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