2013 Emmy Award Winner- Outstanding Health/Science/Environment - Program/Special

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2012 1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists Award for Explanatory Journalism

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2012 Emmy Award Nomination

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2012 Story "Marine Sanctuary Patrol Flight" part of the Best Online Series winner at international BLUE Ocean Film Festival

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2012 Story “Disappearing Frogs” featured at the Society for Conservation Biology’s North America Congress film night

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2011 Acoustical Society of America's Science Writing Award

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2011 Emmy Award Winner- Outstanding Health/Science/Environment - Program/Special

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2011 Story “The Great White Shark: Meet the Man in the Gray Suit” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival

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2011 Stories “California’s Lost Salmon” and “Albino Redwoods: Ghosts of the Forest” both voted finalists at the San Francisco Green Film Festival

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2011 Story “Into the Inferno: Science of Fire!” voted Finalist in the International Forest Film Festival

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2011 Story “California’s Lost Salmon” featured in the Sonoma Environmental Film Festival

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2010 1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists Award for Excellence in Journalism for Multiplatform Journalism: “Quest: The Farallon Islands”

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2010 Story “Scary Tsunamis” voted Finalist – Marine Earth Sciences program at the international BLUE Ocean Film Festival

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2010 Story “The Farallon Islands: California’s Galapagos” voted Finalist – National Marine Sanctuary Short program and also voted Honorable Mention in Broadcast category at the international BLUE Ocean Film Festival

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2010 Story “California’s Lost Salmon” was voted Honorable Mention in the category, Land Sea Connection and was given a special screening at the BLUE Salmon panel at the international BLUE Ocean Film Festival. Two additional stories, “The Great White Shark: Meet the Man in the Gray Suit” and “Tagging Pacific Predators” were also each featured as official selections at BLUE Ocean Film Festival

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2010 2nd Place Winner, Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Award, Outstanding Beat or In-Depth Reporting, Television; for the show “Quest National Parks Special: Bringing the Parks to the People”

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2010 2nd Place Winner, Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Award, Outstanding Online Reporting; for the online multi-media presentation “A Visit to the Farallones”

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2010 Emmy Award Nomination- Best Public/Current/Community Affairs - Program/Special. For the show “QUEST National Parks Special: Bringing the Parks to the People”

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2010 Story “The Farallon Islands: California’s Galapagos” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival Youth Education Program

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2009 1st Place, Society of Professional Journalists Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for the television special: “Quest: California at the Tipping Point”

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2009 Radio-Television News Directors Association of Northern California Journalism Award for Outstanding Public Affairs Program for the special, “QUEST: State of Thirst: The California's Water Future”

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2009 Media Partner of the Year Award from the Gulf of The Farallones National Marine Sanctuary

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2009 1st Place, Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Award, Outstanding Story, Television, National / Large Market; for story “Tagging Pacific Predators”

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2009 Story “Landslide Detectives” Voted Finalist- Best Earth Science Program at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

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2009 Four stories, “The Fierce Humboldt Squid,” “Disappearing Frogs,” “California’s Lost Salmon” and “Tagging Pacific Predators” were each featured as official selections at The Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

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2009 Emmy Award Winner- Best Informational/Instructional - Program/Special for Show “Quest: State of Thirst: California's Water Future”

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2009 Also received Three additional Emmy Award Nominations

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2009 Story “Disappearing Frogs” featured in The Environmental Film Festival, Washington DC.

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2009 Story “Ugo Conti’s Spiderboat” featured in the Alaska Ocean Film Festival. Submitted as one of the Best in Show to the International Marine Conservation Congress’ Film Night

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2009 Story “Tagging Pacific Predators” featured in the Alaska Ocean Film Festival

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2009 Story “Fierce Humboldt Squid” featured in the Alaska Ocean Film Festival

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2009 Story “Ugo Conti’s Spiderboat” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival

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2009 Story “From Salt Ponds to Wetlands” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival

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2009 Story “Super Laser at the National Ignition Facility” featured at “Science Café” event, accompanied with a lecture and question-and-answer period with expert Edward Moses

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Since 2008 Story “Tagging Pacific Predators” is screened three times a day, every day at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Auditorium Theatre

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2008 Story “Disappearing Frogs” opening film of the annual United Nations Association Film Festival

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2008 1st Place, Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Award, Outstanding Television Story, for story “Condors vs. Lead Bullets”

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2008 Emmy Award Winner- Public/Current/Community Affairs - Program/Special

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2008 Also received 2 additional Emmy nominations

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2008 Story “Science of Big Waves” featured in the Alaska Ocean Film Festival.

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2008 Story “Science of Big Waves” featured in the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival

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2007 San Francisco Peninsula Press Club Award for Story “Out of the Park: The Physics of Baseball”

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2007 Bronze Telly Award, “Man Moment Machine” for The History Channel

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2006 Two Silver Telly Awards (First Place) & One Bronze Telly Award for “Man Moment Machine” for The History Channel

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2005 Two Bronze Telly Awards for “Tactical To Practical” for The History Channel