(CBS) Daniel Sieberg joined CBS News as its science and technology correspondent in December 2006. He reports for and contributes to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, CBS News Sunday Morning, CBS Radio News and CBSNews.com.

Sieberg has reported on a wide variety of stories, including climate change in the Arctic, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and the Burning Man festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Subjects of his reports have included Internet addiction, vanishing bat populations, sensory devices for the blind, futuristic home inventions, computer forensics, solar flares, electronic voting, high-tech prosthetic limbs, E-waste, online politics, video game trends, animal behavior and cyber bullying. Sieberg also covers NASA-related events, including the launch of the shuttle. He writes a regular blog, Tech Talk, for CBSNews.com, hosts a weekly radio segment called “SciEye” for CBS Radio News and contributes a personal technology column to Oprah.com. Sieberg also co-hosts "GWord" with SuChin Pak, a program about environmental concepts and personalities, for Discovery Channel’s Planet Green network.

Previously, Sieberg was CNN's technology correspondent (2001-06) and the host of "Next@CNN" (2004-06), where he covered science and technology-related issues. He also contributed to several CNN programs, including "Anderson Cooper 360," "American Morning" and "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." Sieberg anchored a daily segment on technology for the CNN Headline News morning show (2001-04). He was the CNN.com science and technology editor/writer (2000-03) and helped lead the CNN.com investigative unit after the attacks of Sept. 11. Sieberg also reported extensively on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, covered two live shuttle launches and hosted a weekly segment on CNN Radio called "Computer Connection."

He is the recipient of a Peabody Award his role in CNN's coverage of Hurricane Katrina (2005) and contributed to CNN's Emmy Award-winning documentary, "Enemy Within" (2002). In 2000, Sieberg received the Rafe Mair Award for Excellence in Journalism for a personal story about being hacked. In 2007, Portfolio magazine named him one of "Business Broadcasting’s All-Stars." Sieberg co-hosted the World Technology Awards (2004-06) in San Francisco and the 2007 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineer Awards (SMTPE) Awards in New York. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Press Club and the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Before joining CNN, Sieberg was a reporter for The Vancouver Sun (1998-2000), covering civic issues, local businesses and technology, as well as a video game reviewer for CTV Vancouver and an associate producer for Vancouver Television (VTV) (1999-2000). As a freelance writer and photographer (1994-98), his articles have been published in Time magazine, The Toronto Star and Salon.com, and he has contributed to PBS’s "Frontline," NPR, BBC Radio, Fuse.tv, CourtTV and Animal Planet.

A regular speaker and moderator at such events as the NetMedia conference in London (2001), the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3, 2004) and the Ziff Davis Gaming Summit (2006), Sieberg has attended and reported on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Comdex, E3, DEMO, the Webbys, DefCon, World Technology Network and NetWorld+Interop. His eclectic list of interview subjects includes Bill Gates, Hugh Hefner, Kevin Mitnick, Steve Wozniak, Tony Hawk, Peyton Manning, Curt Schilling, Doug Liman, Paula Abdul and Will Wright.

Sieberg has traveled extensively throughout 45 states, including Alaska and Hawaii; seven Canadian provinces and one territory; Japan, Russia, Spain, France, England, Ireland, Sweden, Greece, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Mexico, Anguilla, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Bart’s and Australia.

He was born in Richmond, British Columbia. Sieberg was graduated from the University of Victoria in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in fine arts (writing, film) and from the University of British Columbia in 2000 with a master's degree in journalism. He and his wife live in New York City.

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