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  • Scott Johnson

    Science Editor, Climate Feedback
    Scott holds a Master of Science in Hydrogeology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches college-level Earth science, and has worked as a freelance science journalist covering the geosciences since 2011, primarily for Ars Technica.

  • Nikki Forrester

    Science Editor, Climate
    Nikki holds a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Pittsburgh where she studied plant-bacterial interactions. As a freelance science writer, she covers climate, ecology, evolution, and research news. Her work appears in Nature, Science, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and other outlets.

  • Lambert Baraut-Guinet

    Climate Editor, Science Feedback
    Lambert earned a Master in Geochemistry from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. After his PhD in isotopic geochemistry at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle where he studied mass-independent isotopic fractionation processes of ozone, he worked as a science editor, technical writer and mathematics teacher. As a freelance writer, his work has appeared in Pour la Science and other publications.

  • Katie Valentine

    Climate editor, Science Feedback
    Katie has a background in environmental journalism and communications, and previously served as a contractor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, communicating the agency’s climate, environmental and atmospheric research to the public. Her work as a journalist has appeared in ThinkProgress, Audubon Magazine, and Earther, among other outlets. Katie earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and an MA in geography from the University of Toronto.

  • John Doherty

    Climate editor, Science Feedback
    John has a PhD in environmental science with experience in the fields of oceanography, marine ecology and paleoclimatology. He currently holds a position as the Science Fellow at the non-partisan and non-advocacy Environmental Law Institute, where he contributes scientific expertise to the Climate Judiciary Project’s overarching goal of providing educational services to judges on the science of climate change and climate impacts.

  • Sophie Fessl

    Science Editor, Health
    Sophie Fessl has a PhD in developmental neurobiology from King’s College London and a degree in biology from the University of Oxford. After completing her PhD, she swapped her favorite animal model, the fruit fly, for pen and paper. As a freelance science journalist and writer, she covers neuroscience, oncology, biology and research news.