Thomas Hayden

Thomas Hayden teaches science writing, environmental journalism and sustainability science. He is a lecturer in the department of Environmental Earth System Science, and a visiting lecturer in the Graduate Program in Journalism. Trained as an oceanographer, he has been a science journalist since 1997, reporting and writing for national and international publications. Hayden was a staff reporter at Newsweek in New York and a senior writer at US News & World Report in Washington, DC. His freelance work includes cover stories for National Geographic, Wired, Smithsonian and many other publications. He is the is co-editor of The Science Writers' Handbook (2013), coauthor of two books and was the lead writer for the 2010 9th revision of the iconic National Geographic Atlas of the World.

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