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Elizabeth McNie received her Ph.D. in Science and Technology Policy Research/Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Psychology-Organization Development from Sonoma State University in California and undergraduate degrees in Marine Transportation and Engineering (minor). Elizabeth’s research interests relate to climate policy and how to facilitate the development of stronger linkages between scientists and policy makers so that scientists produce information that is both needed and used by policy makers in their decision processes. Her research also explores the concept of ‘useful’ scientific information and seeks to develop evaluative tools for determining whether scientific information is useful, and how it is useful, for policy makers. She is also interested in the institutional design, organizational dynamics and social capital needed for successful scientist – policy maker interactions regarding the production of useful information. She is currently conducting research the NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments programs (RISA) that seek to provide useful short-term climate information for natural resource managers in a variety of contexts and regions of the United States. Elizabeth is also a Fellow in the NSF – Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) where she has researched climate change from several disciplinary perspectives including carbon cycle science, policy, business, and the media. Last year Elizabeth was a co-recipient of an NSF grant to conduct paleoclimate research and climate policy research in Iceland as part of an interdisciplinary research team. Other interests include ocean-related policy, interdisciplinary education, and the arctic. Elizabeth is also an active U.S. Merchant Marine Officer and cooks a mean chile.

Her dissertation was titled, "Co-producing useful scientific information for climate policy: Informing science policy and decision support". She is now an Assistant Professor at Purdue University.

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