Bryn Nelson is a Seattle-based journalist who has been translating science into stories since 1999. While a staff science writer at Newsday in New York, Nelson won awards for a long-form feature about a toddler with a traumatic brain injury and for his role in a yearlong ecology series about the natural world. As a freelance writer and editor since 2007, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Nature, Scientific American, High Country News, MSNBC.com (now NBCNEWS.com), CNN.com and many other publications. www.brynnelson.com