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Bios of Former Fellows
Bill Adler ('01-'02)
Bill Adler's articles have appeared in Texas Monthly, Esquire,
Rolling Stone, Mother Jones and many other publications.
He has also written two books: "Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and
Work on the Global Assembly Line" (2000) and "Land of Opportunity:
One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack"
(1995). He is at work on a book about Joe Hill, the Industrial Workers
of the World (Wobblies) songbird and agitator who was executed in Utah
in 1915. In December of 2007 he was awarded a prestigious Alicia Patterson
Journalism Fellowship to work on the book. Adler has a bachelor's degree
in history from Duke University. He lives in Denver with his wife and
son. Contact Adler at wmadler@gmail.com.
Bruce Barcott ('06-'07)
Bruce Barcott is a contributing editor for Outside magazine,
for which he regularly writes environmental and adventure features.
As a freelancer he has also written for publications including National
Geographic, Harper's, Sports Illustrated, Legal
Affairs and The New York Times Magazine. The Society of Environmental
Journalists awarded his New York Times Magazine article "Up
In Smoke" first place for Explanatory Reporting in 2005. Barcott
was also awarded the Washington Governor's Writers Award for his first
book "The Measure of a Mountain," a history of Mt. Rainier.
His latest book, "Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw," about
environmental conservation in Central America, was published by Random
House in 2008. Barcott earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy from
the University of Washington. Barcott can be reached at westisbest@att.net.
David Baron ('98-'99)
David Baron's first book, "The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable
of Man and Nature," was published in November 2003 by W.W. Norton
and won the Colorado Book Award in the Colorado and the West category.
The book, which scrutinizes conflicts between mountain lions and humans
in Colorado's rapidly growing Front Range, grew out of Baron's fellowship
project while he was in Boulder. Boston's PBS station, WGBH, has optioned
the movie rights to the book. WGBH, which produces a third of all national
public television programming including NOVA, Frontline and American
Experience, wants to produce a feature film for broadcast and theatrical
release. In 2005 he traveled to Equatorial Guinea to report on malaria
control and endangered monkeys. David was in New York to accept the
2006 duPont-Columbia
Award on behalf of the public radio program "The World,"
where he worked as their global development editor. The prize was awarded
for the show's series on the science and ethics of stem cell research
globally. The series is also being recognized with a National
Journalism Award for Excellence in Electronic Media/Radio. He is
working on a radio series on growth and sprawl in America to be broadcast
on NPR. For more information, visit Baron's Web site, www.beastinthegarden.com.
Baron can be reached at davidhbaron@comcast.net.
Elizabeth Bluemink ('02-'03)
Elizabeth Bluemink is the business reporter for the Anchorage
Daily News, covering oil, mining, Native corporations and other
topics. Previously, she wrote about logging, fishing and mining for
the Juneau Empire in Alaska. She writes about Alaska mining at The
Pebble Blog. She won Alaska Press Club awards for her environmental
stories in 2004, 2005 and 2008. She also has worked in the past as the
environment reporter for the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal,
where she wrote about health concerns, Superfund sites, air pollution
and a paper plant. The winner of a first-place award for feature writing
in 2000 from the Alabama Associated Press Managing Editors, Bluemink
previously worked for The Anniston (Ala.) Star and as
a stringer for the Virginian-Pilot. Through exhaustive investigative
work, she broke a number of stories on PCB, lead and mercury contamination
by the Monsanto Corporation in Anniston, and reported on the multi-million-dollar
litigation case against the company. She is also editor of the Bookshelf
page for SEJournal, the publication of the Society of Environmental
Journalists. She has a bachelor's degree in English from the University
of Virginia. Bluemink may be reached at ebluemink@yahoo.com.
Jennifer Bowles ('98-'99)
Jennifer Bowles is the environment reporter at the Press-Enterprise,
in Riverside, Calif. She covers an area of Inland Southern California
that is a hotbed for endangered species, contentious water supply issues,
earthquakes, pollution and a bevy of public lands issues. She has won
several Society of Professional Journalists awards since joining the
Press-Enterprise in 1999. She and two co-workers in 2003 began
investigating the pollution at a missile testing site and its impact
on the nearby residential neighborhood, where many people have gotten
thyroid illness. The project won a second-place award for newspapers
in California and Nevada from The Associated Press News Executive
Council. She and a co-worker also received a second-place award in the
public service category from the California Newspaper Publishers Association
for their 2001 "Troubled Waters" series, which revealed a
plume of MTBE, long in the making, was heading for a drinking water
well from a fuel tank farm. Contact her at jbowles@pe.com.
Lisa Busch ('99-'00)
Lisa Busch is the producer and editor of "Encounters," a radio
program that combines native ways of knowing with western science. The
program is funded in large part by the National Science Foundation.
She received her masters in Northern Studies at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks. Busch founded, and is a former president of, Sitka Trail
Works, an organization that employs former pulp mill workers on trail
building crews in Sitka, Alaska. In 2004, she won the $50,000 Volvo
for Life award for her work with the organization. Busch can be reached
at lisabusch@gci.net.
Carie Call ('00-'01)
Carie Call is an environmental planner for a large Florida-based engineering
firm. She also serves on Lee County's Smart Growth planning committee,
Lee County's 20/20 land preservation committee, Lee County’s Local
Planning Agency and is a member of a women’s philanthropy group
on Pine Island, Fla., where she lives. This year she plans to become
LEED certified for green buildings and communities, as well as a nationally
certified planner with the AICP. Call writes environmental and socio-economic
columns for the local newspapers. The Florida Press Club honored Call
with second place in environmental reporting in 2004, while she took
third place in the same category from the Florida chapter of the Society
of Professional Journalists. The Florida Society of Newspaper Editors
also recognized her in 2004 with a third-place award for best body of
work, environmental reporting. Most recently she garnered a NAMI of
Collier County award for Outstanding Media for a 2005 series on the
mentally ill. Prior to taking the position at the engineering firm,
Call worked as a reporter for The (Fort Myers, Fla.) News-Press,
five associated dailies in neighboring Charlotte County, Fla., and the
East Oregonian in Hermiston, Ore. Call can be reached at clcall@live.com.
