Ryan Kellman

Ryan Kellman is an editor and visual reporter for NPR's climate desk, where he reports on wide range of topics from ice melt to adaptation. His climate reporting has garnered several notable awards. Kellman was part of the NPR team that won the Kavli Science Journalism Award for the series "Beyond the Poles: The far-reaching dangers of melting ice." His 2019 coverage of climate-driven flash floods took second prize in the Pictures of the Year International Online Storytelling awards, while the audio version of that story was also honored with an Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in sound.

From 2015-2018, Kellman produced NPR's science YouTube show — Skunk Bear — for which he covered a wide range of science subjects, from the brain science of break-ups to the lives of snowy owls. Skunk Bear has been honored with several first-place wins in the WHNPA's Eyes of History Awards as well as a Science Writing Award by the Acoustical Society of America. 

Kellman joined NPR in 2014 as part of the science desk. In his first months on the job, he worked on NPR's Peabody Award-winning coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.  Before joining NPR, Kellman worked as a documentary photographer and journalist. He is a Fulbright Grant recipient, has received a John Collier Award in Documentary Photography and holds a master's degree from Ohio University's School of Visual Communication and a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.