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 | Dan Sarewitz Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes Tel: 480-727-8831 |
Daniel Sarewitz’s work focuses on understanding the connections between scientific research and social benefit, and on developing methods and policies to strengthen such connections. His most recent book is Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery (co-edited with Alan Lightman and Christina Desser; Island Press, 2003)
He is the co-editor of Prediction: Science, Decision-Making, and the Future of Nature (Island Press, 2000) and the author of Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress (Temple University Press, 1996).
He has also written many other articles, speeches, and reports about the relationship between science and social progress. Prior to taking up his current position, he was the director of the Geological Society of America's Institute for Environmental Education.
From 1989-1993 he worked on Capitol Hill, first as a Congressional Science Fellow, and then as science consultant to the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. His policy analysis responsibilities included federal research policy, international scientific cooperation, and science education. He was also principal speech writer for Committee Chairman George E. Brown, Jr. Before moving into the policy arena he was a research associate and lecturer in the Dept. of Geological Sciences at Cornell University, with research and publications focusing on processes of mountain building and basin formation along active plate boundaries, and field areas in the Philippines, Argentina, and Tadjikistan.
He received his Ph.D. in geological sciences from Cornell University in 1986.
Please visit Dan's homepage at the Consortium for Science, Policy, & Outcomes.