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Climate of Our Future Welcomes James Hrynyshyn
January 8, 2010 – 12:17 pm

It gives me great pleasure in welcoming James Hrynyshyn to Climate of Our Future!! We can look forward to articles well written and very dear to his heart. James Hrynyshyn is an independent communications consultant and journalist specializing in science, ecology and, whenever possible, marine issues. He has a degree in marine biology, another in journalism, and experience working on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic coasts.

He brings all that to bear on an almost daily basis through his blog, The Island of Doubt, as part of the SEED magazine scienceblogs.com blogging teams. He devotes the balance of his working days to reporting on the changing nature of planetary ecology, and the editing and design of print and web documents. He is also a member of the The Climate Project, a national team of trained climate-change slide-show presenters.

He began his career at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., where he served as a public information officer and science writer alongside some of the top people in the field. A variety of positions with community and daily newspapers in Canada and the United States, beginning the tri-weekly Enterprise in Falmouth, Mass., fostered a fascination with politics and democracy, culminating in four years of membership in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa. The lure of the Arctic wilderness drew him to Yellowknife, N.W.T., and Northern News Services, where he spent five years honing his skills as an editor.

For much of the past 15 years he has pursued a freelance career, filing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, including New Scientist, Canadian Geographic, Up Here, Science & Spirit, and others. He has the (unfortunate) distinction of writing the cover story for the final issue of Equinox magazine. A sampling of selected works is available at this site.

He recently spent two years as communications coordinator for Project Seahorse, a marine conservation and research organization based at the University of British Columbia’s Fisheries Center, with which he keep close ties.

We at Climate of Our Future are so very appreciative of what James Hrynyshyn brings to us.