Speakers

  • Robin Lloyd

    Position/Organization: news editor, online, Scientific American; contributor, CJR.org

    Robin Lloyd started working in online journalism in 1999 at CNN.com after receiving a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 1998 to 1999 academic year. She was senior science editor for SPACE.com from 1999 to 2001, and returned to the company as senior editor for LiveScience.com and SPACE.com from 2007 to 2009. She has additional experience in print journalism (Pasadena Star-News), wire journalism (City News Service of Los Angeles), and institutional science writing (American Museum of Natural History).

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  • Steven Lohrenz

    Position/Organization: University of Southern Mississippi

    Steven Lohrenz is a biological oceanographer and chair of the department of marine science at the University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, Miss. He has studied carbon dioxide distribution in coastal waters, methods for detecting algal blooms and other biogeochemical properties of coastal waters.

    http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/%7ew301130/
    Steven.lohrenz@usm.edu
    226-688-3177

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  • Michael Mann

    Position/Organization: professor of meteorology and director of the Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Penn.

    Michael Mann, Ph.D., is a professor of meteorology and the director of the Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Penn. He received his Ph.D. at Yale University and is a co-founder of the website RealClimate.org. He shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize given to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

    http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/Mann/

    mann@meteo.psu.edu

    814-863-4075

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  • Betsy Mason

    Position/Organization: editor, Wired Science

    Betsy Mason is science editor for Wired.com, one of the most successful, heavily read, and flat-out interesting online science-news websites. Before working at Wired she reported on science for the Contra Costa Times in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has written about science for publications including Nature, Science, Discover and New Scientist. Before becoming a journalist, Betsy was a geologist, and has a Master's degree in geology from Stanford University.

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  • Helen Mayberg

    Position/Organization: professor of psychiatry and neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta

    Helen S. Mayberg, MD, is a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. She has used neuroimaging to study mood regulation and neural networks for 20 years, leading to her pioneering development of deep-brain stimulation as a treatment for severe depression.

    http://neurology.emory.edu/Faculty/Mayberg.htm

    hmayber@emory.edu

    404-727-6740

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  • Maryn McKenna

    Position/Organization: freelance science writer

    Maryn McKenna covers public health, infectious disease, health policy and food policy. She is, most recently, the author of SUPERBUG: The Fatal Menace of MRSA on the international epidemic of drug-resistant staph infections. She writes frequently for national magazines and her work has also appeared in ScientificAmerican.com, CNBC.com, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Boston Magazine, Chicago Magazine, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

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  • Donald G. McNeil Jr.

    Position/Organization: science and health reporter, The New York Times

    Donald G. McNeil Jr. has been a science reporter for The New York Times since 2002. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for the paper, based in Johannesburg and then Paris. He has also been a theater columnist, an environmental reporter, a suburban bureau chief and a night rewrite man, as well as an editor on the city desk and the culture and Week in Review sections. Mr. McNeil joined The Times in 1976 as a copy boy.

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  • John Mecklin

    Position/Organization: editor in chief, Miller-McCune

    John Mecklin is the editor in chief of Miller-McCune. Over the last 15 years, he's also been: the editor of High Country News, a nationally acclaimed magazine that reports on the American West; the consulting executive editor for the launch of Key West, a city/regional magazine; and the top editor for award-winning newsweeklies in San Francisco and Phoenix that specialized in narrative journalism. In an earlier incarnation, he was an investigative reporter at the Houston Post and covered the Persian Gulf War from Saudi Arabia and Iraq for the paper.

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  • Jon Miller

    Position/Organization: faculty, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

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  • Christopher Mims

    Position/Organization: freelance writer, http://slipr.com

    Christopher Mims is a freelance science and technology journalist for Scientific American, Technology Review, Wired, Popular Science, Discover and a handful of other magazines. He is also a former editor at Scientific American and the founding editor of ScienceBlogs.com.

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