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Nat Logar Center for Science and Technology Policy Research 1333 Grandview Avenue Campus Box 488 Boulder, CO 80309-0488 Tel: 303-735-0451 Fax: 303-735-1576 logar@colorado.edu

Nat graduated from Brown University with a BS in Geology-Biology. Following his undergraduate degree, he worked as a tour guide in Glacier National Park, an assistant on debris flow research for the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, CO, and an environmental consultant in Boston.  Nat's undergraduate work, and his first year of graduate school, focused on carbon cycle science.  As he became exposed to  policy research in graduate school, Nat's interests shifted from climate science to science policy.  In the past, he has performed research on the FDA approval process for transgenic fish and on climate science policy, as a part of an NSF-funded interdisciplinary group called Carbon, Climate, and Society.  Nat's current work focuses on the how federally funded institutions can fashion science policies that contribute to the benefit of targeted decision makers.  His dissertation focuses on science policies in the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, the Naval Research Laboratories, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Publications

• Reconciling the supply of and demand for carbon cycle science in the U.S. agricultural sector
• Transgenic fish: is a new policy framework necessary for new technology?