About this user
The mission of the Metcalf Institute is to promote clear and accurate reporting of scientific news and environmental issues; to strengthen understanding and working relationships between members of the scientific community and members of the news media; and to provide opportunities for beginning journalists to learn, on both a formal and an informal level, how to improve their skills in marine and environmental reporting.
The Metcalf Institute is a leading provider of environmental journalism fellowships for professionals in print, broadcast, and electronic media. Metcalf Institute programs immerse participants in the science underlying marine and other environmental issues and clarify the research process, from the collection and analysis of data, to scientific peer review, to the translation of scientific publications for a lay audience.
In addition to providing science training for early-career to veteran journalists, the Metcalf Institute administers the annual Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. The $75,000 prize is the largest monetary award for journalism in the world.
The Grantham Prize honors reporting on major environmental or natural resource issues that has the potential to bring about constructive change, and that goes beyond the norm for its medium. For more information about the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment, log on to http://www.granthamprize.org.
Hometown
Narragansett, Rhode Island
Country
United States
Schools
University of Rhode Island