Plenty Magazine: Extinction Blog entries for June

I just completed my first month writing "Extinction Blog" for the fine folks at Plenty Magazine. Here are links to the 24 stories I wrote in June:

Extinction Blog: A (re)introduction

Monkey Theft Kills Chance for Breeding Program

Climate Change Puts New Zealand's Tuatara at Risk

Does the Wolverine Need Endangered Species Protection?

Extinct Catfish Rediscovered in Suriname

Tiger Population Decline is "Catastrophic", Says WWF Scientist

CITES Criticized for Decision on Ugandan Leopards

Trade Talks Fail to Protect Two Shark Species

Orangutans vs. Logging: Habitats Could be Gone in 10 Years

Should Ivory Trade Ban Be Relaxed?

Chinese Turtle May Be Extinct in Ten Years

Global Warming Puts Peary Caribou on Canadian Endangered Species List

"Devil's Bird" Owl Nearly Extinct

U.S. Returning Seeds of Extinct Plants to Korea

Endangered but Unprotected: The Florida Bonneted Bat

Hawaii: "The Endangered Species Capital of the United States"

Vancouver Island Marmot Starts Climb from Extinction

India Hopes to Save Rare Kashmir Red Deer

Counting Down: The Last 110 Mississippi Sandhill Cranes

Dubai's Wadi Fish Threatened by Pollution, Invasive Species

Turkish Group Aims for "Zero Extinction"

Goats, Rats, Pigs and Tourists Put Galapagos at Risk

Jam Makers Hope to "Preserve" Rare Apricot from Extinction

Bald Eagle Off Endangered Species List -- But Is It Too Soon?

Boothbay Region Lions Club

I recently joined the Boothbay Region Lions Club. It's a great group, and I look forward to doing some volunteer work with and for them. This will, from time to time, involve writing their column for the local newspaper, the Boothbay Register. In fact, here's my first column. (Hey, a byline is a byline.)

IEEE 802.11: From BlackBerrys To Bunnies

The next time you place a call on your BlackBerry or play a game on your Nintendo Wii, you may have the IEEE 802.11 Working Group to thank.

Continue reading in the June 2007 issue of The Institute

Extinction Blog: Now published by Plenty Magazine

Starting today, my environmental newswire, Extinction Blog, moves to its new publisher, Plenty Magazine. Check it out for almost-daily updates.

Ad copy: web graphics

I love writing web ads. They're like haiku poems in a bright little box. Here are a few I wrote over the years for IEEE:

Internet Marathon Focuses On Women Who Would Be Engineers

Why are bright female students not choosing engineering as a career? What are some of the career opportunities available for women engineers? Can engineering be fun and creative?

These and other questions were addressed at the third annual “Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering,” held on 22 and 23 March. The 24-hour event, which coincided with Women's History Month in the United States, took place online, over the phone, on video, and in person from locations around the world.

Continue reading in the May 2007 issue of The Institute

Boost Your Career by Becoming an Expert Source

From the May 2007 issue of Today's Engineer:

If you are looking to take your career to the next level, an effective way to achieve that goal is to establish yourself as an expert in your field and make yourself available to the media as an expert source.

You probably see expert sources every time you turn on the TV or read the news. Journalists interview and quote these professionals in their fields to get their perspectives on the news of the day or for inside information that is worth repeating. "You need an expert because they have the credibility you need for an article," says Belle Adler, Associate Professor at the School of Journalism at Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.). For serious subjects, she says, "you want to go to someone that can lend gravitas to the subject."

Continue reading.