Joshua E Brown
I'm a staff writer at the University of Vermont
covering all the natural and physical sciences, astronomy to
zoology. I also work with reporters and editors from local and
national media outlets to connect them with UVM
experts and research news. My writing and photographs
appears in Vermont Quarterly, the
magazine of the University of Vermont and UVM Today, UVM's weekly on-line
newsmagazine. By moonlight, I take on a few freelance projects for
publications ranging from the
Boston Globe to Wild
Earth: sample my work here.
Recent Publications:
Recent Publications:
Joshua Brown
Senior Communications Officer for Science and Environment
802-656-3039
joshua.e.brown@uvm.edu
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The Unbearable Lightness of Greenland (UVM Homepage) I spent
ten days with four geologists flying around in helicopters,
skiing in a t-shirt, eating musk ox pizza, and
collecting bags of sand in places people have never stood
before. All in aid of asking: in a warming world, how fast
will Greenland melt?
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A Milestone for Millstone Hill (Land & People) I took a terrifying bike ride on a roller coaster. In aid of forest conservation. And I wrote about it for the Trust for Public Land.
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Listening to the Stars (Vermont Quarterly) Into the jungle, to the
largest telescope in the world, with astronomer Joanna Rankin.
She's trying to catch gravity's tail.
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Running Together (Vermont
Medicine) Two doctors--running buddies--look for the
reasons some athletes drop dead. And how the brain works. And
what one has to do with the other. -
The
Big Day (Vermont
Quarterly) -
Worried Sick (Vermont Quarterly) Take a sharp pencil and
poke through your ear into your brain until you hit an
almond-shaped region called the amygdala. Sounds awful and
scary doesn't it? Of course you're not really going to do
that--so why not read this article instead?
Talking
Extinction with the New
Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert (UVM Today) I spoke with her
about climate change, the future of journalism, and backyard
bees.
A Deadly
Mystery
(Vermont Quarterly) As bats perish by the millions,
Vermont biologists are leading the effort to understand the
devastation of white-nose syndrome. I went into two caves of
death with them. Article
and slideshow.
If
You're Happy, Then We Know It Two researchers have
created a "hedonometer" that shows Election Day was the happiest
day in four years. Michael Jackson's death, one of the
unhappiest.
Talking
Carbon with the Prime Minister of Norway At forty-one, Gro Harlem
Brundtland, a physician and mother of four, took on a new job:
prime minister of Norway. Now, she's the UN enoy on climate
change. I spoke with her about carbon levels, Sarah Palin, and
the global poor.
Drilling
Down (Vermont
Quarterly; cover article) What can ice can tell us about heat? The
fate of the world’s sea levels rests largely on the ice of
Antarctica, where scientists such as UVM geologist Thomas
Neumann are searching for clues to the future in the frozen
past.
Talking Climate with the New York Times' Andrew
Revkin How far are
humans pushing up Earth's thermostat? Andrew Revkin, the Times science writer,
visited UVM to discuss this question. I spoke with him to
learn more about what it means to live on a warming planet.
Tracking
in the Wild, Learning from the Land (Vermont Quarterly) An
animal track is more than a mark in mud that says a fox
passed by. It’s a lens into a shadowed world of animal
intentions. It’s a Proustian naturalist’s cake dipped in tea, a
vast ecological narrative for those with skill to read it.
"The
more
clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities
of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for
destruction." --Rachel Carson, 1954
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