Speakers

Douglas Fischer has spent 14 years covering subjects ranging from climate science to environmental health to energy development. Since 2008, he has served as editor of DailyClimate.org, a nonpartisan website compiling mainstream news and current science on climate change. He is also a senior member of the editorial team at Environmental Health Sciences, the nonprofit publisher of Daily Climate, where he helps guide the organization’s editorial content. Fischer spent eight years covering the environment for the Oakland Tribune and a number of San Francisco Bay Area papers, including the San Jose Mercury News and the Contra Costa Times. Prior to that he spent five years in Fairbanks, Alaska, at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. His articles have won numerous national and regional awards, among them an Award of Merit from the inaugural Grantham Prize, the world’s largest journalism prize.