Wednesday, February 11, 2004

WRITER: Phil Williams, 706/542-8501, phil@franklin.uga.edu
SOURCE: Paul Schroeder, 706/542-2384, schroe@uga.edu

PRIZE-WINNING ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION SCIENCE WRITER CHARLES SEABROOK TO SPEAK ON UGA CAMPUS

ATHENS, Ga. – Charles Seabrook, a prize-winning reporter who has written on science and the environment at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for some 32 years, will give a lecture on the University of Georgia campus on Thursday, Feb. 19.

Seabroook’s speech, which will be in room 200A of the Geology/Geography Building at 3:30 p.m., is entitled, “Reporting on the Environment: Pitfalls and Challenges.” The event is open free to the public.

During his three-decade-long career at the AJC, Seabrook has covered science, medicine, politics, technology, business, Southern culture and the environment. Since 1986, he has been the paper’s environmental writer, and for the past decade he has written a weekly column for the paper called “Wild Georgia.”

Seabrook was one of the first reporters in the world who, in 1981, wrote about a mysterious and burgeoning disease that would soon be known as AIDS. In addition, he has written extensively on global warming, air and water pollution and songbird decline.

His path-breaking look at Georgia’s kaolin industry led to his book Red Clay, Pink Cadillacs and White Gold: Georgia’s Kaolin Chalk Wars (Longstreet, 1995). Seabrook is also the author of the book Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses, published in 2002.

His writing has won more than two dozens major awards for excellence.