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  • John Allen Paulos

    Author & mathematics professor, Temple University

    John Allen Paulos is an author, public speaker and monthly columnist for ABCNews.com. He teaches math at Temple University in Philadelphia and earned his Ph.D. in the subject from the University of Wisconsin. He has served for two years on the editorial board of the Philadelphia Daily News and has made numerous appearances in media, including the Lehrer News Hour, 20/20, Larry King, and David Letterman. He was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science award for promoting public understanding of science in 2002 and the Mathematics Communication award from the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics in 2013. His most recent book is Irreligion.

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  • Sidney Perkowitz, Ph.D.

    Candler professor of physics emeritus, Emory University; author, science writer

    Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University, has written or edited many research papers and books, and over 100 articles and seven books of popular science including Empire of Light, Universal Foam, Hollywood Science, and Hollywood Chemistry: When Science Meets Entertainment (in press). He writes and speaks about science in entertainment, science and art, the science of food, and other popular topics, with media appearances including CNN, NPR, and the BBC. He is on the Board of Directors and blogs for the Science and Entertainment Exchange, National Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. http://sidneyperkowitz.net/.

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  • Kelly Poe

    Reporter, Greensboro News & Record

    Kelly Poe is a reporter at the Greensboro News & Record focusing on infrastructure, environment and development. She is a graduate of the journalism program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Before graduating, she completed internships at The News & Observer in Raleigh, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock, The Herald-Sun in Durham and The StarNews in Wilmington — all of the places where she managed to persuade her editors to let her write about science, health and environment. She was also the City assistant editor for UNC’s independent student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel.

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  • Kendall Powell

    Freelance science writer and editor, Boulder, Colorado

    Freelance science writer and editor Kendall Powell covers the realm of biology, from molecules to maternity. She jumped from the lab bench to laptop via the U.C. Santa Cruz Science Communication program in 2002. She has written news stories, features and scientist profiles for a variety of publications including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Nature (including Nature Careers), PLoS Biology, Journal of Cell Biology, Science Careers and the HHMI Bulletin.  In 2005, Powell founded SciLance, an online community of science writers, as a way to stay connected to colleagues who are as much word nerds as science geeks. Together, the group wrote The Science Writers' Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age, published by Da Capo Press in April 2013. She lives near Denver, Colorado with her scientist-husband, daughter, son, and two Labradors.

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  • Catherine Puckett

    Acting chief of public affairs, United States Geological Survey

    Catherine Puckett is a public affairs specialist with the U.S. Geological Survey's national office; she covers climate change and ecosystems and thinks USGS conducts fascinating and relevant science. The issues she works on range from wildfires and climate change effects on wildlife to Burmese pythons, avian influenza, and sea-level rise. Puckett is also a natural history and science writer whose work has appeared in journals, magazines, and newspapers, including a recent essay, "Beauty and the Beast," on eastern diamondback rattlesnakes in the book Trash Animals: How We Live With Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species.  She studied journalism and wildlife ecology at the University of Florida for her master's degree and has participated in past studies on crocodiles, alligators, snakes, and tortoises in Florida, Belize, and Venezuela.

  • Kathleen Raven

    Freelance journalist, Reuters Health

    Kathleen Raven covers science and health topics as a freelance journalist based in Atlanta, Ga. She writes about personal health, biotechnology and agriculture/food. Kathleen has worked as a general assignment reporter, a science writer for the University of Georgia and interned at Nature Medicine in New York City in 2012. She is a part-time contributor to Reuters Health online. She has two master's degrees from the University of Georgia: Ecology (M.S.) and Health & Medical Journalism (M.A.).

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  • David Reed

    Curator of mammals and chair, Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History

    David Reed grew up in a family of musicians. Thanks to an influential science teacher in high school, he enrolled in a marine biology program. An interest in museum studies and evolution led him to graduate school at Louisiana State University, where he studied coevolution with Mark Hafner, one of its pioneers. Reed’s research now focuses on several areas of evolutionary biology. He is best known for research that explores human evolution through the lens of our species’ longtime traveling companion, the lowly louse. Results on human migration have received widespread public attention and even earned a wag of the finger from Stephen Colbert. In his role as curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Reed oversees more than 30,000 mammal specimens collected around the world. He and his students also study the effects of climate change on mammal populations. He teaches courses in phylogenetics and mammalogy, and developed a course with Bruce MacFadden that teaches graduate students how to better communicate with public audiences.

