Summary
Before I joined Chemical & Engineering News, I was an editorial fellow at Nature, a Kaiser Fellow at The Charlotte Observer, and a AAAS Mass Media Fellow at The Chicago Tribune. I have a PhD in environmental geoscience from the University of Notre Dame, where I studied the structural chemistry of uranium and other actinide elements.
When I’m not writing about science, I’m helping other writers tell their stories in the best ways possible, whether that’s through custom visualizations or detailed database reporting. I love experimenting with new storytelling concepts.
Check out some of my work below.
Digital Projects
Mobile App: Chemoji
ACS Chemoji is here! Chemoji is emoji for chemists. The American Chemical Society launched an app in August to help chemists communicate visually on social media.
Quiz: Meet The T12
Quizmaster Jessica Morrison gives a glimpse into the lives of C&EN's Talented 12 when they’re not in the lab. Can you guess which little-known fact belongs to each person?
Newsapp: Frack Map
Some states require fracking chemical disclosure to FracFocus, others require submission to a state agency, and nearly all allow a measure of trade-secret protection.
Writings
Chemical & Engineering News
Building Lighter, Faster Military Aircraft ($)
Nuclear Waste Has A Long History of Confusing Definitions ($)
What's That Stuff?: Nitro Cold Brew
Privatizing Nuclear Waste Storage ($)
Matt Kanan: The Renewable Energy Reaper
Karen Havenstrite: The Soothe Seer
Fracking Study Yields Mixed Results ($)
C&EN Talks With Michael Meador
ACS Scholar Christina Fields-Zinna
Uneven State Rules And Trade Secrets Fuel Fracking Debate ($)
Obama’s Proposed R&D Budget Would Give Science A Boost ($)
EPA Proposes To Revise Regulation Of Oil Spill Dispersants ($)
Congressional Outlook 2015 ($)
Tainted Drinking Water in West Virginia
Oversight For Synthetic Biology ($)
C&EN Talks With Shaughnessy Naughton ($)
Counterattacking The Wild Pig Invasion With Bacon Preservative Sodium Nitrite
National Geographic
7 Biggest Earthquakes in California History—Napa's Not Even Close
After Shutdown Ends, Effects Continue to Stymie Science
NOVA Next/PBS
How Engineers Use Ground Freezing to Build Bigger, Safer, and Deeper
A Salty Solution for Nuclear Waste
Slate
Could Scientists Have Prevented the Fukushima Meltdown?
Nature
Earliest skeletal animals were reef builders
Bees build mental maps to get home
San Francisco due for a shake-up
Electronics' noise disorients migratory birds
Cotton balls help Darwin's finches to help themselves
Decoded fly genome offers clues about sleeping sickness
X-ray method could improve nuclear screening
New origin seen for Earth's tectonic plates
'Electronic skin' equipped with memory
Prehistoric 'weird shrimps' traded claws for nets
Human nose can detect 1 trillion odours
Incoming NSF director faces challenges in Congress
Obama's budget request falls flat
Obama's budget plan defies spending cap
Digital atlas shows oceans' iron levels
China becomes world's third largest producer of research articles
Brain responds to tiniest speech details
Mantis shrimp's super colour vision debunked
Science agencies regain footing in Congressional budget deal
The Chicago Tribune
Baby experts change tune on food allergies
Researcher believes there's an art to his science
Afraid of dentists? Sedation is new drill
Wanted: Ants of all sorts from Chicago
Study of athletes parses triumph, pride