, SEED magazine, Dragonfire, the Asheville Citizen-Times, the Raleigh News and Observer, and CBC.ca. He blogs about climate science and policy on an almost daily basis at The Island of Doubt as a member of the SEED magazine ScienceBlogs team.
March 2003 - April 2005
Communications co-ordinator for Project Seahorse, a marine conservation and research organization based at the University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre. Produced annuals reports, newsletters, multi-media presentations and supervised branding, marketing and other public outreach efforts.
September 1996 - March 2003
Editor, writer and photographer based in Vancouver and Yellowknife, NWT. Clients/employers included Northern News Services, New Scientist, Canadian Geographic, the Vancouver Sun, Southam News, and West Hawk Associates. Served as publications manager for the North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium and edited a book on commercial fish stocks of the Pacific Northwest for the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
March 1995 - September 1996
Freelance science and environmental journalist and webmaster. Parliamentary correspondent and columnist for Technology in Government magazine.
Contributor to Southam News, Equinox and Canadian Forum magazines and the Ottawa Citizen,
the Ottawa X Press, The Hill Times, the Whitehorse Star and News/North. Creator of the online editions of the
X Press and
The Hill Times,
the first two World Wide Web sites for weekly newspapers in Ottawa, as well as the North-South Institute.
February 1993 - February 1995
Copy editor, reporter, columnist (Senate. media), designer and photographer for The Hill Times and the Ottawa X Press.
March 1991 - September 1992
Editor of the Inuvik Drum, a weekly newspaper in the Mackenzie Delta of the N.W.T. Also Mackenzie Delta editor for the Yellowknife-based
News/North and a freelance environment and science correspondent for Reuters, Canadian Press, Southam
News, Alaska magazine and the Whitehorse Star.
July 1990 - February 1991
Freelance reporter, contributor to the Ottawa Citizen and, for the fall of 1990, acting science reporter for the Cape Cod Times, a daily based in Hyannis, Mass.
September 1988 - November 1989
Staff reporter, specializing in science features, and editorial assistant at the Ottawa Citizen.
May 1987 - May 1988
Reporter and photographer for the Falmouth Enterprise, a tri-weekly
covering Upper Cape Cod, Mass.
May 1987 - August 1987
Writer and public information officer for the Marine Biological Laboratory, a private research institution in Woods Hole, Mass, and its bi-annual magazine, MBL Science. Served similar functions in the summers of 1988 and 1990.
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