Bebe Crouse ('05-'06)
Bebe Crouse recently joined the Nature Conservancy as the Director of
Communications for Montana. Before moving to Montana, Crouse was the
environment editor for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. Among
her journalism honors are the 2003 National Headliner Award for Investigative
Reporting for a team-produced look at malfeasance within the U.S. Border
Patrol and the 2001 Peabody Award for NPR's team coverage of 9/11. Crouse's
career includes five years at CBS News writing daily news analysis and
commentary for Dan Rather and producing other feature and live segments
for the network. She also spent three years as a Mexico City-based independent
producer and reporter. Her work includes award-winning documentaries
for television and radio. She earned a bachelor's degree in environmental
studies and natural science from the University of California, Santa
Cruz and a master's certificate in international journalism from the
University of Southern California/El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City.
Contact Crouse at bebecrouse@gmail.com.
Jad Davenport ('08-'09)
A freelance photojournalist based in Denver, Colo., Jad Davenport has
written and photographed stories for a variety of magazines, including
Outside, Men's Journal, and ISLANDS, where he is a contributing editor
and photographer. He began his career through war photography in the
1980s. In the late 1990s he photographed and wrote stories for the World
Health Organization about epidemics in Africa, Asia, Central and South
America. Davenport won a 2007 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award
for a feature on South Georgia in the sub-Antarctic. Contact him at
jad@jaddavenport.com.
Paula Dobbyn ('98-'99)
After leaving her reporting job at the Anchorage Daily News,
Dobbyn got a master's degree in human rights law in 2007 in Ireland.
She subsequently spent several months in Timor Leste (formerly East
Timor) as a media advisor for an Irish humanitarian aid agency. After
returning to Alaska in 2008, Paula worked as a corporate communications
director to help repay her student loan. As of this writing, Paula
was spending a month in Bali doing yoga and scuba diving, and contemplating
her next career move. In the interim, she is freelancing and pursuing
creative non-fiction projects. Contact Dobbyn at pauladob@gmail.com.
Leslie Dodson ('06-'07)
Leslie Dodson is a freelance television correspondent who has worked
as a reporter, correspondent, anchor, on-air editor, producer and writer
for a number of broadcast companies including CNBC, Reuters
and CNN. She has been stationed all over the world: in Atlanta, Tokyo,
London, New York and in six Latin American countries. Dodson's work
has focused on international business and economic news and regularly
has drawn connections between business and the environment. She was
awarded special recognition by Reuters for her coverage of
Latin America and South Korean debt restructuring talks. Dodson can
be reached at lesliedodson@mac.com.
Sam Eaton ('04-'05)
Sam Eaton is a Senior Reporter for Marketplace Radio's Sustainability
Desk in Los Angeles. The desk continues to have a global reach. Most
recently Sam traveled to the West Bank and Dubai as part of Marketplace’s
The Middle East @ Work special. Other special projects have included
reporting trips to China, Mexico and the Alaskan Arctic as well as throughout
the US. Sam is also a new dad. In July 2008 he and his wife, Meredith,
celebrated the birth of their daughter, June Eaton. Eaton can be reached
at sam.mckendree@gmail.com.
John Flesher ('02-'03)
John Flesher is the northern Michigan correspondent and the Michigan
environmental writer for The Associated Press and is based in Traverse
City. He covers general news and feature stories in the northern Lower
Peninsula and Upper Peninsula regions. In 2005, the AP designated him
an environmental writer, with responsibility for statewide environmental
issues and broader topics affecting the entire Great Lakes region. Since
his fellowship, he has developed in-depth projects on wetlands, water
conservation, mercury contamination, the battle over diverting Great
Lakes water to other regions, and the recovery of the gray wolf population
in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He previously was the AP's Michigan regional
reporter in the Washington bureau. He began his AP career in the Raleigh,
N.C., bureau, where he was the statehouse reporter. Flesher was AP's
Michigan Staffer of the Year in 1995 and a Great Lakes Environmental
Issues Fellow at the Michigan State University School of Journalism
in 1997. He was a fellow with the Institutes for Journalism and Natural
Resources in 2004, 2006 and 2009. He has a bachelor's degree in English
from North Carolina State University. Flesher can be reached at jeflesher@yahoo.com.
Eric Frankowski ('03-'04)
Eric Frankowski is a climate and energy program director with Resource
Media in Boulder, Colo. He helps non-profit environmental groups develop
media strategies. Previously, he was city editor, assistant city editor
and a reporter at the Longmont (Colorado) Daily Times-Call.
During his tenure at the paper he received several prestigious awards,
including the Colorado Press Association's General Excellence Award
in 2001 and 2002. He also has received awards for his science and environment
reporting at the Times-Call, where he wrote and edited a bi-weekly science
section before moving into his current position. He and a colleague
won the Society of Environmental Journalism's top award in 2004 in the
'small Market Reporting-Print" category for their series on the
Cotter Corporation, a uranium milling company near Cañon City,
Colorado. Frankowski has a bachelor's degree with a double major in
biology and Spanish and an M.A. in journalism from the University of
Colorado at Boulder. Contact him at eafrankowski@yahoo.com.
Deborah Fryer ('08-'09)
Fryer is a freelance producer, writer, director and founder of Lila
Films, Inc., an independent production company for educational videos
and documentary films. She has created films for PBS, Nova, Frontline,
MSNBC, Discovery, History Channel, Turner Broadcasting, HGTV, U.S. Fish
& Wildlife and Audubon. Her first independent film, "SHAKEN:
Journey into the Mind of a Parkinson's Patient," is currently airing
on public television stations around the country (see her Web site
for more info). She has been published three times in Travelers' Tales
anthologies of Best Travel Writing, and wistfully hopes to someday turn
her creative nonfiction essays into the next "Eat, Pray, Love."
Contact her at deborah@lilafilms.com.
Cate Gilles ('98-'99)
Cate Gilles earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Colorado
at Boulder, where she graduated Cum Laude and was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa. After receiving her master's degree Summa Cum Laude in political
science at Northern Arizona University, she worked as editor of the
Din* Bureau of the Gallup Independent and as a correspondent for the
Navajo Times. In 1994 she received the Bojack Humanitarian
Award for Reporter of the Year. Gilles passed away on August 4, 2001.
