2016
Fellowship location:
National GeographicInstitution:
Colorado State UniversityCurrent Affiliation:
Freelance WriterAbout Aaron:
Aaron Sidder was the 2016 AGU-sponsored AAAS Mass Media Fellow. He spent his summer as a science reporter at National Geographic.
Sidder received an MS in Ecology from Colorado State University with a focus on landscape ecology and spatial analysis. Prior to working at National Geographic he was a research assistant with the U.S. Geological Survey.
Read more about Aaron:
- From Science to Storytelling: An Experiment in Journalism (post-fellowship report)
Read some of Aaron’s stories from his National Geographic fellowship:
- Insurance Companies Unwittingly Aid Marine Poaching
- Rescuers Try to Save Giant Blue Whale Trapped in Fishing Gear
- Antarctica Could Lose Most of Its Penguins to Climate Change
- Remember the Ozone Hole? Now There’s Proof It’s Healing
- These Fish Swap Their Sex Up to 20 Times a Day
- Fish Found to Change Sex Up to 20 Times a Day
- New Spider With Horned Fangs Found in Dinosaur-Era Amber
- See Young Lion Yank Tranquilizer Dart out of Lioness
- Tiger Got Your Goat? Here’s Who to Call
- In a Harsh Desert, a Watery Forest Survives
- Wildlife Dying En Masse As South American River Runs Dry
- Extra Toes and Fingers Were Revered in Ancient Culture
- See the Hellscape Created by the Raging Sand Fire
- Demand for ‘Cute’ Bulldogs is Destroying the Breed
- Indonesian Fires Girdled Half the Globe in Smoke
- Does Air Pollution Reduce Cycling’s Health Benefits?
- How Sun-Watchers Stopped WWIII in 1967
- This Marsupial Lion Ws the Size of a Squirrel
- How Cholera Spread So Quickly Through Haiti
- Are the Earthquakes in Italy and Myanmar Related