2015 Field Reporting Grant Recipients

Andrew Weegar Memorial Grant

John Ryan - Reporter, KUCB (on leave from KUOW in Seattle)
Alaska

Project: SEAL: The Case of The Vanishing Seals (An Alaskan Island Mystery), Four Part Series, KUCB

Frank Allen Field Reporting Grant

Jim Bloch - Reporter, The Voice
Michigan

Project: "Nuclear waste and the Great Lakes: The Deep Geologic Repository and the opposition movement it engendered"

Cally Carswell - Freelance writer; contributing editor High Country News
New Mexico

Project: Breeding the Ubercoral, Hakai Magazine

Sena Christian - Freelance writer (Newsweek, The Guardian)
California

Project: A dry future weighs heavy on California agriculture, High Country News

Matt Frank - Freelance Journalist and Adjunct Professor, University of Montana
Montana

Project: "Toxic Housing in Montana”

William Funk - Freelance Writer (Scientific American, Slate)
Virginia

Project: In the Pipeline’s Path, Earth Island Journal