Awards and fellowships
- Northwest Excellence in Journalism competition, 2nd place Health and Science reporting award for a story on how the health effects of wildfire smoke are getting worse.
- 2018 Watershed Hero Award from the Center for Environmental Policy and Sierra Club Upper Columbia Group. Related interview
- Member of the Sno-Isle Libraries team honored with the library district's 2016 Director's Award for leading TEDxSnoIsleLibraries 2015.
- Leader of Sno-Isle Libraries marketing team responsible winning entries in the American Library Association's 2015, 2016 and 2017 PR Xchange Awards.
- Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Affairs Reporting, Ohio State University, 2002-2003
- Environmental Reporting Fellowship to Ghana, March-June 2001, sponsored by the Ford Motor Co. through the International Center for Journalists
- Idaho Conservation Writer of the Year 2000, Idaho Association of Soil Conservation Districts
- Science Writing Fellowship, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, 1996
- C.B. Blethen Award for enterprise reporting, “Our Failing Forests” series, 1994
- Regular winner of regional reporting awards, including Idaho Press Club first place award for 2000 series on tribal sovereignty; Society of Professional Journalists first place Science and Health award for 1999 series “Nature’s Rhythms”; and first place series award for 1999 project “Spirit of the West” from the Utah-Idaho-Spokane Associated Press Association