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Roger Pielke, Jr. Testifies at House Science Committee Hearing on Scientific Integrity
Founding CSTPR Director, Roger Pielke, Jr., testified before the House Science Committee hearing on Scientific Integrity in federal agencies. His testimony focuses on the importance of scientific integrity policies within federal agencies that fund, conduct, or oversee research and the … Continue reading
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Just Released: Creative (Climate) Communications
Creative (Climate) Communications: Productive Pathways for Science, Policy and Societyby Maxwell Boykoff Cambridge University Press, 2019 Conversations about climate change at the science-policy interface and in our lives have been stuck for some time. This handbook integrates lessons from the … Continue reading
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Communicating Climate Change Effectively and Creatively
fifteeneightyfour, Academic Perspective from Cambridge University Pressby Max Boykoff Lately, climate change has been unmistakably present in the public sphere. An evident swirl of extreme events linked to changes in the climate, new scientific research on climate change, Youth Climate … Continue reading
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CSTPR 2018 Annual Report
January 1 – December 31, 2018Full Annual Report [pdf] The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) was initiated within the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the summer of 2001 … Continue reading
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New International Research Project to Explore Climate Change Communication Through Social Media
CSTPR Director, Max Boykoff, is collaborating on a new project funded from the Spanish Ministry of Science. The project “Communicating climate change through social media: Strategies, emotions and images” (CLIMAenREDES) will be conducted, from June 2019 to December 2021, by … Continue reading
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Former Fulbright Scholar, Anna Kukkonen, Earns her PhD
In 2018, Anna Kukkonen (second from the left in the picture above) was part of CSTPR as a visiting Fulbright Scholar from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She recently defended her thesis entitled “Discourse Networks and Justifications of Climate Change … Continue reading
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Inside the Greenhouse Newsletter, Issue 13
Issue 13 | May 2019Subscribe to ITG Newsletters We are excited to share with you another update regarding our ongoing efforts in the spaces of research, teaching and engagement in the public sphere. In newsletter #13, we share a sampling … Continue reading
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Ogmius, Issue #52 is Now Out
Issue #52, Spring 2019 Ogmius Exchange Should We Hope for Power to Declare a National Climate Emergency? by Steve Vanderheiden Faculty Affiliate Forum Can Genetic Engineering Save Disappearing Forests? by Jason Delborne Unprecedented Sea-ice Conditions in the Bering Sea by … Continue reading
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Winners Announced – ITG Comedy & Climate Change Video Competition
Humor is a tool underutilized, and comedy has the power to effectively connect with people about climate change issues. Inside the Greenhouse held a competition to harness the powers of climate comedy through compelling, resonant and meaningful videos. The videos … Continue reading
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Tube to Work Day 2019 is Tardy, but Still Totally Tubular
by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writer Every year, hundreds of people participate in Boulder’s Tube to Work Day, an event for which Boulder Creek is flooded with people ostensibly commuting to work by inflatable device. It’s a yearly extravaganza only … Continue reading →