Aaron Scott is the executive editor for OPB's Science and Environment team, as well as the executive producer of "Oregon Field Guide" and "All Science. No Fiction."

Aaron’s tenure at OPB has spanned radio and video, arts and science. As a reporter and producer for first “State of Wonder” and then “Oregon Field Guide,” he’s crawled into marble caves in search of spiders dating back to the age of dinosaurs, tried to understand the alien mind of the octopus, profiled one of Oregon’s first YouTube stars, traced the course of the 2018 solar eclipse, explored what makes snow pink, and reported on the role beavers play in saving salmon in the high desert and protecting animals and landscapes from wildfire. He also created the podcast "Timber Wars," about the fight over America’s last old growth forests, which won multiple national awards, has been downloaded more than one million times, and has been taught in college classrooms around the country.

From 2022-2025, he hosted NPR's science podcast "Short Wave" and spent a year as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.

Aaron's stories have appeared on NPR, "Radiolab," "This American Life," "Outside," "Reveal," "Throughline," "Life Kit," "The Indicator from Planet Money," and elsewhere, and they have won Emmy, Murrow, Gracie, AP, SPJ, and NLGJA awards.