Biography

Jim Erickson was a newspaper reporter at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel before joining the U-M News Service in 2007. As a science writer, he won a Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers, and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Erickson has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s in English from Hamilton College.

Topic Areas

• Environment/Sustainability
• Ecology/Evolutionary Biology
• Earth/Environmental Sciences
• Graham Sustainability Institute
• Museum of Zoology
• Museum of Paleontology
• Herbarium
• Life Sciences Institute
• Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research
• Michigan Sea Grant
• Water Center
• Biological Station