Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder

CSTPR Events

2023

Oct 26

C-SEF Workshop: Social and Environmental Futures Workshop

This annual workshop is sponsored by the CIRES Center for Social and Environmental Futures. This year's theme is 'The devil is in the details'. Environmental discourse is often sweeping, polarized, and polemical.

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Oct 25

CIRES HR professional development workshop

Please join the CIRES HR team on October 25 from 1-2 pm for a Workshop on Professional & Career Development.

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Jul 28

CIRES Picnic

The CIRES annual picnic will take place on Friday, July 28 at Waneka Lake in Lafayette. Courtesy of CIRES, take a spin on a paddle boat, SUP or kayak starting at 1 p.m.

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Jun 28

Susan Sullivan's Retirement Celebration

Please join us to celebrate Susan Sullivan’s 34-year career with CIRES! RSVP to Linda Pendergrass by June 21.

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May 22

Farewell Celebration for Lisa Dilling

Farewell afternoon tea

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Apr 11

CIRES Visiting Fellows and Post-docs Appreciation Breakfast

All CIRES Visiting Fellows and Post-docs are invited to an Appreciation Breakfast on Tuesday, April 11 from 8:30-10 am in the CIRES Fellows Room (

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Apr 4

Hiring and Supervising Foreign Nationals

Join CIRES HR Visa Coordinator, Janet Garcia for an overview of best practices related to hiring and supervising foreign national employees. 

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Feb 6

AAAS "Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering" Workshop Student Competition Applications Due

The CASE Workshop is an exciting opportunity to learn from science policy and advocacy experts about the role of science in policymaking and the federal policy-making process.

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2022

Oct 27

Reducing Polarization Dialogues with Matt Burgess

CU Boulder is partnering with a group of CU students, staff and faculty, led by CIRES fellow Matthew Burgess, to organize a dialogue series aimed at building empathy and understanding across political and other divisions. 

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Sep 8

NC CASC Webinar Series

The Challenge of Planning for Extremes in Natural and Cultural Resources

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2021

Dec 9

NC CASC Webinar Series Webinar: Setting habitat protection and restoration priorities in a warming world: Lessons from Wyoming

Please join us for the NC CASC webinar on Thursday, December 9, 2021, 11a -12p MDT:  "Setting habitat protection and restoration priorities in a warming world: Lessons from Wyoming"

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2020

Apr 22

Stand Up For Climate Change Comedy Show- Tune in anytime on April 22!

A Celebration for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day

An Experiment with Creative Climate Comedy
Tune in on April 22!

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Apr 21

The Climate and Biodiversity Crisis: Moving Towards a Global Awakening?

Boulder Faculty Climate Science and Education Committee Presents

The Climate and Biodiversity Crisis: Moving Towards a Global Awakening?

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Apr 8

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Sustainable Energy for All?: Assessing Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance

by Diana Dorman, Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado Boulder

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Mar 23

Colorado Local Science Engagement Network Launch event

Colorado – Local Science Engagement Network (CO-LSEN) Launch event
Western Colorado University - Gunnison, Colorado

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Mar 4

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Guiding ozone layer recovery with effective science and policy on an international scale

by Stephen Montzka, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratories/Global Monitoring Laboratory

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Feb 26

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Materiality of the virtual: Digital technology and the climate crisis?

by Hunter Vaughan, Media Studies in the College of Media, Communication, & Information, University of Colorado Boulder

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Jan 29

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Stakeholder engagement and governance of emerging biotechnologies

by Jason Delborne, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University

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Jan 22

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

AAAS "Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering" Workshop Student Competition Panel Discussion

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2019

Dec 4

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Our Connected Planet: Putting Science and Innovation into Action

by Susan Avery, President Emerita, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Nov 13

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Public Discussion: Policies on Climate and Environment

with Colorado Senator Kerry Donovan (D - Chaffee)

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Nov 6

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Living at the Intersection of Climate Science and Action

by Jane Zelikova, Co-founder, 500 Women Scientists 

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Oct 30

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

How Will The Fossil Fuel Era End?

by Antonia Juhasz, Investigative Journalist

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Oct 16

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Public Discussion: Policies on Climate and Environment

with Colorado Senator Steve Fenberg (D - Boulder)

