Monica reporting from the Chicxulub crater. The liftboat in the background is collecting core samples from the crater buried under the seafloor.
Monica Kortsha is a professional science writer and communicator with more than eight years of experience writing about science and society.
She is currently the lead science writer at the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, where she covers research happening across the school. Some recent highlights include the whereabouts of ice age manatees, carbon capture and storage along the Texas Gulf Coast, and how leaky pipes help fill local creeks. She is especially interested in covering the ongoing energy transition and how existing expertise in the energy sector can be applied to develop lower-carbon energy options.
In addition to covering the regular churn of science at the Jackson School, Monica is also the associate editor of the school's annual magazine, Newsletter . Her 2019 piece for the magazine on a fossil photography technique, "Out of the Shadows," won the 2020 University Excellence in Communications writing award.
Prior to the Jackson School, She worked as a feature writer at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences ( now the Oden Institute) at UT Austin.
She is also the owner and founder of Gothfarm Yarn, a small yarn and fiber business.
Monica earned her Bachelor's in Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from The University of Texas at Austin.
Let's talk: mkortsha-at-gmail.com
She is currently the lead science writer at the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, where she covers research happening across the school. Some recent highlights include the whereabouts of ice age manatees, carbon capture and storage along the Texas Gulf Coast, and how leaky pipes help fill local creeks. She is especially interested in covering the ongoing energy transition and how existing expertise in the energy sector can be applied to develop lower-carbon energy options.
In addition to covering the regular churn of science at the Jackson School, Monica is also the associate editor of the school's annual magazine, Newsletter . Her 2019 piece for the magazine on a fossil photography technique, "Out of the Shadows," won the 2020 University Excellence in Communications writing award.
Prior to the Jackson School, She worked as a feature writer at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences ( now the Oden Institute) at UT Austin.
She is also the owner and founder of Gothfarm Yarn, a small yarn and fiber business.
Monica earned her Bachelor's in Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from The University of Texas at Austin.
Let's talk: mkortsha-at-gmail.com