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Mark McLaughlin's Professional Background

• Educated as an historian and cultural geographer at the University of Nevada, Reno, Mark has lived at Lake Tahoe since 1978. A popular lecturer, he has entertained hundreds of groups, large and small, with dramatic stories, slide shows and field trips that illustrate Tahoe's unique cultural and environmental history.
   
• Professional speaker and experienced field trip leader for educational Tahoe ecotourism activities, business groups, banquet presentations, and special functions.
   
• Frequent guest and contributor on radio programs, documentaries, and regional and national television.
   
• Expert consultant for several programs on The History Channel and The Weather Channel, including "God's Wrath: Snowbound" and "Epic Conditions" filmed by Warren Miller Entertainment.
   
• More than 600 articles published in regional and national publications such as Sierra Heritage, Wild West, Skiing Heritage, Nevada in the West, and Weatherwise. His work has also been published in the Reno News & Review, Issues in Science & Technology, and the Grolier Educational Science Annual encyclopedia.
   
• Award-winning Weather Window© column in Truckee's Sierra Sun
   
• Editorial contributor to Sierra College's Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum and member of the Sierra College Press Editorial Advisory Board
  
  

  First Place and Best Nonfiction Book Award for Longboards to Olympics: A Century of Tahoe Winter Sports from 2010 Northern California Publishers & Authors   Best Nonfiction Book Award for The Donner Party: Weathering the Storm from 2006 Northern California Publishers & Authors   Silver Award for Second Place and Best Nonfiction Book Award for Western Train Adventures: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly from 2003 Sacramento Publishers & Authors   Nevada State Press Best Newspaper Column Awards — 1993, 1994, 1996, 1996 & 1997   Far West Skiing Association's William B. Berry Feature Writing award — 1991