Mark Schleifstein

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2025 - , Walton Family Foundation Environment Reporting Fellow, advising Times-Picayune environment reporting team, the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, Walton, and freelance reporting. 2019 to 2024, Environment reporter, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate 1984 to 2019, Environment reporter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune In 2011, he was honored by the Press Club of New Orleans with its Lifetime Achievement Award. Stories on BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill were among paper’s work that won 2010 Edward J. Meeman Award for environmental reporting. Co-author of December 2008 “Losing Louisiana,” explaining the role of global warming, sea level rise and subsidence on the future of Louisiana. http://www.nola.com/coastal/ Co-author of March 2007 “Last Chance: The Fight to Save a Disappearing Coast,” won the 2008 Communications Award of the National Academy of Sciences and the 2007 John B. Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. http://www.nola.com/speced/ lastchance/ Stories during and after Hurricane Katrina won 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service and Breaking News Reporting. http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2006-Public-Service-Group2 and http://www.pulitzer.org/ citation/2006-Breaking-News-Reporting Co-author w John McQuaid of “Path of Destruction: the Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms,” published by Little, Brown & Co., August 2006. http://www.pathofdestructionbook.com/ Co-author of 2002 series, “Washing Away” won American Society of Civil Engineers 2003 Excellence in media award and 2003 National Hurricane Conference media award. http://www.nola.com/ washingaway/ Co-author of 1998 series, “Home Wreckers: How the Formosan termite is devastating New Orleans,” w awards from AAAS and AIBS. http://www.nola.com/speced/homewreckers/ Co-author of 1996 series, “Oceans of Trouble: Are the World’s Fisheries Doomed?,” won 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service from SPJ, and an honorable mention for the Robert L. Kozik Award for environmental reporting from the National Press Club. http://www.pulitzer.org/works/1997-Public-Service