After years of training in the physical sciences, it is the logic, the problem-solving, and the measured, rational approach to new questions that stirs the most joy in me, as much today as it did in eighth-grade Earth Science. Whether or not I’m actively pursuing a research result, I use these skills every single day. My goal in communicating research results to the general public is to do so in a way that conveys those traits of scientific thought. I also aim to place the results within the larger framework of scientific knowledge. When it works, science’s give-and-take, two-steps-forward-one-step-back approach can inspire members of any field.

I served as a member of the editorial board for the Berkeley Science Review for Issue 15 (Fall 2008). I also contributed, as a writer, an article on argon-argon radiometric dating for that issue.

I wrote the BSR’s Book Review for Issue 14, on In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan. I also copy edited that issue, and copy edited Mount Holyoke College, I wrote a profile of Ron Zissell, an astronomer there, for the now-defunct College Street Journal. (If you read this article, please forgive my novice tone. And know that when I submitted the article it included the correct spelling of “poring.”)

In September 2009 I will begin a 16-month master’s program in science journalism (SHERP) at NYU. I have a profile and everything.

I am a member of the National Association of Science Writers.