Every year, the ScienceWriters meeting brings together reporters, editors, filmmakers, writers and other professionals who are dedicated to the craft of science communication. As a co-organizer of the meeting, CASW hosts a slew of New Horizons science briefings, funds and mentors science journalism fellows and trainees, hands out annual awards, and more.
Check out the images below for some of our favorite moments from ScienceWriters2023 . For coverage of the conference, read the stories in our 2023 New Horizons Newsroom .
Sarah Kaplan of the Washington Post accepts the 2023 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, CASW’s annual prize for young science journalists. (Photo by Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado)
Maryn McKenna of WIRED accepts the 2023 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. (Photo by Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado)
Science and environmental journalist and filmmaker John D. Sutter accepts the 2023 Sharon Begley Award for Science Reporting. (Photo by Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado)
Virtual and in-person audiences watch Michael Mann deliver the 11th annual Patrusky Lecture. (Photo by Sylvia Kantor)
Conference attendees learn about the canniabis research vehicle called the Cannavan. (Cass/University of Colorado)
Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), speaks to the audience during the CASW New Horizons briefing on the Marshall Fire. (Photo by Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado)
The 2022-23 National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellows (SHERF) gather in a room. (Image by Sylvia Kantor)
A view of the Flatirons from the conference site. (Photo by Sylvia Kantor)
Attendees listen to remote speaker Fiona Lowenstein during a session on covering Long COVID. (Photo by Sylvia Kantor)
A packed room for the CASW New Horizons briefing on unidentified aerial phenomena. (Photo by Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado)