Maya Wei-Haas

2015

Fellowship location:
National Geographic

Institution:
Ohio State University

Current Affiliation:
Assistant Editor for Science and Innovation, Smithsonian.com

2015 - Maya Wei-HaasAbout Maya:

Maya Wei-Haas was the 2015 AGU-sponsored AAAS Mass Media Fellow. She spent her summer as a science reporter at National Geographic, where she worked with online science editor Erika Engelhaupt whom AGU sponsored as a fellow in 2006.

Wei-Haas has a Ph.D. in geology from the Ohio State University where she studied how flame retardants found in many common household goods degrade in the Arctic. She has a B.S. in geology from Smith College.

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