Olivia Maule

Olivia Maule is a bilingual science journalist whose work spans print, audio, and video across outlets including Eos, Mongabay, The San José Mercury News, and Stanford Report. Drawing on a background in biological research and field experience in the Ecuadorian Amazon, she covers topics ranging from space science and biotechnology to conservation biology and environmental policy. Her reporting is driven by a single conviction: that the gap between what researchers discover and what the public gets to know is a problem worth dedicating a career to closing.

Before enrolling in the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, Olivia Maule spent years studying butterfly biogeography in the Ecuadorian Amazon — and growing increasingly impatient with how little of what she was finding ever reached anyone outside the field. That impatience became a career. Over the past year, she has built a body of work across formats and audiences: breaking science news for Stanford Report, environmental features for Mongabay and Eos, and general-audience stories for The San José Mercury News covering topics from ice habitats on Mars to transoceanic plastic pollution. As an AAAS Mass Media Fellow at El Nuevo Día in Puerto Rico, she produced 27 stories across print, video, and podcast in a single summer — setting an intern record at a newspaper reaching nearly five million monthly readers. She also co-presented a workshop on Gen Z science communication at the National Association of Science Writers annual conference in 2024. Her work is united by a commitment to accuracy, range, and the belief that science belongs to everyone.