I’m a reporter and researcher.

My stories have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Wired, Harper’s, and The Walrus, online at The New Yorker and Buzzfeed, as well as on the radio at Radiolab, Reply All, and Science Friday.

I’ve worked as a regular contributor for Undark, the Times Magazine, Smithsonian.com, GOOD, Maine magazine, and The Christian Science Monitor. I’ve received awards from the Knight Science Journalism @MIT Fellowship Program, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and the UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship.

I grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley, where I studied the effects of Ginkgo biloba and jumped off cliffs into freshwater streams. Since then, I’ve done everything from working on dairy farms in New Zealand to foraging for ulmaria and konbu near Brookings, Oregon. I once traveled the Caribbean on the 150-foot oil refueling vessel between the port of San Juan and Gallow’s Bay, St. Croix. This is my first website.

I cover the unseen, underrepresented, or purposely obfuscated processes that transform our world. Available for assignments and adventure: peterandreysmith [at] gmail [dot] com