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Welcome to Fort Collins and Colorado State University. We are honored that the Society of Environmental Journalists chose our city and campus for your 29th annual conference. It would have been difficult to find a more environmentally friendly location: CSU’s colors may be green and gold, but we’re very partial to platinum as well. Colorado State is the first university in the world to achieve a Platinum rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System Principal Ambassador – twice. We’ve also been named a Platinum Bicycle Friendly Campus by the League of American Bicyclists, just one of five in the nation; Fort Collins is also a Platinum Bicycle Friendly Community, an even rarer distinction to have both in the same location. CSU is a major supporter of the city’s MAX bus rapid transit system than can take you to Old Town to explore a craft brewery or two while you are here. One more bit of platinum green: Two buildings on campus have earned LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council – the Pavilion at Laurel Village and the Powerhouse Campus. By the way, the work done at the Powerhouse was a major reason Fort Collins is a featured Place of Invention at the Smithsonian Institution – and is on track to achieve its Climate Action Plan goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Supporter Aside from the accolades and regularly appearing on national lists of greenest schools, sustainability is just part of what we do at CSU. Every one of our eight colleges offer courses in sustainability, for a total nearing 1,000 this year. The Warner College of Natural Resources offers one of the most comprehensive natural resources and environmental programs in the country, granting both bachelor’s and graduate degrees in science and sustainability among other majors. The School of Global Environmental Sustainability, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, is a national leader in interdisciplinary sustainability research and education. Where else can students earn a minor in sustainability – and have their choice of concentration? Speaking of anniversaries, CSU is celebrating its sesquicentennial year in 2020, renewing its commitment to the land-grant mission of education, service, research and outreach by tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems. From applying agricultural innovation to the urgent question of how to feed a global soon to top 9 billion to exploring engineering solutions to climate Friend change, CSU scientists and researchers are making a difference. Many will be presenting at the conference, and I hope you can spend some quality time with them. At CSU, we pay attention to the less-than-glamourous side of sustainability as well. After you have enjoyed your awards luncheon, networking breakfast and hospitality receptions, the leftovers will join the waste stream that powers our campus composting operation, which provides not only hands-on learning experiences for students, but also nutrients for the landscaping on our beautiful campus. Once again, welcome to CSU, and have an enjoyable, productive conference.

Rick Miranda Provost and Executive Vice President Colorado State University

2 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 3 ADVERTISEMENT Journalists: Get your hands on research! Environmental Journalism 2019 Workshop 1 Covering Indian Country, Public Lands and Apply for a fellowship in the The 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists officially begins in the West Wednesday, October 9, at 5:30 p.m., with an opening 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. reception followed by dinner and programs. Room 386, CSU’s Lory Student Center MBL Logan Pre-registration and $60 fee required. Breakfast Before the official kick-off, three all-day workshops and lunch included. SEJ members only. will be held, as well as an afternoon meet-and-greet Program with fun networking opportunities. 8:00 a.m. Breakfast served Please note: SEJ is committed to supporting a 8:30 a.m. Introductions and set the stage for the day At the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA harassment-free environment at the conference. Emcee: Judy Fahys, InsideClimate Please read our anti-harassment policy: www.sej.org/society-environmental-journalists- May 26 – June 5, 2020 9:00-10:30 a.m. anti-harassment-policy Covering Indian Country and Tribal All sessions, as well as registration, exhibits and Affairs breaks, will be at Colorado State University’s Lory Student Center, 1101 Center Avenue Mall, Fort Experienced reporters will share practical tips on Collins, CO 80521, unless otherwise indicated. how to cover Indigenous communities and produce culturally competent, high-impact work. From picking stories to maintaining relationships with communities, this panel will be ideal for looking to cover Wednesday, October 9, 2019 tribal affairs effectively. Registration Moderator: Nick Martin, Staff Writer, The New Republic octo b er 9, 2019 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Grand Ballroom Lobby, CSU’s Lory Student Center Speakers: , Communications Director, Utah Diné Pick up your badge and conference materials here. Alastair Bitsóí Bikéyah “This kind of research experience should be a requisite part of the career of any science .” If you didn’t sign up for the Thursday tours, Saturday , Journalist and Photographer evening party at New Belgium Brewing or Sunday Kalen Goodluck – Erik Olsen, The New York Times , Assistant Editor, High Country News breakfast program at the Denver Botanic Gardens, Anna Smith there might still be room. Check with registration and sign up there. 10:30-10:45 a.m. Coffee break

The acclaimed Logan Science Journalism Program provides professional journalists, writers, editors, and wednesday broadcast producers with a chance to step back from the 24-hour news cycle and immerse themselves in 10:45 a.m.-Noon SEJ Information Table hands-on scientific research training. 2:00 - 6:00 p.m. Hispanic and Environmental Grand Ballroom Lobby, CSU’s Lory Student Center Justice in the West Choose between 2 tracks: Sign up here for Friday beat dinners and Saturday From early Spanish explorers, Mestizos and recent Biomedical Hands-On Research Course Environmental Hands-On Research Course mini-tours. Read up on Board candidates, find Latin American immigrants, the West has a long information about SEJ Award winners, membership storied history of Hispanic and Latino culture. But, Learn the latest laboratory techniques and concepts Conduct field work with scientists investigating climate and services. increasingly, racism and environmental injustices essential to biomedical and biological research, impacts and environmental change plague many communities. Panelists will discuss including CRISPR-Cas9 genome the intersection of social, cultural, economic and Bookstore environmental justice issues in Hispanic communities 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. and everything from farmworkers’ environmental Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center health concerns to Latino conservation efforts. Room, board, course fees, and travel are covered for accepted fellows. More than 200 leading health, CSU’s bookstore is on site to sell SEJ members’ and Moderator: environmental, and science journalists have benefited from this unique fellowship since 1986. speakers’ books, as well as offering environmental Yvette Cabrera, Independent Environmental Justice books handpicked for the SEJ conference. Reporter and 2019 McGraw Fellow Speakers: For more information: Visit mbl.edu/sjp or contact Diana Kenney: [email protected]; @MBLScience Armando Elenes, Secretary Treasurer, United Farm Workers APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 24, 2020 #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 5

01713-MBL SJP Flyer-Diana Kenney.indd 1 9/4/19 4:07 PM Chela Garcia, Director of Conservation Programs, coalesce around conflicts over public land. Who is Bernadette Woods Placky, Chief Meteorologist and Noon-12:40 p.m. Hispanic Access Foundation the public, and how does that echo through extreme Climate Matters Director, Climate Central, Climate Beatriz Soto, Latino Outreach Coordinator, Defiende views? Whose land is at the center of the debate, and Matters in the Rebuilding Trust in the Media Nuestra Tierra - Wilderness Workshop whose land was it? We’ll hear from local reporters Some of the threats and harassment that journalists and regional editors on how to cover public lands face are driven by a deep mistrust and contempt for holistically from Bears Ears to Bundy to the Flathead Workshop 3 . But around the world, a free press is Noon-1:00 p.m. Valley. The goal is to better prepare reporters who A Hostile Environment: Surviving Journalism the foundation of democratic societies. To protect Lunch and Session: cover these conflicts, to seek the nuance and context 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. journalists — and our democracy — we need to to tell better stories whether they’re freelance, local or Room 372-374, CSU’s Lory Student Center understand the roots of this distrust. The Society of Attracting and Supporting Indigenous Staff Professional Journalists launched The Casper Project national reporters. Pre-registration and $60 fee required. Breakfast Whether your newsroom is new to covering to gain a deeper understanding of the reasons and lunch included. SEJ members and journalists Indigenous communities or you have experienced Moderator: so many people distrust news organizations and only. reporters on staff with connections to tribal affairs, the Anna Smith, Assistant Editor, High Country News their reporting. Join SPJ’s Journalist on Call for a choices your newsroom makes can lead to success or Staying safe while doing your job is no longer just Speakers: presentation and discussion on steps we can take to ruin. This panel will offer practical advice for attracting, for those reporters who work in war zones. In recent Brian Calvert, Editor-in-Chief, High Country News increase trust and make journalism — and democracy supporting and retaining reporters with experience in years, domestic reporters have been arrested, and Kalen Goodluck, Journalist and Photographer — safer for all. Indian Country with the goal of building the best team sometimes injured, simply by doing their job – Bill Morlin, Freelance Journalist to create the best work. covering pipeline protests, police activities and even Speaker: covering Trump rallies. And these aren’t the only Rod Hicks, Journalist on Call, Society of Professional Moderator: threats we now face. Even if you work at your desk, Journalists wednesday Workshop 2 Nick Martin, Staff Writer, The New Republic the risk of on-line harassment continues to grow. Climate Reporting Master Class, Presented by Climate This workshop will offer you basic skills and tips on Speakers: Matters in the Newsroom surviving harassment and staying safe, even under the 12:40-1:30 p.m. Brian Calvert, Editor-in-Chief, High Country News 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. worst of circumstances. We’ll also discuss how efforts Safety in the Field Anna Smith, Assistant Editor, High Country News Room 382, CSU’s Lory Student Center to foment distrust in the media are increasing the risks journalists face, and what we can do to rebuild trust. Moderator: 1:00-2:00 p.m. Pre-registration and $60 fee required. Breakfast Dale Willman, Freelance Newscaster, Program and lunch included. SEJ members only. Mining Public Records for Stories on Emcee: Director, NPR, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism This full-day workshop will equip reporters in all Public Lands Dale Willman, Freelance Newscaster, Program Speakers: octo b er 9, 2019 octo b er 9, 2019 media to tell local climate stories that matter to their Director, NPR, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism , Freelance Journalist Gloria Dickie News is about change, and there’s been a whole lotta audiences. We’ll quickly review the basics of climate Emily Gertz, Journalist, Entrepreneur and Member, change in the management of U.S. public lands lately. change and then do deep dives with top experts on 8:00-8:30 a.m. Breakfast, Workshop Registration SEJ Freedom of Information Task Force The Trump administration is moving to open millions climate and water issues and clean energy solutions. Rod Hicks, Journalist on Call, Society of Professional of acres to oil and gas development and recently put Journalists successfully tackling the challenge of 8:30-9:00 a.m. Welcome, Introduction Journalists an outspoken critic of public lands in power at the local climate reporting will discuss their experiences. Bureau of Land Management. This session will offer New localized climate reporting resources will be 9:00 a.m.-Noon tips on how to dig out stories about what’s happening introduced and discussed and we will use them in 1:30-3:30 p.m. and what’s at stake. hands-on practice. Reporting Safely Journalist safety while covering a major crisis has Online Safety wednesday Moderator: Moderator: always been important. But today safety concerns In response to the growing threat that online hate Tim Wheeler, Managing Editor, Bay Journal and Susan Hassol, Director of Climate Communication, are sometimes present even in stories that in the past and harassment pose to free expression, PEN America Chair, Freedom of Information Task Force, Society of Climate Matters in the Newsroom were considered safe. More and more, journalists has developed a first-of-its-kind digital toolkit, the Environmental Journalists are becoming targets. What can you do to be safer “Online Harassment Field Manual.” The manual is Speakers: in your work? A freelance journalist who works with based on extensive research and interviews with Speakers: Scott Denning, Climate Scientist and Professor of Jimmy Tobias, Independent Reporter Atmospheric Science, Walter Scott, Jr. College of Columbia University and the Dart Center will discuss writers, journalists, technology experts, editors, Tim Whitehouse, Executive Director, Public Engineering, Colorado State University model risk assessment. Participants will be walked newsrooms and advocacy groups. Join us for a through how to respond to a number of different training session filled with practical strategies and Employees for Environmental Responsibility Chuck Kutscher, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Laurel Williams, US Public Lands and Rivers Institute, University of Colorado-Boulder, Fellow and types of threats, and we’ll discuss covering civil unrest comprehensive resources to defend yourself against Conservation Program, The Pew Charitable Trusts Senior Research Associate and dealing with aggressive authorities, all while online harassment. remaining safe. Ed Maibach, Distinguished University Professor and Speaker: Director, Center for Climate Change Communication, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Speaker: Viktorya Vilk, Manager of Special Projects for Free George Mason University, Climate Matters in the Judith Matloff, Freelance Journalist, Author and Expression Programs, PEN America Public Lands Reporting From the Newsroom Adjunct Faculty, Columbia Extremes: How to Cover Holistically Lisa Palmer, Freelance Journalist , Reporter, Colorado River Basin, KUNC This panel will talk with reporters and editors covering Luke Runyon Brad Udall, Senior Scientist/Scholar, Colorado State anti-government groups, anti-American Indian University organizations and other extremists, which often

