Targeted writing and editing in environmental and agricultural sciences.
About Joy Drohan
I’ve been lightening the loads of clients in environmental and agricultural sciences with targeted, award-winning writing and editing for more than 25 years.
I’ve written and edited popular science web content and articles, textbooks and popular books, extension publications, refereed technical articles, annual reports, grant proposals, youth curricula, interpretive signs, strategic plans, and many other items.
I have an M.S. in Environmental Pollution Control from Penn State University.
Other relevant experience:
- Writer/editor for what is now Penn State Institutes of Energy and Environment
- Copyeditor for a government services contractor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Forestry extension associate for University of Maryland Cooperative Extension
I typically work with the Chicago Manual of Style, but I also use APA style, the Council of Biology Editors style, and AP style.
I served from 2018 to 2022 as Board Secretary of the national Editorial Freelancers Association and from 2021 to 2022 as Job List Chair.
Select Clients
- National Park Service
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- U.S. Forest Service
- Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
- Penn State University
- University of Delaware
- University of Maine
- University of Maryland
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- North Carolina State University
- Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors
- Interstate Technology Regulatory Council
- American Society for Enology and Viticulture
- Agronomic Science Foundation
- Santa Fe Institute Press
- Island Press
- W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
- WLA Studio
- Blank Space, LLC
- Forge & Foundry Strategic
- Integral Consulting, Inc.
- The Conservation Fund
- Grand Canyon Association
- ClearWater Conservancy
- Carnegie Institution
Awards
Blue Ribbon Award for Publications-American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Silver Award, Web/Social Media-Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals
Memberships
Editorial Freelancers Association
National Association of Science Writers
ACES: The Society for Editing
Education
M.S., Environmental Pollution Control
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
B.S., Biology, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA