Andrew C. Revkin, prize-winning author and New York Times environment reporter, will speak at Berea College on Thursday, March 30.

In his talk “The Daily Planet: a journalist’s search for sustainability, from the Amazon to the Arctic,” Revkin will describe his quarter-century quest for evidence that people can balance the human enterprise with the planet’s limits – a journey that has taken him from the burning rain forests of the Amazon to the shifting sea ice at the North Pole.

The Convocation event is scheduled for 3 p.m. in Phelps Stokes Chapel and is free and open to the public.

One of America’s most honored science writers, Revkin has spent two decades covering subjects ranging from the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the loss of the space shuttle Columbia to the changing climate at the North Pole. He has been reporting on the environment for The New York Times since 1995, a position that has taken him to the Arctic three times in the last two years. In 2003 he became the first Times reporter to file stories and photographs from the floating sea ice at the North Pole.

In 2003 his coverage of climate change won the inaugural $20,000 National Academies Communication Award for print journalism, presented by the National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s preeminent scientific body. He has twice won the Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (in 2002 and 1985) and, along with other prizes, has won an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award.

Revkin has been a pioneer in multimedia journalism at The Times, shooting still and video imagery to accompany many stories. In 2005, one of his Arctic photographs won an Award of Excellence in the Pictures of the Year International competition.

Prior to joining The Times staff, Mr. Revkin focused on writing books. His first, “The Burning Season” (2004), chronicles the life of Chico Mendes, the slain leader of the movement to save the Amazon rain forest. “The Burning Season” won the Sidney Hillman Foundation Book Prize and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, was published in 10 languages, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. The book was the basis for the HBO film of the same name, the winner of three Golden Globes and two Emmys.

Revkin also wrote “Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast” (1992), which accompanied the first museum exhibition on climate change, created by the American Museum of Natural History.

He has been a senior editor of Discover, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, and a senior writer at Science Digest. He also has written for The New Yorker, Audubon, Conde Nast Traveler, and other magazines. In addition to contributing to several New York Times television productions on science topics and also writes occasionally about music. His 1997 Times profile of a heavy-metal singer was the basis for the movie “Rock Star” (2001). Revkin himself is a performing songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who often accompanies Pete Seeger at regional shows and plays in an acoustic-roots band, Uncle Wade.

Revkin has a biology degree from Brown University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia, where he has taught environmental reporting as an adjunct professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.