I'm a Los Angeles-based journalist and filmmaker. For over a decade, I was Sr. Video Journalist for The New York Times in New York City, Berlin, and Los Angeles — joining the paper in 2005 as a founding member of its video operation. I later served as West Coast Video Correspondent for Quartz, and spent five years at ABC News in Seattle and New York before that.

I shoot, write, edit, and narrate documentary video stories, and I often write for print and shoot photography as well. I was one of the earliest journalists to incorporate drone videography into my work. My videos, print stories, and photos have appeared in The New York Times, Quartz, Scientific American, Hakai Magazine, Great Big Story, Popular Science, Business Insider, BBC, Undark, National Geographic, ABC News, and CNN. My work has won the 2018 Edward R. Murrow National Award for Feature Reporting, the 2018 Gerald Loeb Award for video, the NPPA award for documentary, a Webby, an RTDNA/RIAS digital media award, and others.

I've reported from almost every state in the U.S. and dozens of countries — covering the 2014 Ukraine conflict, the Haiti earthquake, Hurricane Sandy, the European refugee crisis, the British election, the Boston Marathon bombing, and Germany's energy transition, among many other global and breaking stories. My real passion is science journalism, which has taken me high above the Arctic Circle, to Antarctica, 2,000 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic, 100 feet up a giant sequoia, and to Haiti, Indonesia, the Bahamas, Belize, the Florida Keys, the Aleutian Islands, and Sri Lanka. I once traveled overland from Antarctica to Los Angeles — including hitchhiking aboard a Chilean navy vessel. One of my favorite things to do while reporting is scuba diving.