Alexandra Witze at Café Sci2

Bio: 

Alexandra Witze is a contributing correspondent for Nature and Science News magazines. She writes news and features, primarily about the earth sciences, from her home office in Boulder. Alex is a nationally known science writer who has worked for numerous magazines and newspapers including Nature, Science News, the Dallas Morning News, and Earth. Her first book, Island on Fire, describes the extraordinary 18th-century eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki (Pegasus Books, 2015). She co-authored it with her husband, Jeff Kanipe, an astronomy writer who has published a number of popular science books and who has an asteroid named after him.