6 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 7 SEJ Student Newsroom of FWC Biology, Colorado State University, and tour. Eat breakfast at your hotel before arrival or Senior Scientist, Conservation Society 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. plan to purchase breakfast at the Lory Student , Attorney and Instructor, Room 376-378, CSU’s Lory Student Center Autumn Bernhardt Center food court, which opens at 7:00 a.m.; Department of Anthropology and Geography, coffee and snacks will be provided for tours that You’re a student assigned to cover happenings at a Colorado State University depart before the food court opens. Each tour will big conference. Need a place to work? Equipment Camille Dungy, Professor, English Department, leave the ballroom as a group to board buses at a to get it done? A few editing ideas from seasoned Colorado State University nearby location. Do not be late. veterans? Checkout the SEJ Student Newsroom. Bobby Magill, Reporter, Bloomberg Environment, Located at the heart of the conference site, it’s and SEJ Board President a space to work, learn and chill. Environmental Rick Miranda, Provost and Executive Vice President, journalists will stop by to offer advice and mentoring. Colorado State University The newsroom will be outfitted with Internet- Diana Wall, University Distinguished Professor, connected desktop computers and field equipment Department of Biology; Senior Research Scientist, for checkout (e.g., video/still cameras, pods, lights, Natural Resource Lab; and Director, School mics, audio recorders, etc.). In addition, the special of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado programming developed just for environmental State University journalism students will be available at the newsroom. Image courtesy Magill of Bobby See the SEJ Student Newsroom on Wednesday (4:30 p.m.), Friday and Saturday for more Opening Reception Image courtesy of Kevin Beaty information on these programs. Tour 1. Oil and Gas Clashes With Human Development wednesday and Dinner Thursday, October 10, 2019 and Public Lands Facilitator: Joseph Champ, Associate Professor, Department Welcome to Colorado! (5:30 a.m. departure, $45 fee, lunch included) of Journalism and Media Communication, Colorado Registration Drilling rigs have become as much a part of the 5:30 - 9:00 p.m. 5:00 - 9:30 a.m. and Noon - 5:30 p.m. State University Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center landscape of northern Colorado as the panoramic Grand Ballroom Lobby, CSU’s Lory Student Center views of the Rockies. Residents in the far suburbs of The bar opens early, so grab a drink and mingle. Chat If you are interested in finding out more about Pick up your badge and conference materials here. Denver and Greeley live with one foot in the booming with colleagues and network with sources. Browse how to participate at the SEJ Student Newsroom If you didn’t sign up for the Thursday tours, Saturday Colorado tech and tourism economy, and the other in

the creations of Colorado artists and learn about and related events, please contact Dr. Joe Champ evening party at New Belgium Brewing or Sunday an oil and gas industrial zone. On this tour, we’ll start groundbreaking research on environmental issues at a octo b er 10, 2019 octo b er 9, 2019 at [email protected]. breakfast program at the Denver Botanic Gardens, with a sunrise hike on the Pawnee National Grassland scientists’ poster session. Elected officials, renowned there might still be room. Check with registration to see public lands forever changed by fossil fuel scientists, Native American leaders and distinguished and sign up there. development. We’ll also visit a fracking site and travel writers will share welcoming remarks and brief Afternoon Meet and Greet to a Denver suburb to see firsthand how residents live presentations to introduce you to Colorado and the 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. and work sometimes steps away from active wells. The conference. A state known for its towering mountains, SEJ Information Table Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center day will end with a beer and the chance to talk with rivers and a booming recreation economy, Colorado All Day Join up with old friends and meet new ones. Check residents and scientists who can explain fracking’s is a leader in renewable energy development and Grand Ballroom Lobby, CSU’s Lory Student Center out innovative virtual reality demos and browse the environmental and health costs. Total drive time: 5 climate action. At the same time, the state has Sign up here for Friday beat dinners and Saturday works of local artists. Come meet SEJ board and staff hours. thursday and share your ideas for SEJ’s future. Beer, wine, and welcomed and benefited economically from an oil mini-tours. Read up on Board candidates, find hors d’oeuvres sponsored by Environmental Defense and gas boom, and it is now grappling with how to information about SEJ Award winners, membership Tour Leaders: Fund. balance these seemingly conflicting ideals and goals. and services. Bobby Magill, Reporter, Bloomberg Environment, and SEJ Board President Colorado is also home to pioneering national labs and Jason Plautz, Reporter, Freelance Writer research institutions. Tonight you’ll learn how research Tours in the Field SEJ Student Newsroom Speakers: Fooling With Google Tooling by Colorado scientists spans the globe — from the Far North to the South Pole — in both geographic reach Advance registration is required for all Thursday Gabrielle Petron, Research Scientist, Cooperative 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. and impact. tours. Attendance on each tour is strictly limited, so Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Room 376-378, CSU’s Lory Student Center registering early is important. All Thursday tours will University of Colorado Boulder Teaching Fellow at the Google News Lab will demo Emcees: return to the Lory Student Center at about 5:00 p.m. Jim Ramey, Colorado State Director, The Wilderness cool new data collection and visualization tools. Susan Moran, Independent Print Journalist; Co-Host, For those looking for some exercise, tours 1, 3, 5, Society Mapping and Geo software allows you to make “How On Earth” Science Show, KGNU Community 7 and 9 are your best options. Other tours involve Kathleen Sgamma, President, Western Energy custom maps, do drone-like flyovers of an area with Radio; and Co-Chair, SEJ’s 29th Annual Conference moderate exercise. Tours 2, 6 and 8 are best suited Alliance Google Earth Studio or even look at change over time Joshua Zaffos, Correspondent, High Country News for those with limited mobility. Christiaan van Woudenberg, Board of Trustees, Erie, with the historical time-lapse function. and Co-Chair, SEJ’s 29th Annual Conference Colorado IMPORTANT DEPARTURE INFORMATION: Please Speakers: STUDENTS ONLY. Snacks and soft drinks provided. meet your tour leaders near the SEJ registration Joel Berger, Professor and Barbara Cox Anthony Must be registered for the conference to attend. desk on the third floor of the Lory Student Center University Chair in Wildlife Conservation, Department at the listed departure time to check-in for your

8 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 9 Image courtesy of NREL courtesy Image of courtesy Image Walter Derr Visualization, Computational Science Center, National Murph Widdowfield, Board Member, Rocky Flats Renewable Energy Lab Cold War History Museum Andrew Hudgins, User Program Integrator, Energy Systems Integration Facility, National Renewable Energy Lab Eric Karp, Senior Chemical Engineer, National Renewable Energy Lab Martin Keller, Director, National Renewable Energy Lab Daniel Laird, Director, National Wind Technology Tour 2. National Renewable Energy Lab: Center, National Renewable Energy Lab Tour 3. Reclaiming the Toxic Legacy of War Through Treasure Trove of Story Ideas Dave Moore, Scientist and Director’s Fellow, National Wildlife Conservation Renewable Energy Lab

(6:00 a.m. departure, $45 fee, lunch included) (6:30 a.m. departure, $45 fee, lunch included) Image courtesy of Rocky Mtn Natl Park Nicholas Rorrer, Researcher III - Polymer Engineering There may be no single location with as many story and Biomaterials Development, National Renewable Coloradans once looked on the weapons plants at the Tour 4. The Grand Transect: From the High Plains to the ideas than the renowned National Renewable Energy Energy Lab Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which manufactured nerve Heights of Rocky Mountain National Park Lab in Golden, where the planet’s future just might , Researcher III-High Performance gas, and the Rocky Flats nuclear bomb factory with David Sickinger (7:00 a.m. departure, $45 fee, lunch included) be saved. The executive director and founder of the Computing, National Renewable Energy Lab pride. They were huge economic boons for the region Colorado is best known for its majestic mountains, 59 Energy Institute at Colorado State University will David Simms, Research Operations Director, National during World War II and the Cold War. Decades of brief journalists on the bus about the differences spills, fires and other environmental crimes changed of which exceed 14,000 feet. Yet nearly 40 percent of thursday Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy between 100 percent renewable and carbon-free Lab all that, leaving a legacy of distrust and releases of the state consists of high plains. This will allow us to make a grand environmental transect on our trip up goals, and what challenges lie ahead. Journalists will Robert Tenent, Researcher V-Materials Science, radionuclides and other industrial by-products in hear from the NREL director on the transformation National Renewable Energy Lab their wake. Our day will begin with a bus tour of the to Rocky Mountain National Park. Within just a few hours, we’ll pass through roughly the same number of of the energy sector happening now. And you’ll be Paul Veers, Chief Engineer, National Wind Arsenal, with expert speakers discussing the massive amazed at demonstrations from scientists of jaw- Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Lab cleanup effort that led to the opening of the site as ecological zones as a trip from Fort Collins to Alaska. dropping renewable energy technology. Will your Lance Wheeler, Researcher III-Materials Science, refuge for bison, the endangered black-footed ferret We’ll begin our transect at the foot of the mountains windows or the paint on your house become energy National Renewable Energy Lab and more than 300 other species of animals. We where we’ll get an overview of the day ahead and discuss pressing Western water issues. Next, we’ll collectors? They’re working on it here. Corporations Bryan Willson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering can’t leave the Arsenal without a stop at the National octo b er 10, 2019 are embedded with the Lab to bring technology to Wildlife Repository, which houses 1.3 million plunge into the Big Thompson Canyon to learn about

and Executive Director, Energy Institute, Colorado octo b er 10, 2019 market. We’ll visit a net-zero office building, a smart State University items recovered from wildlife traffickers. After lunch, ecology and wildfire. Our transect will then take appliance lab and a test wind farm. Bring your camera we’ll drive over to Rocky Flats for an optional one- us into the gateway town of Estes Park and finally into and an extra notepad. Total drive time: 3 hours hour hike and an overview of the former nuclear the park itself. While there, we’ll hear about impacts weapons plant’s history, the controversial remediation on park from pollution, massive tourism, Note: The National Renewable Energy Lab is efforts that followed its closure and the public health over-population of elk and other factors — all against providing lunch for this tour. concerns that remain (the EPA and the Colorado a backdrop of climate change. Total drive time: 4 Department of Public Health and Environment have hours. Tour Leaders: certified the whole refuge as safe for visitors). Total

