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SEJ's 23rd Annual Conference Coverage [1]

Multimedia conference coverage of SEJ's 23rd Annual Conference, October 2-6, 2013 in Chattanooga, is posted here. [1] If you attended the conference, please take a few minutes to tell us how we did. What you think matters to us and your feedback helps SEJ make future conferences more valuable. Click here to take our online conference evaluation. [2] Send us links to your stories for inclusion on the coverage page. [1] See SEJ's photos on Flickr [3] and share your conference photos on SEJ's public Flickr page. [4] Visit Storify, [5] for Twitter and Facebook posts by attendees using #SEJ2013. Image: Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute Director and Chief Research Scientist Anna George, speaker on Thursday Biodiversity 1 tour [6] and Saturday plenary Is Diversity (Bio and Otherwise) the Backbone of Sustainability? [7]

About Chattanooga [8]

Scientists Investigate Possible Link Between Autism and Vitamin D [9]

"Vitamin D plays a pivotal role in a number of disorders. Now scientists are investigating whether the 'sunshine vitamin' could be implicated in autism. With autism rates climbing and levels of vitamin D declining because of more sunscreen use and less time spent outdoors, scientists have begun to look into a possible link."

Source: EHN [10], 01/31/2013

"Chevron Fire: State Seeks Record Fine" [11]

"Chevron ignored potentially life-threatening dangers to workers at its Richmond refinery and should pay a record fine of nearly $1 million stemming from the fire there in August, state regulators said Wednesday."

Source: San Francisco Chronicle [12], 01/31/2013

"Veggies To Blame For Majority Of Foodborne Illnesses" [13]

"Did you have a nasty case of food poisoning this year? Chances are that fruit or vegetables were the culprit."

Source: TIME [14], 01/31/2013

"Report: Climate Change a Threat To Wildlife" [15]

"Changes in the climate are happening much faster than animals are able to respond."

Source: USA TODAY [16], 01/31/2013

Mixed Results in New EPA Report on Toxics and Children [17]

"We’ve come a long way since the days when kids played in clouds of DDT, gas stations sold leaded gasoline, and smoking near youngsters was commonplace."

Source: NPR [18], 01/31/2013

"Pale Blue Blobs Invade, Freeze, Then Vanish" [19]

"It's a lake, yes. But it's also a bomb. Those pale blue blobs, stacked like floating pancakes down at the bottom of this photograph? They're astonishingly beautiful, yes, but they can be dangerous."

Source: NPR [20], 01/31/2013

"Butterflies Booking It North as Climate Warms" [21]

"Butterflies from the southern US that used to be rare in the northeast are now appearing there on a regular basis. The trend correlates to a warming climate report the authors of a paper in Nature Climate Change."

Source: Mother Jones [22], 01/31/2013

"High Winds, Tornado Trap Georgia Residents, Turn Over Cars" [23]

"Powerful winds and a tornado spawned by a 1,000-mile-long storm system pounded communities in northwest Georgia on Wednesday, overturning dozens of vehicles and trapping residents."

Source: CNN [24], 01/31/2013

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