Emma Marris
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Education
Master of Arts in Science Writing, Johns Hopkins University, 2004
Bachelor of Arts in English, University of Texas, Austin, 2001
Work Experience
2007 to present: Freelance (retained by Nature)
2005 – 2007: Washington Correspondent, Nature
2004 – 2004: Intern, Nature
2003 – 2004: Graduate Assistantship at Johns Hopkins, teaching expository writing
Panels and Presentations
Panelist at “Hot Air: Communicating the science of climate change to business and government”, a symposium at the 10th International Congress of Ecology in Brisbane, Australia, August 18th, 2009.
Speaker and panelist at “Meet the Press: Talking Ecology with the Media” at the 94th Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 4th, 2009.
Instructor at “Making science matter - increasing the impact of ecological findings”, a short course at Lammi Biological Station, Finland, March 29th - April 4th, 2009.
Table host at “Alternative Career Exploration in the Sciences” networking event at the University of Missouri, February 27th, 2008 in Columbia, MO.
Guest speaker at Anne Finkbeiner's Science Stories class at Johns Hopkins, September 25th, 2006 in Baltimore, MD.
Panelist at “Science and the News Media” at the National Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, April 23rd, 2006 in Washington, DC.
Panelist at American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting session “Science Writers on Science Writing,” February 18th, 2006 in Saint Louis, MO.
