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CSTPR ANNUAL REPORT Working to improve how SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY policies address societal needs, through research, education and service CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY RESEARCH Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences University of Colorado Boulder 1333 Grandview Avenue Campus Box 488 Boulder, Colorado 80309-0488 303-735-0451 [email protected] http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu Annual Report January 1 - December 31, 2018 Annual Report Staff Max Boykoff, Director Ami Nacu-Schmidt, Editor, Layout and Design Cover design: Ami Nacu-Schmidt Background photo: Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey CSTPR ANNUAL REPORT January 1 - December 31, 2018 PAGE 2 | LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR PAGE 3 | THE CENTER AT A GLANCE PAGE 6 | 2018 HIGHLIGHTS PAGE 9 | CORE FACULTY PAGE 12 | RESEARCH PAGE 26 | EDUCATION PAGE 32 | OUTREACH PAGE 36 | CENTER PERSONNEL PAGE 50 | APPENDIX Publications Talks and Events Service Activities Grant Activity The U.S. Department of State’s Office on International Visitors held a meeting with University of Colorado and Israel delegates under the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program in May 2018 to discuss “Science and Making Public Policy”. CSTPR Director, Max Boykoff (far right), participated in this meeting along with Hanit Lea, Ben Ari, Eran Brokovich, Orit Raphaeli (Israel Ministry of Energy), Ruth Kiro (Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection), Uri Lerner (Consultant on Environment, Technology & policy), and Sharon Soroker (Head Energy). CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY RESEARCH 1 INTRODUCTION The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) was initiated within the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the summer of 2001 and was recognized as an official University center in the summer of 2002 to conduct research, education, and outreach at the interface of science, technology, and the needs of decision makers in public and private settings. Our long-term vision is to “serve as a resource for science and technology decision makers and those providing the education of future decision makers.” Our mission is to improve how science and technology policies address societal needs, including research, education and service. The following report includes CSTPR highlights from 2018 as well as a complete list of activities. Also included are selected activities of CSTPR faculty affiliates as an indication (not exhaustive accounting) of what those affiliates engage in. • integrated research projects continued to grow and LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR thrive in CSTPR in 2018 (see pages 11-18 for more), these projects cut across themes of Drivers of Risk Looking across the past Management Decisions, Innovations in Governance calendar year 2018, I am and Sustainability, and Science and Technology Policy proud that we here in that we have prioritized through strategic planning the Center for Science over the past few years and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) have Over the past sixteen years or so as a Center, we have been working mindfully cultivated a dynamic terrain of engagement. Among our and effectively to help activities and accomplishments, we have published over confront these urgent four hundred peer-reviewed articles, nearly another four and opportune times hundred other reports and publications, and we have at the intersections of generated over $14 million in funding. We also have been science, technology, policy, culture and society. As one of referenced in the media over 1,600 times while we have four centers in the Cooperative Institute for Research in delivered over 800 talks in the state of Colorado, around Environmental Sciences, through research conducted by the country and throughout the world. Now in 2019, we members of our CSTPR community, we have continued recognize that the arenas of Science and Technology to productively inform connections between and among Policy Research have continued to develop from our initial these pressing, critical and interdisciplinary spaces. beginnings as a Center. We – as a community of core faculty, affiliates, students, and staff – continue to nimbly Among highlights you’ll read in our 2018 Annual Report, and ambitiously shape and adapt to these changes as we I point out three particular bright spots: rigorously deploy both ‘the hatchet’ as critique and ‘the seed’ as emancipatory research to trigger innovations • in Fall 2018, we welcomed Dr. Matt Burgess to CSTPR: and improvements in our confrontations at the human- Matt has taken up a role as CSTPR Core Faculty along environment interface. with his responsibilities as CIRES Fellow and Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies