Mark Schleifstein

Co-author of Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms: www.pathofdestructionbook.com Environment reporter Mark Schleifstein has worked at NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune since Oct. 1, 2012. He worked at The Times-Picayune from April 1984 to Sept. 30, 2012. In 2011, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Press Club of New Orleans. His stories on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil spill were among The Times-Picayune work honored with the 2010 Edward J. Meeman Award for environmental reporting from the Scripps-Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards program, and with a second place award in the 2011 John B. Oakes Awards program. He was the co-author of a March 2007 series entitled “Last Chance: The Fight to Save a Disappearing Coast,” about Louisiana’s coastal erosion problems, which won the 2008 Communications Award of the National Academy of Sciences and the 2007 John H. Oakes Prize for Environmental Reporting from Columbia University. He’s also the co-author of a December 2008 series entitled “Losing Louisiana,” explaining the role of global warming, sea level rise and subsidence on the future of the Louisiana coastline. 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. 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., in August 2006. Stories he and McQuaid wrote prior to Katrina on coastal science issues were honored in 2006 with a special award from the American Geophysical Union. Among them was the 2002 series he co-authored, "Washing Away: How south Louisiana is growing more vulnerable to a catastrophic hurricane," which also 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 co-author of the 1996 series, "Oceans of Trouble: Are the World's Fisheries Doomed?”, which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service from the Society of Professional Journalists. Schleifstein also was the co-author of the 2001 series, "Unequal Opportunity: How local programs to