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Joshua E Brown

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Freelance

Overview
In addition to being a staff science writer for the University of Vermont, I keep one thumb in the freelancer's pie, taking on ocassional projects for magazines and newspapers.
Specialties
I'm particularly interested in writing for popular audiences on conservation biology, ornithology and recreational birding, Vermont and New England natural history, climate change science, and tree biology. I also write about offbeat topics in outdoor recreation, like endurance swimming.
Writing Samples
Boston Globe
"Prospectors, Scientists Vie for Rocks More Precious than Gold," (front page, Health/Science section), Monday, February 27, 2006 (pdf format)
"Maybe Reagan was right: Trees Release Greenhouse Gas," Monday January, 16, 2006 (pdf format)

Middlebury Magazine

Conservation Magazine
"Sniffing With Precision," April-June 2005
Detection dogs push the limits of field monitoring techniques, finding not just endangered foxes in the mountains and whale scat on the seas.

Wild Earth Journal
Selections from Species Spotlight column:
Grasshopper Mouse, fall 2002
Holmgren's Milkvetch, winter 2001-2
Northern Bog Lemming, spring 2000

Vermont Quarterly
Walks on the Wild(ish) Side", Fall 2007
Alpine arctic tundra to lowland bog, UVM's Natural Areas preserve distinct corners of the Vermont landscape. Hit their trails with notebook in hand and an expert by your side, and you'll come away with more than a nice walk in the woods.

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