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Graduate Student News

Meaghan Daly and Lisa Dilling Receive New USAID Grant

Meaghan Daly and Lisa Dilling Receive New USAID GrantCSTPR graduate student Meaghan Daly and Lisa Dilling have received a new grant titled “Identifying Constraints to and Opportunities for Co-production of Climate Information for Improved Food Security“. The grant, funded by U.S. Agency for International Development, seeks to reduce impacts of climate variability and change on food security by systematically identifying opportunities for and constraints to the use of climate forecasts for improved adaptation planning. Read more...


Graduate Student News

Shawn Olson and Max Boykoff Paper Referenced In Guardian Article

Shawn Olson and Max Boykoff Paper Referenced In Guardian ArticleA paper by recent CSTPR grad Shawn Olson and Max Boykoff was referenced in a Guardian article titled “Climate contrarians are more celebrity than scientist: A new study identifies climate contrarians as a keystone species in the denial ecosystem,” by John Abraham. Abraham writes, “Dr. Maxwell Boykoff and Shawn Olson trace the history of climate contrarians back to the 1980s and discuss their potential motivations and strategies. The study identifies these contrarians as a “keystone species;” climate contrarians are more influential than their scant numbers and limited expertise would suggest, and exert an outsized media impact. Read more...


Graduate Student News

Jessica Weinkle Awarded Ph.D.

Jessica WeinkleCSTPR’s Jessica Weinkle was awarded a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies in December. Her research focused on the insurability of the hurricane risk with particular attention given to the use of science by different interests. Jessica studies the science and politics of insurance with special attention given to public insurance programs used to manage catastrophic risk. Her work considers the role of science and catastrophe modeling in meeting public goals of risk insurability and affordability. Jessica works in partnership with the catastrophic insurance company and Lloyd’s syndicate, ICAT.


Graduate Student News

Jessica Weinkle, Ryan Maue and Roger Pielke, Jr. Paper Referenced In Washington Post

Jessica Weinkle, Ryan Maue and Roger Pielke, Jr. Paper Referenced In Washington PostA paper by recent CSTPR grad Jessica Weinkle, along with Ryan Maue and Roger Pielke, Jr., was referenced in a Washington Post article “Everything you need to know about ‘super typhoons’” by Brad Plumer. Plumer writes, “Last year, three researchers at the University of Colorado and the Naval Research Laboratory did their best to reconstruct a worldwide database for hurricanes or typhoons that made landfalls between 1970 and 2010. Their conclusion? ‘The analysis does not indicate significant long-period global or individual basin trends in the frequency or intensity of landfalling [tropical cyclones] of minor or major hurricane strength.’” Read more...