David Dobbs writes for the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Audubon, and Scientific American Mind, where he is a contributing editor. “Buried Answers,” one of his features for the New York Times Magazine, was included in Houghton Mifflin’s 2006 Best American Science and Nature Writing. Another feature for the New York Times Magazine, "A Depression Switch," was selected for the Ecco/HarperPerennial anthology Best American Science Writing 2007, due in fall 2007. He also keeps his own blog, Smooth Pebbles, on science, medicine, and culture.
 
His latest book is Reef Madness (Pantheon, 2005). Oliver Sacks calls Reef Madness "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant... The coral reef story becomes a microcosm of the conflicts -- between idealism and empiricism, God and evolution -- which were to split science and culture in the nineteenth century, and which still split them today." Dobbs is also author of The Great Gulf: Fishermen, Scientists, and the Struggle to Revive the World's Greatest Fishery (Island Press, 2000) and The Northern Forest, with Richard Ober (Chelsea Green, 1995).

You can reach him at dave[at]daviddobbs.net.