Mary Grady Nature and Science Writing, Environmental Education

NEW: Pictures from City Farm, a community garden in Providence.

	"Don't Mess With My Brook," feature story for Rhode Island Monthly, April 2005. A scrappy local coalition works to save a little brook and its fish run from pollution and over-development. This story won First Place for Reporting about the Environment and Science in the Rhode Island Press Association 2005 Editorial Awards.
	"Mountains in the Sea," a series of dispatches from a research voyage, for projo.com, the Web site of The Providence Journal, May 2004. The expedition explored deep-sea corals along a seamount chain off Cape Cod.
	"Happy Campers," feature story for Rhode Island Monthly, June 2004. Brief profiles of a dozen special Rhode Island places to exlpore the outdoors.
	"Reaping The Wind," feature story for Conservation Matters (the quarterly journal of the Conservation Law Foundation), Spring 2003. This story describes the status of wind-power development in New England, and includes an examination of the issues that arise in finding appropriate sites.
	"A Preference for Local Food," Conservation Matters, Winter 2002-03. Feature story about grass-roots efforts to encourage small-scale farming in the Northeast.
	The Providence Phoenix, a local alternative newsweekly, has published a few of my news stories on environmental topics: "Seals Make Their Annual Pilgrimage to the Bay," "Underwater Explorer Plumbs The Depths From URI," "Alternative Energy: Some Real Choices May Be Coming."
	Providence Monthly magazine published a series of my stories about local environmental topics in 2003, including features about an urban organic farm, visiting the zoo in winter, planting city street trees, and rediscovering an industrial river.
	"A place under the sun," Providence Sunday Journal. A nature essay about the skies above Rhode Island. It's unusual for this kind of story to find a place in a daily newspaper.
	"A year in the life of Narragansett Bay" This independent project comprises a series of stories that will follow the seasonal cycles, incorporating science, natural history, and human interaction with the Bay.
	Environmental Education Since earning a Master's degree in Geography from the University of Hawaii in 1990, I have taught college courses in environmental studies, earth sciences, and environmental education. I also taught teacher workshops in orienteering and marine geography, and led programs aboard the Tall Ship Rose. For more details, see my Course Listing and my Curriculum Vita.

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