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2008 Summer Policy Colloquium
Speaker Power Point Presentations

Monday,
June 2

Tobin Smith, Senior Federal Relations Officer, Association of American Universities

Science Policy: What Is It? Who Makes It? How is it Made? and Why Care?

 

Kei Koizumi, Director, R & D Budget & Policy Program, AAAS

The Federal Budget Process and Federal Support of R & D

Tuesday,
June 3

Dr. Michael Holland, Program Examiner, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Buying Science Wholesale

Wednesday, June 4

Dr. James F. Kimpel, Director, National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA

Collaborate, Cooperate, Collocate

Thursday, June 5

David Verardo, National Science Foundation

Conflict of Interest

 

Dr. Donald A. Brown, Associate Professor for Environmental Ethics, Science and Law in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania State University

The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change

 

Dr. Wendy Parker, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Ohio University

Ethics & Policy-Relevant Science

 

Elizabeth Malone, Joint Global Change Research Institute

Climate Change as a Social Problem

 

Thomas J. Wilbanks, ORNL Corporate Fellow, and Environmental Sciences Division, ORNL

Climate Change: Where People Fit In

Friday,
June 6

Julian Braithwaite, Head of Global Issues Group British Embassy, Washington DC

Changing the Climate: The World in 2018

 

Mark Myers, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey

A Strategy for Integrating Science to Inform Public Policy

Sunday,
June 8

Dr. Neal Lane, former Science Adviser to President William J. Clinton, and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy

An Amateur's Perspective on Science, Policy and Politics

Monday,
June 9

Michael MacCracken, The Climate Institute

Key Scientific Results from the IPCC's Fourth Assessment - And What Has Emerged Since

Tuesday,
June 10
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Anthony Socci, AMS Policy Program

Effective Communication: Critical to Acquire BUT Requires WORK

 

Seth Borenstien, Associated Press Science Writer

Media and Meteorology

 

Edward Maidbach, Director of the Center of Excellence in Climate Change Communication Research, George Mason University

To achieve yhour objectives, communicate to accentuate the relevant, and make your recommended action easy, fun and popular

 

 

 

 

 

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