Jeff Kart, Managing Editor

Jeff is an ex-newspaper reporter, and current online reporter, writer, editor and blogger, who’s running out of commas. His business card says “principal at Enviroprose.”

He’s won national and state awards, and completed fellowships with the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting, Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources, Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment, and the Great Lakes Environmental Journalism Training Institute.

Jeff spent 16 years at newspapers in Michigan and Iowa. He started his own consulting business in 2009, providing snappy content, careful editing services and social media know-how to environmental groups, organizations and agencies like the International Upper Great Lakes Study.

He also writes for TreeHugger and PlanetGreen, arms of the Discovery network, and voices a weekly Michigan Environment Report on Delta College Q-90.1 FM, an NPR-member station.

Jeff has been a featured speaker at Michigan State University, University of Michigan, and elsewhere.

Jeff has a bachelor’s of journalism from Michigan State and a master’s in environmental studies from the University of Illinois.

Jeff’s interest in Earthzine stems from his passion for connecting regular people with scientific subjects and using social networks to raise awareness of important environmental issues. Living in the Great Lakes region, he’s also a frequent watcher of satellite imagery from MODIS.

Jeff could live anywhere, and loves it in Bay City, Michigan, with his wife Suzanne and two children. In his spare time, he enjoys camping and music. His personal website is at jeffkart.com.