Sarah Hoffman : Curriculum Vitae

Professional Resume

SARAH ELIZABETH HOFFMAN

E-mail: sarah.hoffman@yahoo.com

Web Page: http://www.sarahhoffman.net

SCIENCE WRITER AND EDITOR

Professional Experience:

2004-present: Book reviewer for Publishers Weekly, specializing in Natural History, Earth Science, Ecology, Environment, Archaeology, Astronomy, and History of Science.

Also: General Science Instructor (Energy in Society), Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, Oregon.

1985-present: Freelance Science Writer & Editor (see list of publications & clients below).

1992-1994: Research Associate (Geochemist), Center for the Study of the First Americans, Oregon State University -- Distribution of prehistoric obsidian quarries in Oregon; geological settings of archaeological sites in Perú; published paper on glacial geology of the Checta petroglyph site, central Perú, and implications for Pleistocene climate change.

1988-1990: Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant, University of Alberta, Department of Geology. Isotopic geochemistry research on rocks from Greenland and South America; field work in Southern Peru. Isotopic dating of young and old geological samples. Taught undergraduate geology.

1986-1988: Graduate Student, Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Washington, Department of Geological Sciences. Geochemistry, mineralogy, and geochronology. Taught undergraduate geology.

Also: Instructor in Physical Geology, Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, Washington, 1986-1987emphasis on land use planning and geological hazards in Pacific Northwest.

Also: Consulting Geologist (Soleduck Road Project, Olympic National Park), Federal HighwayAdministration, based in Port Angeles, Washington, Summer, 1987.

Also: Scientific consultant on early Earth history and the origin of life for KCTS (Channel 9, Seattle) on script and book for the PBS television series, "The Miracle Planet".

1985-1987: Technical Publications Editor, U. S. Bureau of Mines, Spokane Research Center, Spokane, Washington. Edited and critiqued all writing for publication by SRC researchers.

1979-1985: Graduate Student and Research Assistant, College of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Thesis: The alteration mineralogy and geochemistry of the 3.5 Ga old Onverwacht Group, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa. Cruises: 1. Bettis West, 1979, Northeast Pacific; 2. Vulcan Leg 7, 1980, Southeast Pacific, Perú-Chile Trench. Field work: Kangerdlugssuaq Region, East Greenland. Guest researcher at California Institute of Technology, University of Alberta, and University of Saskatchewan. Reviewer for GSA Geology of North America Series.

Also: Scientific consultant on the origin of life and tectonic development of early Earth for "Planet Earth," a PBS television series, and for "Earth", a BBC television series and book developed by Ann and Paul Ehrlich, including review of three chapters for the book Earth.

Recent Publications:

News Brief: Burial by Hyena, Natural History Magazine, Samplings, May 2009.

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/master.html?http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/0509/0509_samplings.html#hairs

Review: The Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus, Publishers Weekly, 13 April 2009.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6651092.html?industryid=47142

Review: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans, Publishers Weekly, 13 April 2009.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6651092.html?industryid=47142

Review: The Social Amoebae, Publishers Weekly, 13 April 2009.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6651092.html?industryid=47142

Review: Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, Publishers Weekly, 6 April 2009.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6649190.html?industryid=47263

Review: Pharoah’s Flowers – Botanical Treasures from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Publishers Weekly, 23 March 2009.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6645691.html?industryid=47263

Review: Corvus – A Life With Birds, Publishers Weekly, 16 March 2009.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6644136.html?industryid=47263

News Brief: Living Fossils of the Deep – The Blob, Sidetracked, Natural History Magazine, Samplings, March 2009. Reprinted at LiveScience.com: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090328/sc_livescience/bigblobschangeviewofevolution

Review: The Superorganism, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson, Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 21, 2008.

http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/stories/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-1/122976555939200.xml&coll=2

Review: The Atom and the Apple-Twelve Tales from Contemporary Physics, by Sébastien Balibar, Publishers Weekly, 1 December 2008.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6618183.html?industryid=47142

Review: The Long Thaw-How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate, by David Archer, Publishers Weekly, 24 November 2008.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6617001.html?industryid=47142

Review: Prehistory – The Making of the Human Mind, by Colin Renfrew, New Scientist, Vol. 199, No. 2669, 16 August 2008.

Review: The Stem Cell Dilemma: Beacons of Hope or Harbingers of Doom, by Leo Furcht & William Hoffman, E-The Environmental Magazine, Volume XIX, Number 3, May/June 2008.

News Brief: ‘GPS Shield’ will mean faster tsunami alerts, New Scientist, 15 September 2007.

