Mark

About me:

Environment reporter Mark Schleifstein has worked at The Times-Picayune since 1984. He is the co-author with John McQuaid of “Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms,” published by Little, Brown & Co. (www.pathofdestructionbook.com) His reporting during and after Hurricane Katrina was among the newspaper's stories honored with 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service and Breaking News Reporting and the George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting. Stories prior to Katrina on coastal science issues were honored in 2006 with a special award from the American Geophysical Union.The 2002 series he co-authored,"Washing Away: How south Louisiana is growing more vulnerable to a catastrophic hurricane," won the American Society of Civil Engineers' 2003 Excellence in Media award and the 2003 National Hurricane Conference media award. It also was a finalist for the 2003 Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting for newspapers with over 100,000 circulation. He also was a co-author of the 1996 series, "Oceans of Trouble: Are the World's Fisheries Doomed?" won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service from the Society of Professional Journalists.