About Ann

Ann Posegate is a science writer, educator and communicator based in Washington, D.C. She is currently the outreach coordinator for Earth Gauge, the weather and environment program of the National Environmental Education Foundation. Earth Gauge provides broadcast meteorologists with free, weekly information, videos and graphics to help them increase their coverage of environmental and climate topics on-air and online. Ann also writes for Capital Weather Gang, the local weather blog of washingtonpost.com, where she provides weekly content and commentary about local weather, environment and climate topics.

Ann's background is in environmental science with a focus on weather and water. She experienced and taught about mountain weather and ecology in the "worst weather in the world" as outreach educator for the Mount Washington Observatory in northern New Hampshire and assistant for the Observatory’s former radio show, The Weather Notebook. She also worked as an environmental and science educator for K-12 youth in D.C., with a focus on the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Ever since a few good friends from the Observatory lived and worked at the South Pole as meteorologists, Ann has been very intrigued by the rugged, isolated desert of ice that is home to only about 2,000 people per year and some of the most incredible science on Earth.