My Undark magazine piece about a geoengineering company won the San Francisco Press Club 2025 award for Investigative Reporting.

My Rolling Stone piece was included on the Notable list in the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025. It also received SPJ NorCal‘s 2025 award for Science Reporting (print/online category).

San Francisco Press Club awards:
Environmental reporting award for “Amazon is Going to Fill the Sky with Satellites. Astronomers Aren’t Happy,” in WIRED magazine (2024)
Breaking news award for “SpaceX’s Starship Lost Shortly After Launch of Second Test Flight,” in WIRED magazine (2024)
Investigative reporting runner-up for “In Gaza, Satellites Show 157,200 Damaged or Destroyed Buildings,” in Undark magazine (2024)

SPJ NorCal award for science reporting (2024) on environmental issues in space, including pieces for WIRED, National Geographic, and Science magazine

San Diego Press Club award-winning pieces in the opinion/commentary, news, and magazine feature categories:
WIRED magazine: “The Black Carbon Cost of Rocket Launches” (2022)
Science News magazine: “Solar storms can wreak havoc: We need better space weather forecasts” (2021)
Scientific American: “Planet Nine Could Be a Mirage” (2020)
Undark magazine: “For the Next President, Nuclear Weapons Policy Must Be a Priority” (2020)
Undark magazine: “A Calculating Look at Criminal Justice” (2019)
OneZero magazine: “Robot Truckers Are Here — They Just Happen to Be Human” (2019)
Smithsonian magazine: “The Disturbing Resilience of Scientific Racism” (2019)

Runner-up for Covering Climate Now journalism award for my Undark magazine opinion piece, “Climate Change Is a Political Crisis, Not a Reproductive One” (2020)

San Diego Science Writers Association award for my Aeon magazine essay, “Does dark matter exist?” (2020)

Rising Star award from the San Diego Press Club (2018)

Excellence in Journalism awards, science category, with the San Diego Press Club, for stories in Hakai magazine (2017, 2018)

Honorable Mentions for Best Shortform Science Writing in Scientific American and Now.space (2017, 2018)

Travel Fellowship award to World Conference of Science Journalists (2017)

Diversity Travel Fellowship to national Science Writers meeting (2015)