At the time of her death, she was editor of the Yaqui Times,
the newsletter of the Pascua Yaqui reservation. A Web
site has been established in her memory.
Daniel Glick ('00-'01)
In 2008, Daniel Glick joined forces with two other Scripps alumni, Leslie
Dodson and Ted Wood, to form The
Story Group (TSG), a multimedia journalism company. Since TSG’s
inception, they have produced multimedia projects for Newsweek.com,
audubonmagazine.org, hcn.org (High Country News) and other print,
radio and television outlets. Dan continues to freelance for whatever
magazines still continue to assign stories, and has published work in
National Geographic, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone
and many other national magazines. His second book, "Monkey Dancing:
A Father, Two Kids and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth," was
published in June 2003 by Public Affairs and won the Colorado Book Award
in the History/Biography category. The book is part memoir and part
ecological treatise, chronicling the five-month, round-the-world trip
that he and his children made in 2001. A key goal was to show his kids
some of the world's most spectacular and endangered natural places,
from the Great Barrier Reef to the jungle home of Borneo's orangutans.
Glick is also the author of "Powder Burn: Arson, Money and Mystery
on Vail Mountain." In 2006 he was named a Knight International
Press Fellow and traveled to Algeria with his two children. For more
about his books, visit his Web
site. He can be reached at djayglick@earthlink.net
or dglick@thestorygroup.org.
Dan Grossman ('99-'00)
Dan Grossman has been a print journalist and radio producer for 19 years.
He holds a Ph.D. in political science and a B.S. in physics, both from
MIT. He has reported from all seven continents including from within
1,000 miles of both the south and north poles. He has produced radio
stories and documentaries on science and the environment for National
Public Radio's show on the environment "Living on Earth;"
National Public Radio's news magazine "Weekend Edition;" Public
Radio International's international affairs show, "The World;"
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Germany's Deutsche Welle radio;
the BBC; the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; the documentary show
"Soundprint" and Radio Netherlands, among other shows. He
has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Discover
Magazine, Audubon and Scientific American. In December
of 2007 he was awarded a prestigious Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
to work on a multimedia project titled "Dispatches from Global
Warming's Hotspots." His other honors include a 2002 George Foster
Peabody Award (for DNA Files public radio documentary series, of which
he produced one hour-long show), the highest honor in broadcast; the
2003 and 2005 Science Journalism award of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, the leading science journalism award; the
2004 and 2006 Media Award of the American Institute of Biological Sciences;
and first and third prize in the category of in-depth radio reporting
in the Society of Environmental Journalist's Annual Awards for Reporting
on the Environment competition. He is coauthor of "A Scientist's
guide to talking with the Media: Practical advice from the Union of
Concerned Scientists."
Visit his work:
Fantastic Forests:
The Balance Between Nature & People of Madagascar
Land of
Ice and Snow
Antarctica Special
He can be reached at dgrossman@alum.mit.edu.
Todd Hartman ('98-'99)
Todd Hartman has moved his environmental journalism career into a new
phase. With the closure of the storied Rocky Mountain News in
early 2009, he landed outside his beloved field of 24 years and now
manages media relations for the Colorado Governor's Energy Office. He
feels blessed and fortunate to be promoting the important work of a
great team of professionals running programs that are increasing the
use of renewable energy and improving energy efficiency in Colorado.
He finds the work interesting and fast-paced, and while different from
crafting environmental journalism, it is not entirely different. Educating
the public on these important issues remains at the core of his new
job mission and he has a genuine sense that this is good work at the
right time. Hartman began his journalism career more than 20 years ago
and worked at four newspapers – three of them in Colorado. His
work earned 11 national journalism awards, including recognition from
the Scripps Howard Foundation, the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished
Environmental Journalism, the National Headliner Award and, most recently,
from the Taylor Family Award for Fairness, awarded through the Nieman
Foundation. Hartman's reporting also garnered five regional prizes for
journalism in the West and has won or placed nearly two dozen times
in state contests. He is living just outside Denver, married with two
children, far too many cats and a border collie mix. He has a B.A. in
History from the University of Colorado. Hartman can be reached at toddhartman@mac.com.
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock ('07-'08)
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock is the rural reporter for the Alaska Public Radio
Network. She has been a reporter, producer and on-air host for radio
programs throughout Alaska, including the internationally broadcast
"Independent Native News." She has been recognized several
times by the Alaska Press Club for her work in radio and was awarded
grand prize for non-fiction in the 2005 Anchorage Daily News
Writing Contest. Her fellowship project focused on the impacts of development
on Indigenous communities in Alaska's interior. The story that she produced
for NPR's Morning Edition during the fellowship was recently awarded
2nd place from the Alaska Press Club for "environmental" reporting
in 2008. Hitchcock earned a bachelor's degree in humanities from Sheldon
Jackson College, Alaska. Hitchcock can be reached at hitchcock@alaska.net.
Don Hopey ('05-'06)
Don Hopey is an environment reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
His writing displays a mix of local, state and national investigative
stories and issue-oriented outdoor features. He has produced series
of articles about pollution caused by the nation's hazardous waste incinerators,
shortcomings in Pennsylvania's regulation of longwall coal mining, and
an 80-mile canoe trip through the Wild and Scenic sections of the Allegheny
River. In summer 1998 he traveled to Central Europe to research and
report about a range of environmental problems. Previously, Hopey was
a general assignment, labor and investigative reporter for the Pittsburgh
Press and city hall reporter for the Altoona Mirror. His
work has been recognized by a number of local and regional awards. Hopey
is an adjunct professor in the University of Pittsburg's environmental
studies department, where he teaches an environmental issues and policy
class and a Western issues Yellowstone field course. He holds a bachelor's
degree in political science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania
and studied law at Duquesne University and journalism at Pennsylvania
State University. Contact Hopey at dhopey@post-gazette.com.
Katy Human
('00-'01)
Katy Human was the science reporter for The Denver Post,
where she covers everything from climate change to stem cell research
and anthropology (with occasional excursions into voting machine technology
and mine safety). Previously she was the science and environment reporter
for Boulder's Daily Camera. Human traveled to Peru after her
Ted Scripps Fellowship, married and now has two children, Miles and
Macy. Human can be reached at katyhuman@msn.com.
