Center News & Announcements

9 December 2013

AGU Talk This Week

On December 12, Lisa Dilling will be giving a talk at AGU's fall meeting on "The Dynamics of Vulnerability and Implications for Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Urban Water Management". Read more ...

6 December 2013

Roger Pielke, Jr. to Testify at US House Science Committee Environment Hearing

On December 11, Roger Pielke, Jr. will be testifying at the United States House Science Committee on Environment Hearing on “A Factual Look at the Relationship Between Climate and Weather”. Read more ...

19 November 2013

Lisa Dilling Receives New Grant on Reducing Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Food Security

CSTPR's Lisa Dilling and Meaghan Daly 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 ...

12 November 2013

New research program at the Center on the Science, Technology, Policy and Politics of Sport

Science, Technology, Policy and Politics of Sport (STePPS) is a new project of the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. It is focused on the governance of sport, with a special emphasis on the roles of science and technology in how sport is governed. STePPS will focus on original research, university education and outreach to the broader community. We have partnered with the emerging undergraduate certificate program in Critical Sports Studies, out of the Department of Ethnic Studies. Read more ...

4 November 2013

Max Boykoff Giving Keynote Lecture at International Conference of Communication

On November 7, Max Boykoff will be giving the keynote lecture at the University of Navarra's International Conference of Communication on "Culture Politics and Climate Change". Read more ...

17 October 2013

Deserai Anderson Crow Receives New Grant Examining Recent Colorado Floods

CSTPR's Deserai Anderson Crow has received a new grant titled "Policy Learning and Political Context: Analyzing Responses to Colorado’s Extreme Flood Events of 2013". The grant, funded by a Quick Response Grant from the University of Colorado’s Natural Hazards Center, will involve a cross-case investigation of communities affected by the September 2013 floods in Colorado, and the community-level decisions made in response to those floods. Read more ...

16 October 2013

Max Boykoff Speaking at University of Copenhagen on Media and Climate Change

On October 22, Max Boykoff will be speaking at the University of Copenhagen's Sustainability Science Centre on "What have future generations done for me lately? Making sense of the role of media in shaping awareness and engagement with climate change". In his talk, Boykoff will highlight how particular problems in the web of interaction between science, media, policy and the public have contributed to (mis)perceptions, debates, and varied understandings to climate challenges. Read more ...

11 October 2013

Max Boykoff Speaking at International Conference on Climate Change Communication in Beijing

On October 13, Max Boykoff will be speaking at the International Conference on Climate Change Communication in Beijing, China on "Climate Change Messengers: The Mass Media". Read more ...

27 September 2013

Curtailment of Renewables Report Released

Graduate student Xi Wang and a group of international collaborators recently released a report providing an overview of curtailment trends of wind and solar energy in nine countries. The study was conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) as part of the International Energy Agency Wind Task 25 on Design and Operation of Power Systems with Large Amounts of Wind Power.

Curtailment of renewables--a practice by which wind and solar facilities are not generating electricity at their maximum potential--has become an important issue recently as more renewables are added to the electricity grid.

5 August 2013

Congressional Hearing Featured Research by Weinkle, Maue and Pielke

At a July 18 hearing, “Climate Change: It's happening now”, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works considered a graph from a 2012 paper by CSTPR graduate student Jessica Weinkle (with Ryan Maue and Roger Pielke, Jr.) titled Historical Global Tropical Cyclone Landfalls. Read more ...

 

 

9 July 2013

Roger Pielke, Jr. to Testify at Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has invited Roger Pielke, Jr., to testify on July 18 at a full committee hearing entitled "Climate Change: It's Happening Now." He will be testifying on extreme events. Read more ...

9 July 2013

Roger Pielke, Jr. Speaking at Columbia University on Climate Policy

On July 11 Roger Pielke, Jr. will be speaking at Columbia University's Hertog Global Strategy Initiative on "Climate Policy for a High Energy Planet". The lecture will take place from 6:00-7:30 pm and will be streamed live on the Global Strategy Initiative website. Read more ...

20 June 2013

Bill Travis Speaking at AGU's Conference on Science Policy

On June 26 Bill Travis will be giving a talk on "Drowning and Drought: Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change" at the 2013 AGU Conference on Science Policy. The AGU Conference will be webcasted live. Read more ...

3 June 2013

Roger Pielke, Jr. to Serve as Next Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research

Roger Pielke, Jr. will serve as the next Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, which sits within CIRES at the University of Colorado-Boulder, starting September 1.  Professor William (Bill) Travis, who served as Director for the past 5 years, will be ending his term after overseeing strong growth in Center research and personnel. Read more ...

2 June 2013

Max Boykoff Speaking at AGU Chapman Conference

On June 9 Max Boykoff will be giving a talk on "The History of Climate Communication: A Journalist's Perspective" at the AGU Chapman Conference on Communicating Climate Science in Granby, Colorado. Click here for a list of live web sessions (registration is required: see registration link in the upper right).

21 May 2013

Amy Meyer Selected For Breakthrough Institute Internship

Amy Meyer, recent CU Boulder graduate and Van Ek Awardeee, has just been selected for a Breakthrough Institute internship this summer. As one of eight fellows, Amy will be participating in ten weeks of intensive learning, research, and writing under the guidance of Breakthrough staff. This will be followed by specific research projects culminating in research summaries, policy briefs, white papers, and presentations to funders and friends. Amy will be working in the Climate and Energy program.

