Victoria Barber
News Editor
The Arctic Sounder

Victoria Barber graduated from the University of Victoria, BC, with degrees in literature and journalism. She is a fourth-generation Alaskan who was born and raised in Anchorage, where she currently resides.
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vbarber@alaskanewspapers.com

Michael Barnes
Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT

Michael Barnes, a native of the UK, is a television producer and writer whose work has appeared on public television’s NOVA and other American and British broadcasters. His works include documentaries on topics from archeology to aeronautics. His most notable work is the use of “experimental archeology”—the technique of rebuilding, while filming, ancient buildings and machines to understand what went into them.My study plans for the fellowship and instead say barnes' most recent project is doctors' diaries a 21 year portrait of the lives of seven harvard trained doctors
(www.PBS.org/nova/doctors/)
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barnesm@mit.edu

Julia Gross
Freelance Science Journalist

She is interested in sharks as well as brain researchers or hedge funds. For there is always more than one perspective from which one can see things. And more connections between science and industry, than would appear at first glance.Climate change and agriculture speculation, breathroughs in molecular biology and pharmaceutical marketing, green genetic engineering and organic farming - there are various facets of each which can inspire a story. Julia Gross has studied biochemistry and journalism, was editor in business, freelance correspondent in Los Angeles, and director of the department of knowledge on Matador. She produced well-told stories and informational graphics for her home town of Munich, Germany.

For her article "The country needs new chicken" in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sunday she was honored with the BIO 2008 award.

Julia writes for Technology Review, Suddeutsche Zeitung Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper, Handelsblatt Perspectives, Time, Knowledge, Euro am Sonntag Brand, One, Financial Times Germany, Star Live Healthy, and Die Welt.
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gross@jb-schnittstelle.de

Louisa Jonas
Independent Producer

Louisa Jonas is an independent public radio and podcast producer based in Baltimore, Md. Her recent work includes documentaries about spawning horseshoe crabs and migratory shorebirds aired on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. Louisa previously worked as the podcast producer at WYPR in Baltimore. There she created and produced two documentary podcast series: Natural Maryland and Ascending. The Nature Conservancy selected her documentaries for their podcast Nature Stories. Louisa is editor of the book Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from
University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She has worked as an environmental educator/canoe instructor but has yet to convince a great blue heron to squawk for her microphone… she remains undeterred. Louisa finds herself often doing the Lindyhop, West coast swing, Israeli dance, African dance etc. She's not encountered a dance she's not willing to try.
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louisajonasmedia@gmail.com

Julia Kumari-Drapkin
Argentina Correspondent

Julia Kumari Drapkin covers Argentina for GlobalPost. She is a multimedia reporter working across the platforms of film, video, radio, and photojournalism. She specializes in environmental reporting, science, and international news.

Most recently she was an environmental reporter for The World and a 2007-2008 Metcalf Reporting Fellow. Julia unearths interesting stories, seeks out environmental angles to the daily headlines, and produces multimedia for theworld.org.

Julia began her journalism career as photographer for the Associated Press covering the civil war in Sri Lanka. She covered the Asian Tsunami for the AP and photographed New Orleans in the months following Hurricane Katrina. Julia has worked for the Associated Press in New York, the World Picture News Network, TIME, and the St. Petersburg Times.

Julia studied journalism at Columbia University. Prior to that, Julia did research in anthropology and archaeology for over 7 years in Latin America. A Florida native, Julia grew up singing and dancing next to the Gulf of Mexico (when she wasn't swimming in it). These days she enjoys all four seasons and bicycling among the citizens of Red Sox Nation.

Below are some of Julia's favorite stories.

Gulf Recovery Hits Language Barrier (radio story) - Vietnamese Fisherman
- PRI's The World - mp3

Carnivore Politics - (Online Video/Television) -Global Post

On the Jaguar Path in Panama-  (Television/Radio)- PRI's The World
Television and Radio

Patagonia's Penguins (Online Video/Television)
-Online video:Global Post
-Television broadcast: PBS World Focus

Tagging Whale Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico: PRI's The World
- Radio :
-Audio Slideshow

A Debate Among Scientists  –Radio/ Audio Slideshow - PRI's The World

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juliakumari@gmail.com

Susan Moran
Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT

Susan Moran is a freelance writer and a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The Economist. She is also co-host of How on Earth, a weekly radio program on KGNU in Boulder, Colorado. She has written extensively about topics related to energy development, climate change, environmental health, and sustainable business. She just ended a 10-month Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, where she studied evolutionary and molecular biology, climate science,  and environmental epidemiology.

