For how I could serve best, it perhaps depends on how you define “writer” and “scientific consultant to a writer”. I can see myself contributing in the following ways:

If you have people who have lots of knowledge on a scientific topic and a need or desire to write something on that topic, I can serve as either a writer to whom they supply the rough content or as an editor to whom they supply fairly workable drafts. In this case, I would be most helpful if the writing is intended for a general or layperson audience. I’ve done a small amount of editing for highly technical writing (such as a chemical engineering thesis), but I don’t think I’m as interested in contributing that way. I’m more interested in helping get better information to the general public.

I don’t know that I could serve as a scientific consultant to a writer since my actual school education has not been in science all that much. However, I consider myself a decent researcher in terms of checking information and am relatively comfortable (for a layperson) with a wide range of scientific or technical topics.

If I’m helping as an editor, I would be comfortable on a wider variety of topics than just the climate science and evolution/biology ones I mentioned earlier. You could add to this list environmental issues in general, and anthropology/archaeology topics.

Hi, Mark-