Todd Bates

About

I am a Science Communicator for Rutgers Communications and Marketing (R-Comm for Rutgers University–New Brunswick and RBHS). I write about and pitch research results and other news, respond to media requests and promote the great work done by faculty, staff and students. I am a former 35-year journalist who focused on environmental, energy and health reporting. An Asbury Park Press investigation of New Jersey property taxes that I contributed to became a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. While enrolled in N.J.'s Graduate Program in Public Health in the 1980s, I took courses in environmental health, environmental risk assessment, risk communication and other subjects. For the Asbury Park Press, I posted 1,100-plus EnviroGuy blogs and wrote scores of Green Line Q&As that answered readers' environmental questions.