Jeff Burnside, Independent Journalist and SEJ Board Tour Leaders: thursday drive time: 3 hours. Member Sadie Babits, Independent Editor, Journalist and Grace Hood, Energy and Environment Reporter, Tour Leaders: Radio Producer Colorado Public Radio Sonya Doctorian, Video Producer/Photojournalist Amanda Peacher, Radio Reporter, Mountain West News Bureau, Boise State Public Radio Speakers: Paul Karolyi, Editorial Director, House of Pod, Host/ , Director, Center for Environmental Derek Berry, Senior Engineer, National Renewable Producer, Changing Denver Tom Yulsman Journalism, and Professor, Department of Journalism, Energy Lab, and Director of the Wind Turbine Speakers: Technology Area, Institute for Advanced Composites College of Media, Communication and Information, Len Ackland, Independent Journalist; Author, University of Colorado Boulder Manufacturing Innovation “Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear Joseph Berry, Senior Scientist, Perovskite and Hybrid West,” Professor of Journalism (retired) and Founding Speakers: Solar Cells Team Lead, National Renewable Energy Director, Center for Environmental Journalism, Hanem Abouelezz, Supervisory Landscape Ecologist, Lab University of Colorado Boulder Rocky Mountain National Park Nicholas Brunhart-Lupo, Computational Scientist, Louis Cheroutes, Board Member, Friends of the Front Jill Baron, Research Ecologist, Founder and National Renewable Energy Lab Range Wildlife Refuges Co-Director, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis Bryon Donohoe, Senior Scientist, National Renewable Stephanie Malin, Associate Professor, Department and Synthesis, U.S. Geological Survey and Senior Energy Lab of Sociology, Colorado State University; Adjunct Research Ecologist, Natural Resource Ecology Matthew Futch, Business Development Director Associate Professor, Colorado School of Public Laboratory, Colorado State University and Energy Regulatory Expert, National Renewable Health; and Co-Founder and Co-Primary Investigator, John Freemuth, BoiseState/Andrus Energy Lab Department of Sociology & Center for Environmental Doug Kenney, Director, Western Water Policy Kenny Gruchalla, Senior Scientist, Scientific Justice, Colorado State University Program, University of Colorado Law School

10 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 11 Image courtesy of Kevin Beaty of Kevin courtesy Image Tom Veblen, Distinguished Professor, Department of Hispanic Access Foundation Geography, University of Colorado Boulder Russ Schumacher, Colorado State Climatologist Chris White, Owner, Anchor Point Group

Image courtesy of Pixabay courtesy Image George Wuerthner, Ecologist and Author/Editor, “Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy” Image courtesy of Helen Richardson Tour 7. The Past, Present and Future of Western Water Tour 8. Environmental Justice in Globeville and (8:30 a.m. departure, $45 fee, lunch included) Elyria-Swansea Few issues in the West can both divide and unite (8:45 a.m. departure, $45 fee, lunch included) Tour 5. Feeling the Heat: communities like water rights. Conversations about The communities of Globeville and Elyria-Swansea Western Wildfire Regimes in a Changing Environment who has access to the scarce resource and who (GES) in northern Denver are located in the Image courtesy of Dennis Dimick doesn’t can quickly grow tense and are fundamental most polluted zip code in Colorado. Decades of (7:30 a.m. departure, $45 fee, lunch included) Tour 6. Farming on the Great Plains to the region’s future. This tour begins near the scenic environmental injustices in these communities have The past year has seen the biggest, the deadliest and Continental Divide, just outside Rocky Mountain (8:00 a.m. departure, $45 fee, lunch included) brought them to this unfortunate title. With several the costliest wildfires on record. These extremes stem National Park, with an overview of complex water nearby industrial factories emitting toxic chemicals thursday The Colorado Front Range was once known as “The from numerous factors, including a warmer climate, laws and Colorado’s sprawling infrastructure. We’ll into the air, a busy interstate highway running directly Great American Desert,” but railroads and irrigation forest management trends and more people living in start at the eastern portal of the Colorado-Big through the neighborhoods — also the site of an altered the landscape. Sugar beets, beef cattle and harm’s way. Wildfire has gone from having something Thompson Project. Built in the 1940s, the project ongoing and extremely controversial expansion, diesel dairy products are three of the mainstays in northern of a season, to plaguing the nation year-round, and pumps water for miles through tunnels dug deep in trains traveling through the communities regularly and Colorado farms as advancements in technology have none of these conditions are likely to change soon. the mountains in an effort to plumb the arid state. from historical metal smelting, the drastically altered how each of them is produced. Considering its broad and cascading impacts, it’s Then, we’ll head down the mountain to hike around GES is home to a confluence of pollution sources that We’ll start the day visiting a sugar beet farm at harvest likely environmental reporters will find more than one the site of the proposed Chimney Hollow Reservoir, have had untold health, economic and social impacts and end at a family dairy operation that has grown occasion to include wildfire in their work. This tour a pool planned to serve Colorado’s thirsty Front on its residents. This tour will provide an insight

octo b er 10, 2019 to more than 1,500 cows. Over lunch in Greeley we’ll will travel through and burned areas above Range cities. We’ll wrap up downstream, talking about into the major challenges facing residents, as well hear from the workers who labor in these industries octo b er 10, 2019 Fort Collins to provide a comprehensive look at fire pressures on water supplies for both and as air quality and health studies underway designed

and see firsthand how communities of immigrants in Colorado. Participants will learn about its history, municipalities in the face of ongoing drought and to offset some of the impacts from these historic and refugees are reviving the surrounding rural wildland firefighting, climate change and fire weather, a changing climate. We’ll also look to the solutions and ongoing environmental hazards. This will be a economies. After lunch we’ll visit the Five Rivers Cattle community resilience and human behavior in fire, water managers, conservationists and farmers are unique opportunity to learn about perhaps the most Co., considered the world’s largest cattle-feeding fire management at the local and national level, and considering to tackle these challenges. Total drive impacted and underserved community in Denver — company, which runs a 98,000-capacity operation post-fire impacts such as debris flows and invasive time: 4 hours. during a time when the city as a whole is undergoing just outside Kersey. Feedlots are often criticized for species encroachment. We’re going to get down rapid growth and transformation. You’ll come away air and problems from having so many and dirty in the Wildland-Urban Interface, so bring Tour Leaders: with new ideas, concepts and understandings of

livestock concentrated together. However, the cattle , Reporter, Steamboat Pilot & thursday your backpacks, hiking boots and enough energy to Eleanor Hasenbeck reporting on environmental justice issues, as well as industry is increasingly focused on its environmental Today complete an easy to mid-level hike. Total drive time: learn how these concerns relate through communities footprint and argues that improvements have led to , Reporter, Colorado River Basin, KUNC 3.5 hours. Luke Runyon across the country. a smaller environmental impact. Total drive time: 3 hours. Total drive time: 4 Speakers: Tour Leaders: hours. James Bishop, Public Involvement Specialist, U.S. Tour Leaders: Jolie Breeden, Lead Editor and Science Bureau of Reclamation Tony Barboza, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times Communicator, Natural Hazards Center, University of Tour Leaders: , Freelance Journalist , Ag Policy Editor, DTN/The Progressive Joe Donnelly, Chimney Hollow Project Manager, Rachel Cernansky Colorado Boulder Chris Clayton , Investigative Producer and Reporter, Farmer Northern Water Kati Weis Michael Kodas, Author, Reporter and Photojournalist, , Senior Manager, Western Water, KCNC-TV CBS Denver Esther Honig, Reporter, KUNC Brian Jackson Freelance Environmental Defense Fund Speakers: Speakers: Speakers: Andy Schultheiss, Executive Director, Colorado , Denver City Councilwoman, District 9 , Director of Advocacy and Candi CdeBaca Mike Battaglia, Research Forester, Rocky Mountain Collin Cannon Water Trust , Director, Community Outreach and Development, Immigrant and Refugee Center of Lisa Cicutto Research Station, U.S. Forest Service Jerd Smith, Digital Content Editor, Water Education Research; Professor, Director, Clinical Science Northern Colorado Peter Brown, Director and President, Rocky Mountain Colorado Graduate Program, National Jewish Health and , United Farm Workers of America Tree-Ring Research Armando Elenes Jeff Stahla, Public Information Coordinator, Northern University of Colorado | Anschutz Medical Center (UFW) Carol Dollard, Fire Chief, Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Water , Associate Attorney, Earthjustice , Owner, Schlagel Farms Marta Darby Department Paul Schlagel Reagan Waskom, Director, Colorado Water Center, , Professional Geologist. Retired; pro , Owner, La Luna Dairy Charles Norris Gabe Donaldson, Manager, Colorado Fire Program, Jon Slutsky Colorado State University bono technical advisor (hydrogeology) to Vasquez The Nature Conservancy Mely Whiting, General Counsel, Trout Unlimited Boulevard and I-70 Superfund Site CAG Chela Garcia, Director of Conservation Programs, Michael Ogletree, Air Quality Program Manager,

12 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 13 Denver Department of Public Health and Environment Speakers: critical to enabling the food system to respond as Independent Hospitality Receptions Nina Roumell, Development and Communications Jennifer Barfield, Special Assistant Professor, Animal conditions shift dramatically in this country and around Officer, The GrowHaus Reproduction, College of Veterinary Medicine and the world. and Exhibits Sandra Ruiz-Parrilla, Elyria-Swansea Activist and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. Parent Dean Biggins, Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. We’ll take an exclusive tour of the facility guided by Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center Stacia Sellers, Central 70 Communication Manager, Geological Survey top scientists working with plant and animal genetics Now a popular SEJ tradition, this is the conference’s Colorado Department of Transportation Kimberly Fraser, Outreach Specialist, National Black as the institution tries to address the accelerating best networking opportunity. After spending the day Michael Wenstrom, Environmental Protection Footed Ferret Conservation Center, Region 6, U.S. pace of environmental change. in the field, meet with hosts of multiple receptions. Specialist, Environmental Justice Program, Region 8, Fish and Wildlife Service They’ll have experts on hand as well as displays, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Jason LaBelle, Associate Professor of Archeology, The tour will take roughly 2 1/2-3 hours, with stops materials and, of course, great food and drink. Mingle and Director, Center for Mountain and Plains at the the Lab responsible for tracking and storing with our exhibitors and build your list.

