2026 Field Reporting Grant Recipients
Steve Dolberg Memorial Reporting Grant
Jennifer Swanson
Photo Editor, The New York Times; New York
Project: Beyond Bears Ears National Monument
Guerry Beam Memorial Reporting Grant
Max Levy
Freelance Writer and Editor; Los Angeles
Project: Endangered Fish Conservation Goes Wild
Mary G. Hager Memorial Reporting Grant
Kimberly Alleyne
Independent Journalist; Montclair, Va.
Project: The Cost of Living Next Door: Pollution, Structural Racism and Environmental Protection in Gloster, Mississippi
Andrew Weegar Memorial Reporting Grants
Emily Jones
Local Climate Reporter, Grist; Savannah, Ga.
Project: Georgia Forestry in Crisis
Ryan Tidman
Conservation Photographer and Natural History Cinematographer; Fanny Bay, B.C.
Project: When the Stars Go Missing: inside the Fight to Save the Atlantic Puffin and Storm Petrels of Canada’s Eastern Seaboard
Environmental Justice Reporting Grants
Nicole Caruth
Freelance Journalist; Baltimore
Project: As Water Pollution Worsens, Cleveland’s Black Anglers May Face More Risk
Jessa Gamble
Freelance Science Writer; Ottawa, Ont.
Project: Giant Mine: The Legacy of Canada’s “Forever Problem”
Wildfire Reporting Grants
Erin Rode
Freelance Journalist; Los Angeles
Project: Seven Years After the Camp Fire, Affordable Housing is Finally Coming to Paradise
Annie Rosenthal
Contributing Writer, High Country News; Los Angeles
Project: The Reasons to Do This: How the Threat of Wildfire Is Reshaping Community Resilience Planning
Indigenous Reporting Grants
Elena Kazamia
Freelance Science Writer and Investigative Reporter; San Diego, Calif.
Project: When Your Neighbors are Polar Bears: How the Indigenous Cree of the Eeyou Marine Region in Canada are Forging a Path for Coexistence with Polar Bears in a New Climate Reality
M.R. O’Connor
Freelance Contributor, The New Yorker; New York
Project: Dendrochronology, Fire and Indigenous History
Gabriel Pietrorazio
Senior Broadcast Field Correspondent, KJZZ; Phoenix
Project: Riding the Rapids: Lessons from the Colorado with the Hualapai
Frank Allen Field Reporting Grants
Claire Carlson
Freelance Journalist; Minneapolis
Project: As Snowpack Shrinks in the Sierras, Water Managers Look to Meadow Restoration for Hope
Neesha Powell-Ingabire
Independent Journalist and Essayist; Atlanta
Project: What Folkston is Worth: The Struggles Beyond Okefenokee’s Edge
Andres Pruna
Video Editor and Producer, Univision KMEX; Santa Monica, Calif.
Project: Beneath the Waves: Unlocking Kelp’s Climate Solutions