  • Czerne Reid

    Science writer, Gainesville, Florida

    Czerne Reid
    Science Writer, Gainesville, Florida
    Czerne Reid is is a science writer in Gainesville, Fla.; a science writing teacher at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and co-chair of the education committee of the National Association of Science Writers. She has worked at University of Florida Health Communications; The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C.; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; The Salinas Californian, in John Steinbeck's hometown; Stanford News Service and Stanford School of Medicine Office of Communication and Public Affairs. A 2007 Kaiser Media Fellow, her fellowship project was an award-winning newspaper series on the impact of HIV/AIDS in South Carolina. Czerne earned her PhD in environmental chemistry at Emory University, and a graduate certificate in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her bachelor's degree in chemistry is from the University of the West Indies, Mona, in her native Jamaica.

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  • Cassie Rodenberg

    Freelance, blogger at Scientific American

    Cassie Rodenberg is a writer who teaches science in South Bronx public school. She co-conducts an intensive photo-documentary project highlighting addiction, prostitution and poverty in Hunts Point, Bronx, a project rounding its second year and one that has received international acclaim. Her blog humanizing the lives of those struggling with addiction is hosted on the Scientific American blog network, and she was featured in 2012 Best Science Writing Online print anthology. Prior to her teaching and documentary work, she was Digital Lead at Discovery Channel and wrote in-house at Popular Mechanics magazine.

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  • Adam Rogers

    Articles editor, WIRED

    As articles editor for WIRED, Adam Rogers manages the magazine’s newly redesigned front of book, including Alpha, Ultra, Q, Gadget Lab and Infoporn. A self-proclaimed geek, Rogers has experience covering both science and entertainment. In 2011, he received the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for “The Angels' Share,” an acclaimed feature exploring the strange black fungus covering a Canadian whiskey warehouse. Prior to joining WIRED in 2004, Rogers was a reporter at Newsweek. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, holds a master’s degree in science journalism from Boston University, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in science, technology and society from Pomona College.

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  • Charles Rousseaux

    Senior science writer, Department of Energy

    Charles Rousseaux is Senior Writer in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. A biologist by training, he discovered — through the trial of many errors — that he was better suited for a career in communications than research. He has served as an editorial writer for The Washington Times and a speechwriter for senior officials at the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Department of Health and Human Services and NASA. Charles creates a wide range of communications materials for the Office of Science and leads a writers group of about forty scribes and content creators across ten national labs and numerous research facilities. When not writing or reading, Charles ‘enjoys’ running the occasional ultramarathon.

  • Andrew Schuerger

    Research assistant professor in astrobiology and plant pathology University of Florida

    After studying microbiology and plant pathology for his Ph.D., Andrew Schuerger worked for 18 years at The Land, a hydroponic research and education facility at Epcot Center, developing disease management programs for vegetable and agronomic crops. He has published extensively on plant-pathogen interactions in semi-closed plant growing systems, the survival of terrestrial microorganisms under Martian conditions, and the microbial ecology of human missions to Mars. Since joining the U.F. plant pathology faculty in 2003, he has been studying the effects of the surface environment on the survival, growth, and adaptation of terrestrial microorganisms on Mars. He also has continued research into the use of remote sensing technologies to detect and classify plant pathogens present in hydroponic plant production systems.

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  • Matt Shipman

    Science writer and public information officer, North Carolina State University

    Matt Shipman is a science writer and public information officer at North Carolina State University, where he writes about everything from forensic anthropology to computer malware. He previously worked as a reporter and editor in the Washington, D.C. area for Inside EPA, Water Policy Report and Risk Policy Report, covering the nexus of science, politics and policy.

    In his free time, Shipman runs a non-profit organization called the First Step Project that has nothing to do with science, plays guitar badly (but with enthusiasm) and keeps track of the juvenile humans who live in his house. You can follow him on Twitter: @ShipLives.

    Anyone interested in hiring Shipman for freelance writing or editing projects can reach him at shiplives[at]gmail.com.

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