Image courtesy of Kimberly Fraser of Kimberly courtesy Image Archaeology, Department of Anthropology and germplasm for our nation’s beef, pork, chicken, turkey Geography, Colorado State University and other commercial animal industries; the lab Sarah Reed, Director of Applied Conservation where seed varieties are analyzed for their genetic Open Screen Science, Americas Program, Wildlife Conservation composition and potential to address ongoing 8:30 - 10:00 p.m. Society and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Fish, climatic, disease and pest pressures; and a tour Longs Peak Room, CSU’s Lory Student Center Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State through the cold vault containing more than a million Calling all photo and video journalists! The SEJ open University samples of seeds and animal germplasm. Each will screen is a show-and-tell for our visual crafts. Come Kate Wilkins, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ecology, be introduced by the scientists overseeing different hang out with us after you peruse our exhibit hall and partake of the independent receptions. It’s an thursday Colorado State University aspects of the work. Afterward, all scientists involved will be available for a more formal Q and A (questions opportunity to discuss the craft, joys and challenges are also welcome during the tour). Total tour time: 4 of covering environmental topics through a lens. Tour 9. Wildlife Restoration on the Prairies: hours. We’ll draw names from a hat to decide the order. Ferreting Out a Solution Presentations are limited to ten minutes to ensure Among those we will encounter on the tour include: everyone has a chance to share. It will be informal (9:00 a.m. departure, $45 fee, lunch included) Dr. Christina Walters, a plant physiologist and and fun! To sign up, contact Kevin Beaty at In 1981, a small population of black-footed ferrets, supervisor at the facility; , an expert [email protected] Dr. Gayle Volk which scientists had believed were extinct, was on seed preservation; Dr. Colin Khoury, an expert on octo b er 10, 2019 discovered on a Wyoming ranch. Biologists captured Emcee:

genetic centers of origin; Dr. Harvey Blackburn, an octo b er 10, 2019 24 of the secretive mammals and brought them , Multimedia Reporter, Denverite and SEJ animal geneticist; and Dr. Cliff Richards, a population Kevin Beaty into captivity, reasoning that captive breeding was geneticist. Conference Associate

the species’ only hope of survival. Today, hundreds Image courtesy of CSU of black-footed ferrets, a keystone species, call Tour 10. The Seed and Semen Bank Note: This is a highly secure government facility; the Great Plains home — all descendants of that (1:00 p.m. departure, no fee, no lunch) registration includes required email and phone Wyoming population. On this field trip, we’ll visit the contact information. At the lab, security requires a Soapstone Prairie, a site where ferrets have been This tour is free. We’ll gather near the SEJ photo ID and signature upon check in. No purses, successfully re-introduced into the wild and where registration desk at the Lory Student Center backpacks or heavy coats are permitted in the bison — another iconic plains species — have seen before 1:00 p.m. and walk over to the Lab. Space thursday building. a resurgence of their own. A genetically pure herd of is limited so register early! “Yellowstone” bison, also created through captive Protecting Our Food From Climatic and Other Tour Leader: breeding, was released at Soapstone in 2015. We’ll Mark Schapiro, Author, “Seeds of Resistance: The tour the bison enclosure and hear from experts Catastrophes: Inside North America’s Biggest Repository Fight to Save Our Food Supply,” and Lecturer, about the challenges — disease, genetics, habitat of Seeds and Animal Germplasm Graduate School of Journalism, University of California — that scientists faced in their efforts to restore Berkeley both species. In the afternoon, half of the group The converging forces of climate change will stay at Soapstone for a hike, which will feature and corporate consolidation are presenting an 11,000-year-old archaeological site and plenty unprecedented threats to the Earth’s ability to grow Bookstore of opportunities to spot pronghorn antelope. The food. We’ll take an exclusive tour through a facility 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. other half will tour the nearby Black-footed Ferret at the front lines of ensuring our ability to respond to Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center Conservation Center, which is run by the U.S. Fish and these pressures — the USDA’s National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation, on the campus CSU’s bookstore is on site to sell SEJ members’ and Wildlife Service and houses two-thirds of the world’s speakers’ books, as well as offering environmental captive black-footed ferrets. The ferret center tour of Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Here, just minutes from the SEJ conference hub in the Lory books handpicked for the SEJ conference. Stop by for is capped at 24. Sign up online for the center or the book signings from 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. hike. Total drive time: 2 hours. Student Center, is the oldest and largest repository of plant and animal DNA — aka, more than a million Tour Leaders: seed samples, and the germplasm and semen of Katie Langin, Associate Editor, Science Magazine beef and dairy cattle, chickens, turkeys and other Hillary Rosner, Freelance Journalist commercial animals. This material is considered

14 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 15 Image courtesy of Krista Langlois of Krista courtesy Image about any aspect of journalism are fair game at this Shea Loper, Director of Government Relations, Friday, October 11, 2019 “progressive breakfast,” where newcomers to the beat Encana Corporation can pick the brains of experienced SEJers. Participants Registration will meet one-on-one with mentors representing print, broadcast and online media. They will rotate to get Beverage Break 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 10:45 - 11:15 a.m. a taste of all genres and maximize the early morning Grand Ballroom Lobby, CSU’s Lory Student Center Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center Pick up your badge and conference materials here. If expertise. If you’ve not preregistered, it’s still open at Sponsored by Earthjustice. you didn’t sign up for the Saturday evening party at sej.org on the online agenda, though walk-ins might New Belgium Brewing or Sunday breakfast program also be accommodated. at the Denver Botanic Gardens, there might still be Facilitators: Concurrent Sessions 1 room. Check with registration and sign up there. Jane Braxton Little, Independent Journalist and 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Co-Coordinator of SEJ’s Mentor Program Dawn Stover, Independent Journalist and SEJ Information Table Co-Coordinator of SEJ’s Mentor Program 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Grand Ballroom Lobby, CSU’s Lory Student Center Sign up here for Friday beat dinners and Saturday SEJ Student Newsroom mini-tours. Read up on Board candidates, find 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Opening Plenary information about SEJ Award winners, membership Room 376-378, CSU’s Lory Student Center and services. See description on Wednesday, page 8 Public Lands at a Crossroads f riday and Q&A With DOI Secretary Bernhardt Facilitator: Image courtesy of Pixabay Exhibits Joseph Champ, Associate Professor, Department 9:00 - 10:45 a.m. THE CRAFT 1: Telling Environmental Stories in Sound 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. of Journalism and Media Communication, Colorado Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center Room 382, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center State University The U.S. has a long and storied history of land AMBI EXPLOSION Don’t miss the wealth of information offered by the conservation, which has created a network of octo b er 11, 2019 We’re in a podcasting boom. It seems like everybody 2019 exhibitors. Learn about environmental issues and public lands now managed in different ways. Since with a mic and a laptop is making a show. innovations, journalism fellowships, see some great Europeans arrived, these lands have been fought over AMBI SHOES CRUNCHING ON SNOW displays and add to your source list. between those looking to preserve them and those But how do you stand out in this burgeoning space? hoping to open them up to development. These octo b er 11, 2019 How do you think about the environment as audio? public lands now face threats from climate change, And what might this add to your reporting? Bookstore including drought and wildfire, along with budget and AMBI BIRDS CHIRPING 8:00 a.m. – Noon staff cuts. Recreational impacts, along with drilling and Whether you’re a print reporter looking to explore Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center mining, are on the rise. Tribal officials are demanding something new or a seasoned audio professional, CSU’s bookstore is on site to sell SEJ members’ and a greater voice in federal decision-making, and Trump

this workshop will help you harness the power of this f riday administration officials are scaling back regulations. speakers’ books, as well as offering environmental unique medium to engage your audience in new What does the future hold for America’s public lands? books handpicked for the SEJ conference. ways. FADE BIRDS Prior to the plenary, we’ll hear from Interior Secretary Breakfast David Bernhardt about the state of our public lands, Presenters: 7:00 - 8:45 a.m. in a Q and A with Juliet Eilperin, senior national Amy Martin, Founder and Executive Producer, Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center affairs correspondent for The Washington Post. Threshold Breakfast will be served beginning at 7:00 a.m. in the He will also take questions from journalists in the Nick Mott, Producer, Threshold Grand Ballroom. Grab your food and grab a table or audience. mingle with exhibitors or bring your breakfast to Room Moderator: 322 if you’re attending the speed mentoring session. Juliet Eilperin, Senior National Affairs Correspondent, The Washington Post Breakfast Program Speakers: Speed Mentoring Whit Fosburgh, President and Chief Executive Officer, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership 7:30 - 8:45 a.m. , BoiseState/Andrus Room 322, CSU’s Lory Student Center John Freemuth Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Consultant, Environmental Want to improve your writing? Land a plum Justice Education and Policy Planning, DGW assignment? Find a new job? Preview SEJ’s year- Consulting; and Lecturer, American Indian Studies, long Mentoring Program in one hot hour. Questions California State University San Marcos

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Moderator: Andrew Revkin, Founding Director, Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, The Earth Institute, Columbia University Speakers: Jill Baron, Research Ecologist, Founder and Co-director, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, U.S. Geological Survey and Senior Research Ecologist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University Samantha McCann, Vice President of Journalist Practice Change, Solutions Journalism Network Camille Morse Nicholson, Program Manager, Rural Climate Dialogues, Jefferson Center Andrew Rockway, Jefferson Center / Your Voice Ohio

