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Alaska:
Reporting on the Climate Frontier
Deadline for application, April 1, 2008
Win a 2008 fellowship from Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and get up close with the biggest environmental story on the planet.
A dozen fellowship winners will be flown to Alaska this August 13 to August 16 to experience and directly learn about the impacts of global climate change. They’ll check out landscapes as diverse as diseased forests and ocean bays fed by the largest ice field in the United States.
Learn what threatens fisheries, coastlines and the glaciers that calve before your eyes at the Kenai Fjords National Park near Seward.
Climate scientists will present the latest on ice melt and explain why the Arctic responds differently than the Antarctic to heat-trapping gases. You’ll learn what will contribute most to sea level rise in the near and long term future. Other scientists and experts will explain threats to forests in Alaska and throughout the United States.
And members of Alaskan native communities will explain how global warming affects subsistence lifestyles.
Explore how vast amounts of carbon trapped in the arctic permafrost can contribute to a snowballing of heat-trapping emissions released by human activities. Study how global warming is linked to intense weather events and affects marine mammals and ecosystems.
And while you’re at it, figure out how you’re going to make all this relevant to readers, viewers and listeners back home. This fellowship is a journalistic endeavor with the goal of helping you spread the knowledge you gain to others.
Climate change is one of the trickiest things to explain to a news audience. Here’s a chance to learn from each other and from others how to make the folks back home take notice.
There is no cost to apply. Selected fulltime journalists pay only $250; very limited scholarships are available. In addition, all participants receive a generous airfare stipend of up to $750. Check out the draft agenda, and thoroughly read the Frequently Asked Questions. Please note that accommodations will be at the Hotel Edgewater in Seward, Alaska.
And then fill out the application and get it in by April 1, 2008.
This fellowship is sponsored by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
