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 Kim Griggs is a freelance writer based in Wellington, New Zealand, specialising in reporting on science and technology.
After a brief stint on radio in New Zealand, Kim worked for a decade for US newswire company Knight-Ridder Financial News in Tokyo, London and finally Sydney, where she was the chief correspondent for Australasia.
She returned to her native New Zealand in 1998 and shifted her focus to science and technology. In 2001 she was selected to travel to Antarctica to report on New Zealand's operation in the frozen continent. Since then, Kim has made Antarctic stories a speciality and has written a book On Blue Ice: A Not Very Brave Journey to Antarctica.
Kim now writes mainly about New Zealand science and technology for national and international magazines and newspapers. Publications include the Listener, BBC News Online, Unlimited, and Nature Biotechnology.
Recent work
Godwits' epic journey tracked
BBC News Online, May 2007
The kiwi might be New Zealand's iconic flightless bird, but another inhabitant of these antipodean islands more than makes up for the kiwi's ground-dwelling nature. The bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri) - or kuaka in the Maori language - sets off at the end of each austral summer for a flight to Alaska, stopping en route in Asia. Read the full article »
Hunting Huntington's
NZ Listener, June 2007
Finding a cure for Huntington's disease has seemed an endless quest. However, a young New Zealand scientist and a small flock of sheep may lead the way to a breakthrough. The tool generated by 25-year-old Jessie Jacobsen from the University of Auckland has won her this year's MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year award. It is the world's first large transgenic animal model for a neurodegenerative disorder. Read the full article »
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