Some recent work
Mining the Mountain - Smithsonian
The Demise of the Washington News Bureau - The American Prospect
Prediction Markets Are Hot, But Here’s Why They Can Be So Wrong - Wired
How to Help Burma - The Guardian online. When a cyclone hits a xenophobic police state, what can the world do?
Storm Warning – Mother Jones series on the troubled future of New Orleans
Can’t-Do Nation: Is America Losing Its Knack for Getting Big Things Done? - Washington Post Outlook. What Iraq and Katrina and a host of other things have in common
Is Global Warming Causing Bigger Hurricanes? - Slate.com
My posts on the Guardian online
Hurricane Katrina
Path of Destruction website
Path excerpt in US News
City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina (co-author with six others), Center for Public Integrity/LSU Press, 2007
2002 series Washing Away: How South Louisiana is Becoming More Vulnerable to a Catastrophic Hurricane
2005 post-Katrina series on Dutch flood control (scroll to bottom to find “Beating Back the Sea”)
2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Katrina coverage (my stories submitted as part of overall TP entry)
Times-Picayune series
1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service - “Oceans of Trouble: Are the World Fisheries Doomed?”
1999 Pulitzer finalist for national reporting - Home Wreckers: How the Formosan Termite is Devastating New Orleans
2000 series Unwelcome Neighbors: How the Poor Bear the Burdens of America’s Pollution
2003 series Fatal Mission on how military outsourcing led to plane crashes/deaths/hostage-takings in Colombia
Book reviews
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, by Chris Mooney
Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation, by Stephen Flynn
Media
Some thoughts on what’s next for investigative journalism
