Elizabeth Stallman Brown, Ph.D.

Writer and Editor

Frederick, Maryland

301-693-9661 (cell) • estallmanbrown@verizon.net

Freelance writing and editing, specializing in health and environmental science and policy. Services include writing, proofreading, copyediting, and substantive editing and reorganization of reports, journal article manuscripts, web content, news articles, and outreach and education materials.   

Editing Experience

• Copyedit and proofread reports, white papers, and manuscripts to be published in peer-reviewed journals.
• Substantively edit, condense, reorganize, and rewrite technical and nontechnical materials on public health, economics, policy, education, and environmental science for a variety of audiences.
• Edit and revise web content, newsletter articles, press releases, grant proposals, outreach materials, and federal agency publications for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAI D), the National Security Education Program, and other agencies and organizations.
• Edited and proofread scientific meeting summaries and other meeting materials for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
• Served as senior editor of a quarterly wildlife and habitat protection newsletter.
• Provided editorial support for the EPA Science To Achieve Results grant program: edited grantees’ progress reports and oversaw editing by coworkers to ensure the maintenance of scientific accuracy.

Writing Experience

• Regularly contribute news articles to an environmental and ecological science magazine.
• Researched and coauthored a feature-length article on Arabic language education programs for a language magazine.
• Coauthored a multiyear report on the goals and accomplishments of USAID’s Amazon Malaria Initiative, summarizing progress made by multiple partner organizations for an audience of potential funders and decisionmakers.
• Researched, revised, and wrote internal and external communication materials for a Los Angeles County hospital.
• Wrote scientific meeting summaries and other documents on human health and environmental topics for NIH and EPA.
• Completed a doctoral dissertation, wrote a scientific journal article, and prepared a literature review book chapter with contributions from two coauthors.
• Wrote and contributed to grant proposals.
• Researched and wrote content for the National Biological Information Infrastructure’s Pollinators Node.
• Produced outreach materials, such as web content, press releases, and fact sheets, for a nongovernmental organization.
• Prepared comment letters and testimony, using scientific literature for support, on state and federal environmental compliance documents, proposed rules, and legislation.

Other Relevant Experience

• Designed and conducted field research on behavioral ecology and laboratory research on neuroethology and the biopsychology of motivation and drug addiction.
• Assisted in planning and implementing workshops for organic and small family farmers on humane wildlife damage control and humane livestock handling techniques.
• Planned, coordinated, and implemented workshops and meetings for a scientific professional society, including a 300-person meeting on agricultural air quality.
• Coordinated the scientific peer review of federal agency natural resources management documents.
• Managed a postdoctoral fellowship program.
• Served as graduate student instructor for university science and science writing courses.

Employment History and Freelance Work

Freelance Writing and Editing Services, 2007–present

Writer and Editor (part-time), Links Media, LLC, 2008–2009

Writer and Editor, The Scientific Consulting Group, Inc., 2006–2008

Program Manager, Ecological Society of America, 2005–2006

Wildlife Scientist, The Humane Society of the United States, 2001–2005

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan (Psychology), 1995–2001

Research Assistant and Laboratory Technician, University of Michigan (Psychology), 1994–1995

Education

PhD, Psychology (Biological), University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (2001)                            

Dissertation: Social behavior, foraging, and reproduction in female yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris) 

Selected Publications

Brown, B.S., and Y.N. Moreno. 2009. Flying the flag for Arabic. Language Magazine 8(5): 22–24.

Brown, B.S. 2008. EU moves toward tougher pesticide law. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment [Dispatches] 10(6): 517.

Brown B.S. 2008. Companies struggle with corporate social responsibilities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment [Dispatches] 6(8): 409.

Stallman B. 2006. Peace and quiet for caribou. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment [Dispatches] 4(9): 452. 

Grandy, J.W., E.L. Stallman, and D.W. Macdonald. 2003. The science and sociology of hunting: Shifting practices and perceptions in the United States and Great Britain. In: D.J. Salem and A.N. Rowan (eds.), State of the Animals II: 2003. Washington, DC: Humane Society Press, pp. 107–130.

Stallman, E.L., and W.G. Holmes. 2002. Selective foraging and food distribution of high-elevation yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris). Journal of Mammalogy 83 (2): 576–584. 

Colonnese, M.T., E.L. Stallman, and K.C. Berridge. 1996. Ontogeny of action syntax in precocial and altricial rodents: Grooming sequences by rat and guinea pig pups. Behaviour 133 (15–16): 1165–1195. 

Selected Meeting Summaries

The Multidisciplinary Approach to Defining the Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes: A Workshop, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, December 13–14, 2007.

Interagency Workshop on the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, EPA, September 5–7, 2007.

Early Indicators of Environmentally Induced Disease—Initial Grantees Meeting, EPA, January 9, 2007. 

Committees and Awards

• U.S. Department of Agriculture National Wildlife Services Advisory Committee, member and vice-chair, 2004–2005

• Graduate Student Research Fellowship, White Mountain Research Station, University of California, San Diego, 1997–2000

• Graduate Student Research Grant, Animal Behavior Society, 1999

• Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 1995