Rachel Clark

Resumé

Rachel Clark
121 West Falls Street
Ithaca NY 14850
607.272.5120
rclark@nasw.org

Writing & editing

Freelance science & environment writer (1998-present; full-time since April 1999). I contribute magazine and newspaper articles, radio stories, and other work to clients including Living Bird, the Cornell Plantations Magazine, MathSoft, Inc., the Italian Trade Commission, the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, the Ithaca Times, the Earth & Sky radio series, and Finger Lakes Productions International. PLEASE NOTE: Clips, radio pieces, and other work samples are available on request.

Technical writer (1998-99). Cornell Information Technologies, Cornell University.

Freelance copyeditor (Spring 1998). Ecology. The Ecological Society of America.

Science writer and webmaster (1997-98). Cornell University Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF), Cornell University.

Research

Ecological research assistant (1996-97). Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA. National Science Foundation "Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions" Program. I helped examined the effects of human land-use legacies on present and future forest ecosystem function.

Master's thesis candidate: Zoology (1993-95). University of New Hampshire. Durham, NH.

Summer research fellow (Summer 1992). National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates, Benedict Estuarine Research Laboratory, Benedict, MD. Independent research on predator-prey relationships in an oxygen stratified environment typical of the Chesapeake Bay.

Mammalogy intern (Spring 1992). National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD. Assisted senior mammalogists with feeding, training, and care of the marine mammals. Designed and structured future mammalogy internships.

Research intern (Summer 1991). Horn Point Environmental Lab, Cambridge, MD. Assistant to Dr. Victor Kennedy and Dr. Roger Newell for studies of the effects of the disease "Dermo" on oyster fecundity.

Teaching

Biology lecturer (Spring 2000, part-time). Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.

Graduate teaching assistant (1993-95). Department of Zoology, University of New Hampshire. Animal Behavior (1995), General Ecology (1993-94), Comparative Vertebrate Morphology (1993).

Research presentations

Invited seminar (1996). Harvard Forest, Harvard Univ., Petersham, MA.
Master's thesis defense seminar (1995). Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.
The Society for the Study of Evolution (1995). McGill Univ., Montreal, Quebec.
The Benthic Ecology Meetings (1995). Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Nat'l. Conference for Undergraduate Research Symp. (1993). Salt Lake City, UT.

EDUCATION

M.S. Zoology (1995). University of New Hampshire.
B.A. Biology and Music Theory (1993), Double Major. Goucher College. Degree with Distinction.
Courses and workshops in science writing, zoology, and WWW technology taken in addition to my B.A. and M.S. programs (1993-present).

Society for Environmental Journalists (2000-present)
National Writers Union (2000-present)
National Association of Science Writers (1999-present)
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, voting member (1999-present)

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