Riley Weeks
- (She/her)
- Managing Editor (AAAR)
Office: SEEC C223
Riley is the Managing Editor of INSTAAR’s Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, an international open access journal that seeks to advance understanding of the rapid environmental change occurring in cold regions.
Riley graduated from Western Washington University in 2024 with a degree in Environmental Studies/Journalism and minors in American Indian Studies and Law, Diversity and Justice. Riley has previously worked as the Editor-in-Chief of The Planet magazine and as a communications intern for RE Sources.
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
INSTAAR’s international open-access journal publishes interdisciplinary research on cold regions environments
AAAR primarily covers environmental science from modern to paleo timescales, with an emphasis on climate change in mountain and high latitude regions. Topics include ecology, climatology, glaciology, and biogeochemistry. Articles are peer reviewed. The journal is online only, with 310,000 views/downloads in 2020. INSTAAR staff select editors and reviewers and control content; Taylor and Francis Online publishes and hosts the journal.
AAAR also publishes a series of science briefs called “Arctic Answers,” which are written by science experts to answer policy-relevant questions about the Arctic and climate change impacts.