Kelsey Simpkins

Digital and Engagement Editor

Kelsey Simpkins is a multimedia storyteller with a background in journalism, art history and environmental science, with more than a decade of experience in digital content management. She received her Master of Arts in environmental journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. While completing her studies in Boulder, she worked at the Center for Environmental Journalism. Her work there comprised of reporting on environmental health and scientific research, clean energy, and sustainable cultivation and disposal of legal cannabis in Colorado. Additionally, she received grants from the Royal Norwegian Embassy, University of Colorado Boulder, and the Nevada Museum of Art to travel around the world and report on the intersection of arts and the environment in the Arctic. Before joining Future Earth and Anthropocene Magazine, she worked as an Editorial Fellow for Nature Conservancy Magazine and served as part of the Public Information team at the American Geophysical Union.

Posts:

• Knowledge Gaps Identified from International Biodiversity Assessments
• Study Reconstructs Thousand Year History of Hydrological Events in Mediterranean Region
• A rapidly-evolving new normal: Pep Canadell comments on Australia’s Fires
• Ocean Decade Survey: Early Career Ocean Professionals
• Upcoming Sustainability and Science Events in 2020
• Future Earth and its Networks Present Research, Host Events at 28,000 Person Meeting
• Future Earth Report Presented at UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid
• Future Earth at the American Geophysical Union 2019 Annual Meeting
• Anthropocene Magazine Wins Folio Award Recognizing Journalism and Design
• A Sea Change for the Science of Sea Life
• Commentary: The Spark We Need, for the Ocean We Want
• IPCC Special Report Calls for Urgent, Ambitious, and Coordinated Action
• Earth Commission to Identify Risks, Guardrails, and Targets for the Planet
• Roadmap Provides 36 Solutions to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 50% by 2030 Worldwide
• What is Anthropocene Risk? A Q&A with Patrick Keys
• The Real Story of Human Transformation of the Earth is a Very Early One
• IPBES Global Assessment Report warns of ‘unprecedented’ decline in nature and species, calls for ‘transformative changes’
• Meet the new postdoctoral researchers for PEGASuS 2: Ocean Sustainability
• Long-term data on atmospheric carbon dioxide reveals an intensification of carbon uptake by Northern Hemisphere vegetation
• Q&A with Adrienne Hampton: Future Earth’s inaugural Global Sustainability Scholars Fellow
• The Mediterranean Basin: a region affected by accelerating environmental change
• Social-ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification: Rarely a win-win situation
• The Urban South and the Predicament of Global Sustainability
• World View: Advance the ecosystem approach in cities