Clare Fieseler is a reporter at Canary Media covering offshore wind. After a decade working as an ocean scientist, Fieseler discovered journalism in 2019 through a reporting fellowship at The Washington Post. Since then, she’s covered clean energy for Politico and climate change for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2024, she won the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications, the largest prize in science journalism. She received a Ph.D. in ecology from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in environmental management from Duke University.