On Wednesday (September 12), Editor-in-Chief Bob Grant spoke with Rett Newton, the mayor of Beaufort, North Carolina, and a graduate student at Duke Marine Lab about preparations for Hurricane Florence.
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The Scientist speaks with a researcher who is also the mayor of a coastal town in the path of the storm.

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From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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