Caroline D Champlin

Caroline Champlin helps UC experts share the latest scientific knowledge with Californians through a variety of media. Before joining UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, she led communications for the UC Davis Wild Energy Center. Caroline started her career reporting for local and national public radio outlets, including KQED, LAist and Marketplace. After that, she spent stints bushwacking as a field surveyor, tracking mountain beavers in Point Reyes and desert tortoises in the Mojave. 

She holds bachelor’s degrees in conservation and resource studies and rhetoric from UC Berkeley, where she was news director for KALX, the campus radio station. Champlin is based at the UC Cooperative Extension office in Los Angeles and can be reached at cchamplin@ucanr.edu and on Bluesky at @cchamplin.bsky.social.