Ohio State University
As Assistant Director of Research Communications, I may write about GPS detecting clandestine nuclear tests, black hole “fuzzballs,” a supernova smothered by its own dust; the world’s first single-lens 3D microscope, a jet engine coating inspired by an unpronounceable Iceland volcano; and the distinct possibility that Isaac Asimov’s Laws of Responsible Robotics could cause a science-fiction inspired catastrophe. A news release that I wrote for an American Geophysical Union press conference about an ancient mummified forest resulted in hundreds of stories worldwide, and was downloaded from EurekAlert more than 24,000 times, making it one of Ohio State’s most-read stories on EurekAlert, ever.
Some of my stories intersect with social/life science, such as the impact of democracy on the growth of the Internet; an enzyme that repairs sun-damaged DNA; and spawning patterns of Lake Erie walleye. Most recently, I helped produce a video about a field of coral that is employing extraordinary measures to survive climate change.