I want to help you tell it.
Climate: average or typical weather over the long term;
prevailing conditions, environment, or atmosphere;
the emotions, opinions, and options shaping a situation.
Relations: Stories, accounts, or tellings; relatives or kin.
Our climate depends on a network of relationships. Real solutions come from clarifying and acting on them.
I provide individuals, organizations, and coalitions with extra capacity to advocate for their climate solutions through editorial management, science writing, and technical editing.
I specialize in strategies or technologies that mitigate climate change, promote resilience, or help people adapt.
I have expertise in land protection and related topics: nature-based solutions, 30×30, and the preservation and/or restoration of cultural landscapes and ecosystems.
Many past projects are multisolutions that solve several problems, such as the work I’ve done with Native American Tribes to preserve cultural landscapes, thereby conserving their ecosystems and biodiversity.
My Services
Editorial management
I lead the report team, facilitate team members’ sharing of expertise, keep the process moving, and mind the details so others don’t have to.
Here’s what I do as editorial manager.
- set milestones
- identify major themes and essential information
- ensure team contributions support each other and the report’s main message
- make sure assertions are adequately supported
- coordinate review
- assemble text, images, references, and appendices into a whole
- maintain project archives
- science writing and technical editing as needed
Science writing
I provide well-researched, well-supported science writing for general audiences and policymakers, in fact sheets, articles, white papers, and reports.
Here are some of the topics I discuss as a science writer.
- biodiversity
- botany
- geology
- habitat connectivity
- climate technology
- ecosystem preservation, restoration, protection, and management
Technical editing
From comma placement to structure, from text to maps, from articles to books, I increase precision, clarity, and readability in your documents.
Here’s what I do as a technical editor.
- copyediting: ensure consistency and grammatical correctness
- line editing: reveal your voice at its best by correcting awkwardness, redundancy, ambiguity, and confusion
- developmental editing: establish sound structure and flow that highlight and support essential information while eliminating digressions
- map review: ensure maps show the text’s place names, are consistent and readable, and tell the story they need to
- image review: check that images reflect text, information is appropriately visualized, and titles and legends are clear
- table review: ensure consistent formatting and wording, check numbers
Contact info@climaterelations.net to set up a free consultation.
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