Who is ERF Editorial Consulting?

As a scientific technical editor with more than 30 years of experience—25 of which were for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)—I've edited work in many different media: paper based, online, and the Web, and for many different publishing venues from books, peer-reviewed journal articles, white papers, grey literature, websites, and marketing materials; and all of these in myriad scientific disciplines. Combining these disciplines with my degree in horticulture—which encompasses plant science, plant pathology, botany, biology, chemistry, physics, and floriculture—gives me an extremely broad subject matter base to help you with your editing needs.

A unique specialty of mine is making a multiauthor work read as if only one author wrote it. I'm also a published author in my own right, so I'm aware of the many concerns authors have when their work is edited (see Author Of and Privacy).

In addition to my years of editing experience, I'm a board certified Editor in the Life Sciences (ELS) by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (BELS). The sole reason for the existence of BELS is "to evaluate the proficiency of manuscript editors in the life sciences and to award credentials similar to those obtainable in other professions," so you can have confidence in my abilities to edit your work to the highest standards.

I've won numerous NASA awards for my edited documentation (the SeaWiFS Technical Report Series, Prelaunch and Postlaunch), and was a guest editor for the American Chemical Society's Style Guide, 2nd Edition. I'm a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), and a member of the Council of Science Editors (CSE) and the Association of Earth Science Editors (AESE). In addition, I'm a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), for which I was the founder and past president of the Maryland chapter.