Rebecca Huntington
('01-'02)
Rebecca Huntington is a freelance journalist based in Jackson, Wyoming.
After working for newspapers for more than a decade, Huntington has
expanded her storytelling to audio and video. A regular contributor
to Wyoming Public Radio, Huntington also writes and produces Web multimedia
reports. For Assignment Earth,
which airs on PBS, she has produced video reports on topics such as
lead bullets poisoning wildlife and plastic marine debris killing sea
lions. In 2006, she was awarded the Wyoming Wildlife Federation's Conservation
Communicator Award for her efforts to educate the public about a provision
in a federal budget bill to sell of public land. "It was because
of people like her who were digging and asking questions that the true
nature of the bill was revealed," federation board member Armond
Acri told the Jackson Hole News & Guide. Huntington also
won third place for investigative and in-depth reporting in the National
Newspaper Association's 2006 Better Newspaper Contest for her series
on how Snake River water sustains Jackson's tourism economy while being
controlled by downstream farmers. Her river series won first place for
in-depth reporting from the Wyoming Press Association. Huntington is
the contributing writer for the Sustainable Living Department in Teton
Home and Living magazine. On a personal note, she completed a 185-mile
circumnavigation of Jackson Hole on skis with her husband, who dreamed
up "The Hole Tour" in April 2006. During her fellowship year,
Huntington completed an in-depth series for the Jackson Hole Guide on
elk management practices at the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming. The
National Newspaper Association awarded her stories first place for best
investigative or in-depth series in the small weekly market. She previously
worked at The Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore., and the Lewiston
Morning Tribune in Lewiston, Idaho. Huntington has a bachelor's
degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Montana. Contact
her at rahuntington@gmail.com.
Jeff Johnson ('05-'06)
Jeff Johnson is senior editor for Chemical and Engineering News
in Washington, D.C. He covers energy, the environment, science policy,
chemical accidents and economics for this weekly science news magazine.
The range of topics he has written about include air emissions and the
Clean Air Act, mercury pollution, renewable energy from the ocean, cleanups
at former Department of Energy nuclear weapons plants and "clean
coal." Previously, Johnson worked for Environmental Science
& Technology, a monthly environmental science magazine, and
before that for the Daily Environment Reporter, a Bureau of
National Affairs publication where he covered the environmental activities
of Congress. He earned a BS in industrial engineering at California
State Polytechnic University and a master's in journalism at the University
of Oregon. Contact Johnson at j_johnson@acs.org.
Patrick Joseph ('99-'00)
Pat Joseph lives in Oakland, Calif., with his wife and two kids. He
is now executive editor of California magazine, the award-winning
alumni publication of the University of California, Berkeley. in addition
to editing and writing for California, he continues to freelance for
various publications. His work has recently appeared in such publications
as Sierra, the Seattle Times and the Virginia Quarterly
Review. Joseph can be reached at patjoseph@gmail.com.
Joanna Kakissis ('08-'09)
A freelance journalist based in Athens, Greece, Kakissis has been published
by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, World Hum, and The News &
Observer in Raleigh, NC, where she was previously a staff writer. She
has received awards from the American Association of Sunday and Feature
Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the North Carolina
Press Association. She also contributed to a News & Observer series
on flooding spawned by Hurricane Floyd that was a finalist for the 2000
Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. Contact her at joanna@joannakakissis.com.
Anne Keala Kelly ('06-'07)
Keala Kelly is a Hawaii-based freelance journalist and regular radio
correspondent for Independent Native News and Free Speech Radio News.
She has written for a number of print publications including the Honolulu
Weekly and Indian Country Today. Her work focuses on the
experiences and perspectives of native Hawaiians. Kelly was awarded
the Native American Journalists Association's Best Feature Story 2005
award for her radio program "Native Hawaiians Losing Their Land."
NAJA also awarded her two awards in 2004 for print features, including
a series of articles about Hawaiian support for the Gwich'in people
of northern Alaska who oppose drilling for oil in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge. Kelly has been working on documentary film about militarism,
land use and Hawaiian sovereignty. It premiered at the Hawaiian International
Film Festival (HIFF) in October 2008, where it won the best documentary
award. Kelly has a bachelor's degree in filmmaking and a master's degree
in directing from UCLA. Kelly can be reached at keala_kelly@yahoo.com.
Keith Kloor ('08-'09)
Kloor is a magazine journalist based in New York City. A senior editor
at Audubon magazine until recently, Kloor has been published as a freelancer
by Audubon as well as Science, Archaeology and Smithsonian, among others.
His work reflects a multidisciplinary approach to environmental issues,
examining science and public policy through a historical, social, and
political lens. His recent projects include examining the impacts of
environmental constraints on prehistoric Indian cultures. Reach Kloor
at kkloor@msn.com.
John Kotlowski
('03-'04)
John Kotlowski is a freelance photojournalist. He does work for Newsweek,
Discover, and Audubon magazines as well as The
Washington Post and The New York Times. He has also done
several book-length projects. Before going freelance in 1996, he worked
as a staff photographer for newspapers including the Gazette
in Colorado Springs and The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
His work can be seen on his Web
site. Contact Kotlowski at info@josephkotlowski.com.
Douglas
MacPherson ('02-'03)
Doug MacPherson is a veteran public radio reporter. He currently works
as a freelance producer and editor based in Washington, DC. He served
8 years as a reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio in Concord where
he specialized in science and natural resource issues. His stories appeared
on NPR's "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered"
and "Weekend Edition," and Public Radio International's "Marketplace."
Doug started in radio at NPR's Boston affiliate, WBUR. He holds a bachelor's
degree is in Literary Studies from Middlebury College in Vermont. Doug
can be reached at djmacpherson@verizon.net.
Alex Markels
('03-'04)
Alex Markels is a freelance writer whose stories have appeared in National
Geographic, The New York Times and Forbes. He is the
founder and vice president of KLNX-FM, a community radio station in
Minturn, Colo., where he has helped oversee programming. Previously,
he was a senior writer at U.S. News & World Report, where
he wrote cover stories on the world's growing shortage of fresh water,
the meltdown in the nation's housing market and Warren Buffett's investing
strategy. A former Wall Street Journal staff reporter, he was
a supervising editor at National Public Radio's "Morning Edition"
show in Washington, D.C., where he helped oversee the show's daily coverage.
