About

After two decades in Silicon Valley, I live in the village of Inverness, California, overlooking Tomales Bay on the edge of beautiful Point Reyes National Seashore.

Now retired, I’m proud to have contributed to The San Jose Mercury News, Bay Nature, National Geographic and other publications. I was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize with The Bay Area News Group/Chico Enterprise-Record team for coverage of the devastating Camp Fire in Paradise. I’ve won a variety of awards, including Columbia University's Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the Scripps Howard's Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting.

A graduate of Duke University with a degree in biology, I lecture at the University of California Science Communication Program.