Brad Scriber is the deputy research director for National Geographic magazine, where he helps ensure the accuracy of the magazine’s worldwide reporting. During his decade on staff at the magazine, he has fact-checked more than 50 feature articles and scores of departments pieces set on six continents and covering countless topics. Recent fact-checking work has included cover stories on marijuana, Spinosaurus, black holes, and rising seas. He was a Knight Science Journalism Energy and Climate Boot Camp Fellow, and has researched a variety of energy features looking at nuclear power, solar energy, methane, coal, and a comprehensive supplement map on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. He was a contributing editor for a National Geographic special issue on energy. He has also written for the magazine and for National Geographic News on topics such as how experts estimate the extent of the African elephant poaching crisis and the failed launch of an Antares rocket that exploded just above the launch pad in 2014. He holds a master’s degree in geography from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. Before joining National Geographic, he did definitive research on the extent of inaccuracies in credit reports that helped reshape federal credit reporting laws.