He has also authored stories for Marketplace and NPR. He has
a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
and a B.A. in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Contact him at alex@markels.com.
Sean Markey ('07-'08)
Sean Markey is a freelance journalist and photographer. A former staff
writer and editor for National Geographic News, his work has
appeared in the Economist, National Geographic, Discover,
The Washington Post, High Country News and The New
York Times Special Features Syndicate. Prior to his fellowship,
Markey spent several years reporting from New Zealand. He currently
lives with his family in Peacham, Vt. He can be reached through his
Web site, www.seanmarkey.com.
David
Mayfield ('00-'01)
David Mayfield is a copy editor for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk,
Va. He had a story published in the fall 2001 issue of OnEarth
magazine (formerly Amicus Journal) that stems from his Ted Scripps
Fellowship. The story, "A
Farewell to Arms," is about a former Army ammunition plant
in Wisconsin that has become a sanctuary for grassland birds. Mayfield
can be reached at dmzmay@yahoo.com.
Kim McGuire ('03-'04)
Kim McGuire moved to Denver in October 2004 to become an environment
reporter for The Denver Post, where she covers the
environmental impacts of energy development; wildlife; air quality and
river issues, focusing on the West Slope. Previously, she was the environment
reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and before that worked
at two Texas newspapers, the Beaumont Enterprise and the Tyler
Morning Telegraph. McGuire has received several awards for her
hard-hitting coverage, which has spanned subjects ranging from diminishing
Mississippi Delta aquifers to toxic waste and environmental justice
issues. In October 2004, her two-part series on the risk associated
with the destruction of chemical weapons, the culmination of her fellowship
project, ran in the Democrat-Gazette. McGuire has a bachelor's
degree in journalism from Texas A & M University. Contact her at
kmcguire@denverpost.com.
Ron Meador
('01-'02)
After his fellowship Ron Meador returned to his post as an editorial
writer at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, where he had been employed
since 1980 in various editing and management roles. After the sale of
the paper to a private equity investment group in early 2007, he resigned
to pursue interests in freelance writing and environmental advocacy;
in mid 2007 he began work as executive director of the nonprofit Friends
of the Boundary Waters Wilderness. Prior to that, he was a copy editor
at The New York Times and The Courier-Journal in Louisville,
Kentucky. In 2000, Meador received the Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished
Editorial Writing presented by The Wilderness Society, the latest in
a long list of professional awards. Meador holds a bachelor's degree
in journalism and sociology from Indiana University. Reach him at ronmeador@gmail.com.
Michael Milstein ('97-'98)
Michael Milstein is an environment and science reporter at The Oregonian
in Portland, Ore., where he covers an array of natural resource issues.
He completed a series about the rise of salmon farming and its environmental
impacts, a story that took him to British Columbia and Norway during
the reporting. He has also covered wildfires in Oregon and the West,
Klamath Basin water struggles, and the Bush Administration's drive to
reinstate more logging in Northwest forests. Before joining The
Oregonian, he worked out of his basement in Cody, Wyoming, as the
Wyoming Bureau reporter for The Billings Gazette. There he
covered science, environment and public lands issues in and around Yellowstone
National Park and wrote two books about Yellowstone. Milstein also works
as a freelancer, writing for High Country News and Air
& Space, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe,
The Washington Post, The San Diego Union-Tribune,
Astronomy, Earth and others. Discovery.com, the Discovery
Channel Web site, sent him to the north slope of Alaska to report about
a dinosaur dig there. He and his wife, Sue, had a son, Daniel, in 2004.
Contact Milstein at michaelmilstein@news.oregonian.com.
Vicki Monks
('03-'04)
Vicki Monks is a prolific multi-media freelancer who works as a writer,
reporter, photographer and radio and TV producer. Her articles and documentaries
have tackled global environmental subjects, from the deforestation of
Irian Jaya to the problem of plastic trash in the ocean to the "radioactive
runoff" from the forest fire that swept through the Los Alamos
National Laboratory near her home. Her work has appeared on National
Public Radio, BBC Radio, CBS' "60 Minutes," PBS Online, and
in National Wildlife magazine and the American Journalism
Review. Monks has moved back to Oklahoma where she is working on
a book about Indian Country in Oklahoma 100 years after statehood and
reporting on environmental threats to Indian lands. She won a grant
from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to continue a series of radio
stories on that subject for NPR's "Living on Earth" program.
She is currently investigating the situation in Tar Creek, Oklahoma,
where Indian children have blood lead levels four times the national
average, far above levels known to cause brain damage. Abandoned lead
and zinc mines in northeastern Oklahoma continue to contaminate Quapaw
tribal lands in the region, despite designation as a priority Superfund
site 20 years ago, Vicki reports.
She is author of "Amber Waves of Gain," a book that explores how the American Farm Bureau's financial ties with big business drive its lobbying efforts, which often work against the interests of family farmers. Monks has won a long list of national and international awards and was a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. In 2006, she taught broadcast writing as an adjunct instructor at the University of Oklahoma. And, OU's School of Art honored her with a first place award in the Native American Alumni, Faculty and Student art show. The award was for photographs that will be used in her forthcoming book. A member of the Chickasaw tribe, she has a Bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. Contact her at vicki.monks@gmail.com.
Susan Moran ('01-'02)
Susan Moran lives in Boulder, Colo., where she is a freelance writer
and has been a journalism instructor at the University of Colorado's
School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her work has been published
in The Economist, The New York Times, Newsweek,
Marie Claire and other publications. She covers energy development,
climate science, health, and business issues. Susan also co-hosts a
weekly science show on KGNU radio, called “How On Earth.”
Before coming to Boulder, Susan was based in San Francisco, where she
was a senior editor at Business 2.0 magazine. Previously she
worked with Reuters news agency -- in Tokyo, New York and Silicon Valley
— and other news organizations. She has a master's degree in journalism
from Columbia University, a master's degree in Asian studies from the
University of California at Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree in political
science from UC Santa Cruz. E-mail Moran at susan.moran@colorado.edu.
