PhD, Environmental Studies (Biogeosciences): University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), 2015
MS, Geology: University of Colorado (Boulder, CO), 2011
BS, Geology: University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), 2007

Kathy Kelsey is an environmental scientist whose research is focused on the interactions between the biosphere and the atmosphere, particularly in response to climate change, land use and land management practices.  Her work takes place in Arctic, mountain and urban environments.

Dr. Kelsey joined the University of Colorado Denver in 2019, after four years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alaska Anchorage. 

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2021                 Kelsey, K. C., Pedersen, S. H., Leffler, A. J., Sexton, J. O., Feng, M., Welker J. M., Winter snow and spring temperature have differential effects on vegetation phenology and productivity across Arctic plant communities, Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.15505.

2021                 Ballantyne, A. P., Liu, Zhihua, Anderegg, W. R. L., Yu, Z., Stoy, P., Poulter, B. Vanderwall, J., Watts, J., Kelsey, K. C., Neff, J. C., Reconciling carbon-cycle processes from ecosystem to global scales, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

2019                 Beard K. H., Kelsey, K. C., Leffler, Welker J. M., The Missing Angle: Ecosystem Consequences of Phenological Mismatch, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 34(10):885-888.

2018                 Kelsey, K. C., Leffler, A. J., Beard K. H., Choi R. T., Schmutz J. A., Welker J. M., Phenological mismatch in coastal western Alaska may increase summer season greenhouse gas uptake, Environmental Research Letters, 13(4).

2017                 Kelsey, K. C., Redmond, M. D., Barger N. N., Neff, J. C., Species, Climate and Landscape Physiography Drive Variable Growth Trends in Subalpine Forests, Ecosystems 21(1): 125-140.

2016                 Kelsey, K. C., Leffler, A. J., Beard K. H., Schmutz J. A., Choi R. T., Welker J. M., Interactions among vegetation, climate, and herbivory control greenhouse gas fluxes in a subarctic coastal wetland, JGR – Biogeosciences, 128(12): 2960 – 2975.

2014                 Kelsey, K.C., Neff, J.C., Improving Regional Estimates of Aboveground Biomass from Texture Analysis of Landsat Imagery, Remote Sensing, 6(7): 6407-6422.

Climate Change: Causes, Impacts and Solutions

Introduction to Environmental Science

Landscape Biogeochemistry