Publication Items

Is Your Community Ready for Hurricane Season? [1]

SEJ has prepared a list of resources which may be helpful to reporters doing before, during and after-hurricane stories.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [3]
Science [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Is Your Community Ready for Hurricane Season? [1]
Toolbox: Website Offers Profusion of Government Science Links [7]

In one handy spot, you'll find hundreds of rarely visited Web pages published by a vast variety of federal offices and programs doing science on environmental and other topics.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [9]
Energy & Fuel [10]
Food [11]
Natural Resources [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
Government [14]
Science [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Toolbox: Website Offers Profusion of Government Science Links [7]
Media Critic: Who Will Do Regional or Local Investigations in Science? [15]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [17]
Science [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Media Critic: Who Will Do Regional or Local Investigations in Science? [15]
New Jersey DEP Proposes Gag Order on Science Info [18]

The Newark Star-Ledger reports a move by a top New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection official to prevent public disclosure of scientific information that should be public until political appointees without science credentials and press officers have approved it.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [19]
Government [14]
Science [4]
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [20]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about New Jersey DEP Proposes Gag Order on Science Info [18]
NOAA To Swarm Around Tornadoes This Spring [21]

Researchers, journalists in tow, will be chasing tornadoes around the central US in May and June to learn more about how tornadoes work, and better predict them and their paths.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [3]
Government [14]
Science [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [22]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [23]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [24]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about NOAA To Swarm Around Tornadoes This Spring [21]
SEJ Backs Free Publication of Tax-Funded Research [25]

SEJ and science journalism groups expressed opposition to a bill that would reverse current policy of free publication of scientific results coming from federal agencies.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [26]
Government [14]
Policy [27]
Science [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about SEJ Backs Free Publication of Tax-Funded Research [25]
Toolbox: NOAA Upgrades Weather and Climate Data [28]

Get detailed flood data that is almost real-time, provided by 4,260 monitors on waterways throughout the US, and the latest information on temperature, precipitation, wind, El Nino and La Nina, Pacific sea level, events in the stratosphere, and more.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [29]
Government [14]
Science [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Toolbox: NOAA Upgrades Weather and Climate Data [28]
Wealth of Environmental Science at AAAS Meeting [30]

The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Feb. 12-16, 2009, offers at least 67 sessions devoted directly to one aspect or another of the environment beat.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [4]
Other or All [31]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Wealth of Environmental Science at AAAS Meeting [30]
Science Survey: Epigenetics...Understanding Chemicals' Newly Recognized Future Effects [32]

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [33]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [19]
Journalism & Media [17]
Science [4]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Science Survey: Epigenetics...Understanding Chemicals' Newly Recognized Future Effects [32]
Federal Environment & Energy Line-Up for 2009 (Part 1) [34]

The Obama administration is taking shape with many key environmental appointments to the cabinet and elsewhere. This is the first half of our guide to the new players, their backgrounds and agendas.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [10]
Government [14]
Environmental Politics [35]
Science [4]
Region:
National (U.S.) [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Federal Environment & Energy Line-Up for 2009 (Part 1) [34]

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