I frequently travel overseas to cover stories. These reporting trips sometimes stretch into months as I tack on additional assignments (the longest to date covered a year and 10 days).
My major trips are listed below. Note–this list usually lags a few months behind, since I don’t post a reporting trip here until the stories from that trip have begun to hit print.
Antarctica…… Nov–Dec 2007
Traveled with a team of glaciologists to West Antarctica. We spent 6 weeks in Antarctica, 4 of them living in tents on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This trip has already produced stories in Discover, Science, The Christian Science Monitor, New Scientist, and Science News for Kids. More stories are planned. See Antarctic Project for further information.
South Africa…… July 2007
Worked with Conservation to cover the Society for Conservation Biology meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Australia……
Dec 2002–Feb 2003
April 2003–October 2003
Spent the better part of a year in Australia, based for periods of time in Adelaide, Sydney, and far-north Queensland. I wrote a variety of features for New Scientist, Discover, Natural History, and Conservation.
Papua New Guinea (PNG)……
March 2003
Traveled for several weeks researching efforts to develop malaria vaccines and study them in one of the most difficult spots on Earth—Wosera District on the Sepik River Plain of PNG, where up to 80% of villagers carry malaria parasites in their blood at any given time. The story appeared in New Scientist.
Mauritius & Rodrigues Island…… Nov 2002
Traveled to these remote islands in the Indian Ocean to write for Conservation about efforts to restore these islands’ battered ecosystems, and for New Scientist about new research on the immunology of pregnancy.
Australia…… March–June 2001
Traveled across the eastern half of Australia to write a series of features for New Scientist and Discover.