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Training Materials—Videotape Series
Videotapes from The Great Lakes Environmental Journalism Training Institutes
These 60-minute long videotapes document the 1996 and 1997 sessions of the Great Lakes Environmental Journalism Training Institute. The Institute sponsored 25 print and broadcast journalists from the eight Great Lakes states and featured more than 20 scientists, policy and regulatory experts, academics and established environmental reporters who participated in three days of lectures and workshops. The entire 22 -tape set covers all lectures presented during the Institute. See below for ordering information.
THE 1997 SERIES—held May 20 to May 24
Tape 1: Rae Tyson, former senior environmental editor for USA Today, reflects on his coverage of the Love Canal pollution story of the late 1970s, plus the ethics andcurrent status of environmental journalism.
Tape 2: Milton Clark, of the U.S. EPAs Chicago regional office, takes a regulatory view of various environmental issues affecting the Great Lakes region.
Tape 3: Joseph Jacobson, a Wayne State University psychologist, reports on neurotoxic and related effects of eating PCB-laden sport fish from Lake Michigan.
Tape 4: Jim Tiedje, a professor at MSUs Microbial Ecology Center, focuses on new perspectives and methods to clean up soils contaminated with toxic chemicals.
Tape 5: Michael Kamrin, a professor in MSUs Institute for Environmental Toxicology and an expert on risk-analysis, describes the fundamentals of toxicology and risk assumptions.
Tape 6: Chuck Hersey, of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, reviews new federal air pollution legislation, and how cities and counties are striving to meet them.
Tape 7: James Teeri, director of the Global Climate Change Project at the University of Michigan, describes how the growth of carbon dioxide emissions will affect the global environment.
Tape 8: Keith Schneider, former New York Times environmental writer and currently head of the Michigan Land Use Institute, details one of the most under-reported problems of our time—urban sprawl—and how its changing the face of modern communities.
Tape 9: Henry Vanderploeg, a research ecologist with the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, demonstrates ongoing problems of exotic species infiltration and aquatic pollution in the lakes system.
Tape 10: Journalists Deborah Potter (formerly of CNN and CBS News), David Hammond (managing editor of the Great Lakes Radio Consortium), and David Poulson of Michigans Booth Newspaper chain offer advice on how to do environmental journalism amid the varying pressures of daily broadcast and print journalism.
THE 1996 SERIES—held June 5 to June 8
Tape 1: Casey Bukro: The Nation's First Designated Environmental Reporter
A reporter for the Chicago Tribune since 1967, Bukro discusses his early days covering the environment, how things have changed over the decades, and new approaches to covering environmental issues.
Tape 2: Jim Detjen: A Brief History of Environmental Journalism in the U.S.
MSU's Knight Chair in Journalism and a 21-year veteran of environmental reporting, Detjen discusses the historical and continuing role of environmental journalism in bringing to light problems that might other-wise have gone unnoticed.
Tape 3: William Ashworth: The Natural History of the Great Lakes
Ashworth, author of 10 books on environmental and natural history, details the evolution of the 10,000-year-old Great Lakes system and its ecological importance to humans, aquatic species and wildlife.
Tape 4: Peter Landrum: Impacts of Pollution and Toxics in the Great Lakes
As a research chemist with the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Landrum explains the dangers of organic toxicants in aquatic systems.
Tape 5: Gary Gulezian: The EPA's Role in Studying and Regulating the Lakes
Gulezian, acting director of the EPA's Chicago-based Great Lakes Protection Office, analyzes pollution, toxic effects and the drastic impact of exotic species such as zebra mussels in the lakes system.
Tape 6: Dianne Dumanoski: How Synthetic Chemicals are Stealing Our Future
The former Boston Globe reporter and co-author of Our Stolen Future examines how toxic chemicals may be altering the reproductive systems of humans and wildlife.
Tape 7: Mark Coscarelli and Mike Donohue: Policy Analysis of the Lakes
Coscarelli, of Michigan's Great Lakes Program Office, and Donohue, director of the Great Lakes Commission, view the lakes system in terms of past and present policy and regulatory concerns.
Tape 8: Michael Kamrin: Assumptions Underlying Toxic Risk Assessment
Kamrin, with MSU's Institute for Environmental Toxicology, makes sense of the science of risk assessment by examining the underlying assumptions and methodologies employed.
Tape 9: Chuck Hersey: Air Pollution in Past and Present Urban Environments
Hersey, with the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, discloses the relationship between the urban environment and air pollution, and how polluting industries attempt to adjust to current government regulation and social policy.
Tape 10: James Teeri: The Ever-Changing Climate Patterns of the Earth
The University of Michigan's director of the Project for the Study of Global Change shows how sedimentary evidence from deep within glaciers tells us much about past, present and future global pollution patterns.
Tape 11: David Jude: The Toxic Damage to Great Lakes Fish Populations
Jude, a biologist with the University of Michigan's Center for Great Lakes and Aquatic Sciences, presents dozens of slides showing clearly how years of largely unregulated pollution has harmed and continues to damageGreat Lakes fish.
Tape 12: Voices of Experience: Reporting Tips For Environmental Writing
Learn tips on better environmental writing from Rae Tyson, an environment writer at USA Today and vice-president of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ); from Emilia Askari, SEJ president; and from David Poulson, a veteran environmental writer for Booth Newspapers in Michigan.
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Great Lakes Environmental Journalism Training Institute
training materials—videotape series