In December 1995 I traveled to the South Pole under the auspices of the National Science Foundation. Read stories and see photos from my trip in "Life on Ice."

• Science journalism, both deadline news and feature stories for newspapers, magazines and the Web 
• Scientific grant proposals and technical manuals
• Radio stories on scientific topics
• Photography

• National Science Foundation journalism fellowship (for reporting in Antarctica, 1995) 
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship, 1991)

• My educational background is in chemistry 
• I've been writing about a wide variety of scientific fields for the past 10 years
• For five years, I covered the physical sciences at the University of Chicago 
• Since 1998 I've been a freelance writer, first in Chicago and now in San Diego