Andrea
Baird
reactions editor, webmistress extraordinaire
and designer
 Andrea
Baird spent large portions of her Virginia childhood either swimming
with perch in Smith Mountain Lake or living on a sailboat in the
Chesapeake Bay. Her aquatic lifestyle led to an early career at
Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, where she learned,
among other things, how to identify local insect larvae and the
proper technique for untangling a stingray from a net (just shove
your fingers up its nose!). After five years and far too many
hours at a microscope, Andrea decided to switch careers and transformed
herself from a tan Florida marine biologist into a pasty, exhausted
Boston graduate student. She has since written a disturbing number
of articles about bugs (including her least favorite animal, the
cockroach) and made forays into video editing, magazine production
and website design. This summer she wrote for Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution’s in-house magazine, developed a fascination
for the sex lives of deep-sea anglerfish, and practiced for a
future career as a professional bridesmaid.
in resonance:
The
off-road robo-roach
A new generation of go-anywhere
robots may redeem mankind's least favorite insect.
Angst
and the deep sea angler fish
If all romances were like that of the deep-sea anglerfish we
might be better off alone.
Always
a little green
Andrea Baird explains how grocers keep their
produce shelves stocked, and why we sacrifice flavor for convenience.
The
dirt on soil loss
Soil is our most valuable non-renewable resource.
But farming is killing our farmland.
Contact Andrea at ahbaird@gmail.com
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