Mack Baysinger was a 2026 AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering fellow working with the Environment, Health and Science team at the Los Angeles Times. Baysinger has a doctorate in geoecology from the University of Potsdam (Germany) and completed her thesis work with the Alfred Wegener Institute. Most recently, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University exploring carbon and nutrient cycles in wetland soils.
