I currently work as an earth science writer for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. In 2009, I started blogging about bicycle transportation for examiner.com. Previously, I was a medical reporter for U.S. News & World Report where I focused on environmental and men's health. This database contains some of the stories I wrote for U.S News.

Prior to that, I wrote for Mote Marine Laboratory, Popular Science, Alternative Energy Retailer, and Inside Brown. In 2005, I graduated from Brown University with a degree in geology-biology. Like most people, I have parents. Mine own a heating and cooling company and gave me one farmer brother, one architect brother, and one younger sister, who doesn't yet have a website, but who you can read about here. We grew up in Montague, a town of about 9,000 people in Western Massachusetts.

Much to my chagrin, Japanese firefighters extinguished this campfire--which I had spend a considerable amount of time building--shortly after this picture was taken. Fortunately, the fire chief was a friendly fellow who offered me dinner, put me up in the firehouse, and posed for photos in return.