Jon Christensen

Jon Christensen is a columnist at LA Observed.

Jon Christensen has been an environmental journalist and science writer for more than 30 years, writing for the New York Times, Nature, High Country News, and many other newspapers, magazines, journals, and radio and television programs. A former Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford and Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State, he is now an adjunct assistant professor and journalist-in-residence at UCLA; editor of Boom: A Journal of California, a quarterly published by the University of California Press; and a partner and strategic adviser in Stamen Design, a data visualization, mapping, and strategic communications studio with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

From October 2013 until July 2015, Jon Christensen and Mark Gold wrote a column together. Those columns are archived below.