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  • Ellen E. Martin

    Professor of paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, University of Florida

    Ellen Martin joined the geological sciences faculty at the University of Florida in 1994 following completion of a Ph.D. at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at U.C. Santa Cruz. Her research in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology reconstructs past ocean chemistry and continental inputs to the ocean in order to define relations between continental weathering, carbon sequestration, ocean circulation and global climate change. She conducts field work in Greenland and collaborates with the International Ocean Discovery Program, which will take her to the Baltic Sea in the winter. Martin is on the Steering Committee for the Florida Climate Institute and is a member of the University of Florida Graduate Council. She has also served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Consortium of Ocean Leadership and was the Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor 2002-10.

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  • Amy Maxmen

    Freelance science journalist

    Amy Maxmen is a freelance science journalist who writes about the latest findings in medicine, evolution and global health among other topics. She also writes about how scientists interact with the world. Her features, news stories, and blogs appear in a variety of outlets, including Nature, New Scientist, Science News, Psychology Today and the Lancet. Prior to writing, she earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University by spending a great deal of time in the ocean and beside a microscope in Honolulu.

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  • Patrick McGinness

    Director, EurekAlert!, AAAS

    Patrick McGinness is the Director of EurekAlert!, the online science news service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Since its launch in 1996, more than 2,400 universities, research journals, and other scientific organizations have used EurekAlert! to disseminate their press materials to journalists all over the world. EurekAlert!'s multimedia library was launched in 2004 and currently hosts an archive of over 50,000 images and over 3,000 audio and video files, providing valuable source material for print, online, and broadcast media outlets.

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  • Maryn McKenna

    Author; contributing editor, Scientific American; blogger, wired.com

    Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist specializing in public health, global health and food policy. She is a blogger for Wired magazine and a columnist and contributing editor for Scientific American, and writes for Nature, Slate, the Guardian, the Atlantic, and other publications in the United States, Europe and Asia. She is the author of the award-winning books SUPERBUG, about the global rise of antibiotic resistance, and Beating Back the Devil, about the CDC's disease detectives, and is currently working on a book about food production. She is a Senior Fellow of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. Follow her on Twitter at @marynmck.

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  • A'ndrea Elyse Messer

    Senior Science & Research Information Officer, Pennsylvania State University

    A graduate of Purdue in Science and Culture (chemistry), Boston University in Journalism/Science Communication, A'ndrea Messer is a veteran science communicator and press officer at Penn State where she covers the natural science waterfront. At Penn State, where she has worked for 24 years, Messer writes about research of all kinds and advises faculty, staff and students on all aspects of media relations. She is also an archaeologist, with master's and doctoral degrees in Anthropology from Penn State.

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  • Seth Mnookin

    Co-director, MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing; author and freelance journalist

    Seth Mnookin is the co-director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy, won the National Association of Science Writers 2012 “Science in Society” Award. He is also the author of the 2006 New York Times bestseller Feeding the Monster (about the Boston Red Sox) and 2004′s Hard News (about The New York Times). A former Newsweek national correspondent, he’s written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Slate, and New York Magazine. Since 2005 he’s been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He blogs at PLOS BLOGS and is on Twitter at @sethmnookin.

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  • J. Glenn Morris Jr.

    Director, Emerging Pathogens Institute; professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and public health, University of Florida

    Glenn Morris came to Gainesville to become director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute in 2007. He holds an M.D. and a master’s degree in public health and tropical medicine from Tulane and has served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focusing his attention on cholera and other water- and foodborne illnesses. From 2000 to 2007 he chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Morris has authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and served on the Institute of Medicine’s Food and Nutrition Board, on multiple IOM/National Academy of Sciences committees dealing with food safety and on the Armed Forces Epidemiology Board. Much of his current research is international and focuses on enteric and foodborne pathogens: “New diseases do not respect borders,” he notes. He currently has NIH funding for studies of cholera in Haiti and Bangladesh.

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  • Melinda Wenner Moyer

    Freelance journalist

    Melinda Wenner Moyer is a science and health writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She writes Slate's parenting advice column, The Kids, and contributes to magazines including Scientific American, Nature, Discover, Bon Appétit, Glamour, O: The Oprah Magazine and Self. She teaches science writing in CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism and has a master's degree in Science, Health & Environmental Reporting (SHERP) from New York University.

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  • Bryn Nelson

    Freelance science writer

    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

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  • Rachel Nuwer

    Freelance journalist

    Rachel Nuwer is a freelance science journalist who contributes to venues such as The New York Times, Smithsonian, Wired UK, Scientific American, Slate and The New Scientist, among others. She holds a master's degree in ecology and specializes in writing about all things furry and wild, though she also dabbles in health and tech. She has traveled to 48 countries and lived in six of them. When not hunched over her laptop, she enjoys taking photos, cooking catfish and working on her deadlift form. She lives in Brooklyn with a large orange cat and a computer programmer.

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  • Regina Nuzzo

    Freelance journalist & associate professor of statistics, Gallaudet University

    Regina Nuzzo is a science writer, professor, and stats geek. By day, she teaches statistics in sign language to undergrads and grad students at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. By night, she covers a variety of health and science topics for the Los Angeles Times, Reader’s Digest, Cancer Today, Time, Nature News, and other publications. She got her Ph.D. in statistics with an emphasis in medicine from Stanford University in 2002. Her eclectic academic background also includes a bachelor's degree in engineering, post-doc work in the music cognition lab at McGill University in Montréal, and the graduate science writing program at U.C. Santa Cruz.

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  • Luba Ostashevsky

    Deputy editor, Nautilus

    Luba Ostashevsky is the Deputy Editor of Nautilus, a new online and print magazine of science and culture.

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    We are looking for journalists and experts to write on science related topics on a broad range of topics. We pick a new theme each month and explore it through newsworthy science stories. Check us out at nautil.us and sign up for the newsletter to learn about upcoming themes for your story pitches.

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  • Anna-Lisa Paul

    Research associate professor of horticultural sciences, University of Florida

    Anna-Lisa Paul is a plant molecular biologist with an interest in how plants respond to abiotic stress, particularly at the gene expression level. Venues associated with spaceflight provide an opportunity to explore plant genomic responses to a novel environment that is outside the evolutionary experience of terrestrial organisms. Paul and her colleague Robert Ferl have launched and analyzed five spaceflight experiments: a sortie on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999 plus three telemetric and gene expression experiments and a BRIC-16 gene expression experiment (BRIC stands for Biological Research in Canisters) on later shuttle flights. An additional spaceflight experiment launched and returned with SpaceX-2. Current research is evaluating the effects of the spaceflight environment on the patterns of signal transduction and gene expression in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana using state-of-the-art molecular biology and genetic techniques along with telemetric image collection.

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