Senior Producer - Roving

Ari Daniel is an independent science reporter who contributes regularly to National Public Radio among other outlets.
Ari has always been drawn to science and the natural world. As a graduate student, he trained gray seal pups (Halichoerus grypus) for his Master’s degree in animal behavior at the University of St. Andrews and helped tag wild Norwegian killer whales (Orcinus orca) for his Ph.D. in biological oceanography at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. For more than a decade, as a science reporter and multimedia producer, Ari has interviewed a species he’s better equipped to understand – Homo sapiens.
Over the years, Ari has reported across six continents on science topics ranging from astronomy to zooxanthellae. He formerly worked as a reporter for NPR’s Science desk where he covered global health and development. Before that, he was the Senior Digital Producer at NOVA where he helped oversee the production of the show’s digital video content. Ari’s radio pieces have also aired on The World, Radiolab, and Here & Now. He is a co-recipient of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award for his radio stories on glaciers and climate change in Greenland and Iceland.
In the fifth grade, Ari won the “Most Contagious Smile” award. He is ari@storycollider.org and @Mesoplodon