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Colin Woodard
Affiliation during program: Freelance
Country Focus: Micronesia/Marshall Islands

	Program: Fall 1999 cswoodard@earthlink.net www.colinwoodard.com

Colin Woodard, an author and award-winning journalist, writes for The Christian Science Monitor and The Chronicle of Higher Education. A native of Maine, he has reported from more than forty foreign countries and six continents, and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe. He is the author of the New England bestseller The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier (Viking Press, 2004), a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine, and Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas (Basic Books, 2000), a narrative non-fiction account of the deterioration of the world's oceans. His third book, The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down, was released in May 2007 by Harcourt. He lives in Portland.

Stories
	· Generations of Fallout From Nuclear Tests / Marshall Islands Residents Still Waiting for U.S. to Clean Up Its Mess
	· South Pacific Battles for Y2K Bragging Rights
	· America's Half-Forgotten Islands
	· Islands Seek More Pay for Missile Tests
	· Pacific Islands Renegotiate U.S. Payments
	· 'Jaws': The New Cause of the Seas
	· Japanese 'Ghost Fleet' Sinking - Again
	· Island Mulls Showcasing Rusting Land Relics
	· Payback time
	· Crazed for Kava

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