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Oct 9

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Public Discussion: Policies on Climate and Environment

with Colorado Senator Ray Scott (R - Grand Junction)

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Sep 25

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Moving From Awareness to Action: A Co-produced Creative Climate Change Curriculum

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Sep 18

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Toxic Swaggers and the Case for Ecological Masculinities: A Talk about Men, Masculinities and Earth

by Paul Pulé, Science, Technology and Society, Chalmers University

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Sep 11

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

The Climate Change Story: Bridging the Gap Between Science and the Public 

by Bernadette Woods Placky, Climate Matters Director

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Apr 25

Stand Up For Climate Change

An Event with Creative Climate Comedy

Thursday, April 25 at 7:00 pm
Old Main Auditorium
University of Colorado Boulder

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Apr 17

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Institutions, infrastructures, and coastal hazard risk in Bangladesh ​
by Kimberly Rogers, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado Boulder

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Mar 6

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Solutions for nature and people: bridging the ecological and social dimensions of conservation

by Charlotte Chang, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee

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Feb 6

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

The geopolitics of the energy transition
by Morgan Bazilian, Professor of Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines

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Feb 5

The Human Element Film Screening with James Balog

Inside the Greenhouse will be hosting James Balog and a screening of his new film

THE HUMAN ELEMENT
AN EARTH VISION FILM PRODUCTION

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Jan 23

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

From the inside out: The fight for environmental justice within government agencies
by Jill Harrison, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder

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2018

Nov 28

AAAS "Catalyzing advocacy in science and engineering" workshop student competition panel discussion

AAAS "Catalyzing advocacy in science and engineering" workshop student competition panel discussion

This talk will be available via webcast here.

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Oct 31

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Fracking and technological momentum: Risks, hazards and features of the oil and gas extraction system in Colorado
by David Oonk, CSTPR and ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado

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Oct 24

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Climate change scientists as policy advocates?: Navigating the tensions between scientific independence, poor policy, and avoiding a dangerous world

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Oct 17

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Local responses to disasters in Peru and Puerto Rico: An approach from zero-order responders
by Fernando Briones, Consortium for Capacity Building, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

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Sep 26

From Scientist to Policymaker

From Scientist to Policymaker: Join us for a discussion with Dr. Kristopher Larsen on his journey from research to politics!

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Sep 19

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Private forest owners and climate change adaptation: How science and society will shape future forests
by Angela Boag, Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado Boulder

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Sep 5

FOSEP Discussion

Interested in Science Policy? Or want to know what science policy even is?

11th Floor of Gamow Tower, Duane Physics
University of Colorado Boulder

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Apr 25

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Finding new ground for advancing hydro-climatic information use among small mountain water systems

This talk will be available via webcast here.

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Apr 11

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Conference on World Affairs Event
Our Lives in the 21st Century: The Best of Times or the Worst of Times?

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Mar 14

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Discourse networks and climate change: Comparing media debates on climate change policy in Canada, the US, Finland, Brazil, and India

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Feb 7

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Extreme events reconnaissance: Social science and interdisciplinary research in the disaster aftermath

***NEW ROOM LOCATION: UMC 415-417***

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Jan 24

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Flood modelling and early warning assessments for downstream communities of Koka Dam, Ethiopia

This talk will be available via webcast here.

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2017

Nov 29

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

AAAS "Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering" workshop student competition panel discussion

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Nov 7

State Representative Event

Science policy sit-down with your Colorado representatives

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Nov 1

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

The socio-spatial dimensions of disaster risk in mobile home parks: Learning from the 2013 Colorado floods by Andrew Rumbach and Esther Sullivan, University of Colorado Denver

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Oct 27

CSTPR Open House

This year we are celebrating our 15th anniversary of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research and the 50th anniversary of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

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Oct 25

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Climate and congress: The making of a citizen by Grant Couch, Citizen's Climate Lobby

This talk will be available via webcast here.

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Oct 18

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Sustained assessment in the US southwest by Benét Duncan, Western Water Assessment, University of Colorado Boulder

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Oct 4

Science Policy Kickoff for Grad Students

Interested in Science Policy?

