Michael Kodas is the associate director in the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder and an award-winning photojournalist, writer and picture editor. He is the author of the bestselling book High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed and is currently working on the book Megafire, which will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2015.Kodas was part of a team at The Hartford Courant awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1999.