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 | Kevin Vranes Center for Science and Technology Policy Research Tel: 303-735-3761 |
Kevin has been interested in the intersections of science and society since his undergrad days at UC Davis studying geology, water and dams. Kevin went to graduate school at Columbia University, where he did a Ph.D. at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in physical oceanography and climatology. While at Columbia he was lucky to have the opportunity and latitude to explore more society-based options, even while doing a hard science dissertation. He took policy classes at Columbia's policy school (the School for International and Public Affairs) and later became a Fellow of the Public Policy Consortium. In 2001 Kevin joined a team coordinated by the Center for Hazards and Risk Research and the Urban Planning program to respond to the December 1999 debris flows in the capitol region of Venezuela. This was an exploration in blending urban planning techniques with geoscience expertise to invent a broad disaster resilience plan for a large urban center (see report). After finishing graduate school, he was selected as the 2003 - 2004 Congressional Science Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Kevin has served his year as legislative fellow for U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), covering a broad array of topics, from the transportation bill (S.1072 in the 108th Congress) to NASA and EPA oversight, to the energy bill (H.R. 6) to natural hazards legislation to abandoned mine cleanup. Kevin has spent the past year and a half in the Geology Department at the University of Montana (Missoula) as a visiting Assistant Professor where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in geology, oceanography, climate change, and science policy.
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