Teacher Profiles

Thomas Hayden, Lecturer

Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources

Thomas Hayden teaches science and environmental writing and communication to students from throughout the School of Earth Sciences and across campus. He also teaches environmental journalism in the Graduate Program of Journalism. His students publish the environmental advice column SAGE (Sound Advice for a Green Earth) and regularly contribute to The Peninsula Press. They have also published work in off-campus publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, Miller-McCune magazine and many others, and run the Science, Upstream blog at the Public Library of Science. He is the author of two books and continues to write about science, the environment and sustainability issues for national magazines including Wired, Smithsonian and National Geographic. He blogs, with friends, at The Last Word on Nothing.