User:MasonInman

Mason Inman, Global Energy Monitor's Chief Data Officer, has worked on climate and energy issues as a policy analyst, data scientist, and science journalist for more than a decade. Previously he held roles at GEM as Oil and Gas Program Director and Data Director.

Prior to working at GEM, he was the lead analyst and programmer for Near Zero, a climate policy nonprofit. Mason also worked for about a decade as a freelance science journalist, with a focus on climate and energy issues, writing for Science, Nature, National Geographic News, and other outlets. Many of his technical articles and news stories are on his Google Scholar page. He also wrote The Oracle of Oil (W. W. Norton, 2016), the first biography of maverick geologist M. King Hubbert.

He received his bachelor’s in Physics from the University of California Santa Barbara, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California Santa Cruz.