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CM 22783024 Uncommon Path Issue1 SEJ Program Ad 8.5x11 (with Bleed 8.75x11.25) CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Image courtesy of Krista Langlois of Krista courtesy Image Image courtesy of Pixabay courtesy Image Image courtesy of Pixabay Image courtesy of Dennis Dimick ENERGY AND CLIMATE: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: WATER AND SNOW: LAND AND CONSERVATION: Roadblocks to Renewables: Obstacles on the Road to a Beyond Conventional vs. Organic: Can Conventional and Covering What Will It Take To End Extinction? (Really) Low-Carbon Future Organic Agriculture Find Common Ground? Room 308-310, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 312, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 300, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 304-306, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Colorado is an epicenter of outdoor culture. Running, Can international environmental conservation grow to include the private sector and fields like economics, Conventional and organic farming are often pitted hiking, biking, camping, skiing, fishing. You’ve got What are the real-world impediments that stand in engineering, design, behavioral decision-making against each other, with loopholes in livestock it all. But there are already concerns here — and the way of accelerating the transition from fossil fuels and anthropology? The answer depends on who is regulations hobbling organic dairy farmers and heavy around the world — about overtourism, overuse and to renewable energy systems? As many low-carbon in the room. Some say the field of conservation is f riday reliance on drift-prone threatening organic equitable access to outdoor opportunities in what has energy sources have become cost-competitive or ready for a disruption. It was based on saving species farmers’ certification along with the pollinators that traditionally been a very white space. And, whether even cheaper than traditional fossil fuels, especially through parks and preserves. Many of the underlying sustain their crops. But conventional farmers and it’s melting snow or extreme heats, climate change is for electricity production, other roadblocks stand in drivers of extinction are from humans, and species in researchers are increasingly embracing sustainable set to further shift how we recreate. From athlete and the way of catapulting energy production towards protected areas and beyond are declining at alarming practices. This panel will look at the intersection of diversity voices, to the impacts of the climate crisis, a truly renewable and sustainable future. Do the rates. Between 1970 and 2012, of fish, organic and conventional agriculture, how practices this panel will explore how we, as journalists, can best octo b er 11, 2019 problems stem from technology limitations? Political birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles dropped that have been at the core of organic agriculture cover such an evolving industry. intransigence? Poor planning? Failures of imagination? by 58 percent. Current rates of species extinction are (building soil carbon, rotating crops to reduce Bad bets by hedge funds? All of the above? Moderator: 100 to 1000 times higher than before humans had chemical inputs, grazing for grassland health) can be Tik Root, Freelance Journalist a prominent role in extinction. How can synthetic incorporated into conventional agriculture. octo b er 11, 2019 Moderator: biology, understanding and sustaining in Daniel Glick, Co-Founder, The Story Group Speakers: Moderator: Jude Bayham, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and urban systems, bringing the wild back into farmlands Speakers: Liza Gross, Author, “The Science Writers’ Resource Economics, College of Agricultural Sciences, and protecting migration corridors save species from Jonathan Adelman, Area Vice President, Strategic Investigative Reporting Handbook,” and Reporter, Colorado State University collapse? This wide-ranging discussion will address Resource and Business Planning, Xcel Energy Food & Environment Reporting Network Lindsay Bourgoine, Director, Policy and Advocacy, the latest advances in international conservation, from Anne Hoskins, Chief Policy Officer, Sunrun Protect Our Winters Agriculture to Zoology, while providing examples f riday Richard Martin, Senior Editor for Energy, S&P Global Speakers: Brian Calvert, Editor-in-Chief, High Country News from research and the field. Market Intelligence Dave Carter, Executive Director, National Bison , Co-Founder, Black Girls Hike Tinelle “Tin” Louis Association, and former Member, National Organic Global Moderator: Standards Board Lisa Palmer, Freelance Journalist Sam Fromartz, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Speakers: Food & Environment Reporting Network, and Author, Alex Dehgan, Chief Executive Officer, Conservation “Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew” X Labs, and Author, “The Snow Leopard Project: And Jessica Shade, Director, Science Programs, The Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation” Organic Center Liba Pejchar, Associate Professor and Conservation Scientist, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University 3rd Speaker TBA

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Image courtesy of Robert Murray their staff from talking to reporters, how can the Fewer employees. Regulatory rollbacks. Funding press find out what the public needs and has a right cuts. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has Luncheon Plenary to know? In this session, we’ll talk about the uses been weakened even as it faces enormous challenges and abuses of the Freedom of Information Act and posed by climate change, emerging pollution sources share tips on how to work around recalcitrant PIOs. and other threats. We take a look at what it would Elections 2020: We’ll also hear about a new initiative of the Reporters f riday take to rebuild the agency to meet those challenges Environment and Climate THE CRAFT 1: Seeing Environmentally Committee for to provide as well as how the agency might look and function in Room 382, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center legal help to local or regional news organizations the decades to come. on the Campaign Trail This session will focus on the process behind creating and journalists to pursue enterprise and investigative 12:30 - 2:15 p.m. on environmental issues. Panelists journalism.

Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center Moderator: will show and discuss projects that illustrate where , Reporter, The Associated Press octo b er 11, 2019 Tammy Webber The 2020 election will offer a stark choice and contrast ideas come from, research and planning strategies, Moderator: , Associate Editor and Senior Writer, Speakers: on U.S. environmental and energy policy. Through his and approaches to visualization. The goal is to Tim Wheeler (Chesapeake) Bay Journal, and Chair, Freedom of Kerrigan Clough, Environmental Consultant, first term, President Trump has withdrawn our country offer insight to improve quality and depth of visual and former Deputy Administrator, Region 8, U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, accelerated Information Task Force, Society of Environmental

environmental journalism. Three visual professionals in octo b er 11, 2019 Environmental Protection Agency oil and gas drilling offshore and on public lands, magazine and journalism and filmmaking Journalists

Judith Enck, Visiting Professor, Bennington College, tried to revive coal mining and power production, will participate, with moderation by a veteran visual Speakers: Founder of Beyond Plastics and former EPA Regional and slammed wind and solar energy as unreliable. environmental journalist. Plenty of time will be set Adam Marshall, Knight Foundation Litigation Administrator Meanwhile, Democratic Party presidential candidates aside for discussion and questions. Attorney, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Ruth Greenspan Bell, Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow are competing to be the environmental contender Press

Wilson International Center for Scholars, and formerly in 2020. That includes more than a half-dozen who Moderator: Jimmy Tobias, Independent Reporter, The Nation, f riday of Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental have already expressed support for the Green New Dennis Dimick, Co-Founder, Eyes On Earth, and The Guardian, Pacific Standard Protection Agency Deal, the massive reform initiative that calls for a “10- former Environment Editor, National Geographic Tim Whitehouse, Executive Director, Public year national mobilization” to transition the country David Uhlmann, Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice Speakers: Employees for Environmental Responsibility to a 100-percent renewable-energy, zero-emissions and Director, and Policy Program, Peter Essick, Photographer and Author economy. This plenary will bring together politicians The University of Michigan Law School Morgan Heim, Senior Fellow, International League of and campaign advisors to discuss the Green New Conservation Photographers Deal and what national will Helen Richardson, Photojournalist, The Denver Post look like beyond 2020, under either a Republican or Democratic president.

Opening Remarks: Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado Moderator: Lisa Friedman, Reporter, Climate Desk, The New York Times Speakers: Guido Girgenti, Founding Board Member and Communications Advisor, Sunrise Movement Joseph Pinion, Founder and Chief Executive Officer,

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Image Semansky courtesy of Patrick One giant army of voices to advance ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: ENERGY AND CLIMATE: Can States, Cities and Companies True West, True Stories: Why a Rainbow of Voices Fill the Leadership Void on Climate Change? Is Missing From Our Public Lands Coverage and How Room 300, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center the climate fight! Redirecting Our Attention Will Mean Smarter Stories As the Trump administration continues to dismantle Room 302 (Longs Peak), 3rd Floor, Lory Student strides made to fight the climate crisis, some states, Center cities and even corporations are not waiting for federal leadership anymore. We’ve assembled a panel People of diverse genders, sexual orientations and

f riday of experts representing top national success stories races have long called the West home — Indigenous who will speak directly to the accelerating efforts people longer than anyone. But media coverage from the “bottom up” climate fight. This is a topic continues to view the landscape through a lens that can be applied to any news market for journalists focused on white settlers and the hyper-masculine attending this panel. Don’t miss it.

— think cowboys and roughnecks. Panelists will explore how misogyny, patriarchy, heteronormativity octo b er 11, 2019 Moderator: and racism mean so many voices are still neglected Jeff Burnside, Independent Journalist because of structural forces in our society. The panel offers ideas about how environmental journalists can Speakers: , Director, Department of Ecology, State make their stories on public lands more relevant and Maia Bellon of Washington more authentic by being more inclusive. Lindsay Ex, Climate Program Manager, City of Fort Moderator: Collins Judy Fahys, News Reporter, InsideClimate News David Rossini, Vice President, Public Interest Network Speakers: Michael Estrada, Founder, Photojournalist, BEEN Media Bobby Magill, Reporter, Bloomberg Environment, and SEJ Board President Jodi Rave Spotted Bear, Founder and Executive Director, Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance Anna Smith, Assistant Editor, High Country News

