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fic with unpredictable sea ice conditions,” Mark Serreze,
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
“Declaring a climate emergency: Geo-engineering and the
doctrine of last resort,” Bill Travis, CSTPR
“Producing useful scientific information for policy: How
scientists perceive the likely utility of their research,” Elizabeth
McNie, Purdue University
“How climate models gain and exercise authority,” Mike
Hulme, University of East Anglia
“Observing and understanding changes in ice sheets: The
sea level wild card,” Waleed Abdalati, CIRES
“Media and climate-related responsible behavior,” Gesa
Lüdecke, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
“Improving communication of weather forecast uncertainty
to aid decisions,” Rebecca Morss, National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Spring 2011:
“Reports card for the environment: 1c, 3bs, 1a and 1
incomplete,” Michael Glantz, Consortium for Capacity
Building
“Quantification of the treatment of uncertainty by the
IPCC AR4,” Roger Pielke, Jr., CU-Boulder Environmental
Studies Program (ENVS) and CSTPR
“Enhancing the resilience of small high-latitude fishing
communities to climatic and marine-ecosystem change,”
James McGoodwin, CU Department of Anthropology
“Global earthquake fatalities: Nature vs. human nature,”
Roger Bilham, Geological Sciences and CIRES
“Dryness and desperate measures: Ranching, land tenure,
and drought coping in the Rocky Mountain West,” Kristin
Gangwer, CU Department of Geography and CSTPR
“Inundation or ignorance? Public perception of storm
surge,” Jeffrey Lazo, NCAR
Milestone 2. Revise and update website.
In July 2010 the Center for Science and Technology Policy
Research released its new website. The new site has an updated
look as well as improved content and functionality,
making it easy to find information about Center research,
events, publications and other activities.
Product: The Center website is located at http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/
Milestone 3. Continue to upgrade newsletter and briefing,
and expand readership.
Subscriptions to the Center’s newsletter, Ogmius,
have increased from 345 to 426 over the past year.
The mailing list for the Center’s briefing, sent primarily
to Washington, D.C., decision makers, was updated to
reflect changes in the Administration and now includes
almost 4,000 recipients.
Product:
Ogmius: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/ogmius/
Briefing: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/outreach/
cstpr_briefings.html
DIR-01ScienceCommunications
forDiverseAudiences
CIRES LEAD: KATHLEEN HUMAN
NOAA Goals 1, 2, 3 and 4: Ecosystem, Climate,
Weather and Water, Commerce and Transportation
Project Goal: Convey the importance of NOAA and CIRES
research to diverse audiences, from the general public and Congressional
staffers to real and potential scientific collaborators.
Milestone 1. Publish a quarterly science news magazine
for NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), and
re-purpose articles for other outlets, especially Climate-
Watch, NOAA World, NOAA.gov, CIRES web, ESRL web,
CIRES Annual Report, and CIRES Spheres magazines.
Three issues of the ESRL Quarterly were completed before
staff assigned to this task moved into a federal NOAA communication
position. The majority of ESRL Quarterly stories
published in these three editions were rerun elsewhere,
from the CIRES website and Spheres to Climate Watch and
NOAA.gov theme stories.
Product: ESRL Quarterly summer 2010, fall 2010 and winter
2010–2011.
Milestone 2. Collaborate on other communication projects
with colleagues across NOAA and the CI system, primarily
the CIRES Annual Report, but also informational ‘two-pagers,’
annual accomplishment writeups for NOAA Congressional
Analysis and Relations Division, and various other
programmatic and scientific documents.
CIRES’ Annual Report was produced and submitted
on time and approved at all levels, from internal CIRES
to NOAA administration. Several two-pagers and other
write-ups were produced, with topics ranging from successes
in CIRES’ Innovative Research Program to recent
missions involving unmanned aircraft systems. Staff completed
the annual update of ESRL’s two-pager for NOAA’s
Congressional Analysis and Relations Division; spent
several weeks editing the NOAA Climate Services Vision
and Strategic Framework; and also edited an early draft of
NOAA’s Strategic Energy Report.
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