• Clients include Nature, Conservation, Salon.com, Harvard Magazine, Science News for Kids, California, Mongabay.com, Loh Down on Science, and Biomedical Computation Review
• Reviewed popular science book for the San Francisco Chronicle

• Write four stories per week about new research findings for Conservation magazine's website
• Identify papers, find artwork, publish posts to website, and moderate comments
• Cover ecology, marine science, geology, climate change, and conservation

• Wrote about new studies, conferences, and government hearings for Nature's news website and blog
• Covered science policy and community news, including climate-change law and stimulus package grants
• Contributed research summaries, news briefs, and two feature stories to the weekly print magazine

• Wrote news releases and responded to media requests about U.S. Department of Energy research
• Produced website features on a variety of topics, including energy, space, archaeology and technology
• Created lab's first research podcasts and set up Idaho National Laboratory iTunes channel

• Wrote stories about new research findings for Science magazine's daily online news service
• Interviewed researchers and outside experts for each story, with two- to three-day turnaround

• Assisted production of the SETI Institute's weekly hour-long science podcast, Are We Alone?
• Edited audio, wrote portions of script, prepared interview questions and developed show ideas

• Wrote two to three stories a week for Monterey County newspaper (circulation 17,000)
• Covered agriculture, environment, health, community, education and election night

• Developed software and designed database to support evolutionary analysis of protein sequences
• Set up Mac OS X computer server to allow file sharing and website hosting in laboratory

• Developed software to build knowledge base of gene pathway data for biotechnology start-up
• Managed an interdisciplinary team of scientists, software engineers and QA engineers

• Completed thesis on identification of signalling element in immune response gene
• Recipient of Howard Hughes Summer Research Fellowship

• Taught four creative writing classes and two composition classes to undergraduates
• Designed course syllabi, ran fiction workshops and extensively edited student work

• Experience recording and editing podcasts and video
• Familiar with Sound Forge, Audacity, Soundslides and Final Cut Express
• Created own website using HTML and CSS

• Idaho National Laboratory Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz (2007-08)
• Ross Lockridge Jr. Award in Creative Writing, Indiana University at Bloomington (2006)
• Omar Castaneda Fellowship in Fiction, Indiana University at Bloomington (2004-06)
• Phi Beta Kappa Society, Stanford University (2000)
• Howard Hughes Summer Research Fellowship (1999)
• Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scholarship (1997-98)

• National Association of Science Writers
• Northern California Science Writers Association