I'm ​Becca Dzombak (she/her, pronounced "duh-zom-back"), a science journalist and editor with a Ph.D. in geology. I loved graduate school, but after spending five years studying two-billion-year-old rocks, I was eager to immerse myself in the present.

 

I mostly write about climate, conservation, the environment, and geology, although I don't limit myself to that. "Write what you know," the saying goes. I write about what I want to learn, too.

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I'm originally from Michigan and currently live in western Washington state. I'm a runner and a sailor with a shouty orange cat.​ I do not miss the humidity of the Midwest.

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On AI: I adhere to The New York Times guidance for the use of AI in journalism. All my writing is my own. I use AI to search for subject experts (which can help me find sources from under-represented groups), to conduct basic research (I verify all sources), and for light editing (e.g., coming up with that word that's on the tip of your tongue, or checking tricky grammatical situations).

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