Douglas Fox is a freelance journalist who writes on evolution, earth, and polar sciences. He writes for Scientific American, National Geographic, Virginia Quarterly Review, High Country News, Discover, Nature, and other publications. His stories have garnered awards from the National Association of Science Writers, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Doug is a contributing author to The Science Writers' Handbook (Da Capo, 2013).