Marguerite Holloway

Marguerite Holloway is Director of Science & Environmental Journalism at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. She has written for various publications, including Discover, the New York Times, and Scientific American, where she was a longtime editor and contributor. Holloway is the author of The Measure of Manhattan (W.W. Norton, 2013), the story of John Randel Jr., the 19th century surveyor who laid the grid plan on the island, and of the contemporary scientists who use his data. Holloway enjoys interdisciplinary teaching and often collaborates with colleagues working in documentary, photojournalism and animation — particularly in the realm of climate change storytelling. She has worked on several innovative interdisciplinary digital and data projects.

In Paris, Holloway plans to research the city’s innovative urban forestry initiatives, exploring how Paris’s long history of integrating trees into the urban landscape is evolving to combat climate change, while interviewing experts and city planners to inform her upcoming book on trees in the Anthropocene, providing detailed case studies and insights into how urban forestry practices can be adapted and scaled globally.