Also known as: dave0447
David Lawrence lives in Mechanicsville, VA. He attended the George Mason University, Louisiana State University-shreveport, Woodlawn High School, Columbia University and University Of Oklahoma Norman Campus. Companies in which he has a work history include Usda Forest Service, University Of Chicago Press, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Rutgers University Press, Daily Press, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Times, Freelance Writer, Sales Associate, Assistant Manager, Sports South, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Adjunct Instructor,
Also known as: AbyssWriter
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 – 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 – 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 – all across the United States, including Hawai’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 – 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)
