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Roger A. Pielke, Jr.

The relation of scientific information and public and private sector decision making, technology policy in the atmospheric and related sciences

Fellow - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ; Professor - Environmental Studies Program ; Former Director - Center for Science and Technology Policy Research

Ph.D. 1994 University of Colorado

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Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Center for Science and Technology Policy Research

ENVS Graduate Program - Secondary Core

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On sabbatical 2007/08 at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization.

Roger A. Pielke, Jr. has been on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 2001 and is a Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES). He directed the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research from its inception in 2001 until his current sabbital. Roger's current areas of interest include understanding disasters and climate change, the politicization of science, decision making under uncertainty, and policy education for scientists. In 2000, Roger received the Sigma Xi Distinguished Lectureship Award and in 2001, he received the Outstanding Graduate Advisor Award by students in the University of Colorado's Department of Political Science.

Before joining the University of Colorado, from 1993-2001 Roger was a Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Roger sits on the editorial boards of Policy Sciences, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Environmental Science and Policy, Darwin, Water Resources Research, and Natural Hazards Review. He sits on various advisory committees, is author of numerous articles and essays, and is also author, co-author or co-editor of four books. He is the author of a forthcoming book titled: The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics to be published by Cambridge University Press in early 2007.

Founding author of Prometheus, The Science Policy Weblog. Prometheus provides daily news and commentary on science policy issues.

June 21 2009

Carroll: Skeptical of climate alarmists

June 18 2009

British Climate Act ‘failed before it started’

March 31 2009

Shall We Mitigate or Adapt

March 15 2009

A move toward bias-free science

March 08 2009

Boulder’s Kyoto goal still out of reach

February 23 2009