About Me
Don Lyman is a freelance science and environmental journalist, biologist, and hospital pharmacist from the Boston area. He has a master's degree in science writing, a master of liberal arts degree in journalism, a master’s degree in biology, and a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy.
Don teaches college biology part-time as an adjunct instructor in the biology department at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, and he also teaches pharmacy part-time as an adjunct instructor at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University in Boston. Don also teaches as a substitute teacher at St. John's Prep in Danvers, Massachusetts.
Don writes a monthly column on nature and wildlife for The Boston Globe newspaper, where he has also had feature articles and profiles published. He has also had essays and feature articles published in
The Christian Science Monitor, High Country News, Southwest Airlines Magazine, Undark, Leatherneck Magazine, earthisland.org, themorningnews.org, and Talking Writing. Don also works as a freelance reporter occasionally for the Living On Earth environmental radio program, which airs weekly on National Public Radio.
Don’s colleagues in biology know him as a herpetologist -- someone who studies reptiles and amphibians. When he’s not busy working as a pharmacist, teaching, or writing, you can often find him herping (looking for reptiles and amphibians) in places like Louisiana, Virginia, the desert Southwest and Costa Rica. Don’s been herping since he was a young boy, and few things excite him more than flipping over a log or board and finding a snake, lizard or another herp underneath it. Many of his articles and radio pieces deal with some aspect of herpetology.
