Eric Scigliano

Eric Scigliano was a journalist and author with a longtime interest in climate change, the Arctic, and the alarming intersection between the two. He was a science writer at the University of Washington and a staff writer and editor at several newspapers and magazines, and wrote for National Geographic, New Scientist, Discover, Harper’s, Technology Review, and many other national publications. Scigliano is the author of Michelangelo’s Mountain and Seeing the Elephant: The Ties That Bind Elephants and Humans and coauthor, with Curtis Ebbesmeyer, of Flotsametrics and the Floating World. His writing has been featured in four photo books including The Wild Edge: Freedom to Roam the Pacific Coast, from Braided River. His work has won Livingston and American Association for the Advancement of Science awards and has been included in Best American Science Writing.