and Economics; As we continue to invest in our collective futures, we Matt brings energy and strengths to investigations welcome you to engage with us through a number of of global sustainability and relations with species touch points described in the pages that follow. conservation as well as natural resource management (see pages 7-8 for more) All the best in 2019, • in 2018 we graduated six students associated with CSTPR (three PhD students, two Master’s students and one undergraduate student): their successful matriculation (and next chapters in the workforce) show our ongoing traditions and commitments of training the next generation of science-policy scholars Max Boykoff, Director and practitioners (see pages 21-24 for more) [email protected] ANNUAL REPORT 2018 2 THE CENTER AT A GLANCE JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2018 18,266 10 Unique website Noontime visitors Seminar Talks Talks by Media CSTPR References faculty 33 Events cosponsored 154 3 by the Center CU Boulder courses taught by CSTPR core faculty 2018 201 External visitors, coauthors and 16 collaborators Grad students advised by 16 CSTPR faculty CSTPR students 1,537 who have graduated Subscribers to 16 since 2001 Ogmius Peer-reviewed articles, books & book chapters 37 Other 24 publications 16 PhDs * 19 masters 1 Masters/MBA 1 Undergraduate Honors CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY RESEARCH 3 CSTPR has a broad base of funding support that includes: NSF, NOAA, USDA, DOI, USAID, Foundations, State agencies, Private Donors and is very CTR successful at competing for CU BY THE NUMBER 200-2018 internal funds. $14,314,450 Total Awards Generating CIRES Overhead $1,556,887 $111,206 Total Overhead Total Average coming to CIRES Annual Overhead after faculty splits Coming to CIRES CSTPR faculty generated an Grad Student Programs at CSTPR: additional $1,293,411 - AAAS “CASE” Workshop Competition non-overhead - STP Certificate Program generating grants that - Red Cross Fellowship supported research, Program staff, programs and - Rad Byerly Award Program students - FOSEP Group Seminars at CSTPR 228 Talks by CSTPR 1,263 812 faculty & students 1,609 Peer-reviewed CSTPR visitors, Media publications coauthors and 412 References collaborators Other 392 publications ANNUAL REPORT 2018 4 CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY RESEARCH 5 2018 HIGHLIGHTS • Rad Byerly, Jr. who passed away in 2016, provided • Max Boykoff contributed to the Lancet Countdown inspiration to and guidance in the creation of CSTPR. Report. This report was mentioned by 114 media In recognition of Rad Byerly, Jr.’s contributions, in 2017 outlets including The Guardian, CNN, NBC News, CSTPR established the “Radford Byerly, Jr. Award” in New York Times, USA Today, and National Geographic Science and Technology Policy. The second winner of magazine. the Byerly award was Angela Boag, a Ph.D. candidate in the Environmental Studies Program at CU Boulder • Lisa Dilling and Amanda Carrico presented at the (see Education section below for further details). 2018 Fall American Geophysical Union meeting; At this meeting Max Boykoff also co-convened a panel • The following CSTPR students earned degrees: (titles listed in Appendix). - John Berggren (PhD, ENVS) • Max Boykoff and CSTPR Alum Gesa Luedecke - Marisa McNatt (PhD, ENVS) contributed a paper “Environment and the Media” - Lauren Gifford (PhD, Geography) to CHOICE Book Award Winner, The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, - Emily Ruby (MS, ENVS) Environment, and Technology. - Rebecca Page (MS, ENVS) • Jennifer Katzung, as a representative of CSTPR, was - Sofia Corley (Undergraduate Honors, ENVS) awarded the Green Office Certification from the CU Boulder Leadership Council. CSTPR received the • Several CSTPR personnel moved on to pursue new award at the Campus Sustainability Summit in April opportunities: 2018. - John Berggren (PhD CU ENVS 2018) is now a Water Policy Analyst at Western Resource Advocates. • CSTPR Graduate Student, Olivia Pearman was awarded the Colorado Governor’s Energy & Environment - Rebecca Page (MS CU ENVS 2018) is now a Project Fellowship to work with the Department of Natural Director at Earth Economics. Resources on Greater sage-grouse conservation - Anna Kukkonen (Fulbright Visiting Scholar) earned issues in Colorado. her PhD in 2018 from University of Helsinki in Political Science. • CSTPR Graduate Student, Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey was awarded the lead Teach Assistant position with • CSTPR welcomed several new additions to the the Graduate Teacher Program (GTP) at University of community: Colorado Boulder for the 2018-2019 academic year. - Matthew Burgess (CU Boulder): CSTPR core faculty • CSTPR graduate student and Red Cross Red Crescent member Climate Centre intern, Katie Chambers, and CU Environmental Engineering’s Sherri Cook were - Eve-Lyn