Karst!

I don’t write much about my job. I think this is because my work involves a great deal of writing, so I save my outside-my-job writing for writing about things that are outside my job. This makes sense, right?

I am the news editor for the communications department at ASTM International, a non-profit standards development organization. I have been with ASTM for 32 years, and in my current position since early 2004. I currently appreciate my work at ASTM International more than I ever have. I work with good people.

The point of much of my workplace writing is to break very technical topics down into something that anybody who happened upon a news release or article can understand, at least in a general sense. In short, “why does this matter?” This can be a challenge.

Sometimes though, the subject matter is so interesting that an article or news release comes together with relative ease. Such was the case with an article that I recently wrote for Standardization News on an ASTM subcommittee for karst which is, as I wrote, “a topography most familiar to people as the otherworldly landscape that includes many caves.”

Anyone who has visited a cave and been awestruck by the eerie landscape might find my article interesting. You can find it here.

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