Peter Thomson is a failed oyster shucker, housepainter, waiter, and DJ who eventually found his groove as a public radio reporter. In 1991 he joined the fledgling NPR environmental news program Living on Earth as its founding producer and editor, and went on to help bring home a sackful of awards for the program and himself over nearly a decade as LOE"s Producer, Senior Editor, Western Bureau Chief, International and Special Projects Editor and Senior Correspondent. His reporting for LOE took him to Brazil, Morocco, Alaska and many other parts of the U.S. He left the program in 2000 to travel with his younger brother by train and boat to Alaska, Japan, Siberia, Lake Baikal and points ever farther west until they once again found themselves back in Boston. Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal, Peter"s first book, is the chronicle of that journey.
Peter has received fellowships from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy; the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire; the Mesa Refuge, in Pt. Reyes Station, California; the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources and the Marine Biological Laboratory"s Science Journalism program. He's currently a freelance writer and radio producer and a member of the board of directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the advisory board of the Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting. Peter lives in Boston.
