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Roger Pielke, Jr.

Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1994
Professor, Environmental Studies Program

E-mail: pielke@cires.colorado.edu
Office: 1333 Grandview
Phone: 303-735-3940
Web: Roger Pielke, Jr.
(Center for Science and Technology Policy Research)

Biography

Roger A. Pielke, Jr. joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 2001. He is currently Professor in the Environmental Studies Program and a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES). At CIRES Roger serves as the Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. He also served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the University's Graduate Program in Environmental Studies from 2002-2004. Roger's current areas of interest include understanding the relations of science and politics, technology policy in the atmospheric and related sciences, use and value of prediction in decision making, 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.

Five Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Pielke, Jr., R. A. (in press). Misdefining Climate Change: Consequences for Research and Action, Environmental Science and Policy.
• Pielke, Jr., R. A. 2005, (in press). What Future for the Policy Sciences?, Policy Sciences.
• Pielke, Jr., R. A., C. Landsea, K. Emanuel, M. Mayfield, J. Laver and R. Pasch, (in press). Hurricanes and global warming, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
• Downton, M. and Pielke, Jr., R. A. 2005. How Accurate are Disaster Loss Data? The Case of U.S. Flood Damage, Natural Hazards 35:211-228.
• Pielke, Jr., R. A. and R. Klein, 2005. Distinguishing Tropical Cyclone-Related Flooding in U.S. Presidential Disaster Declarations: 1964-1997, Natural Hazards Review, 6:55-59