Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Wired, the Washington Post, and more. He was previously an Ocean Science Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a Journalist-In-Residence at the Duke University National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, and most recently, a Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado–Boulder, where he is currently affiliated with the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research.