Moran lives in Boulder, Colo., where she is a freelance writer and often has been a journalism instructor at the University of Colorado's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her work has been published in The Economist, The New York Times, Newsweek, Marie Claire and other publications. Years ago Susan was based in San Francisco, where she was a senior editor at Business 2.0 magazine. Previously she worked with Reuters news agency -- in Tokyo, New York and Silicon Valley — and other news organizations. She has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, a master's degree in Asian studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree in political science (with a minor in environmental studies) from UC Santa Cruz.
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morans@mit.edu.

Boyce Rensberger
Director, Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program (retired).

Rensberger became director of the Knight Fellowships upon the retirement in June 1998 of Victor K. McElheny, who founded the program in 1983.

Rensberger has been a science writer or science editor for more than 32 years, beginning in 1966 at The Detroit Free Press. From there he went to The New York Times from 1971 through 1979. He left The Times to freelance and to become head writer of a PBS science series for children, "3-2-1- Contact!" In 1981, he became senior editor of Science 81–Science 84 magazine, a popular monthly published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At the end of 1984 Rensberger went to The Washington Post, where he served as science writer and science editor. At The Post, he created the paper's acclaimed monthly supplement, "Horizon: The Learning Section." Rensberger has written four science books, most recently Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell.

Rensberger has twice won the AAAS top award for science writing. In 1973-74 he was an Alicia Patterson Fellow, spending a year in East Africa studying human evolution and wildlife conservation. In 1987 he was a Science Writing Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.

Rensberger, who received a B.S. in zoology and journalism from the University of Miami and an M.S. in mental health communications from Syracuse University, also is a former co-director of the summer Science Writing Fellowships Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. His outside interests include gardening and woodworking.

Boyce Rensberger's List of Books Every Science Writer Should Read
boycerensberger@gmail.com

Benjamin Shaw
Producer/Editor

National Geographic Weekend
Benjamin Shaw is a blogger and radio and television producer for National Geographic. In 2007, Shaw created National Geographic Weekend, a weekly radio program hosted by Boyd Matson. The program airs across the United States on AM/FM stations as well as on XM/Sirius radio and is podcast through iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/national-geographic-weekend/id322327343

Before being hired by National Geographic, Shaw worked as a public radio reporter on Capitol Hill and worked as an assistant producer for PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, a national arts and culture program.

Prior to obtaining a master of science degree in journalism from Columbia University, Shaw sailed his 33-foot sailboat throughout the Caribbean for a year while writing freelance articles for national sailing and travel magazines.
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bshaw@ngs.org

Chelsea Wald

Freelance Reporter
I'm a freelance journalist specializing in (but not limited to) science, medicine and the environment. After graduating from Columbia University with a bachelor's in astronomy, I traveled to Chile on a Fulbright grant to study ancient Andean cosmology. I returned to the United States and earned a master's in journalism from Indiana University. I interned at the Physical Review Focus, an online source of physics news for physicists, physics students and physics enthusiasts. Following that, I edited QuantumDiaries.org for the World Year of Physics 2005 and worked for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, where I wrote for Imagine magazine and Cogito.org. Then I moved to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where I produced the radio show Science Update and developed and launched the Science Update Podcast. Now I'm a freelance, based in Vienna, Austria, and reporting from around the world. .
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cwald@nasw.org

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Gretchen Weber

Associate Producer, Climate Watch
KQED Public Broadcasting (San Francisco)
http://www.kqed.org/radio/about/staff/gretchen-weber.jsp
It says on Gretchen's resume that her key strength is "synthesizing complex information." Boy, is that an understatement (and a good thing that she doesn't list it under "hobbies"). Gretchen's fingerprints are on virtually every facet of the Climate Watch operation, from gathering radio sound to writing for the Web. Prior to her arrival at KQED, she led wilderness expeditions in Australia and Alaska as an adventure travel guide. If the assignment for Climate Watch involves a backpack, she's first in line. Gretchen loves exploring the west but left her heart in her native New England, where she studied anthropology at Yale and freelanced for the Boston Globe. In her spare time, she snagged an M.A. in journalism from NYU.
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gweber@kqed.org