Monday, November 3,
2008
Brad Baldwin
Associate Professor of Biology, St. Lawrence University
Frank Clifford
Environmental journalist
Kenneth R. Weiss
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Waters in Peril: Ecological Changes Endanger the Health of the World’s Oceans, Lakes and Rivers
8:00 pm
Eben Holden Center
Brad Baldwin studies and teaches community ecology, population ecology, and the effects of environmental factors on aquatic invertebrates and fish. Kenneth R. Weiss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, focuses his coverage on climate change, coastal and marine science and policy Frank Clifford, also a Pulitzer Prize winner, is a journalist and a former environmental editor at The Los Angeles Times.
Baldwin has examined the biology and ecological impacts of invasive species such as zebra mussels and round gobies, both of which have devastated many North American lakes and rivers. He works on the restoration and conservation of coral reef organisms such as sea urchins, queen conch, spiny lobster, and the Nassau grouper. .
Weiss was the lead writer of the five-day series entitled Altered Oceans that was published July-August, 2006, and remains on the web site: www.latimes.com/oceans. The series has won national and international awards. He has received many other awards, including being named Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club and the Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. Weiss spent six years in Washington, D.C., as a correspondent for newspapers owned by the New York Times and as a reporter for States News Service.
Frank Clifford is a journalist and a former environmental editor at The Los Angeles Times, where he directed the "Altered Oceans" series that won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize. Clifford has written extensively about environmental issues in the American West and is the author of “The Backbone of the World: A Portrait of the Vanishing West Along the Continental Divide.”
