Shelby Lin Erdman
School
Wayne State University
Expertise
Music, History, Science, Environment, Health
- Shelby is an award-winning digital writer and broadcast journalist whose work has appeared on many websites, including CNN.com, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Associated Press, the Palm Beach Post, The Austin American-Statesman, GPB.org, WABE.org, and WSBTV.com, among others.
- Shelby has covered science, health, and environmental stories for CNN and Cox Media Group, and was part of the CNN team that won a Peabody Award for coverage of the Gulf oil spill and a Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the deadly Haitian earthquake .
- Shelby is a fan of history, music, and classic films.
Experience
Shelby is an ward-winning journalist whose work has appeared on CNN, CNN.com, CNN Radio, CBS Radio, NPR, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Associated Press, public radio in Georgia and Michigan, and dozens of other newspaper and TV websites. Shelby has specialized in science coverage, including climate, oceans and environment. She has interviewed hundreds of sources over her career, including scientists, musicians, and politicians.
Education
Shelby has a BA in journalism with a double minor in communications and film studies from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She first attended college on a theater scholarship after participating in high school and community theater groups.
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Stories By Shelby Lin Erdman
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The blue crabbing season usually starts in April in the Yellow Sea with peak fishing in June, but illegal crabbing is rampant.
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Born in 1831 in what is now South Dakota, Sitting Bull's resistance to the country's expansion into the American West lasted almost his entire life.
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Another extremely rare occurrence, so uncommon most people have never even seen one or more than a fleeting glance, at least, is the circumhorizon arc.
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Musician and songwriter Frank Zappa, considered a crackpot by some and a musical genius by many others, was a talented guitarist and avant-garde composer.
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Reagan's boyhood home in the small town (with a population of around 15,000) is also home to Lowell Park Beach on the Rock River, which is part of Lowell Park.
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It's hard to imagine John Wayne hanging ten, catching the big one, and riding the wave in like a gunslinger chasing down a band of outlaws - but he did.
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The 19th century Arctic explorer generally credited with leading the first expedition to reach the North Pole is naval officer Rear Adm. Robert Edwin Peary.
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The nation's third president liked to get away from his bustling plantation at Monticello for the quiet of the countryside near Lynchburg, Virginia.
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Last fall researchers discovered phosphine, also called hydrogen phosphine, in the Venusian atmosphere. Maybe the planet's clouds could support microbial life.
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Lugosi, the 'Master of Horror,' shot to stardom after playing the title role in the 1927 Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" in a three-year run.
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Few actors were more likable than comedic great John Candy. The larger-than-life, 6'3" Candy starred in some of the most beloved movies of the '80s and '90s.
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Perhaps most common of all is the idea of Xanadu as a mysterious Eden, a lavish, exotic city in the Far East, and that would actually be closer to the truth.
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The day an American president met with an American king, of sorts, produced a photo that has endured as one of the most requested from the National Archives.
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Astronomer and author Neil deGrasse Tyson is on the record as saying humans will probably never go to Mars -- except when he says they will.
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The father of modern science, Galileo Galilei, fathered two daughters who became nuns, and the irony of it is not lost on history.
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Nestled among priceless scientific treasures in the Galileo Museum is a shocking oddity: Three fingers from Galileo's right hand and a tooth are on display
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The heinous rape, murder, and dismemberment of an 11-year-old girl in Pocatello, Idaho, is as atrocious today as it was when it happened almost 30 years ago.
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A friendship between Canadian rocker Bryan Adams and the late British powerhouse singer Amy Winehouse seems somewhat unlikely - but sources say it was real.
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KISS has been performing since the early 1970s, and with plenty of rock 'n' roll hits and a wild stage show, it's easy to see why they still draw large crowds.
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Doomsday scenarios that predict the end of life as we know it date back centuries and include a range of apocalyptic catastrophes.
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Over a six-decade musical career, David Crosby has sold millions of albums, penned hit songs, and acquired legions of die-hard fans.
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With the possible risk of a planet-killing asteroid hurtling toward Earth, there's a global team of scientists watching out for that very thing.
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The son of legendary actor and martial artist Bruce Lee followed in his famous father's footsteps and became a well-known actor and martial artist.
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The legendary Geronimo, an Apache leader is one of the most famous Native Americans in United States history, largely because of his epic quest for revenge.
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Model-turned-actress Anna Nicole Smith was a head-turner from the moment she catapulted to stardom until her tragic death at just 39 years old.
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Peter Lorre was considered one of Hollywood's great character actors who was typecast in dark roles — which may have actually saved his only daughter's life.
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The Long Walk is another tragedy perpetrated by the U.S. government against an indigenous people that almost wiped out the Navajo Nation.