Staff & Advisory Group

Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Anthropocene Magazine

Former Rector of Exeter College, Oxford University. Prior to her decade at Oxford, she was a journalist, spending 13 years on The Guardian as an economic columnist and 20 years at The Economist magazine as a senior editor.

Joshua Tewksbury
Founder of Anthropocene Magazine and director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

W. Wayt Gibbs
Contributing Editor, Anthropocene Magazine and Editorial Director of the Climate Parables Project

Science Curator for TED, former Environment & Energy Editor at Scientific American, author of “The Unnatural World” published by Simon and Schuster, and PBS documentary host

Andrew Revkin
Director of the Initiative on Communication Innovation & Impact at Columbia Earth Institute. Previously, he spent more than 30 years covering climate change and other sustainability challenges, mostly for the New York Times.

Oliver Morton
Contributing Writers:


Prachi Patel is a Pittsburgh-based freelance journalist who writes about energy, materials science, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and computing. Writes for Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Chemical & Engineering News, and MRS Bulletin. Find her at www.lekh.org.

Emma Bryce is a journalist based in London. As well as Anthropocene, her work has appeared in The Guardian, Wired Magazine UK, Audubon Magazine, The New York Times, Ensia, and Yale e360.

Sarah DeWeerdt is a Seattle-based freelance science journalist specializing in biology, medicine, and the environment. In addition to Anthropocene, her work has appeared in Nature, Newsweek, Nautilus, Spectrum, and many other publications. Find her on Twitter at @DeWeerdt_Sarah.