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Katharine Gammon is a freelance science writer based in Santa Monica, California, who writes about environment, science, and parenting. You can find her on X (formerly known as Twitter) @kategammon.

Katharine Gammon

History

The Surprising History of Scientific Ballooning in 11 Missions

Ashley Braun is an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist based in Seattle, Washington. Her reporting has taken her from the United Nations climate summit in Morocco and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to California’s redwood forests and Washington’s salmon rivers. In her work, she enjoys exploring the dynamic relationships between humans and other species, as well as the intersections of science and society.

Ashley Braun

Technology

Ping, You’ve Got Whale

Avery Schuyler Nunn is a California-based science storyteller. She has contributed words and photographs to National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Grist, Whalebone Magazine, and The Inertia, among other publications.

Avery Schuyler Nunn

Zoology

The Mystery of the Pregnant Rays

CD Davidson-Hiers is a Florida journalist and essayist.

CD Davidson-Hiers

Environment

March of the Mangroves

Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

The Deadly Story of a Life-Giving Element

Neil Shubin is an evolutionary biologist whose team discovered Tiktaalik roseae, the iconic fossil fish that was among the first to walk on land. His search for fossils has led him to all seven continents including over three decades in the Arctic and Antarctica. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, he is a professor at The University of Chicago and author most recently of Ends Of The Earth: Journeys to Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and our Future.

Neil Shubin

General

The Extraordinary, Imperiled Science at the End of the Earth

When Fish Follow You

Severin Wiggenhorn is a writer based in Seattle, Washington.

Severin Wiggenhorn

When the Animals Went Electric

Icelandic Horses Have Good Genes

A. Kendra Greene is the author and illustrator of No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity and The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. A writer and book artist, her work is also published in Atlas Obscura, The Guardian, Orion, and The Wall Street Journal. It has come into being with fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, Dobie Paisano, UNC special collections, Library Innovation Lab at Harvard, and The American Library in Paris.

A. Kendra Greene

Philosophy

I Can Feel Your Human Fingers

Sarah DeWeerdt is a freelance writer in Seattle covering biology, medicine, and the environment.

Sarah DeWeerdt

The Great Whale Conveyor Belt

Arts, science, and travel writer Nick Hilden contributes to the likes of the Washington Post, Scientific American, Esquire, Popular Science, National Geographic, and more. You can follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/nickhilden">@nickhilden</a> or Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nick.hilden/">@nick.hilden</a>.

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