EDF is driving a new wave of environmental innovation Visit Booth T4 to enjoy two fantastic VR that empowers people to take action like never before experiences, meet our experts and learn more — but we need your help. Together, we can: about how Environmental Defense Fund is driving smart, pragmatic solutions to our most pressing • Move America to a 100% Clean economy while environmental challenges. protecting communities and the environment from pollution. • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions with innovative solutions involving AI, sensors and a new, cutting- edge satellite. • Build resilient land and water systems across the U.S. to allow people and nature to thrive in a changing climate. EDF.org 24 Society of Environmental Journalists CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. Image courtesy of David Layde courtesy Image of Pixabay courtesy Image Image courtesy Morgan of David Image courtesy of Pixabay FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: Can Green Be Clean? The WATER AND SNOW: Water Rights, Water Justice? LAND AND CONSERVATION: Who Let the Bugs (Die) Out? NATION AND GLOBE: Environmental Impacts of Legal Cannabis Room 308-310, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 312, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center and Health: Covering an Invisible Killer Room 304-306, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Access to clean water is a human right. And yet, The world is experiencing an “insect apocalypse” — Room 322, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center As the first state to legalize cannabis, Colorado access to clean water — not to mention water rights at least according to some researchers. Recent studies Despite decades of improvement, air pollution still has learned a lot about cannabis’ environmental and sustainable sources of water for farming and have shown large declines in insect biomass in places cuts short more than 100,000 American lives every impacts — on water and lands, its electricity use small communities — is oftentimes limited for some such as Germany and Puerto Rico. Other investigators year — more than guns, more than car accidents, and carbon emissions, and the consequences of communities of color and economically disadvantaged say there isn’t enough data yet to declare an more than the flu. We’ll look at the impact and causes communities. Even in the western United States, Armageddon. Regardless, everyone agrees more

f riday waste and pollution. Today, the state is leading the of this often under-covered menace, talking science, way to make cannabis production more sustainable, where water rights are based on prior appropriation — data is needed — scientists have identified 1 million health and policy. Panelists will explore how dirty air from cultivation to disposal. Hear from an industry- first in time, first in line — and tribes have the oldest bugs but there could be 30 times that on Earth — so intersects with racial disparities, economic inequality leading small business owner, the lead environmental water rights, legal mechanisms and financial restraints conservationists can prioritize what to protect. During and climate change. You’ll hear how residents of cannabis consultant at the state level and a cannabis keep them from accessing the water they own. this session, we’ll talk about both the importance of Colorado’s most polluted neighborhood experience journalist about the evolution and future of cannabis’ insects to life around the globe as well as some of the effects of their dirty air, what’s really in the wildfire Moderator: octo b er 11, 2019 environmental impacts in Colorado and beyond. the threats that six-legged creatures face from human smoke that regularly engulfs western cities and how , Correspondent and Producer, New Laura Paskus interference and what can be done about it. regulatory rollbacks may further affect air quality and Mexico PBS Moderator: public health. Kelsey Simpkins, Freelance Journalist and Digital and Speakers: Moderator: , Independent Journalist octo b er 11, 2019 Engagement Editor, Future Earth (Colorado) Autumn Bernhardt, Attorney and Instructor, Nancy Averett Moderator: Department of Anthropology and Geography, , Journalist and Author, “Choked: Life Speakers: Speakers: Beth Gardiner Colorado State University , Professor, Museum Curator of and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution” Amy Andrle, Founder/Owner, L’Eagle Services | Deane Bowers , KECK Director, Hulbert Center for Entomology, and Department Chair of Ecology L’eela CBD BodyCare Eric Perramond Speakers: Southwest Studies, and Professor, Environmental and Environmental Biology, University of Colorado Bruce Barcott, Senior Editor, Leafly, and Author, Emily Fischer, Assistant Professor, Department of “Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in Science and Southwest Studies, Colorado College Boulder Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University f riday , Staff Writer, Grist , Professor, Department of Biology, America” Naveena Sadasivam Chris Funk Vickie Patton, General Counsel, Environmental and Director, Global Biodiversity Center, School of Kaitlin Urso, Environmental Consultant, Colorado Defense Fund Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State Department of Public Health and Environment Sandra Ruiz-Parrilla, Activist, Globeville Elyria- University Swansea Coalition, Denver Robbie Hart, Assistant Curator, William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden Jessica Rykken, Entomologist, Denali National Park Membership Meeting, Volunteer and Preserve Sign-Up and Networking Happy Hour 3:45 - 6:00 p.m. Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center All are invited to join the SEJ Board of Directors for the Annual Membership Meeting, which will include annual election for open board seats and brief reports from the board and staff. After the polls close, we’ll break into small roundtables for a networking happy hour, with lively discussions of hot topics and future plans for SEJ. Grab a drink at the cash bar and share your thoughts with SEJ volunteers and staff — and learn how you can volunteer to help lead SEJ into its next 30 years. Non-members are welcome.

26 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 27 Beat Dinners 201 Breakfast Student Newsroom Session Concurrent Sessions 3 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. 7:00 - 8:45 a.m. The Importance of Narrative in Environmental (or Any!) 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Consult Whova app and the web agenda for Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center Journalism details and to sign up online. Check with the SEJ Breakfast will be served beginning at 7:00 a.m. in the 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Information Table for assistance and open slots. Grand Ballroom. Grab your food and grab a table Room 376-378, CSU’s Lory Student Center or mingle with exhibitors or bring it to Room 322 if The Fort Collins food and drink scene includes a you’re attending the public lands reporting pitch slam. Storytelling is in our DNA. Since the beginning remarkable mix of locally sourced favorites and world- of time, human beings have been energized by renowned breweries. We’ll have a mix of private narratives that affect us on deep intellectual and rooms and smaller gatherings to choose from. emotional levels. In this informative, thought- Breakfast Breakout Session provoking seminar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Pitch Slam and FEJ Proposal Coaching: U.S. Public Lands published novelist and special assistant professor 7:30 - 8:45 a.m.

in CSU’s Department of Journalism and Media Image courtesy News of Mahya Room 322, CSU’s Lory Student Center Communication will serve as a guide to unlocking THE CRAFT 1: Reinventing the News Business: the mysteries of persuasive and engaging narrative SEJ’s Fund for Environmental Journalism will award The Promises and Perils of News Startups grants up to $5,000 in January 2020 for story projects storytelling. It is the story that prompts us to pay covering U.S. public lands. Share your ideas with closer attention and care about the data itself — the Room 382, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center our panel of judges, and get feedback and tips to very ambition of all good environmental reporting and Since 2014, layoffs and shut-downs across cable TV, Saturday, October 12, 2019 strengthen your proposal for FEJ Winter Competition. writing. large and small, and even digital news saturday darlings like VICE, BuzzFeed and HuffPost, have put Deadline for the story grant proposals is Speaker: nearly 10,000 people out of salaried news jobs. It’s Registration November 15. Note: This session will not be , Special Assistant Professor, Department 7:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. David Freed clear that the business of news desperately needs recorded. Story grants made possible by The of Journalism and Media Communication, Colorado Grand Ballroom Lobby, CSU’s Lory Student Center re-invention, and the entrepreneurs on this panel are Wilderness Society and other foundation and State University in the vanguard of figuring out how. Join us for this Pick up your badge and conference materials here. If individual donors to FEJ. up-to-the-minute discussion on the ups and downs of you didn’t sign up for the Saturday evening party at STUDENTS ONLY. Snacks and soft drinks New Belgium Brewing or Sunday breakfast program starting up new news ventures (for- and non-profit), provided. Must be registered for the conference finding funding, generating revenues, managing the at the Denver Botanic Gardens, there might still be to attend. If you are interested in finding out octo b er 12, 2019 SEJ Student Newsroom unexpected editorial challenges that new business room. Check with registration and sign up there. 8:00 am - 3:30 pm more about how to participate at the SEJ Student models often create and more. octo b er 12, 2019 Room 376-378, CSU’s Lory Student Center Newsroom and related events, please contact Dr.

See description on Wednesday, page 8 Joe Champ, Department of Journalism and Media Moderator: SEJ Information Table Communication, Colorado State University at Emily Gertz, Journalist and Entrepreneur 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Facilitator: [email protected]. Grand Ballroom Lobby, CSU’s Lory Student Center , Associate Professor, Department Speakers: Joseph Champ , Founder and Editor-in-Chief, of Journalism and Media Communication, Colorado Lyndsey Gilpin Sign up here for Saturday mini-tours. Read up on Southerly Board candidates, find information about SEJ Award State University Tina Griego, Managing Editor, Colorado Independent

winners, membership and services. saturday Robert McClure, Co-Founder and Executive Director, InvestigateWest Exhibits 7:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center Don’t miss the wealth of information offered by the 2019 exhibitors. Learn about environmental issues and innovations, journalism fellowships, see some great displays and add to your source list.

Bookstore 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center CSU’s bookstore is on site to sell SEJ members’ and speakers’ books, as well as offering environmental books handpicked for the SEJ conference.

28 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 29 CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Image courtesy of Pixabay courtesy Image of Pixabay courtesy Image Image courtesy of Pixabay Image courtesy of Pixabay THE CRAFT 2: Disaster Coverage Beyond Parachuting ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: ENERGY AND CLIMATE: Coal in Transition: What the FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: Room 386, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Invisible Pollution, Invisible People: Covering Industry’s Decline Means for Coal Communities Soils and Earth and Greenhouse Gases The past few years have seen increasingly devastating Controversial Hormone-Mimicking Chemicals Room 300, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 304-306, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center natural disasters, from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico Room 302 (Longs Peak), 3rd Floor, Lory Student President Trump ran on a pledge to revive the coal Scientists, activists and even politicians are to Camp Fire in California. But as the events pile up, Center industry, but the decline has only accelerated. 2018 increasingly calling attention to the connection and the news cycle moves on, it may be challenging Scientists keep warning us, common chemicals was one of the biggest years for coal plant retirements of soils and greenhouse gas sequestration and saturday to find creative and meaningful ways to cover the in U.S. history. Three major mining firms are in emissions. Undisturbed soils are typically richest in lasting impact of disasters. This panel discussion will we’re all exposed to — in food, cosmetics, hygiene products, furniture — are altering our hormones bankruptcy. In Wyoming and West Virginia, hundreds carbon, underscoring the importance of conservation. focus on how to tell compelling stories long after the of workers were left suddenly without jobs when their Moreover, specialists point out that increasing fires and floods have gone, how to document the and spurring diseases. Much like visible pollution, exposures are disproportionately harming vulnerable company filed for bankruptcy protection. Panelists the health of soils, including with amendments lasting physical and mental impacts, and creative ways will explore the reason for the industry’s decline and like biochar and managing crops for sequestering to investigate response and relief efforts. communities. So why do US regulators say there’s nothing to worry about? Get a primer on this terrifying what it means for coal communities. How much longer carbon, could play a significant role in local, national class of chemicals and the scientific controversy can coal continue to underpin the economy in places and even global mitigation schemes. At the same Moderator: like western Colorado, Wyoming and West Virginia? time, scientists are greatly concerned that warming Kyla Mandel, Editor, Climate Team, ThinkProgress around them. Go home prepared to report on this octo b er 12, 2019 grand experiment taking place on all of our hormones Can renewable jobs replace coal jobs? What role can temperatures in the northern biome would cause Speakers: and health. states and the federal government play in aiding the methane and carbon release from permafrost and octo b er 12, 2019 Jolie Breeden, Lead Editor and Science

transition? peatlands, significantly compounding ghg emissions. Communicator, Natural Hazards Center, University of Moderator: We will discuss the latest science, policy and Colorado Boulder Brian Bienkowski, Senior Editor, Environmental Moderator: opportunities that focus on the connections of soils, Ana Campoy, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University Health News Ben Storrow, Reporter, E&E News conservation and ghg sequestration and emissions. Mark Schleifstein, Environment Reporter, The Times- Speakers: Speakers: Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate , Director, Global Coal Market Research, Moderator: Patricia Hunt, Meyer Distinguished Professor, School Joe Aldina S&P Global Platts Rich Blaustein, Freelance Science, Environmental and of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University Legal Journalist , Associate Professor, College of saturday Tamarra James-Todd, Mark and Catherine Robert Godby Winkler Assistant Professor of Environmental & Business Department of Economics and Finance, and Speakers: Reproductive Perinatal Epidemiology, Departments of Director, Energy Economics & Public Policies Center, John Field, Research Scientist, Natural Resource and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. University of Wyoming Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University Chan School of Public Health Erin Overturf, Deputy Director, Clean Energy Keith Paustian, University Distinguished Professor, Program, Western Resource Advocates Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and Senior Lynne Peeples, Freelance Science Journalist , Assistant Director, Center for New Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Johanna Rochester, Lead Technical Analyst, ICF Suzanne Tegen International Inc. Energy Economy, Colorado State University Colorado State University Kevin Schaefer, Research Scientist III and Lead Scientist for NSIDC Science Team, National Snow and Ice Data Center Diana Wall, University Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology; Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Lab; and Director, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University

