Gabe Castro-Root

Gabe Castro-Root

Space2Sea Student Journalist

Castro-Root is a journalist, photographer and student at American University in Washington, D.C. His reporting has appeared in National Geographic, Bloomberg Law, Sierra Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Charlotte Observer. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the D.C. Science Writers Association, and a 2024 White House Correspondents’ Association scholar.

Latest articles by Gabe Castro-Root

three people hold up a blue and yellow flag on the deck of a ship at sea

Space2Sea Antarctica: 2 Ukrainian soldiers fulfill 1st part of Antarctic dream

By Gabe Castro-Root published

Visiting Antarctica — and, in particular, Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base on the continent's peninsula — was a lifelong dream of two Ukrainian soldiers.

Entertainment
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gestures during a live webinar from the Drake Passage during the Space2Sea Antarctica voyage.

Space2Sea Antarctica: William Shatner, Neil deGrasse Tyson and NASA astronauts talk exploration and science from the Drake Passage

By Gabe Castro-Root published

Explorers, astronauts and filmmakers described life in space and on Earth in an epic livestream from the Drake Passage.

Space Exploration
dozens of people in red and orange thermal coats stand on ice around a large black cruise ship

Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins

By Gabe Castro-Root published

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