Emily Murphy ('99-'00)
Emily Murphy is vice president and managing editor of Mother
Nature Network, a mainstream environmental news and information
Web site based in Atlanta. The site launched in January 2009. Previously,
Murphy was multimedia director for The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Web site. Before moving to Atlanta,
Murphy was part of USA TODAY's Web team that won three awards in the
University of Missouri's Picture of the Year International contest for
their coverage of the Bush Inauguration, Hurricane Katrina and soldiers
in Iraq. Prior to working for USA TODAY, she was a multimedia
producer and editor at nationalgeographic.com and a television producer
at CNN. Murphy can be reached at emilymurphy@rocketmail.com.
Todd Neff ('07-'08)
Todd Neff is a freelance science, environment and business writer living
in Denver. Prior to his fellowship, he was science and environment reporter
at the Boulder Daily Camera, where he covered everything
from climate change and air quality to Nobel Prize winners. Neff has
a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of
Michigan and a master's degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher
School at Tufts University. He has written a book about how the Ball
jar company came to build a comet-hunting spacecraft, which he largely
researched and wrote during his Ted Scripps fellowship. You can view
Neff's work at his personal Web site
or reach him at todd@toddneff.com.
Rachel Odell ('04-'05)
Rachel Odell is a freelance writer based in Boulder, Colo. She has recently
published stories on the Yellowstone bison management, impacts of a
potential ski area expansion in Crested Butte, and the significance
to Coloradans of Ken Salazar's appointment to Interior Secretary. Her
work has appeared in Backpacker, Skiing, Women's Health
and Forbes Life Mountain Time. Before she became a freelancer,
she was associate editor at Skiing Magazine in Boulder, Colo.
Odell also previously covered environmental issues for The Bulletin
in Bend, Ore. Prior to that, she covered the environment for the
Jackson Hole News in Jackson, Wyo. Odell graduated with a double
major in French and environmental studies from Middlebury College in
Vermont and studied abroad in Madagascar. Reach her at rjodell@gmail.com.
Natalie
Phillips ('02-'03)
Natalie Phillips passed away in September of 2007. Prior to her death,
she served as the associate producer of "The Quiet War, profiles
of women facing advanced breast cancer," a documentary about living
with metastasized breast cancer. The film won first place for documentaries
at the Los Angeles Reel Women Film
Festival. More information available at Affinityfilms.
Natalie retired from her job as a senior staff writer at the Anchorage
Daily News in 2003. Her assignments with the paper had focused
on science and environmental issues including the class action Exxon
Valdez oil spill trial. She was a reporter and assistant managing editor
at the Bozeman (Montana) Daily Chronicle, and a staff
writer at the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph and the Vail
(Colorado) Trail. A recipient of numerous state, regional
and national journalism awards, she also freelanced for a range of publications
including Time magazine, The New York Times and The
Washington Post. Phillips received a bachelor's degree in journalism
from the University of Montana and studied in language programs at the
University of Salamanca, Spain, and Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City.
Anne Raup ('06-'07)
Anne Raup is the assistant photo editor for the Anchorage Daily News
and a photojournalist. Recently her main focus has been helping the
largest newspaper in Alaska evolve into a multi-platform news outlet.
During her year as a Ted Scripps Fellow, she worked on a photo project
about uranium mining in the American West. Raup's photographic coverage
of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City earned her third place
among sports stories in the National Press Photographers Association's
Best of Photojournalism contest. As a photographer and as a part of
editing teams, she has earned several other photojournalism awards,
including the University of Missouri's Best Use of Photography 2000
award. Raup holds a master's degree in journalism from the University
of Missouri and a bachelor's degree in environmental science from Gustavus
Adolphus College in Minnesota. She attended Gudlav Bilderskolan in Solleftea,
Sweden after graduating high school near Denver, Colorado. When not
making or editing photographs, she'll will be found riding her mountain
bike or hiking in the mountains of south central Alaska. Raup can be
reached at anneraup007@gmail.com.
Bruce Ritchie ('97-'98)
Bruce Ritchie is the former Growth and Environmental Reporter at the
Tallahassee Democrat. He has extensively covered water wars among
Alabama, Florida and Georgia, Florida's revision of its growth management
laws, coastal development, and nitrate pollution in groundwater and
in springs at
Florida's state parks. In June 2006, he co-wrote a three-day series
on the threats to Florida's springs. He received the "Award of
Excellence" from the Capital Area Section of the American Planning
Association's
Florida chapter. His series on competing water needs along the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint
river system in 2001 was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Ritchie can
be reached at bruceritchie@embarqmail.com.
Liz Ruskin ('04-'05)
Liz Ruskin is a freelancer in Cambridge, England. Before moving overseas,
she was the Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Anchorage Daily
News where she covered Alaska issues in the nation's capital including
the debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and
logging in the Tongass National Forest. She began her career at Homer
(Alaska) News. She has been a National Press Foundation
Paul Miller Fellow and has won two Best of the West reporting awards
and numerous Alaska Press Club awards. Ruskin has a master's in journalism
from the University of Missouri and a bachelor's in political science
from the University of Washington. She can be reached at liz.ruskin@gmail.com.
Christine
Shenot ('97-'98)
Christine Shenot is a project manager with the International City/County
Management Association's Livable Communities team, working with city
managers, county administrators, and other appointed local government
leaders in their efforts to create sustainable communities. She oversees
ICMA's Healthy Communities initiative and works on a variety of a Smart
Growth projects, including a primer on smart growth and climate change
that's set to be released by the Smart Growth Network in 2009. ICMA
is SGN's institutional home and has worked to advance active living
and access to healthy foods for more than five years. Previously, Shenot
worked for Maryland's Office of Smart Growth developing a communications
strategy and initiatives to raise awareness of state policies on sprawl,
natural resources and farmland preservation. Since she left daily journalism
in 2002, her work has included developing publications, writing op-ed
pieces and white papers, and public speaking. Before moving to Maryland,
Shenot covered Disney for the Orlando Sentinel. Shenot can be
reached at cshenot@yahoo.com.
Andrew Silva ('04-'05)
Andrew Silva is the environment and transportation reporter at The
Sun in San Bernardino, Calif. He covers a wide range of issues
and has reported in-depth on water pollution, air pollution, the Yucca
Mountain nuclear waste repository, desert ecology and the bark beetle
crisis in the San Bernardino National Forest. He has also written a
column on transportation issues for the paper, a hot topic in his rapidly
growing region. Prior to joining The Sun's staff, Silva covered
government beats at newspapers in Palm Springs, Riverside and Anaheim.
