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Amy Nevala |
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"Knowledgeable professors in the Knight Center guide students taking those first exciting steps into the journalism profession." |
I'm a Michigan native and graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor’s degree in advertising in 1994 and a master’s degree in fisheries and wildlife in 1997. I took classes from environmental journalism Professor Jim Detjen, and, after graduate school, spent a summer on fellowship at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Florida. I worked for six years as a freelance writer and daily newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C. (Prince George's Journal), Seattle (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and Chicago (Chicago Tribune). My favorite stories have taken me far afield, from the flanks of Mount Rainier for a story on mountain climbing to the Indian Ocean for six weeks of reporting from a bobbing research vessel about oceanography. Since 2003, I have been a staff science writer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. I write for the magazine Oceanus, covering geology, geophysics and deep-ocean exploration. My stories have taken me to the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the Pacific Northwest coast, and the Galapagos Rift off the coast of Ecuador. In March 2006, I covered stories about geologists descending into what they called the "mouth of hell," an active volcano in Masaya, Nicaragua. Read my stories here. —Amy Nevala |
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