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MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN

Mark Schleifstein has worked at the Times-Picayune since 1984. He is the co-author with John McQuaid of “Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms”. His reporting during and after Hurricane Katrina was among the newspaper’s stories honored with the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes and the George Polk Award. Stories he and McQuaid wrote prior to Katrina on coastal science issues were honored in 2006 with a special award from the American Geophysical Union as well awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the National Hurricane Conference media award. He was also co-author of the 1996 series “Oceans of Trouble: Are the World’s Fisheries Doomed?”, which won a Pulitzer in 1997.