Bob Reiss

ARCTIC LECTURES

Come hear Bob lecture on politics and climate change at Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, Virginia on April 12, 2011.

Come hear Bob deliver the 2010 Sokol lecture on the future of a warming Arctic on October 26th, at Montclair State University, in Montclair, New Jersey.

ARCTIC TRAVEL IN SUMMER 2010

Bob will be on board the US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy during late July and August as it sails on a scientific mission in the Arctic ocean. The results of the cruise may effect US policy in the crucial far north. Bob's eyewitness account of this trip will be part of his writing and speeches on the region.

CAN TRADITIONAL ESKIMO LIFESTYLE C0-EXIST WITH OIL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ARCTIC?

Watch for Bob's article in Parade Magazine in July about Edward Itta, the Inupiat Eskimo Mayor of the North Slope of Alaska and his struggle to maintain traditional values and lifestyle while promoting development.

HOW US BANKS HELP DRUG CARTELS

Over the past few years several US banks have enabled South American drug cartels to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in drug proceeds. If you want to see how they did it, check out Bob's co-produced segment on PBS's new national weekly program, "Need To Know." The segment aired on May 28, 2010.

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC

Barrow, Alaska has been called "ground zero for climate change science." Reiss spent part of summer 2009 in Barrow and several remote Alaskan villages, for Smithsonian Magazine, following changes to the region caused by global warming. Reiss traveled by Black Hawk helicopter across the area, as a guest of the Coast Guard. He interviewed Inupiat elders and hunters, scientists, and also White House and military authorities about what these changes will mean in Alaska, to the US, and to the world. See the March 2010 Smithsonian Magazine for his account.

DRUG INTERDICTION IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC

Reiss spent two weeks on the US Coast Guard cutter Sherman, getting a close up behind the scenes view of drug interdiction efforts in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off Central America. His vivid account of high speed chases and resulting arrests appeared in Parade Magazine on January 31, 2010.