Water Quality Education

Published 7:48 pm Wednesday, April 11, 2018

EXPERIMENTING: Bath Elementary School eighth-graders (from bottom left clockwise) Olivia Briley, Caroline Briley, Ashlan Godley, Calista Latham an Sumerlin Roberson conduct water-quality experiments Wednesday at the North Carolina Estuarium. The experiments and other activities were part of a Love A Sea Turtle program. Love A Sea Turtle promotes marine conservation awareness. The water-quality experiments involved finding out how a pollutant affects the turbidity, pH levels and dissolved oxygen levels of water. (Mike Voss/Daily News)

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.

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