2024 Field Reporting Grant Recipients
Steve Dolberg Memorial Reporting Grant
Claudia Geib - Freelance Journalist, North Falmouth, Mass.
Stories:
Get away, grizzly: why scientists are chasing bears with drones - The Guardian
Follow that Bird! How Drones Are Helping Scientists Track Wildlife - Audubon
Mary G. Hager Memorial Reporting Grants
Siri Chilukuri - Freelance Journalist, Chicago
Project: Vietnamese-American fishermen attempt to keep the past alive on a warming planet
Guerry Beam Memorial Grant
Talli Nauman - Freelance Journalist, Spearfish, S.D.
Project: Mexican families seek shrimp export contract with Fair Trade Certification, environmental sustainability in Ramsar Biosphere Reserve
Wildfire Reporting Grant
Lindsey Smith - Freelance Journalist, San Mateo, Calif.
Project: Leaving for Good: The Heartbreak and Hope of Climate Retreat in California (Book)
Andrew Weegar Memorial Grants
Bennet Goldstein - Report for America Corps Member, Wisconsin Watch/Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, Madison, Wis.
Project: A crock of hot air or climate solution?
Andria Hautamaki - Freelance Photojournalist, Loveland, Colo.
Project: California: Agriculture, energy, and water at a crossroads
Abigail Keel - Freelance journalist, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Ash Sanders - Freelance journalist, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Project: Mirage: Water in the West
Environmental Justice Reporting Grants
Delaney Nolan - Freelance Journalist, New Orleans
Story: ‘I want out’: how a natural gas project along the Gulf coast is upending residents’ lives - The Guardian
Kevin Fixler - Investigative Reporter, The Idaho Statesman
Ian Stevenson - Reporter, The Idaho Statesman
Story: $13 billion in Idaho gold. A mineral critical to U.S. defense. And fresh fears for salmon
Marin Scotten - Freelance journalist, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Project: Forty years of dirty water in Eastern Oregon
Indigenous Reporting Grants
Nancy Averett - Freelance Journalist, Cincinnati
Project: As offshore wind energy ramps up, West Coast tribes team up with archeologists to protect submerged culture.
Michaela Cavanagh - Freelance Journalist, Ottawa, Ontario/Berlin, Germany
Project: Losing the land, losing yourself: Ecological grief in Canada's North
Josephine Woolington - Freelance Journalist, Portland
Story: The true cost of the huckleberry industry - High Country News
Amy Romer - Freelance Journalist, North Vancouver, B.C.
Story: Fish weirs are still banned under the Fisheries Act. This First Nation wants to build a new one - co-published by IndigiNews and The Narwhal
Frank Allen Field Reporting Grants
Daniel Ackerman - Freelance Journalist, West Newton, Mass.
Story: The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway - NPR
Jonathan Mingle - Freelance Journalist, Lincoln, Vt.
Story: Vermont's Loggers and Sawmills Are Disappearing — and That's Bad News for Forests - Seven Days
Christopher Preston - Freelance Journalist, Missoula, Mont.
Project: In the belly of the carbon beast
Eric Siegel - Freelance Journalist, Denver
Project: Extreme thriving: Alpine plant species adapting at the edge of what's possible
Elizabeth Whitman - Freelance Journalist, Vashon, Wash.
Story: Meet the people who train wild horses - High Country News