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The Non-Partisan Environmental Group That Will Make You Feel Hopeful About Climate Change
by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writer This article is the first in a CSTPR series of profiles of non-partisan environmental groups on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Photo above: Citizens’ Climate Lobby members lobbying for Joe Neguse. If there’s … Continue reading
If You Have No Hope, You Can’t Act: Patrick David Chandler on Bridging Science and Art
by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writer Photo above: Patrick Chandler during a performance of Inside the Greenhouse’s musical for youth engagement, Shine, on Earth Day 2019. Halfway through my interview with Patrick David Chandler, a current Environmental Studies graduate student based … Continue reading
The Big Impact of Imperceptible Things: David Oonk on Fracking and Microplastics
by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writer This summer, CSTPR’s own David Oonk is working with the Center for a New Energy Economy (CNEE) to make the communication of climate research to policy makers a little bit easier. CNEE is headed … Continue reading
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
When did Hurricane Maria become a disaster? Fernando Briones on vulnerability in Puerto Rico and Dominica
by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writer When is the eruption of a volcano a natural disaster? You may be thinking what I was when Fernando Briones asked me a similar question: always. But Briones has a different answer: sometimes. Briones, … Continue reading
Violent Crime Increases in Warm Weather
by Alison GilchristOriginally published on Science Buffs, A CU Boulder STEM Blog I was 10 minutes into my interview with Ryan Harp before he showed me the most shocking piece of data I have ever had to emotionally process. For … Continue reading
Open Access: The Way Forward for Academic Publishing
by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writer Scientists: what if you knew one weird trick that would increase the number of times your paper was read, cited, and shared? What if that one maneuver also increased the impact your research had on the … Continue reading
Matthew Druckenmiller: A Career-Long Collaborator
Matt Druckenmiller, right, and Hajo Eicken, a professor of Geophysics, on an ice floe near Barrow. Photo by Daniel Pringle. by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writing Intern Matthew Druckenmiller, a current research affiliate with the Center for Science and Technology … Continue reading
The 15th Anniversary of CSTPR: Science and Technology Policy Research in a Unique Space
by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writing Intern This year, the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) celebrates its fifteenth anniversary since being recognized as an official University center in 2002. In its fifteen years, CSTPR has weathered major … Continue reading
Victory is Won Through Many Advisers: Rad Byerly and the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award
by Alison Gilchrist, CSTPR Science Writer I interviewed Carol Byerly on the fourth anniversary of the death of Rad Byerly, her late husband, and the mood was solemn. But as we were sitting down to talk about Rad’s contribution to … Continue reading →