Pete Spotts joined the Monitor in September 1976 after a two-year stint at the Miami Herald. Prior to mixing pens with test tubes as a science reporter, Spotts served as Midwest correspondent, staff editor in National News, special-projects editor, National News editor, and chief editorial writer. In 1987, Spotts shared an award with three Monitor colleagues for a series on the future of nuclear energy following the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl. In 2003, he received an American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science Journalism Award. He was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 1999-2000 academic year and also received a two-week fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
In 2014, Spotts was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Spotts is a graduate of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, camping, photography, ham radio, and amateur astronomy.
Stories by Pete Spotts
- Could Pacific waters give early warning of East Coast heat waves?
- Will tiny satellites launch a new space frontier?
- How California residents are changing the water landscape
- How farmers are trying a new kind of flooding to save California's agriculture
- As California enters a 'new era' on water, cities seek their own solutions
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