30 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 31 CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Image courtesy of Pixabay courtesy Image of Pixabay courtesy Image Concurrent Sessions 4 10:45 a.m. - Noon Image courtesy of Pixabay WATER AND SNOW: LAND AND CONSERVATION: NATION AND GLOBE: Western Water: The Push for More Storage in The Wildfire Crisis: Can We Log (or Graze, Thin, Burn, Market-Based Mechanisms: The Good, the Bad and the

Headwaters Zone or Rake) Our Way Out of This? Details Image courtesy of Pixabay Room 308-310, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 312, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 322, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center THE CRAFT 1: Following the Money in Environmental Colorado’s and development After each fire season in which the destruction and Can the market save the environment? Whether we’re Reporting boom, combined with increased variability in water death tolls of catastrophic wildfires increase, news talking about climate, water or food, the debate Room 382, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center saturday flows linked to climate change, is driving new efforts media hear of various simple fixes to reduce the over market-based incentives versus government The Green New Deal. The decline of coal. The shale to build reservoirs and increase water storage. This combustibility of increasingly flammable forests regulation rages on — and the only thing we all revolution. The biggest environmental stories of our is happening as competition increases for water and wildlands. Most of those easy solutions prove can agree on is that the devil is in the details. Join time are essentially tales of economic disruption. across the Colorado River Basin in the West — the ineffective at slowing the increasing size and speakers on both sides of this debate and hear about Reporters covering these monumental shifts should over-allocated supply for 40 million people. Panelists destructiveness of wildfires and some of them, when the latest research on this tricky topic. understand the financial forces that are driving such will explore key questions around the environmental inappropriately implemented, have actually increased changes, as well as their cost to consumers. This impact of diverting water and storing it behind dams. the damage done by wildland fires or had other, Moderator: session will offer tools for approaching environmental , Managing Editor, Energy and Can relatively free-flowing rivers survive? How are unintended negative consequences. What techniques Gloria Gonzalez stories through a financial and economic lens. octo b er 12, 2019 westerners in Colorado responding to climate change work to reduce the losses of life and property to Environment, Industry Dive impacts on water flows? What are the implications wildfires? Which ones are overrated or misused? What Speakers: Moderator: octo b er 12, 2019 beyond the river headwaters state of Colorado? How is effective at minimizing the impacts of wildfires on Craig Ebert, President, Climate Action Reserve Catherine Traywick, Editor, Oil Trading Americas, far can we go with water conservation inside cities? our health, climate and natural resources? Scott Edwards, Legal Director, Food & Water Watch Bloomberg News Will agriculture survive? Toby Janson-Smith, Chief Innovation Officer, Verra Moderator: Speakers: Maggie Monast, Senior Manager, Economic , Reporter and Associate Editor, The Moderator: Michael Kodas, Freelance Reporter, Photojournalist, Kiah Collier Incentives – Agricultural Sustainability, Environmental Texas Tribune Bruce Finley, Staff Writer, The Denver Post Educator and Author, “Megafire: The Race to Defense Fund Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame” and “High Ivan Penn, Energy Correspondent, The New York Speakers: Times

Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed” saturday John Fielder, Landscape Photographer, Naveena Sadasivam, Staff Writer, Grist Conservationist and Rivers Advocate Speakers: , Director, Colorado River Basin Program, , Professor, Department of Forest and Beverage Break Matt Rice Tony Cheng 10:15 am - 10:45 am American Rivers Rangeland , and Director, Colorado Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center Brad Udall, Senior Scientist/Scholar, Colorado State Forest Restoration Institute, Colorado State University Sponsored by the University of California, Riverside. University Chela Garcia, Director of Conservation Programs, Reagan Waskom, Director, Colorado Water Center, Hispanic Access Foundation Colorado State University Rod Moraga, Fire Behavior Analyst, Prescribed Brad Wind, General Manager, Northern Water Burning Trainer and Chief Executive Officer, Anchor Point Group LLC George Wuerthner, Ecologist and Author/Editor, “Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy”

32 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 33 CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 10:45 a.m. - Noon CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 10:45 a.m. - Noon Image courtesy of Dave Malan courtesy Image of Pixabay courtesy Image Image courtesy of Pixabay Image courtesy of Pixabay THE CRAFT 2: Beyond False Balance: Social Scientists and ENERGY AND CLIMATE: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: WATER AND SNOW: Environmental Journalists Tackle the Manipulation of Plastics and Climate Change: What’s Around the Corner Agriculture: Climate Change Culprit, Victim and Solution Water in the West: Challenges and Solutions Environmental Stories Room 300, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 304-306, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 308-310, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 386, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center With oceans choking in plastic waste and new Farmers are on the frontline of climate change, at The Colorado River and its tributaries are the lifeblood The environmental beat is inherently complex, often research finding that humans are ingesting tens the mercy of worsening extreme weather. Farms for 40 million people and a $1.4 trillion economy, uncertain and it can be manipulated. We have tools of thousands of pieces of micro plastics over their also contribute to the problem as greenhouse gas but the region’s water supply faces unprecedented saturday to address these challenges: for example, social lifetimes, there are new concerns mounting about the emitters. And they could help solve it — through threats from climate change and population growth. science can help predict how audiences respond role of plastics in climate change. We look at what practices that could store billions of tons of carbon Around the globe, other river basins confront similar to information and stories, and journalism itself can the latest studies are finding and discuss potential in the soil. Controlling greenhouse gas emissions challenges. How can we better manage our precious expose disinformation campaigns. And we’ve already solutions to a problem that industry experts say will requires an all-out effort across industries, yet the water resources to meet the needs of people and the worked hard to remove false balance from our get worse before it gets any better. American farm hasn’t been deployed into action. environment? How can journalists help inform the reporting. This session brings journalists and social Why? This panel explores current problems, including public and policymakers about water issues? scientists together to ask: what more can journalists Moderator: policy failures and agri-business strategies, as well as

, Reporter, Southeast, National do to understand these forces and protect both the Jim Bruggers potential solutions. Moderator: Environment Reporting Network, InsideClimate News , Director, The Water Desk, Center for octo b er 12, 2019 integrity and impact of their work? Mitch Tobin

Environmental Journalism, University of Colorado octo b er 12, 2019 Speakers: Moderator: Georgina Gustin, Reporter, InsideClimate News Boulder Moderator: Steve Alexander, President and Chief Executive Thomas Hayden, Professor of the Practice, Officer, Association of Plastic Recyclers –– The Voice Speakers: Speakers: Environmental Communication Program, Stanford of Plastic Recyclers Ben Lilliston, Director of Rural Strategies and Climate Heather Hansman, Freelance Writer, Editor, Raft University Eugene Chen, John K. Stille Endowed Chair Change, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Guide and Author, “Downriver: Into the Future of and Millennial Professor of Polymer Science & , University Distinguished Professor, Water in the West” Speakers: Keith Paustian Sustainability, Department of Chemistry, Colorado Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and Senior , Chief Executive Officer/Manager, Adina Abeles, Environmental Communication Jim Lochhead Researcher, Department of Communication and State University Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Denver Water Goldman Graduate Fellow, Woods Institute for the Judith Enck, Visiting Professor, Bennington College, Colorado State University Brad Udall, Senior Scientist/Scholar, Colorado State saturday Environment, Stanford University Founder of Beyond Plastics and former EPA Regional Ernie Shea, President, Solutions from the Land University Administrator , Interim Executive Director, Ten Tribes Emily Atkin, Writer and Founder, HEATED Daryl Vigil Partnership and Water Administrator, Jicarilla Apache Patrick Chandler, Environmental Communication Researcher, University of Colorado, Boulder Nation Perla Trevizo, Environmental Affairs Reporter, Houston Chronicle

34 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 35 CONCURRENT SESSIONS CONTINUED 10:45 a.m. - Noon Departure: Immediately following the lunch program, meet up with your tour leaders holding Image courtesy of Pixabay courtesy Image up signs near the SEJ registration desk to walk together as a group to load on the correct buses at the Transit Center or to walk to pick up bikes or to depart on the campus walking tour. Image courtesy of Pixabay LAND AND CONSERVATION: NATION AND GLOBE: Leaky Mines: A Toxic Time Bomb Why Don’t Journalists Talk About Human Population? Room 312, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center Room 322, 3rd Floor, Lory Student Center In August 2015, three million gallons of contaminated Why do so many journalists struggle to write about Environmental Journalism Awards mining wastewater broke through a flimsy retaining the “population problem”? The data shows that Luncheon wall at the Gold King Mine outside Silverton, having one fewer children in developed countries Noon - 2:00 p.m. saturday Colorado, while EPA subcontractors were trying to is the best way to reduce carbon emissions via Grand Ballroom, CSU’s Lory Student Center bolster it. The heavy-metals-laden water cascaded personal choice, and yet many stories fail to mention We work hard throughout the year to not only get into a creek feeding the Animus River, turning it reproduction as an issue to be tackled at all, choosing the stories, but to get them right. And, for what? lurid orange, and from there gushed into the San instead to focus on vegan diets and flying less. In this Awards, of course! Now it’s time to shift the spotlight Juan, which flows through several states and Native panel, we’ll discuss the challenges facing reporters in on ourselves for a moment while we honor the best Image courtesy Brewing of New Belgium American nations, including the Navajo Nation. This writing about this controversial issue, digging into the environmental reporting of 2018 at SEJ’s Annual is just one of thousands of abandoned mines in the origins of Malthusian theory, the childfree movement, Awards for Reporting on the Environment, including Dinner and Dance Party at New Western United States leaking contaminated water, and reproductive rights and family planning. the first Ray Reece “Excellence in Environmental Belgium octo b er 12, 2019 many of them Superfund sites. This panel will use Journalism” Student Award and the second annual 5:30 - 10:00 p.m. Moderator: octo b er 12, 2019 the Gold King Mine spill to illustrate the scope of the $10,000 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for the best of problem and give tips on how to mine Superfund Gloria Dickie, Freelance Journalist New Belgium Brewing, 500 Linden St., Fort Collins, CO the best. We’ll kick off the celebration with an eye- Pre-registration and $35 fee required. Take the documents and archives for crucial environmental Speakers: opening look at the best environmental Max or stay on your mini-tour bus to New Belgium. stories. Roger-Mark De Souza, President and Chief Executive from the past year. Officer, Sister Cities International Buses will be available to bring people back to hotels following the party or you can walk or take Moderator: Richard Grossman, , “Population Matters,” Emcees: , Independent Journalist the Max downtown. Theresa Braine The Durango (CO) Herald and OB-GYN (retired) Jeff Burnside, Independent Journalist, and SEJ Board Speakers: Wudan Yan, Freelance Journalist Member Beers, bicycles and a bent toward sustainability! New

