I am an independent science writer and editor. Currently, I am writing a reference book set for Facts on File for grades 6 to 12. This project has been ongoing for more than two years, but will be completed by the end of 2006.

I have an ongoing relationship with the college textbook company BrooksCole, for whom I have written web content, ancillary materials (study guides and instructors manuals), and resource integration guides; have conducted and written scientist interviews; collected web links; and written for textbooks in a variety of fields including geography, geology, astronomy, aviation, biology, biochemistry, and analytical chemistry.

Last year, I edited a few chapters of a new high school oceanography textbook for PADI, who are expanding their business from diver certification.

Other clients have included Finger Lakes Production International, Inc. for whom I wrote radio scripts for Our Ocean World. For MathSoft Engineering and Education, Inc. I wrote science and environmental news stories and explorations that were published on the web. Between 2000 and 2002, I developed and wrote the astronomy, earth science and oceanography sections for their 2001 and 2002 StudyWorks! educational software for high school students.

My first book, Cosmic Collisions, was published in 1996 in the Scientific American Focus series, released by Henry Holt/Owl Books. The book deals with the importance of asteroids and comets in earth history and the possible consequences of a future asteroid collision with our planet. The New York Times Book Review liked my ability “to spin a good story” and reported that the book was “written in simple, straightforward language.” Although it is now out of print, you can pick up used copies at Powells, Amazon, or Half.com. Cosmic Collisions led to a feature story in Earth and to an exploration of asteroids and comets in the Children's Britannica Yearbook 1997. An abbreviated form of the Earth story was included in the December 1996 Reader's Digest.

Until recently I worked part-time as technical editor and writer for the Evolutionary and Functional Genomics (EFG) center at Arizona State University. Most of my effort involved editing proposals, manuscripts, and reports, although I did some writing of things like web contact and letters. I have also recently edited scientific papers for non-English speaking scientists who want to publish in English language journals.

• Performed extensive editing on chemical oceanography and ocean sediment chapters for Life on an Ocean Planet to appear Fall, 2005, Current Publishing.
• Completed the Instructor’s Manual & Test Bank (IMTB) and wrote the Resource Integration Guide for [The Changing Earth] , James S. Monroe and Reed Wicander, 2005, 4th edition, Brooks/Cole.
• Wrote content for the EarthScienceNow! interactive feature of many Brooks/Cole earth science texts.
• Wrote Instructor’s Manual & Test Bank for Evolution of the Earth and Life Through Time, 4th edition, and Study Guide for Pipkin, Trent, and Hazlett, [Geology and the Environment] , 4th edition.
• Conducted scientist interviews; wrote internet activities, InfoTrac activities, and resource integration guide; and collected web links for Essentials of Physical Geography, Robert E. Gabler, 2004, Brooks Cole.
• Wrote Resource Integration Guide for several Brooks/Cole texts including
• The Changing Earth, James S. Monroe and Reed Wicander, 2005
• Historical Geology, Evolution of Earth and Life through Time, Reed Wicander and James S. Monroe, 2004.
  
• Voyages through the Universe, 3rd ed., Fraknoi et al., 2004, BrooksCole.
  
• The Cosmos- Astronomy in the New Millenium, Jay M. Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko, 2004.
  
• Essential World Regional Geography, Christopher L. Salter and Joseph J. Hobbs, 4th ed., 2003.
• Conducted and wrote scientist interviews for D.A. Skoog et. al., Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry, 8th edition (in press), Brooks Cole [available on request].
  
• Conducted and wrote scientist interviews for M.K. Campbell, Biochemistry, 4th edition, 2003 [available on request].
  
• Pocket Study Guide to Accompany Modern Physical Geology, Graham Thompson and Jonathan Turk, 1997, International Thompson Publishing, [ portions available on request].

Other Work:

• Radio scripts for “Our Ocean World,” produced by Finger Lakes Production International. Titles include:
  • Why Explore the Arctic?
  • How Much is a Beach Worth?
  • Gray Whale Recovery
  • Ocean Sounds
• Oceanography, earth science and astronomy sections: StudyWorks! Science Deluxe, 2002, MathSoft Engineering and Education, Inc. [portions available on request].
• Entries for the Macmillan Science Library Biology, vol. 3, [available on request].
  • Global Climate Change
  • Ocean Ecosystems: Hard Bottoms
  • Ocean Ecosystems: Open Oceans
  • Ocean Ecosystems: Soft Bottoms
• A Bolt from the Blue, Children's Britannica, Yearbook 1997, Looking Back on 1996, Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. [available on request].
• Scientific American Focus on Cosmic Collisions, 1996, Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, 128 pp. [portions available on request].
• The Threat from Space, Earth, August 1996 [original available on request or text.]
• The Fate of the Tethys Sea, The Sciences, January/February 1995 [available on request].
  
News stories and explorations for the Studyworks! web page of MathSoft Engineering and Education, Inc. Titles of individual stories are as follows:

• 2002
  • The Future is No Bigger than a Molecule
  • Mystery in the Deep
  • Of Mice and Children
  • What’s Hot about Astrobiology
  • What’s Hot about Astrobiology II
• 2001
• A Threat to India
• Anxious over Addition
• Bleaching: A Coral Survival Strategy
• Condor Chick Hatches in the Wild
• Discovery of a Lost City
• Facts about Teen Smoking
• For SETI, Things Are Looking Up
• Forecasting Volcanic Eruptions
• From Where the Whale?
• Hey Girls, You Out There?
• In Search of Noah’s Flood
• Is Pluto a Planet?
• Lyme Disease Overrated?
• Magnet Theory: A Source of Relief or a Waste of Money
• Pain Intensity is Largely in the Brain
• The Placebo Effect: Real or Imagined?
• Sleuthing at the Grand Canyon [exploration]
• Super Bugs
• The Birth of the Moon
• The Perils of Flying
• The Tyrannosaurus Family Tree
• We’re Not Really Couch Potatoes
• What is Postpartum Depression?
• 2000
• A NEAR Look at a Tiny Neighbor
• Are We All Martians?
• Earth’s Frozen Climate History
• Eat Chocolate, Live Longer!
• Edible Vaccines
• I Think I Love You
• Storms at the Bottom of the Sea
• That Daily Jolt
• The Future of “Life” on Earth
• The History Within Us All
• The Search for Martians
• The Search for Europans
• There’s a Hole in the Center of the Galaxy
• When Sickness May Be Good for You