Payson R. Stevens is President of InterNetwork Media (www.in-media.com), an award-winning science/consulting group with clients in government, industry, and the academia. Originally trained in molecular biology at the City University of New York and in oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Stevens also studied at the Arts Student's League and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has been involved with traditional and new media as an artist, designer, writer, and film maker for thirty years. Stevens was lead author of Embracing Earth: New Views of Our Changing Planet (Chronicle, 1992), which appeared in four foreign-language editions. He was also contributing author to the award-winning college textbooks, Geology Today (CRM, 1973) and Biology Today (CRM, 1971). His film credits include a CINE Golden Eagle Award (1980) and a Silver Award at the U.S. Industrial Film Festival for a National Public Television broadcast script on Antarctica. From 1981 to 1995, Stevens and his company helped develop a series of NASA-sponsored Earth-science reports, brochures and posters, winning numerous awards for writing and design in annual competitions of the Society for Technical Communication and the Graphis International Poster Annual. Since entering the field of interactive multimedia in 1987, Stevens has produced and directed ten acclaimed CD-ROM titles on Earth-science and environmental subjects, two of which debuted at the Smithsonian Institution's 1995 Ocean Planet Exhibition. In 1994, InterNetwork received the Presidential Design Award for Excellence from President Clinton for the CD-ROM science-journal prototype, Arctic Data InterActive, the first time this honor had been given for multimedia work. Stevens is also an accomplished public speaker and has presented at numerous conferences on the environment, technology, and design over the last decade.