Climate Change and Publishing—How Publishers Can Make an Impact

The SSP webinar program delivers a series of highly informative, thought-provoking webinars designed to challenge and stimulate discussion. Covering timely topics and offered regularly throughout the year, our one-hour webinars are available for viewing 180 days after the live broadcast.

Alyssa holds a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Delaware, USA and completed postdoctoral work in Israel and Denmark. Her research ranged from marine and lake biogeochemistry to carbon cycling in Arctic marine sediments and integrated chemical, microbiological and modelling approaches. She joined Nature Climate Change in 2019 and handles manuscripts broadly in the area of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.

Dr. Holdsworth leads scientific and editorial development at Accdon. He has a particular interest in the successful launch of novel communications formats and unique opportunities for visual scicomm. In his role, Dr. Holdsworth enjoys the satisfying work of partnering with journals, publishers, and researchers to gain traction on these and other difficult issues.

Graham Brumfield joined Frontiers in 2022 to lead the Sustainability, Biosciences & HSS programs. Graham contributes to Frontiers growing list of titles that sit within the Sustainability portfolio, including Frontiers in Sustainability and Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, and he has been working with researchers in this field to support their publishing activities and aiming to provide tools and resources that help drive the impact and visibility of their work.

Kris Karnauskas is a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and an Associate Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Prior to joining the CU Boulder faculty, Kris spent six years on the faculty of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Kris completed his B.S. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ph.D. at the University of Maryland-College Park, both in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Kris currently serves as Editor for AGU's Geophysical Research Letters and PLOS Climate, and recently served on the Scientific Steering Committee of the U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Program. Kris was the recipient of the 2017 Ocean Sciences Early Career Award from the AGU “for important contributions to better understanding the tropical oceans and atmosphere."

Mia Ricci is the Director of Publications Operations at the American Geophysical Union. She oversees peer review management, policies, and operations of their 24 scientific journals and the Earth and Space Science Open Archive, AGU’s preprint and community server. Mia is also the lead for AGU Publications’ diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts and is a committee member of SSP, CSE, and the Joint Commitment for Action and Inclusion and Diversity in Publishing. She works remotely from Bloomington, Indiana.