Michael Tennesen has written for many of the top publications in America on science, nature, environment, health, and travel. After graduating from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), he began writing for Environmental Quality Magazine, a small but excellent publication based in California in the 70s. While there, the Chicago Tribune reprinted his article on the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Then the late Senator Alan Cranston read another of his articles on the desert into the Congressional Record.
From here his career blossomed as he was given many international assignments for major publications. He was sent into the cloud forests of Peru for Smithsonian. He toured some of America's grandest astronomical observatories also for Smithsonian. He traveled to Tikal, Guatemala for Key Porter Books to study the forest and its birds of prey. He flew with pilots dropping water and chemicals on Southern California Fires for Smithsonian Air & Space. He investigated the insect trade for Wildlife Conservation. He visited with biologists off Maui and swam with the humpback whales for National Wildlife. He investigated the toxic explosion at a silicon plant in eastern Washington for Reader's Digest. And recently he visited the Amazon to report on the murder of American archaeologist James Petersen for Discover.
He's also written on health for Men's Health, Prevention, Health, and Natural Health. And he's done a number of travel stories for Sunset, Travel & Leisure, Los Angeles, and Playboy.
When he isn't in the field on assignment or at his computer pounding out a story, he loves to roam the back roads of the Southwest and Baja deserts. He's likes to attend art openings with his wife, and discuss politics with his mother. He lives in Southern California with Maggie, his wife; Toby, his cat; and Swift, his tortoise.
He was a media fellow at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University.
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