Speakers

  • Amos Zeeberg

    Position/Organization: managing editor online, Discover

    As the managing editor of DISCOVERmagazine.com, Amos Zeeberg charts the strategy for the website and oversees its daily machinations. In 2007-2008, Amos led a foundation-up site relaunch, the centerpiece of which is the Discover Blogs network, an award-winning group of 10 (and counting) freelancer- and staff-written blogs.

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  • Carl Zimmer

    Position/Organization: freelance journalist, book author, lecturer at Yale University

    Carl Zimmer is the author of eight books and writes for the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Discover, where he is a contributing editor. He teaches science writing at Yale. This fall he published his first ebook: Brain Cuttings: Fifteen Journeys Through the Mind. http://carlzimmer.com

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  • Julie Zimmerman

    Position/Organization: professor of environmental engineering and forestry and environmental studies, and acting director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

    Julie Zimmerman is a professor of environmental engineering and forestry and environmental studies, and the acting director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. In addition to green chemistry, her research interests include the development of public policies to encourage sustainability, water-treatment technology for developing countries, and programs to encourage corporate environmental responsibility.

    http://www.yale.edu/env/zimmerman/jbz_homepage.html

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  • Bora Zivkovic

    Position/Organization: independent blogger; chronobiologist; online discussion manager at Scientific American

    Bora Zivkovic, originally of Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), now of North Carolina, takes his online moniker, Coturnix, from Coturnix japonica, the Japanese quail, which was the subject of his master's thesis in chronobiology. In A Blog Around the Clock, he writes frequently on science, science communication, and, with special vigor, the problems and possibilities science journalism and science communication face as it tries to move from print and corporate structures and practices to more open online structures and practices.

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