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Sep 28

CSTPR 15th Anniversary

CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research 15th Anniversary
Keynote Address by Brian Deese

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Sep 13

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Forests, finance and conservation: A turn in US climate policy by Lauren Gifford, Geography Department, University of Colorado Boulder
Winner of the 2017 Radford Byerly Award

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Aug 3

CSTPR Seminar

New Coordinates for Environmental Documentary: How have nature and environmental documentaries changed since the internet arrived?, by Bienvenido León, School of Communication, University of Navarra (Spain), FIRST

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Apr 26

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Anticipating Disaster: Local Dependence on Formal Climate Information vs. Traditional Ways of Knowing
by Sierra Gladfelter

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Apr 12

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Renewable Energy in Africa: Findings from the Social Sciences by Kathleen Hancock

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Mar 22

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Machine Learning, Social Learning and the Governance of Self-Driving Cars by Jack Stilgoe

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Mar 17

Stand Up for Climate Change: An Experiment With Creative Climate Comedy

Humor is a tool underutilized, and comedy has the power to effectively connect with people about climate change issues.

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Mar 15

CSTPR Noontime Seminar:

Climate Change Politics and Machine Learning by Justin Farrell

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Mar 8

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Emerging Biotechnologies and Public Engagement: Reflections on the NASEM Report on Gene Drives by Jason Delborne
 

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Feb 22

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Addressing Climate Change as an Engineering Challenge: Scientific Expertise in U.S. Geoengineering Politics by Julia Schubert

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Feb 15

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

The High Water Mark - Policy Lessons Learned from Colorado’s 2013 Floods by Deserai Crow

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Feb 8

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Transitioning Research to Operations in an Applied Science Program

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Jan 25

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

 Supraregulatory Agreements and Public Perceptions of Unconventional Energy Development in Colorado by Jessica Smith

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2016

Dec 9

EU Discussion Series at CSTPR

EU Research and Innovation-The Horizon 2020 Programme

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Dec 2

EU Discussion Series at CSTPR

Circular Economy Package

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Nov 16

EU Discussion Series at CSTPR

The Single Market Strategy

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Nov 9

EU Discussion Series at CSTPR

The EU Strategy for Growth

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Oct 26

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Collaboration in Energy and Materials Sustainability

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Oct 19

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Student Expertise and the Legislative Process

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Oct 12

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

EU Space Policy by Augusto González, European Commission

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Sep 28

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

AAAS "Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering" Workshop Student Competition Panel Discussion

Cosponsored by The Forum on Science Ethics and Policy

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Sep 22

FOSEP Discussion Group

How the presidential candidates answered 20 science questions

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Sep 7

CSTPR Noontime Seminar

Collaborating for System Change - Learning Networks for City Resilience, Wildfire Protection, Climate Adaptation, and Impactful Science

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Aug 17

FOSEP Discussion

Forum on Science Ethics and Policy: Advocating for Science at the State and Federal Level

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May 4

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Maxwell Dalaba

Prices, Peers, and Perceptions (P3): Improved Cookstove Research in Northern Ghana

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Apr 19

Creative Climate Communications with 7News Mike Nelson

free and open to the public

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Apr 7

CSTPR Seminar: Lesley Henderson

Communicating Plastic Pollution - The (conflicting) values of media producers, scientists & lay publics?

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Apr 4

Panel Discussion: Power Dialog

discussing Colorado's engagement for a clean energy economy in the 21st century 

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Mar 17

Comedy for Climate Change

Standing Up for Climate: An Experiment with Creative Climate Comedy

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Mar 16

CSTPR Seminar: Sam Schramski

A Real Polêmica: An Approach to Scientific Controversy and its Uncertain Reach 

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Mar 9

CSTPR Seminar: Reiner Grundmann

Media Coverage of Climate Change in a Comparative Perspective

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Mar 4

CSTPR Seminar: Lucy McAllister

Coming to the Rescue? Tech Firms and the Harms of the Electronics Commodity Chain

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Feb 4

Panel Discussion: AAAS

Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering" Workshop Student Competition

