Hurricane season is here - are you ready? Join us and learn from some of the best reporters how they handle hurricane coverage while staying safe. This program is brought to you by the Houston Chronicle and the Society of Professional Journalists Houston chapter. We have a great roster of weather/environment reporters:

* Mark Schleifstein is an environment reporter for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate | NOLA.com. Schleifstein's stories on Hurricane Katrina were among the Times-Picayune's stories honored with 2006 Pulitzer Prizes for Public Service and Breaking News Reporting. He's the co-author of the 2006 book 'Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms,' about Katrina. He’s co-author of the award-winning 2002 series, 'Washing Away,' which warned that New Orleans could be flooded by hurricane storm surge.

* Emily Foxhall covers the environment for the Houston Chronicle. She joined the paper in 2015 as a suburban reporter. She has documented the city’s sprawl while playing a key role in the paper's breaking news and enterprise coverage. Her reconstruction of the Santa Fe High School shooting, along with two other colleagues, won first place for feature writing from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. She was part of the Chronicle team that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2017 for coverage of Hurricane Harvey. Soon after, she began roaming the state as the Texas Storyteller.

* Matt Lanza is the managing editor and a forecaster for Space City Weather, the area weather blog that gained prominence during Hurricane Harvey and serves tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents through hurricanes, floods, freezes, and whatever else gets thrown at us. Additionally, Matt is the lead meteorologist at Cheniere Energy, Inc. in Houston, TX, where he focuses on how weather impacts the company's operations, as well as how weather impacts U.S. and global natural gas demand. Matt has nearly 20 years of experience forecasting weather and has been a meteorologist for Deutsche Bank's energy trading group, as well as for Southern California Edison in Los Angeles. Matt began his career as a broadcast meteorologist, working in the Syracuse and Utica, NY television markets. He graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor's of Science in Meteorology. Matt tries to balance all this as a husband and father of two energetic young boys.

* Jon Shapley has worked as both a staff photographer and a video journalist for the Houston Chronicle. A native Houstonian, he joined the Chronicle in 2015. He previously worked at the NPR affiliate in Austin, as well as monthly magazines in Austin and San Antonio.