Mark Schleifstein:  

Life Mark Schleifstein is the environment reporter for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans. He is the co-author of "Path of Destruction: the Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms," pathofdestructionbook . 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. Other award-winning work includes: 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. The 2001 series, "Unequal Opportunity: How local programs to help disadvantaged businesses are enriching wealthy entrepreneurs," won the 2002 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and was a finalist for the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. "Oceans of Trouble: Are the World's Fisheries Doomed?" an eight-day, 56-page series that won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service from the Societ...Expand for more