2021-22 Post-Workshop Reporting Grants

During the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020, we knew sending journalists out into the field was out of the question, so we focused our energy and resources solely on producing virtual programming. By 2021 however, with the widespread availability of vaccines and the guidance of public health recommendations, things were a little different: While we still couldn’t take groups of 15 journalists together into the field, we felt confident that reporting trips by individual journalists would be relatively safe. We began offering post-workshop grants to participants in our virtual workshops, to help individuals get out and report on the issues they had just learned about.

Ocean + Climate - Southeastern U.S.

Benjamin Depp - Retreating Coastal Marshes in South Carolina
Meg Vaterott - “An American Summer” documentary film
Alex Ip - Rockets, Labradors and Lowcountry Shrimp, Georgia Tech Global Change Program
Adam Wagner - Four-Part Series in The News & Observer:
Will climate change be the end of NC Highway 12 on the Outer Banks?
From fishing villages to a billion-dollar tourism industry — how NC 12 transformed OBX
How a real estate developer convinced NC to build a highway on a string of islands
The NC 12 conundrum: How do you maintain a vital OBX highway that keeps disappearing?

Wildfire in the West

Brandon Yadegari Moreno - Video profile of pyrogeographer Don Hankins
Alexandria Herr - Mobile home recovery and wildfire
Andria Hautamaki - How these neighbors use fire to revitalize their communities, and land - NPR
Fighting Fire With Fire in California - Smithsonian Magazine
Maura O’Connor - What it’s like to fight a megafire, The New Yorker

Ocean + Climate - Northeastern U.S.

Lauren Owens Lambert - Right whale, wrong ropes; Off-shore wind development and environmental research
Colleen Hagerty - In place of Sandy-ravaged homes, a ‘living’ beach helps N.J. prepare for next storm, The Washington Post
Marianne Messina - To save a large whale: A small window on how global warming will test humankind to the core

Great Lakes

Shantal Riley - Lake Superior’s Forever Chemicals - The Washington Post
Aaron Martin - “The Junction Coalition” documentary, WGTE (Toledo PBS)
Jessica Ticktin - The Abenaki Nation, Cultural Effects of Climate Change on the Mississquoi River
Morgan Greene - three stories in the Chicago Tribune
Lake Superior is among the fastest-warming lakes on the planet. Climate change may be the culprit behind its algae blooms, too.
The rise of algae blooms: This year, more than a dozen of the water bodies sampled in Illinois had toxin levels above recreation standards.
Illinois — a major feeder to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone — falls behind federal goal to reduce phosphorus and nitrogen flowing into its waterways

Ocean + Climate - California Coast

Christine Ro
Amy Mayer - Coastal tribes in Oregon hope to bring sea otters back to their community, NPR
Rachel Sarah - Want a Sustainable, Livable World? Listen to Women., Livekindly
Liza Gross
Katharine Gammon
Louise Schiavone

Ocean + Climate - Gulf Coast

Jordan Gass-Pooré - “Hazard” podcast

Environmental Racism + Indigenous CommunitiesJ

Liuan Huska - A Bible written from an Indigenous perspective could reframe Christians’ connection to the earth, Grist
Jane Palmer - The Hopi farmer championing Indigenous agricultural knowledge, Al Jazeera
Lindsay Fendt
Diana Kruzman - Wildfire smoke is choking Indigenous communities, Grist
Lourdes Medrano

Ocean + Climate in Alaska

Isabelle Ross -
Megan Gannon -
Kate Golden - When Indigenous Rights, Conservation, and a Very Lucrative Fishery Collide, Sierra

Climate Justice + Environmental Racism

Joan Meiners - As Arizona builds to solve a housing crisis, will its homes withstand future heat extremes?, Arizona Republic
Mehr Sher - How Community Solar Incentives Will Cost Maine’s Poorest the Most, Bangor Daily News
Osha Davidson - For unhoused people in America’s hottest large city, heat waves are a merciless killer Yale Climate Connections
Amy Green
Ashli Blow
Odette Auger