16 May 2013

Max Boykoff Highlighted in CU Connections on Climate Change and the Media

When Hurricane Mitch stuck Honduras in 1998, Max Boykoff was a member of the Peace Corps, working with farmers on crop diversification and integrated pest management practices. The Category 5 event left thousands of people dead and millions homeless. Struck by the power of nature, Boykoff felt motivated to pursue questions of the environment, including those surrounding land management. After earning a Ph.D. in environmental studies at the University of California-Santa Cruz, he became a research fellow at the Environmental Change Institute and lecturer in geography at the University of Oxford. Read more ...

13 May 2013

New Book Release: Successful Adaptation to Climate Change

This edited volume by Susanne Moser and Maxwell Boykoff makes significant progress toward unpacking the question of successful adaptation, offering both scientifically informed and practice-relevant answers from various sectors and regions of the world. It brings together 18 chapters from leading experts within the field to present careful analyses of different cases and situations, questioning throughout commonly avowed truisms and unspoken assumptions that have pervaded climate adaptation science and practice to date. CSTPR contributors include Kanmani Venkateswaran, Adam Hermans, Alex Lee, Ben Hale, Lisa Dilling, and Aditya Ghosh. Read more ...

 

9 May 2013

New Book Release: CSTPR Researchers Contribute to Analysis of Southwest’s Climate Future

In an era of increasing climate instability, the southwestern United States faces strained water resources, greater prevalence of tree-killing pests, and potentially significant alterations of agricultural infrastructure. These threats and challenges as well as others are detailed in the new book, “Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States.” Read more ...

 

 

8 May 2013

Amy Meyer Receives 2013 Jacob Van Ek Scholar Award

Along with co-nominators Max Boykoff, Lakshman Guruswamy and Abby Hickcoxx, CSTPR is pleased that Amy Meyer has just been awarded a Jacob Van Ek Scholar Award at the Honors Convocation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Amy just completed a senior honors thesis which has sought to understand the potential impacts of the proposed Green Climate Fund for climate adaptation in the international climate policy arena. Read more ...

29 April 2013

Xi Wang Receives Albert E. Smith Emerging Scholar Award

Xi Wang recently received the Albert E. Smith Emerging Scholar Award from The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) at the University of Colorado. The Smith Award provides support for innovative social science research on issues associated with human survival in a nuclear age. Read more ...

9 April 2013

Max Boykoff Speaking at AAG Annual Meeting

On April 9, Max Boykoff will be participating in an author-meets critics session assessing and responding to Boykoff's new book Who Speaks for the Climate? Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change. Read more ...

18 March 2013

‘Chasing Ice’ Filmmaker to Discuss Gripping Glacial Photography & Debut Unseen Footage

Filmmaker and adventurer James Balog will share his stirring and beautiful glacial photography revealing changes in climate at a free event at 7 p.m., Monday, April 1 in the University of Colorado Boulder’s Macky Auditorium. The event, “A Conversation with James Balog on the Art of Chasing Ice,” is hosted by Earth Vision Trust and CU-Boulder’s Inside the Greenhouse, a multidimensional project that explores the nexus of environmental science and the arts and humanities. Read more ...

4 March 2013

Marisa McNatt Chosen as 2013 Climate Media Fellows

Marisa McNatt was chosen as a 2013 Climate Media Fellows for the Heinrich Boll Foundation. The goal of the Climate Media Fellowship is to familiarize US energy experts with the European and German experiences transitioning toward a low carbon economy by emphasizing the role of increased energy efficiency and renewable energy in securing economic opportunities for business and industry, and communicate these into the US policy debate on a local, regional and national level. Read more ...

6 February 2013

Roger Pielke, Jr. Speaking at STEPS Annual Symposium in Science Policy

On February 6, Roger Pielke, Jr. will be giving a talk at the STEPS Annual Symposium at the University of Sussex on the complex relationship of science and politics. Read more ...

On February 4, Pielke participated in a panel on "What counts as good evidence for policy?" at London's Institute of Physics. Read more ...

31 January 2013

Max Boykoff Selected as 2013 Leopold Leadership Fellow

Maxwell Boykoff has been selected as one of 20 Leopold Leadership Fellows for 2013. Dr. Boykoff is among the 20 mid-career academic environmental researchers named as fellows this year. The group was selected through a highly competitive process on the basis of their exceptional scientific qualifications, demonstrated leadership ability, and strong interest in sharing their knowledge beyond traditional academic audiences. Read more ...

28 January 2013

Max Boykoff Participating in Tokyo Conference on Earth System Governance

Max Boykoff will be chairing a session on "Climate Governance" at the Tokyo Conference on Earth System Governance, 28-31 January 2013. More info.

10 January 2013

New Grant Awarded on Politics and Wind Power Systems

Max Boykoff, working with graduate student Shawn Olson, recently received a scholar's award from The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) at the University of Colorado for a new project titled "Power Politics: The political ecology of wind farm opposition in Wyoming". Read more ...

8 January 2013

Lisa Dilling on Adaptation to Climate-Related Hazards

On January 8, Lisa Dilling will be giving a talk at the 93rd American Meteorological Society Meeting. Her talk will be on "Adaptation to climate-related hazards in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah: Explaining differences in local responses". Read more ...

3 January 2013

2012 GSA Public Service Award Presented to Roger Pielke, Jr.

Roger Pielke, Jr. is this year’s recipient of the Geological Society of America (GSA) Public Service Award. The GSA Public Service Award was established in 1998 in honor of Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and is awarded for contributions that have materially enhanced the public's understanding of the earth sciences, or significantly served decision-makers in the application of scientific and technical information in public affairs and public policy related to the earth sciences. Read more ...