Dave Lawrence in Mechanicsville, VA | Virginia Commonwealth University - George Mason University

Dave Lawrence

Male, 58 years old

Mechanicsville, VA

I wear many hats in my professional life. The simplest thing I can say is that I have worked as both a journalist and scientist for years â€“ and as I've gotten older, I have found ways to combine both interests. My first book, "Upheaval from the Abyss: Ocean Floor Mapping and the Earth Science Revolution" was published by Rutgers University Press in 2002. My second book, "Huntington's Disease," was published by Chelsea House in June 2009. I contributed to "The Science of Dune" and "The Science of Michael Crichton" (both published by BenBella Books in 2008). I have served as a reporter, editor and producer at newspapers and online sites in Louisiana, New Jersey and Virginia, and have worked as an independent researcher and research assistant in forest ecology and geography at a number of institutions â€“ including Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. My journalistic work has appeared in magazines such as Geotimes, The Lancet, Mercator's World, and Vegetarian Times; in newspapers such as the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Daily Press (of Newport News), the Virginian-Pilot (of Norfolk), and The (Shreveport, La.) Times; the news service Agence France-Presse; and on the radio programs Our Ocean World and MicrobeWorld.. My research (scientific and journalistic) has taken me over much of the world â€“ all across the United States, including Hawaiâ€™i; northern and western Canada, from the Rockies to Hudson Bay; eastern Mexico, from the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo valley down to the rainforests of Vera Cruz; Venezuela; Grenada; Indonesia; and Ascension Island. While not as productive as I'd like to be, I still conduct research in forest ecology and tree-ring science â€“ I even have my own tree-ring lab in my basement at home. Specialties writing, editing, photography, videography, interviewing, historical and archive research, biology, geography, meteorology, oceanography, ecology, dendrochronology (tree-ring dating), scuba diving (PADI Divemaster certification) read more ...