Paul Rogers is Natural Resources and Environment Writer, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, Ca.

Rogers has been a reporter for the Mercury News for 16 years, writing about environment and coastal issues for the past 15 years. He was part of the Mercury News team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1990.

Since 1995, Rogers has been the paper's environment writer, covering a broad range of issues that affect marine and coastal issues, logging, energy, agriculture, air pollution, water policy, endangered species, and state and national parks. He also teaches graduate courses on environmental journalism and science writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, and he has taught environmental journalism at UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

Recognition for Rogers's writing includes the 1999 Best of the West Award; 2000 Journalist of the Year from California Trout; along with the 2001 David R. Brower Award, the Sierra Club's highest national award for environmental journalism; and the 2003 Harold Gilliam Award from the Bay Institute for coverage of San Francisco Bay environmental issues.

Rogers is Chairman of the Board for the Institutes of Journalism and Natural Resources, a non-profit group based in Missoula, Montana that over the last 10 years has taken nearly 400 reporters on expedition-style programs of learning to improve the depth, quality and balance of their environmental news coverage. He also works as a consultant on science and environmental issues to KQED television and radio, the NPR and PBS affiliates in San Francisco.