Faster than a speeding photon
More powerful than locomotive physics
Able to leap new theories in a single bound
Look! Out on the street!
It’s a girl! And she’s Sassy…

It’s … Sassy Sonya – Science Adventurer!

But she’s not science fiction. Sassy Sonya (a.k.a. science journalist Sonya Buyting) is very real.

An intrepid and fearless reporter, who also likes to have a good laugh, Sassy Sonya is on a quest: To journey to the heart of the universe and bring back knowledge.

Armed with charm, moxy and a Chemistry-Biology degree from the University of New Brunswick and another in Broadcast Journalism from Ryerson University, she’s ready to disarm anyone in her path. Like the time she interrupted the Dalai Lama as he was getting up to leave at the end of a press conference. She needed to ask him about science. But that’s another story …

The stories she wants to talk about now are the freshest dispatches from the science universe, stories ready for her fresh, sassy and scintillating take. And in her quest to bring back knowledge, she’s sharing it all on her Sassy Science Podcast along with a wide assortment of funky music.

No mild-mannered Clark Kent, Sonya spends her (day) working hours telling stories and producing great television for Canada’s leading high definition broadcaster - High Fidelity HDTV.  She created, hosted, produced, directed, researched, wrote, and partially edited a 5-episode series where she traveled to festivals around Canada for “Festival Bound,” a show airing on Equator HD in Canada.  Switch the dial and you’ll see her on Treasure HD (in the U.S. as well, but internationally on Voom International) where she was a game show host for a 26-episode series, “Collector Showdown.”  Recently, she completed an hour long documentary that she produced, directed, wrote, and partially edited on 400 years of Quebec City told through its architecture for Equator HD.  If you asked her right now, she’d tell you she’s FINALLY diving back into science to series produce a 6-episode series on our solar system with Ivan Semeniuk (also formerly from Daily Planet and more recently the U.S. bureau chief for New Scientist) that will air on Oasis HD.

For such a young, brash superhero, Sonya has a lot of experience. For more than five years, she produced and presented stories from all over the world for Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet.  It’s an award-winning show. She should know, because she helped her team to win:

• Worldfest Houston Gold, Silver, and Bronze Remi Awards in 2005 for Mars specials
• Gemini nominations in 2000, 2001 and 2002
• A Bronze Award at the World Fest Film Festival in 2001, for an Africa Special
• Best of News Category Award at the International Wildlife Film Festival Awards for Whales and Sonar
• Finalist at The New York Festival for Whales and Sonar

These are the awards she won for herself…

• Worldfest Houston Gold Remi for Documentary for Television and Cable Productions for Quebec: A City in Layers. (2009)
• Worldfest Houston Gold Remi for Information, Cultural, or Historical Series for Festival Bound. (2008)

When she’s not flying in the face of convention, she stays grounded with her husband and partner in crime - Tim Steeves - an award winning comedian and comedy writer for The Mercer Report and by visiting her incredibly large family in New Brunswick.

***SASSY SCIENCE IS GETTING READY TO RELAUNCH WITH A FRESH LOOK AND NEW FEATURES.  CHECK BACK SOON.  (DATED: April 2009)***