Christine Dell \u2018Amore has reported on environmental issues from six continents around the world, including Antarctica. A 2007 alumna of Metcalf Institute\u2019s Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists, Dell\u2019Amore fondly recalls trawling for fish aboard a research vessel in Narragansett Bay, watching the birth of a mosquito, and pondering life\u2019s career challenges with fellow journalists while bumping around in a van en route to the next Metcalf field exercise.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time I was just launching an environmental health blog and working at the health desk of United Press International (UPI),\u201d said Dell\u2019Amore. \u201cI had a selfish desire to get outside and see scientists at work.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had to actually do our own analysis of a scientific problem, do an experiment ourselves, and present it to other journalists with scientists in the room,\u201d she added. \u201cIt helped me to better understand the scientific process and the steps scientists have to take to reach their conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dell\u2019Amore describes Metcalf\u2019s fellowship program as \u201creenergizing\u201d and helpful, especially her interactions with fellow journalists and researchers. Her exchange of ideas with fellow alum Chelsea Wald during the workshop led to the co-creation of the Science Newsbrief Award, and annual recognition presented by the DC Science Writers Association that honors journalists who author exceptional short science stories.<\/p>\n
As a news editor and writer for NationalGeographic.com, Dell\u2019Amore covers \u201call things animals.\u201d In 2011 she founded Weird & Wild, a popular blog that focuses on nature\u2019s most unusual phenomena.<\/p>\n
Dell\u2019Amore says she\u2019s most proud of a series she spearheaded at National Geographic, Last of the Last, that forced her readers to ponder two evocative questions: how do we decide which species to save, and which criteria should be used to make that decision? Should it be driven by the popularity of a species, or the \u201ccuteness factor\u201d embodied by animals such as Pandas, for example? Dell\u2019Amore says the answer to that question has huge implications, including how dollars are allocated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are currently 20,000 species at risk of extinction and there\u2019s no way you can save all of them,\u201d said Dell\u2019Amore. \u201cI\u2019m proud of the fact that the series made such an impression on people.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to writing for National Geographic and UPI, Dell\u2019Amore has worked at the Smithsonian magazine and written for various publications, including the Washington Post. She is the author of \u201cSouth Pole: The British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913,\u201d a book about explorer Robert Scott\u2019s 1912 trek to the South Pole.<\/p>\nRead More Alumni Profiles<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christine Dell \u2018Amore has reported on environmental issues from six continents around the world, including Antarctica. A 2007 alumna of Metcalf Institute\u2019s Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists, Dell\u2019Amore fondly recalls trawling for fish aboard a research vessel in Narragansett Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2195,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13665,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions\/13665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}