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Feb 3

CSTPR Seminar: Ines Lörcher

Climate Change from the Audience’s Perspective

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Feb 1

ENVS Colloquium: Benjamin Hale

The Lingering Value of Technological Artifacts: A Clog in the E-waste Stream

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2015

Dec 1

CSTPR Seminar: Sam Schramski

Climate Change in an Amazon Town: Media and Environmental Perceptions in Ever-Rising Waters

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Nov 18

Colorado’s Floods and Fires

Risk Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Through a Policy Lens

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Oct 21

FOSEP Talk

The challenge of shaping a society that embraces innovation ­- and why Europe differs from the US

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Sep 29

CSTPR Seminar: Jan Marco Müller

Chief Scientific Adviser in the European Commission: Results of an Experiment

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Apr 14

CSTPR Special Seminar: Jack Stilgoe

Geoengineering as a Collective Experiment

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Apr 13

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Steven Vanderheiden

Mobilizing Individual Responsibility Through Personal Carbon Budgeting

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Apr 6

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Jordan Kincaid

Fracking In Denton, Texas: Who Benefits and Why Was it Banned?

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Mar 9

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Paul Bowman

Ignorance Isn't Bliss: Why Historical Emitters Owe Compensation for Climate Change

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Mar 2

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Marisa McNatt

Mystery of the Sea: A Study of Why the U.S. Has Yet to Construct an Offshore Wind Farm

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Feb 23

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Elizabeth McNie

When Basic or Applied is Not Enough: Utilizing a Typology of Research Activities and Attributes to Inform Usable Science

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Jan 26

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Roger Pielke, Jr.

Sugar, Spice And Everything Nice: Science and Policy of 'Sex Testing'in Sport

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2014

Nov 17

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Kritee Kritee

Climate Smart Agriculture in Asia: Measurements, Implementation Strategy and Challenges

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Nov 10

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Gesa Luedecke

Let's Hear from the People: A Study on Media Impact on Climate Protection and Climate Adaptation

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Nov 3

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Lucy McAllister

Blind Spots: Electronics Firms, and the Social and Environmental Harms of the Electronics Commodity Chain

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Oct 27

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Jessica Weinkle

Is This (Our) Risk? The Science and Politics of Catastrophe Insurance

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Oct 22

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Heather Bailey

The Argument for Changing the Electric Utility Business Model

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Oct 13

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Tanya Heikkila and Chris Weible

Mapping the Political Landscape of Hydraulic Fracturing in Colorado

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Oct 6

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Leslie Dodson and Drew Zachary

Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship Program Summer 2014 panel discussion

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Sep 29

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Deserai Crow, Adrianne Kroepsch, Elizabeth Koebele, and Lydia Dixon

Assessing Wildfire Mitigation Outreach Strategies in the Wildland-Urban Interface

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Apr 29

Resolved: College Athletes Should Be Allowed to Unionize

Debate on College Athletics

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Apr 23

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Katie Dickinson

Playing with Fire: Social Interactions and Wildfire Mitigation Behaviors in Colorado

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Apr 2

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Samuel Tang

Reporting, Regulation, and the Governance of Climate Change in the U.K.

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Mar 12

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Adam Briggle

Guinea Pigs of the Shale: Informed Consent and the Politics of Fracking

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Feb 12

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Kristen Averyt

The Energy-Water Nexus: Where Climate Adaptation and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies Collide

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Feb 5

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Meaghan Daly, Eric Lovell, Mara Goldman, and Lisa Dilling

Knowledge Production, Access, and Use for Climate Adaptation at Local Scales in Northern Tanzania

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Jan 29

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Saffron O'Neill

Place Attachment, Performance and Climate Change Adaptation

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2013

Dec 5

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Political Extremism is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding

Phillip Fernbach, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder

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Nov 14

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Multi-Level Governance, Climate Change and Urban Energy Transitions - State-Local Relations in Colorado's 'New Energy Economy'

MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBAN ENERGY TRANSITIONS: STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS IN COLORADO'S 'NEW ENERGY ECONOMY'

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Nov 6

CSTPR Noontime Seminar: Estimating the Historical and Future Probabilities of Large Terrorist Events

ESTIMATING THE HISTORICAL AND FUTURE PROBABILITIES OF LARGE TERRORIST EVENTS

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