{"id":2047,"date":"2016-04-08T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2016-04-08T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:06:06","slug":"cstpr-welcomes-max-boykoff-as-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/prometheus\/2016\/04\/08\/cstpr-welcomes-max-boykoff-as-director\/","title":{"rendered":"CSTPR Welcomes Max Boykoff as Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) is pleased to announce Max Boykoff as its new Director.\u00a0 Professor Roger Pielke, Jr., who served as the Center\u2019s founding director from 2001-2007, and again as director from 2013 until he completed his term in January, has gone on to spearhead creation of the CU Sports Governance Center within the CU Athletic Department.<\/p>\n

After completion of his Ph.D. in environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a stint with a research fellowship at the University of Oxford\u2019s Environmental Change Institute along with a fixed-term lectureship in the School of Geography and the Environment, Boykoff joined the University of Colorado faculty in Fall 2009.\u00a0 His research focuses on the cultural politics of climate change and the transformation of carbon-based economies.\u00a0 He holds appointments at CU across multiple units, including CIRES as a Fellow, the Environmental Studies program as an Associate Professor, and as an Adjunct in the Geography department.\u00a0 Boykoff states he enjoys this interdisciplinary focus as it enables him to \u201caccess tools and perspectives across the various disciplines to answer challenging, complex, and multi-layered issues\u201d confronting us in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

CSTPR is important primarily as a research center, with teaching and service elements that all emphasize how science finds traction in politics and decision making, how policy decision makers access scientific ways of knowing, and how science and policy can help people decide the type of futures they want for themselves and for their communities.\u00a0 Boykoff says this doesn\u2019t merely take place with influential policy makers at the city, state, national, or international levels, but also importantly with \u201ceveryday people in society.\u201d\u00a0 A number of initiatives that serve not only the CU-Boulder community, but also those \u201ceveryday people,\u201d excite Boykoff, who strives in his role as Director to lead and support research from CSTPR faculty and students that take up science-policy challenges reaching varied audiences.\u00a0 \u201cTo be successful requires us to think smarter about reaching people where they are and helping them then to make what they consider to be \u2018better\u2019 decisions in the face of 21st century environmental challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boykoff is energized by the interdisciplinary nature and spirit of CSTPR, and enjoys helping folks make connections across the natural and social sciences, as well as humanities, within a culture of rigorous productivity and belonging.\u00a0 The breakdown of disciplinary boundaries, Boykoff believes, will help the broader science-policy community thrive, and is an endeavor he seeks to foster at CSTPR.\u00a0 \u201cWe live in a place where, per capita, we have the highest concentration of climate scientists.\u00a0 This is exciting as it uniquely enables collaborations between CSTPR researchers and the wider CIRES community as well as across the CU-Boulder campus and broader community.\u201d He says that it is important to \u201c[build] bridges to other groups to most capably address complex, dynamic and formidable challenges,\u201d and Boykoff hopes CSTPR will build from its guidance under its previous Directors to continue to be a \u201chub for collaborative science, technology and policy research.\u201d<\/p>\n

And finally, when asked to choose between Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson if only one could join CSTPR?\u00a0 \u201cNeil deGrasse Tyson, all the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interested in CSTPR and science policy?\u00a0 Visit the CSTPR website<\/a> or contact Max Boykoff at boykoff@colorado.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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