Updates on Former Scripps Fellows

Grossman Earns Top Science Writing Honors

Dan Grossman’s radio documentary, The Penguin Barometer, won the American Institute of Biological Sciences’ Broadcast Media Award in February. The documentary, which was broadcast by Radio Netherlands in November 2003, describes how scientists around the world are becoming increasingly concerned about the effects of climate change on ecosystems. In announcing the award the judges called Grossman’s piece “outstanding for a wide range of data, non-cliched use of scene setting, use of humor, and a broad diverse voice.”

Grossman’s Web site on Antarctica, WBUR Journeys to Antarctica, won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last November. Click here to read about Grossman’s recent exploits reporting on climate change from Antarctica and Greenland.


Bowles Honored for Work on Pollution Story

Jennifer Bowles and two of her colleagues at The Press-Enterprise of Riverside (Calif.) won second place this spring in the Associate Press News Executives Council’s annual contest for newswriting and photography. Winners were chosen from more than 1,000 entries from AP member newspapers in California and Nevada.

Bowles’ story, “As Regulators Watched, Pollution Seeped In,” detailed how chemicals from a rocket testing facility contaminated land that was set to become a housing development. It was published in 2003.