Suzette Brewer, Freelance Journalist Gloria Dickie, Freelance Journalist Belgium Brewing is a Fort Collins landmark, a craft- saturday , Correspondent, The Associated Matthew Brown Pulliam Presenter: beer-drinkers’ mecca and an industry trailblazer when Press (Billings, Montana) Gene D’Adamo, President and Chief Executive it comes to and community Dan Elliott, Correspondent, The Associated Press Officer, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust philanthropy. Throngs of people visit the brewery (Denver, Colorado) annually for a tour and tastes of Fat Tire and the Speakers: dozens of other New Belgium taproom beers. Anna Clark, Author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy There will be four 25-limit tours of the brewery: two at , Freelance Journalist Lindsay Fendt 6:00 p.m. and two at 7:30 p.m. Meet in the brewery’s , Reporter and Editor, Thomson Maurice Tamman All Staff Room; tours take off from there promptly at Reuters the above times.

Mini-Tour Bonanza And, yes, there will be beer! The first two drinks will 2:15 - 5:30 p.m . be free, and we’ll have wine on hand for non-beer Sign up on-site at the SEJ Information Table drinkers, but bring cash for additional beer or wine. beginning Wednesday afternoon for SEJ’s popular mini-tours. Consult your mini-tour flyer in your Starting at 7:00 we’ll have lip-smacking-good local conference packet or the web agenda for details. meals and morsels, and then at 8:00 SEJ takes over Additional flyers are available at the Information the taproom for music by Choice City Seven to get Table. you dancing.

36 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 37 ADVERTISEMENT Moderator: Sunday, October 13, 2019 Michael Kodas, Freelance Reporter, Photojournalist, Educator and Author, “Megafire: The Race to One bus will stage at each conference Departure: Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame” and “High hotel – Hilton Fort Collins, Fort Collins Marriott and Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed” the Candlewood Suites – beginning about 7:30 a.m. for departure promptly at 8:00 a.m. Attendees not Speakers: staying at one of these hotels who have preregistered Joel Berger, Professor and Barbara Cox Anthony for the Sunday program can board at any one of these University Chair in Wildlife Conservation, Department hotels. of FWC Biology, Colorado State University; Senior Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society; and Author, These buses will then become the airport buses that “Extreme Conservation: Life at the Edges of the depart the Gardens at noon for arrival at Denver World” and “The Better to Eat You With: Fear in the International Airport no later than 1:00 p.m. Animal World” Beth Gardiner, Journalist and Author, “Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution” Bookstore , Freelance Writer, Editor, Raft 8:45 - 11:00 a.m. Heather Hansman Guide and Author, “Downriver: Into the Future of Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, Water in the West” Denver, CO 80206 Laura Pritchett, Author, “The Blue Hour” and “Stars The Auraria Higher Education Center bookstore will Go Blue” and several other books sunday be on site. Purchase the speakers’ books and get them autographed after the session.

Breakfast, Books and Botany 9:00 a.m. - Noon

Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, octo b er 13, 2019 Denver, CO 80206 Pre-registration and $35 fee required, includes full breakfast and airport transportation with arrival at DEN no later than 1:00 p.m. october XX, 2019

Join us for a full breakfast and a discussion with Western authors at the Denver Botanic Gardens, a 24-acre urban oasis with nearly 50 curated gardens, day a tropical conservatory, education programs and art exhibitions. The Gardens’ horticulturalists and scientists work on local and global research projects

related to plant and water conservation, climate Image courtesy of Nathan Skreslet change and biodiversity. Following the breakfast program, attendees can explore the Gardens and 11:00 a.m.-Noon learn about various scientific research projects. Garden Tours THE FIGHT AGAINST Following the authors’ program, two Denver 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Botanic Gardens horticulturalists will lead tours and discussions about the institution’s longtime global CLIMATE CHANGE research projects and the unique Steppe Garden. 9:30-11:00 a.m. Blood, Sweat and Books There will be two tours capped at 20 people each, (Okay, Probably Some Tears Too) so act fast and sign up on-site upon arrival at the STARTS IN CITIES The Rocky Mountains provide the perfect backdrop Garden. Otherwise, the Gardens will be open to for a discussion by authors who bring a sense of exploration until buses leave promptly at noon for the adventure and exploration to their books on critical airport and hotels. The Kresge Foundation’s Environment Program is committed to environmental topics. Whether reporting on Western creating a better future for people in American cities by helping water issues from a pack raft, researching conservation Noon: Conference ends and shuttles take attendees at the Earth’s poles, exploring the world’s hotspots of back to Fort Collins or to the airport, with airport tenacious change-makers accelerate the pace of climate action. air pollution, dumpster diving for aluminum cans or arrival no later than 1:00 p.m. even jumping into fiction, these authors value seeing things for themselves.

Environment Program 38 Society of Environmental Journalists #SEJ2019 29th Annual Conference Oct. 9-13, 2019 39 The Society of Environmental Journalists is grateful to all whose personal efforts and financial support Society of Environmental Journalists Staff Secretary: Dennis Dimick, National Geographic (retired) have made SEJ’s 2019 Annual Conference possible. Meaghan Parker, Executive Director Jeff Burnside, Independent Journalist Christine Bruggers, Deputy Director, Director SEJ 2019 Conference Host The Kresge Foundation of Awards Gloria Dickie, Freelance Journalist The Pew Charitable Trusts Joyce McConnell Meagan Jeanette, Program and Marketing Breanna Draxler, Independent Science and Friend Environment Editor President, Colorado State , Director of Annual Conferences Climate Matters Jay Letto University Judy Fahys, InsideClimate News Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust Rick Miranda National Renewable Energy Laboratory Project Consultants Emily Gertz, (de)regulation nation Joseph A. Davis, FOI WatchDog Director; Editor, Provost and Executive Vice Pres- New Belgium Brewing Lyndsey Gilpin, Southerly ident, Colorado State University Ocean Conservancy TipSheet, EJToday Meera Subramanian, Independent Journalist Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation Adam Glenn, Editor, SEJournal Online The Public Interest Network , Independent Journalist Colorado State University faculty and staff: , SEJ.org Content Manager, Roger Witherspoon University of California, Riverside Cindy MacDonald Programs Associate Representative for Academic Membership: Diana Wall, University Distinguished Professor, X-energy David Poulson, Michigan State University Department of Biology; Senior Research Scientist, Beth Parke, Founding Director Natural Resource Ecology Lab; and Director, School Representative for Associate Membership: Conference Support: of Global Environmental Sustainability SEJ 2019 Program and Operating Grants Jennifer Bogo, National Audubon Society The Bullitt Foundation Kevin Beaty, Robin Smith, Dale Willman , professor in the Department of Dennis Ojima craigslist Charitable Fund Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, scientist in Founding President (ex officio): James Detjen, FJC: A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, CSU Thank You to SEJ Volunteers Knight Professor of Journalism Emeritus and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Faculty Liaison SEJ could not have produced this conference Founding Director, Knight Center for Environmental Orange County Community Foundation without the dozens of members who generously Journalism, Michigan State University (retired) Pam Jackson, Interim Vice President for External Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust donated their time and energy to organize sessions, Relations Ray Reece Environmental Journalism Foundation moderate panels, lead tours, recruit sponsors and Scripps Howard Foundation Mary Guiden, Science Writer and Senior Public support multimedia. Relations Specialist Spring Point Partners Walton Family Foundation Special thanks to Tristan Ahtone, Jeff Burnside, , Director of Public Affairs and Mike Hooker Wyss Campaign for Nature Judy Fahys, Robert Fanger, Michael Kodas, Re- Communications becca Landsberry, Kate Sheppard, Anna Smith, Joseph Champ, Professor, Department of Tom Yulsman. SEJ 2019 Program Partners Journalism and Media Communication SEJ is especially grateful to , without Center for Climate Change Communication, George Justin Kenney , Executive Assistant, Office of whom this conference would never have come to be. Kathy DuQuoin Mason University the Provost and Executive Vice President Dart Center Lindsay Evens, Conference and Event Manager Google News Initiative SEJ 2019 Awards Committee The Guardian U.S. Jessica Veal, Event Planning Coordinator Emilia Askari, Independent Journalist; Katy Daigle, High Country News Science News Magazine; and Parimal Rohit, The Dani-Lin Hunter, Graduate Assistant, Graduate Hispanic Access Foundation The Society of Environmental Journalists Degree Program in Ecology Log Newspaper. Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources 1629 K Street NW, Suite 300, SEJ is grateful for the selfless efforts of the 29 National Association of Hispanic Journalists Washington, DC 20006 SEJ 2019 Conference Sponsors Native American Journalists Association individuals who screened and judged the 2019 The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate Awards for Reporting on the Environment and the Telephone: (202) 558-2055 Visionary PEN America Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding The Walton Foundation Email: [email protected] Society of Professional Journalists Environmental Reporting. bit.ly/SEJ2019Judges Champion T: @SEJorg W: www.sej.org William and Flora Hewlett Foundation SEJ 2019 Conference Team SEJ 2019 Board of Directors Principal President: Bobby Magill, Bloomberg Environment Strengthening the quality, reach The Bullitt Foundation Co-Chairs: and viability of environmental Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Susan Moran, Independent Print Journalist; Vice President, Programs: Susan Moran, Producer and Host of KGNU’s Science Show, Independent Journalist journalism across all media to Ambassador “How On Earth” advance public understanding of REI Co-op Vice President, Membership: Katy Daigle, Science Joshua Zaffos, Correspondent, High Country News, News environmental issues. Supporter and Program Lead, Communications for Conserva- , The New York Times Earthjustice tion, Colorado State University Treasurer: Scott Dodd Co-winner Calouste Gulbenkian International Prize 2010 Environmental Defense Fund

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