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Alexandra de Blas
Eartbeat
is no longer in production. However, Alexandra De Blas will
continue to break environmental stories and provide in depth
analysis of current green issues every Saturday morning on
Saturday Breakfast
With Geraldine Doogue. 
Alexandra de Blas is ABC Radio National's environment specialist.
Prior to joining the team on Saturday Breakfast with
Geraldine Doogue in 2005, Alexandra presented and produced
Radio National's environmental news and issues program Earthbeat
for the last seven of the ten years that the program was broadcast.
Alexandra first joined the corporation as a rural reporter
in Longreach, outback Queensland in the late 1980s. She then
went on to present daily rural programs including The Country
Hour in Tasmania and Victoria.
Alexandra has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University
of Sydney majoring in Zoology and Psychology. In 1992 she
returned to academe, gaining a Graduate Diploma of Environmental
Studies with first class honours from the University of Tasmania.
Her honours thesis, on the environmental effects of the Mount
Lyell copper mine in Tasmania, was highly controversial and
received national media attention. Her research was the subject
of a multi-award winning Dateline program on SBS Television.
Following her public stand Alexandra received the Vincent
Fairfax Ethics in Leadership award. Then in 1996 she left
her PhD studies behind to return to the media where she began
presenting Radio National's weekly environment program Earthbeat.
In 2001, Alexandra was invited to the United States on a
Visiting Fellowship Program run by the US State Department,
in July 2002 she was awarded a Pacific Ocean Sciences Fellowship
which took her to the Cook Islands, and in March 2003 she
won first prize in the radio category of the 3rd World Water
Forum Journalist's Competition in Kyoto, Japan. The next year
she received the United Nations Association of Australia World
Environment Day Award for Radio and has twice attended the
Greenaccord Forum for environmental journalists in Italy.
Outside of her work for the ABC, Alexandra also played an
integral role in the development of Tasmania's French black
truffle industry in the mid 1990s.
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