P&P Live! Madeline Ostrander — At Home on an Unruly Planet - with Laura Helmuth

In At Home on an Unruly Planet, science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on the climate crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances.

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Madeline Ostrander is a science journalist and writer whose work has appeared in the NewYorker.com, The Nation, Sierra magazine, PBS's NOVA Next, Slate, and numerous other outlets. Her reporting on climate change and environmental justice has taken her to locations such as the Alaskan Arctic and the Australian outback. She's received grants, fellowships, and residencies from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Artist Trust, the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Jack Straw Cultural Center, the Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook, and Edith Cowan University in Australia. She is the former senior editor of YES! magazine and holds a master's degree in environmental science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She lives in Seattle with her husband.

Ostrander will be in conversation with Dr.Laura Helmuth, the current Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American. And she was formerly the Health, Science, and Environment Editor for The Washington Post, where she managed a team of a dozen reporters and three editors who cover all fields of research, science funding, health policy, and related subjects. She has been an editor for National Geographic, Slate, Smithsonian, and Science magazines, and a freelance writer or editor for The New York Times, Nautilus, National Wildlife, Stanford Medicine, and other publications. She was president of the National Association of Science Writers from 2016 to 2018 and is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s standing committee on advancing science communication research and practice. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the University of California at Berkeley and started her science writing career at the U.C. Santa Cruz Science Communication Program.

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