Betsy Mason

Betsy Mason is a science journalist who covers a variety of scientific fields including earth science and animal behavior, as well as cartography and maps. She is a co-author with Greg Miller of National Geographic's cartography blog, All Over the Map (natgeo.com/alloverthemap). Previously Betsy was the online science editor for Wired magazine where she built an award-winning science section and founded the Wired Science Blogs network. Before that, she was the science and national laboratories reporter for the Contra Costa Times newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area where she won the David Perlman award from the American Geophysical Union for her coverage of earthquake risk. Betsy was a 2015-2016 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Before becoming a journalist, she earned a master's degree in geology from Stanford University and completed the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program.