Daniel Hentz is an award-winning science writer and multimedia storyteller at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He began his career in science journalism as a master’s student at Northeastern University, where he reported on climate change and ecosystem health while working abroad in Cuba and Panama. Daniel found his way to WHOI via Northeastern’s co-op program and was eventually hired full-time in January, 2020. Today, he operates as a backpack journalist, capturing editorial photography, audio, and the written word about bleeding-edge ocean science at WHOI.
His work has also appeared in Storybench, Columbia Journalism Review, and UnDark Magazine.