Rosanna Xia, author of California Against the Sea (published by Heyday) delivers a talk, “Telling the Story of Sea Level Rise,” in Honolulu. Part of UH Manoa’s Better Tomorrow speaker series, co-sponsored by SSFM International, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience, and the Department of Journalism.

Architecture Auditorium, 1899 University Avenue #1859, Honolulu, HI. Admission is free.

Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. Her book, California Against the Sea, received the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and a gold medal from the California Book Awards, and her reporting is the subject of a forthcoming feature documentary, Out of Plain Sight. Xia was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020, and her coverage of a toxic dumpsite in the deep ocean has been anthologized in the Best American Science and Nature Writing series.