Joshua Brown
Senior Writer for Science & Environment + Photographer
Writing Instructor, Field Naturalist Graduate Program
Adjunct Faculty, Department of Plant Biology
Henry M. Lord House
16 Colchester Avenue (at Mansfield Avenue)
Burlington, VT 05401
United States
- M.Th. (equiv. MSc.), University of Edinburgh, Scotland,1992
- A.B., Brown University, Providence, RI, 1990
Strategic Communications
Field Naturalist Graduate Program, Department of Plant Biology
Areas of expertise
science writing, environmental journalism, expedition & nature photography
BIO
Joshua Brown is a science writer, photographer, and writing instructor at the University of Vermont. His work has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and many other places—including 17 cover stories for the University of Vermont Magazine. He started at UVM in 2005 teaching Environmental Journalism in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. Since 2006, he's been a staff writer for Strategic Communications covering all the natural and physical sciences. Since 2018, he's directed the writing program for UVM's Field Naturalist Graduate Program, where he teaches four courses on science and nature writing. His reporting work has taken him from bat caves in Vermont to the ice sheet of Greenland.
Courses
- PBIO 6330 Professional Writing for Field Naturalists
- PBIO 6340 Nature & Science Essays
- PBIO 6350 Professional Writing: Science & Investigation
- PBIO 6360 Writing for A Popular Audience
- ENVS 0195 Environmental Journalism
Awards and Achievements
- "Best of CASE" Science Writing Award for "Listening to Leviathans," a magazine feature on humpback whale song research, 2024
- National Association of Science Writers Career Grant Award, 2010
- Invited speaker, Vermont Governor’s Institute on Climate Change, 2007, 2008 and 2020
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar, 1993
- Saint Andrews Society Fellowship, 1991
Bio
Joshua Brown is a science writer, photographer, and writing instructor at the University of Vermont. His work has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and many other places—including 17 cover stories for the University of Vermont Magazine. He started at UVM in 2005 teaching Environmental Journalism in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. Since 2006, he's been a staff writer for Strategic Communications covering all the natural and physical sciences. Since 2018, he's directed the writing program for UVM's Field Naturalist Graduate Program, where he teaches four courses on science and nature writing. His reporting work has taken him from bat caves in Vermont to the ice sheet of Greenland.
Courses
- PBIO 6330 Professional Writing for Field Naturalists
- PBIO 6340 Nature & Science Essays
- PBIO 6350 Professional Writing: Science & Investigation
- PBIO 6360 Writing for A Popular Audience
- ENVS 0195 Environmental Journalism
Awards and Achievements
- "Best of CASE" Science Writing Award for "Listening to Leviathans," a magazine feature on humpback whale song research, 2024
- National Association of Science Writers Career Grant Award, 2010
- Invited speaker, Vermont Governor’s Institute on Climate Change, 2007, 2008 and 2020
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar, 1993
- Saint Andrews Society Fellowship, 1991