(http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19526215.700-gps-shield-will-mean-faster-tsunami-alerts.html)

News Article: “OSU researchers meet to discuss global warming,” Report from AGU Fall Meeting, Corvallis Gazette-Times, December 11, 2006.

(http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2006/12/12/news/community/6loc04_warming.txt)

News Article: “Scientists debate censorship of data,” Report from AGU Fall Meeting, Corvallis Gazette-Times, December 12, 2006. (http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2006/12/13/news/community/5loc01_sciencesensor.txt)

News Article: “Al Gore speaks to 6000 Scientists in San Francisco,” Report from AGU Fall Meeting, OpEdNews, January 26, 2007. (http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_sarah_ho_070125_al_gore_speaks_to_60.htm)

Review: “Books to Help You Get Lost in the Stars” (review of three amateur astronomy books), Mid-Valley Sunday, November 27, 2005.

Article: “Lost in the Water – The Life and Death of a Pioneering Oceanographer” (biographical), The Oregon Stater, Vol. 90, No. 1, April 2005.

(http://alumni.oregonstate.edu/stater/issues/Stater0504/water.htm)

Selected Scientific Papers:

Hoffman, S. E., 1994. Moraines in the Chillon Valley, Central Peru: Evidence for Pleistocene Tropical Glaciers 1000 m Above Sea Level, Current Research in the Pleistocene, vol. 11, 103-105.

Hoffman, S. E., M. Wilson, & D. S. Stakes, 1986. An inferred oxygen isotope profile of Archaean oceanic crust, Onverwacht Group, South Africa. Nature, 321, 55-58.

Baross, J. A., & S. E. Hoffman, 1985. Submarine hydrothermal vents and associated gradient environments as sites for the origin and evolution of life. Origins of Life, 15, 327-345.

Abbott, D., & S. Hoffman, 1984. The relation between the age of the subducting slab and the recycling of sediments into the mantle. In Ashwal, L. D., & Burke, K., eds., Workshop on the Early Earth: The Interval from Accretion to the Older Archaean, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas, pp. 1-3.

Hoffman, S., & J. Baross, 1984. Submarine hydrothermal environments as sites for the origin and evolution of life. In Ashwal, L. D., & Burke, K., Workshop on the Early Earth: The Interval from Accretion to the Older Archaean, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas, pp. 34-36.

Abbott, D. H., & S. E. Hoffman, 1984. Archaean plate tectonics revisited-- Part I: Heat flow, spreading rate, and the age of subducting oceanic lithosphere and their effects on the origin and evolution of continents. Tectonics, 3, 429-448.

Selected Editorial Experience:

Ongoing: Editor for Dr. Robert Collier, College of Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR; edit scientific manuscripts as needed; most recent manuscripts describe chemical and physical oceanography of the Cascadia Margin.

Ongoing: Editor for Dr. Dallas Abbott, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades NY; edit scientific manuscripts (papers, proposals, etc.) as needed; most recent papers examine effects of large impacts on Earth’s crustal evolution.

Editor (2005- 2006), Society of Exploration Geophysicists, detailed copy and text editing of scientific papers prior to publication in SEG journals.

Editor (1995), "Report of Archaeological Investigations for the N30/N31 Road Project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona," by Dr. Elizabeth Skinner et al., for the Zuni Archaeological Project, Pueblo of Zuni. Edited 3 volumes, 3000 pages.

Editor (1995), Russian Translation Project, American Geophysical Union. Four papers on Russian research in mineral physics, geophysics, and tectonics.

Translator and editor (1994), Spanish to English, Intercontact S. A., Ltd., Claudia Delgado, President and Director (General Borgono 518, Lima - 18 - Peru;); translation and editing of television script for natural history documentary on El Manu, the largest national park in South America, produced by Alejandro Guerrero for Panamerica Television, Peru; translation and editing of business letters, proposals, advertising literature, etc.

Education:

B.A. Geology & Physical Science (Astronomy), San Francisco State University,

San Francisco, California

M.S. Oceanography (Marine Geology), College of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon; Thesis Title: "The Alteration Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the 3.5 Ga Old Onverwacht Group, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa"

ABD Geology, Department of Geology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E1; Dissertation Research: A Comparison of Convergent Margin Magmatism and Tectonics Through Time: The Archaean of East Greenland and the Central Andes of Southern Perú

LANGUAGES: Native English Speaker; speak and write Spanish; read German, French, Italian.

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Sarah Hoffman : Curriculum Vitae

Professional Resume

SCIENCE WRITER AND EDITOR

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