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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 appears in Vermont Quarterly, the magazine of the University of Vermont and the view, 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.

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Joshua Brown
Senior Communications Officer for Science and Environment
802-656-3039
joshua.e.brown@uvm.edu

It's Complex (Vermont Quarterly: cover article) Brains, army ants, tornadoes and the electric grid. They're connected--by complexity, says mathematician Peter Dodds.
When Good Maples Go Red pdf format (Rutland-Herald) What makes maples go red one year but yellow the next? Scientists are on the case--and wondering whether climate change means the end of leaf-peeping as we know it.
Talking Carbon with the Prime Minister of Norway (the view) 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.
Plug-in Hybrids Rate Less than $1 per Gallon (Rutland-Herald) With gas approaching $4 a gallon, plug-in hybrid electric cars like this one — donated to the UVM Transportation Research Center by Central Vermont Public Service — could provide consumers with another alternative to reduce the costs of the daily commute. (Click here for pdf format)
Talking Climate with the New York Times' Andrew Revkin (UVM Homepage) How far are humans pushing up Earth's thermostat? Andrew Revkin, the prize-winning New York Times science writer, visited UVM to discuss his more than 20 years exploring this question. I spoke with him to learn more about what he thinks 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 or snow that says a fox or flock of turkeys passed by. It’s a lens into a shadowed world of animal intentions. It’s a Proustian naturalist’s cake dipped in tea, the single strike of claw and toe pad summoning a vast ecological narrative for those with skill to read what’s there.

"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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