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Gabriel Popkin (Fed)
Science Writer
Gabriel Popkin writes for the NIST website about topics spanning the range of research done at NIST. Before coming to NIST, he was an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist for more than 10 years, writing for globally recognized outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Science, National Geographic, Quanta and many others. He has served as president of the DC Science Writers and chair of the National Association of Science Writers' information access committee.
He studied physics at Wesleyan University and science writing at Johns Hopkins University. Outside of work, he spends as much time as he can outdoors, hiking, biking, gardening, canoeing and playing in the NIST soccer and ultimate frisbee games. He is the co-chair of the GreeNISTers, the sustainability volunteer group at NIST.
