y mother named me after her 1978 yellow Schwinn bicycle; she said she didn't want to waste a good name. I'm Lois, an eighth generation Oregonian, currently a freelance journalist and photographer.

Previously, I worked as an editor in the feature well at Popular Science, and before that at The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. My reporting from all seven continents has received numerous awards, winning the Mirror Award for Best Profile, the Bricker Award for Science Writing and Medicine, and a finalist for the National Magazine Awards and the British Association of Science Writers Awards.

I was a Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan (2017), the Arizona State University Sustainable Journalism Fellow (2018), and the Snedden Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2019-2021). I've received other fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the National Geographic Explorers Grant, Investigative Reporters and Editors, the United Nations Foundation, the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the World Federation of Science Journalists.

I'm interested in creative ways to use digital platforms, and in addition to writing and photography have worked with audio, video, cartography, and page design. I'm available for freelance assignments.