An award-winning writer, he was most recently recognized in 2003 by
the California Newspaper Association for a first-place environmental
story, and by the Inland Empire Society of Professional Journalists
with first place stories in the science and environment categories.
Silva has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Humboldt State University.
Contact Silva at aesilva4@earthlink.net.
Jerd Smith ('06-'07)
Jerd Smith is a writer and editor who specializes in land, water and
climate issues. She was an award-winning environmental and business
reporter at the Rocky Mountain News prior to its closure in early
2009. She led a team of journalists who covered the science, money,
politics and ecology of water in Colorado from 2002-2005. During that
time, her team won awards from the Colorado Press Association, the American
Planning Association and the University of Colorado's Wirth Chair Media
Award for Environmental Coverage. Smith and two colleagues also won
Stanford University's 2005 Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism
for a five-part series titled "The Last Drop." She holds a
bachelor's degree in public administration from the University of Evansville
in Indiana and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Smith can be reached at jj1525@msn.com.
Joseph Sorrentino ('07-'08)
Joseph Sorrentino is currently taking graduate classes in urban planning
at San Jose State University. He is also working at the Rising Sun Energy
Center in Berkely, Calif., which gives free energy audits and efficient
appliances to low-income residents. He recently published a feature
article about chaparral
and wildfires for Coast & Ocean magazine. Sorrentino
has written for a number of Los Angeles publications including Los
Angeles Alternative Press and California Law Business. He
was formerly managing editor of the Orange County Reporter, San
Diego Commerce and Riverside Business Journal in his hometown
of Los Angeles. He has covered topics including contaminated industrial
"brownfields" in Los Angeles and the growing number of women
and children on the city's Skid Row. He published an article,
"Manufactured homes for the birds," based on the research
he did during the fellowship in High Country News. He has a bachelor's
degree in creative writing from the University of California Riverside.
Sorrentino can be reached at jhsorren@aol.com.
Greg Stahl ('05-'06)
Greg Stahl is the assistant policy director at Boise-based conservation
group, Idaho Rivers United.
He's working specifically on Snake River salmon recovery, in-stream
water rights and other conservation water- and river-related issues.
Previously, Stahl was the assistant editor at the Idaho Mountain
Express newspaper in Ketchum, Idaho. Before the fellowship, he
was the newspaper's senior reporter. In that capacity he covered public
land issues such as user conflicts between backcountry skiers and snowmobilers,
resource issues such as forest health and endangered species issues
including gray wolf reintroduction. His co-authored series examining
trends in western wilderness designation won the 2004 National Newspaper
Association's Better Newspaper Contest in the investigative reporting
category. Another co-authored series examining western resort-town growth
earned second place recognition in the same category in 2005. He has
won numerous awards in competitions among Idaho's newspapers and magazines
in categories varying from politics and general news to features and
environmental reporting. As assistant editor, he writes less than he
used to but enjoys the time he spends as a writing coach and filling
in on environmental reporting when the workload gets heavy. His freelance
articles have run in publications such as High Country News,
Sun Valley Art magazine and Elevation magazine. He
hopes to write a book based on his fellowship project, which focused
on modern trends in wilderness designation. Keep tabs on his work, journalism
and otherwise, at his Web
site. Stahl can be reached at grstahl@gmail.com.
Paul Tolme ('00-'01)
Roving magazine journalist Paul Tolme has been busy learning and writing
about the wildlife of the Northwest following his move to the oceanside
hamlet of Trinidad, Calif., in 2006 after six years in Colorado. Tolme
has recently penned articles about salmon, aleutian geese, oil spills
and seabirds, black oystercatchers, Sierra bighorn sheep, extremeophiles
and the creation of the National Landscape Conservation System. He has
also worked to understand and explain the rapidly evolving renewable
energy economy and its associated technologies, writing about the carbon
offset market, geothermal power, ground-source heating and efficiency,
hydrogen vehicles and smart grid technologies. Tolme's publication list
includes National Wildlife, Defenders, Newsweek,
Popular Mechanics, Wilderness, ClimateEdu, Ski,
Hooked on the Outdoors, Mountain Gazette and FAIR
(Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), among others. Tolme spends much
of the winter months exploring the mountains and ski destinations of
the West as a contributor to Ski, for which he visited Aspen
to write an account of the push to build the world's highest wind farm
above Snowmass resort. He also traveled to Chile to write a breathless--literally--progress
report on the construction of ALMA, the world's highest radio telescope
at 16,500 feet in the Andes. Tolme's freelance work can be work can
be seen at his Web site. Prior
to launching his magazine career, Tolme was a staff writer for 10 years
for the Associated Press, covering state legislatures, politics and
the environment and outdoors beats in the New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode
Island and Northern Virginia bureaus. He can be reached at ptolme@gmail.com.
Chris Welsch ('08-'09)
Welsch is a senior reporter and photographer at the Minneapolis Star
Tribune. He has reported and photographed in more than 40 countries
on six continents, writing on a variety of travel and news topics. He
has won several Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards and a 2004 Society
for News Design Award of Excellence for photography. Contact Welsch
at photocw@gmail.com.
Andrea Welsh
('05-'06)
Andrea Welsh is a correspondent for Reuters in Brasilia and
the lead reporter on environmental issues in a country that stretches
from the Amazon rainforest in the north to the Pantanal wetlands in
the west to some of the world's most productive farmland in the south.
She writes regularly about Brasil's role in the global climate change
debate and the difficulty the government faces in trying to slow destruction
of the Amazon while also lifting its people out of poverty. She also
writes about the economy, indigenous issues, health and sometimes agriculture
- including the environmental dilemma posed by planting more sugar cane
to make ethanol. Before her fellowship, she was a correspondent for
Dow Jones Newswires in Mexico, Chile and Brazil. She covered
economic issues, writing about everything from the mining industry to
capital markets to trade talks with the United States. Welsh previously
worked in Houston as the Latin America reporter for Petroleum Argus,
a trade publication covering the politics and economics of the global
oil trade. Welsh holds a bachelor's degree in communications from Temple
University in Philadelphia and a master's in Latin American studies
and communications from the University of Texas at Austin. Contact Welsh
at andreawelsh@yahoo.com.
Dan Whipple
('97-'98)
Dan Whipple is the editor of the Natural Hazards Observer, published
by the University of Colorado's Natural Hazards Center. Most of his
non-work writing is directed toward literary efforts—he's completed
one novel and has two others in the works. His 2002 novel, "Click,"
published by the University Press of Colorado, was one of three finalists
for the Colorado Book Award and was selected as a "best mystery"
that year by the Rocky Mountains News. New Scientist
ran a piece by Whipple in its "Histories" section that was
based on his fellowship work. When he isn't busy writing, Whipple enjoys
playing basketball three days a week and his guitar nearly every day.
He has two sons who are both in college. Reach Whipple at dan.whipple@colorado.edu
or danwhipple@comcast.net.
Nadia White ('04-'05)
Nadia White is an assistant professor at the University of Montana's
School of Journalism. Prior to her fellowship, she was state editor
at the Casper Star-Tribune, where she oversaw development of
statewide news through bureaus across Wyoming and in Washington, D.C.
She currently teaches a variety of classes including advanced reporting,
sports reporting and environmental reporting. Her environmental reporting
class this semester is providing live
blog and Twitter coverage of the criminal prosecution of W.R. Grace
Co. on charges including knowingly endangering the people of Libby,
Mont., through the mining of asbestos-contaminated ore. The project
is a groundbreaking use of new media coverage using old media values.
White has a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School
of Journalism and a bachelor's in psychology from Bates College in Lewiston,
Maine. She can be reached at white_nadia@hotmail.com.
Florence Williams ('07-'08)
Florence Williams is a freelance writer and a contributing editor for
Outside Magazine. She has sold pieces to The New York Times,
Wired, Mother Jones, The New Republic, Los Angeles
Times and other publications. She is also a board member for High
Country News where she worked as a staff writer. Her work has focused
on topics she feels are under-reported including land-use planning,
toxins, wind power and farm bills. She has earned awards from the American
Society of Journalists and Authors and other organizations. Williams
has a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University and a master's
degree in creative writing from the University of Montana. Williams
can be reached at willflo@earthlink.net.
David Wilson
('02-'03)
David Wilson lives in Boulder, Colorado. After ten years of journalism
work, David changed career paths in 2005. Inspired in part through the
courses he took while a Scripps Fellow, David decided to go to law school.
Today, he works in Denver at one of the nation's leading intellectual
property firms, Townsend and Townsend and Crew. His practice focuses
on patent prosecution, with an emphasis on electronics and software.
He also works with several clients who invent alternative energy and
smart grid technologies.
David studied law at the University of Colorado, where he continued to develop his interest in federal Indian law. During law school, David had the opportunity to study more under Charles Wilkinson, Sarah Krakoff and Rick Collins. David also was editor-in-chief of the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law. He received the Silicon Flatirons Writing Competition Award in 2008 for his paper "Weaving the Navajo.Net: Advanced Telecommunications Services, Cultural Adaptation, and the Navajo Nation's "Internet to the Hogan" Technology Plan." The article will be published in a forthcoming issue of JTHTL.
During David's journalism career, he freelanced as a radio producer focusing on science and environmental issues. He produced more than 100 news stories and documentaries that have appeared on programs such as "Soundprint," "Marketplace," "Living on Earth," "High Plains News" and "Pacifica Network News," as well as on Boulder's community radio station, KGNU. In 2005, he worked as a capitol reporter, providing daily news coverage of the Colorado state legislature for 12 community radio stations in Colorado. He was previously managing producer at Alternative Radio after several years filing in as substitute news and public affairs director for KGNU. His "Exploring the Universe" program was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Whitaker Award for best radio documentary series in 2000.
David taught both mathematics and journalism at the University of Colorado,
along with overseeing KGNU's training program. David holds both a bachelor's
degree in mathematics and a juris doctorate from the University of Colorado
and earned both a bachelor's and master's in physics from Oxford University,
where he was a Rhodes Scholar. David continues to keep a hand in radio
as a member of KGNU's board of directors, along with being involved
with CU's Silicon Flatirons telecommunications program. He may be reached
at david.wilson@colorado.edu.
Ted Wood ('01-'02)
Ted Wood is an award-winning photojournalist, who specializes in natural
history and environmental stories. He wrote, "I am now an officially
censored photojournalist in Wyoming!!" The project he started during
his Ted Scripps Fellowship on the coal-bed methane boom in Wyoming bore
fruit, as well as notoriety, for Wood. An exhibit of his photos opened
in early 2007 at the gallery of the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming's Powder
River basin. The show, "The New Gold Rush: Images of Coalbed Methane,"
which featured his work and that of three other photographers, was scheduled
to travel to the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming's largest
museum. But after pressure from the energy industry, the museum cancelled
the show. This created a huge press interest, says Wood, and the effort
backfired. The show is now booked two years out, and will travel throughout
the Rockies and to the coasts. Recent projects have included shoots
for Vanity Fair, Outdoor Life and The Nature Conservancy
Magazine, the latter spread part of a story on a cooperative bison
ranch in South Dakota. Wood also shot a February 2003 feature story
by Jim Robbins in the Los Angeles Times Magazine on environmental
impacts of coal-bed methane extraction in Wyoming, the subject of Wood's
fellowship project. He traveled to Mongolia in the summer of 2003, where
he and Institute on the Environment alum Jeremy Schmidt are launching
a nonprofit venture called Conservation
Ink. The organization will develop interpretive publications for
national parks and ecological preserves in third world countries that
are financially unable to produce support materials on their own. Wood
took a group of patrons on a trip to Hovsgol National Park in Mongolia
in association with the project, which is funded with a grant from National
Geographic magazine. He headed back to Mongolia in July 2007, where
he put the final touches on a second set of map/guides and postcards
to promote responsible tourism in Mongolia's national parks. He is also
an author/photographer of nine children's books that feature nature
and environmental themes. He has a master's degree in journalism from
the University of Missouri and a bachelor's degree in psychology from
the University of California at Berkeley. His work can be seen on his
Web site. Contact Wood at
tedwood@conservationink.org.